5770 Artifacting / System Crash

[dhorn]

UPDATE: I was using iTunes today, and my system appeared to... kind of crash. It appeared to have froze (the mouse wouldn't move, no response to keyboard, and the song progress bar was not moving), but my music continued to play. Does this help lead to a solution?

Okay, so I've had some what appears to be graphic related problems for a long time. Here are the original system specs, as well as specs after replacement parts:

Intel Q6600 -> No Change
Abit Mobo -> Asus P5QL Pro
MSI 8800GTS 640MB -> Sapphire ATI 5770 1GB
X-Clio 620W PSU -> OCZ 700W StealthXStream PSU
4GB OCZ Reaper DDR2 800
Windows Vista/Windows 7 32-bit -> Windows 7 64-bit
Dual 22inch 1080P Monitors (DVI)

The issue first occured with the 8800GTS, where after 30+ minutes of gameplay (Call of Duty 4), the display driver would fail, causing either crash, or black out to desktop. There were no artifacts. As I was testing to figure out the problem (at first I thought it was overheating), my motherboard died. I replaced it in hopes that would fix the problem. No luck. I finally have the money for a new GPU, so I purchase the 5770 and OCZ power supply in a combo pack.

Swapping just the GPU out causes some issues ( One monitor color, the other grayscale? and display driver fail, as well as artifacts after exiting games)

Swapping out the PSU as well (Maybe bad power caused the problem), but no improvements. Upon exiting Wolfenstein, artifacts, and upon playing Borderlands, some weird screen blacking out and artifacts.

Could bad memory cause this problem? Could the GPU and the system memory be bad? Could the case cause a short? Bad Processor? What else could it be?

Dan

 

[mpilchfamily]

Try reinstalling the latest drivers and if you still have problems then try using a slightly older driver. If the problem persists then you may have a bad card.

 

[dhorn]

Okay, I'm going to update the post with more detailed information, because this has become an expensive, ridiculous problem.

 

[dhorn]

Updated with another crashing issue. I don't think it's the drivers causing the problem.

 

[mpilchfamily]

Run Memtest 86 and see if there are any RAM issues.

 

[dhorn]

I ran memtest with no errors. I tried setting the voltage on the memory manually, and it seemed like the problem was worsened by doing this. It as artifacting immediately after boot rather than under use.

 

[mpilchfamily]

Try a differnt video card.

 

[G4L|WuShu]

Ok here Goes, I have just bought My XFX 5770 right before Xmas and I started having the Driver Crash Randomly with Every Revision of Amd/Ati's Compatible drivers'..(which there were only two when I got it)9.10 and 9.11. I had x64 version of Win7 and I thought there was a problem with the x64 drivers' so I installed the x86 version, Same there. I finally found a Post That said, "If you have Onboard Video turn off the Auto detect in your bios and just turn it to "manual" or "on" and just install the drivers for your onboard video" ----I haven't experienced a crash since and my computer has been on for three days straight now...

here's my specs:

DualCore AMD Athlon 64 X2, 2200 MHz (11 x 200) 4200+
Abit A-N78H(D)
nVIDIA GeForce 8200, AMD Hammer
1920 MB (DDR2-667 DDR2 SDRAM)
DIMM1: Samsung M3 78T2953EZ3-CE6 1 GB DDR2-667 DDR2 SDRAM (5-5-5-15 @ 333 MHz) (4-4-4-12 @ 266 MHz) (3-3-3-9 @ 200 MHz)
DIMM2: Samsung M3 78T2953EZ3-CE6 1 GB DDR2-667 DDR2 SDRAM (5-5-5-15 @ 333 MHz) (4-4-4-12 @ 266 MHz) (3-3-3-9 @ 200 MHz)
BIOS Type Award (04/28/08)

Display:
Video Adapter ATI Radeon HD 5700 Series (1024 MB)
Video Adapter ATI Radeon HD 5700 Series (1024 MB)
Video Adapter ATI Radeon HD 5700 Series (1024 MB)
Video Adapter NVIDIA GeForce 8200 (128 MB)
Video Adapter NVIDIA GeForce 8200 (128 MB)