BSODs on Radeon 7950 when it goes into power save

nsafreak

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The title of the thread pretty much says it all, what I'm trying to determine is whether I have a bad card or if it's my PSUs PCIe feeds that are causing the problem. Essentially if the card goes into a power save mode (I have it normally set to 15 minutes of inactivity) shortly thereafter the display driver will crash, not be able to reset and then BSOD. I currently have the 13.4 drivers installed but I have tried the 13.9s and 13.11 drivers as well with the same results. So I'm trying to determine if I should go out and replace the PSU or if that's a waste of time and I should just contact Gigabyte for a RMA. The card stays well within temperature specifications when playing any game be it BF3 or Hearthstone I don't think I've seen it go above 59 degrees Celsius under a full load. So that makes me hesitate to think that it's the GPU and think it's the PSU instead. The PSU for reference is a Corsair CX500. So what do you folks think, is it worth my time to replace the PSU or should I just start the RMA process with Gigabyte? The card is less than 6 months old and has not been overclocked at all. If it helps at all here's the whocrashed analysis:

[FONT=Segoe UI, Arial]Crash Dump Analysis [/FONT]
[FONT=Segoe UI, Arial]Crash dump directory: C:\Windows\Minidump[/FONT]

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[FONT=Segoe UI, Arial]On Fri 11/29/2013 8:16:45 AM GMT your computer crashed
crash dump file: C:\Windows\Minidump\112913-57907-01.dmp
This was probably caused by the following module: [FONT=Segoe UI, Arial]atikmpag.sys[/FONT] (atikmpag+0xAE80)
Bugcheck code: 0x116 (0xFFFFFA801260B4E0, 0xFFFFF88007EF8E80, 0x0, 0xD)
Error: [FONT=Segoe UI, Arial]VIDEO_TDR_ERROR[/FONT]
file path: C:\Windows\system32\drivers\atikmpag.sys
product: [FONT=Segoe UI, Arial]AMD driver[/FONT]
company: [FONT=Segoe UI, Arial]Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.[/FONT]
description: AMD multi-vendor Miniport Driver
Bug check description: This indicates that an attempt to reset the display driver and recover from a timeout failed.
A third party driver was identified as the probable root cause of this system error. It is suggested you look for an update for the following driver: atikmpag.sys (AMD multi-vendor Miniport Driver, Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.).
Google query: [FONT=Segoe UI, Arial]Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. VIDEO_TDR_ERROR[/FONT]
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Emulex

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these bugs might be bios related (and/or chipset). The same problems plague pass-through and virtualization as well. (one vm will reboot and cause the entire esxi server to blow up). It's buggy power management code .