Quick question about the ATI "grey screen" crash

[Dankk]

When you get the notorious "striped grey screen" crash with your ATI card, does that mean it's permanently screwed, or you just have it overclocked a little too high?

I ask because I recently overclocked my 5770 through CCC, and while I was playing Amnesia I got the grey screen. I didn't OC my card a whole lot; I just upped the GPU clock and memory clock by 25MHz and 50MHz respectively. However, it's already a factory-overclocked card, so this might be too much for it. This is the card I have. If I got the crash with default clocks, I would worry about having a defective card. But I'm thinking it might just be because of the overclock this time.

I think there was another time when I overclocked this card around the same values, and I got the grey screen because of it... but that was the only other time. I don't know, maybe it should be obvious by now, but I just want to make sure that there's nothing messed up with the card.

If someone could just give me some confirmation here, I'd appreciate it. Thanks.

 

[busydude]

I've had BSOD'd with ocing my card but never encountered GSOD. Are you using the latest drivers?

 

[Dankk]

I've had BSOD'd with ocing my card but never encountered GSOD. Are you using the latest drivers?

11.3, yup.

 

[MrK6]

The only way you're going to get confirmation is to test for yourself. I've gotten GSOD's before when overclocking, usually when the driver is recovering after which my game/testing app shuts down and I'm back to the desktop. Try returning your card to default clocks and seeing if that fixes the problem. You can also try increasing either the core or the RAM, but not both, to see if you can reproduce the crash (and narrow down which is the culprit).

 

[XFX Support]

Treat that just like any driver crash. That is what it is. It can be caused by any system instability, a bad card, and very often by misconfigured or defective memory since so many people are buying DDR3 that runs at higher voltage than their motherboard boots at.

 

[FalseChristian]

This may be a dumb question but have you tried your card at stock? I mean, that's not much of an overclock.