New "Used" 6850 Display driver stopped responding

[Opyders]

So I got my 6850 in today and installed it along with 12.11 drivers, but when I tried to play Battlefield 3, after a few minutes it quit on me and gave me the "Display driver stopped responding and has recovered" error. I joined another game and this time it was running at about 10 frames per second.

What should I try?

Do I have a defective 6850?

Also, I should note that this originally happened in my brother's computer. I am now trying it in mine with no luck.

 

[Final8ty]

Put the fan to 100% and check the temps while playing.

 

[Opyders]

Put the fan to 100% and check the temps while playing.

I get 55C max temp, 100% gpu usage, and 10 fps.

 

[Final8ty]

I get 55C max temp, 100% gpu usage, and 10 fps.

Are the clocks still full 3D speed ?

 

[Opyders]

Are the clocks still full 3D speed ?

It's at 775Mhz core stock if that's what you mean. But it's not running nearly as fast as it should be.

 

[Final8ty]

Seems broken.

 

[ImDonly1]

Running Windows 8?

I upgraded from 7 to 8 and randomly get a display driver has stopped working (when on the desktop not in game). Doesn't happen often and it recovers, but locks the PC up for 2-3 seconds. Never happened with Win 7.

No idea what you get 10FPS though.
Try older drivers?

 

[Kenmitch]

What card did you come from? Could be driver issues causing your problems.

 

[Rvenger]

I would put 12.8 or older to see if that fixes.

 

[Opyders]

What card did you come from? Could be driver issues causing your problems.

I was using integrated before this.

 

[JerryOneMillion]

I have a 6850 and I have seen the same issue once or twice (but NEVER gaming). I have 3 monitors on the card and it has 'recovered from failure' when opening a web pages. After I plugged in my Dell 30" (display port) the Catalyst application will not launch at all.
I have updated, but no change.
My Virtu Control panel also fails at start up. If I take the time reinstall it, it works for a few days then at boot it comes up with error.
The drivers are crap. Good luck! Will be watching for solutions!


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[Wall Street]

My experience is that something is messed up with the Windows driver model or the AMD drivers. I had a 5450 that got the same error and then a 5770 that had this happen a lot. For some reason, this doesn't happen on my current GTX 570. I doubt it is bad hardware or heat issues but rather is a comparability issue. There are some Windows Display Driver Model (WDDM) tweaks that can alleviate this error somewhat.