ati hd6870 doesn't resume from S3 sleep ...

[mikek753]

hi all,

I have Win7 64
prev NV GT240 resume from S3 sleep just fine
I uninstall NV drivers and replace gt240 to hd6870 and install 10.10 and then hot fix 10.10e
however, when I resume from S3 I have blank / black display
and I have to hard reset system to reboot to get video back

Anyhow I can fix it?
tnx

 

[arredondo]

Are you using Sapphire Trixx? I am and that's when the problem you describe started for me. I will keep using it until the fix that ATI put into the 10.11 drivers to keep the clock speeds low while idle makes its way into a 68xx driver. Trixx is able to do that for me right now since 10.11 isn't for us.

 

[mikek753]

no, I don't use Trixx.
I have VisionTek card.
Will Trixx work with not Sapphire card?
How do you resume from S3?

tnx

 

[mikek753]

I got Trixx and it works for overclocking
for now I went with inconvenient S4 (hibernate) instead of S3 to get Video back after resume. And it costs me 30+sec for resume from S4 instead of 1 sec from S3.

Should Trixx help with S3 anyhow?

 

[arredondo]

No, I meant sleep mode screwed up for me when I started using Trixx. I will stop using it once ATI has a 10.11x patch that works for 68xx cards.

I did use your suggestion though. I turned off hybrid sleep and now regular sleep will wake up instead of giving me a black screen.

 

[mikek753]

it's been a month
I moved to newer 10.12 driver
however, new driver didn't fix awake from S3 issue
anyone with hd68xx can wake up from S3 sleep?

 

[Jodiuh]

Same issue here.

 

[GaiaHunter]

6850 wake up fine from sleep for me with 10.12. I'm currently at the factory stock oc for the card (gigabyte).

 

[Jodiuh]

Ghostbuster as recommended by MerolaC or Driver Sweeper from Guru3D.com will fix your issue. I ran both and S3's working perfectly now.

 

[mikek753]

nothing helped me so far.
I tried Ghostbuster to disable High Def Audio on 6870 as I don't use audio from HDMI, just Video
tried Driver Sweeper to remove leftover from NVidia (240) and removed ATI drivers and reinstall even newer beta from de site
nope - can't get video after resume from S3 standby mode
the video just doesn't resume
any ideas?

 

[Jodiuh]

I still wound up having problems. Returned 6870 for 470, saved $10, sleep is fast again, and then there's this.

 

[mikek753]

hi all,

I moved to 11.5 drivers, but it didn't help
No, I can't return my 6870 :-( and I need HDMI audio

any one got S3 resume work out?

thanks.

 

[MichaelD]

Does this problem only affect 68xx cards or is it 69xx too? I'm about to pull the trigger on a 69xx CF setup and would be pissed if S3 Resume doesn't work. I use it every day.

 

[Kenmitch]

Does this problem only affect 68xx cards or is it 69xx too? I'm about to pull the trigger on a 69xx CF setup and would be pissed if S3 Resume doesn't work. I use it every day.

S3 resume from sleep can be caused my many things and not just a video cards drivers. It's a hit and miss thing on all configurations and many blame intel for their wows on S3 sleep!

OP have you tried a new hdmi cable? When you have no image or the black screen of death have you tried to unplug the hdmi cable and plug it back in?

On my SB rig in sig S3 is functional but did require some bios tweaking for my MB. I haven't tried a newer bios yet but so far I'm stuck a 4.6ghz OC max if I wan't S3 sleep which I do.

 

[mikek753]

yes, I use another HDMI cable.
in new setup video card connects to AVR via HDMI than AVR to LCD TV via HDMI

unplugging HDMI from video card after S3 resume has no effect ether ...

 

[timma]

you can try to use new 11.6 driver and change to connect DVI cable~
HDMI sometimes have little problem~

 

[lopri]

What else do you have in your system? Especially motherboard and any add-in card? I've seen quite a few times network drivers conflicting with video card drivers. One way to troubleshoot this kind of issue is disabling every peripheral in the BIOS (such as network, additional disk controllers, firewire, USB 3.0 etc.) and removing add-in cards. So basically you're stripping everything out of the equation and leaving only the video card, its drivers and the OS.

If that does the trick, then you take the step of process of elimination to determine what isn't getting along with the graphics drivers. If that doesn't do the trick reformatting may be necessary.

Edit: Oh and of course no overclocking while troubleshooting

 

[Jodiuh]

I find this all amusing when a simple swap of an nvidia card from an AMD/ati card with no changes to any other hardware solves the problem.

Have you contacted AMD about the issue?

 

[mikek753]

hi,

no, I didn't
based on my observations it's h/w issue in ATI design
and can be cured by swap to NV

ATI is good value gaming card, but not so good for HTPC - IMHO

 

[Jodiuh]

Lol yeah. I gave up on my 4350 powered htpc/server...I just leave it on 24/7!!

 

[mikek753]

I submitted my Service Request to ATI / AMD - who knows ...
There is nothing in ATI knowledge base about S3 at all.