XFX R6670 2G - Sprites, crashing, boxes and lines

[fueloficarus]

Hey all, I recently installed an XFX R6670 Core Edition (2GB DDR3) on to my HP Pavilion p6777c. I, of course, upgraded the power supply to 400w. Now, when I try to run games they will crash as soon as I load save games files. Sometimes my computer just blue screens it with various errors. While the computer is running I'll get little blue sprites on my black desktop, small blue dots appear on the windows loading screen. Boxes of varying and shifting sixes appear above my start menu, about 1/4 of the way down away from the start button. I have removed the card, checked the PCI port for dust and the like, and done everything else I can think of. And yes, I ran the CD. the Pavilion has an integrated ATI Radeon HD 4200 (256 MB Ram) Anyone have any ideas as to why this might be happening?

Specs below

OS Name Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium
Version 6.1.7601 Service Pack 1 Build 7601
Other OS Description Not Available
OS Manufacturer Microsoft Corporation
System Name
System Manufacturer Hewlett-Packard
System Model p6777c
System Type x64-based PC
Processor AMD Phenom(tm) II X4 830 Processor, 2800 Mhz, 4 Core(s), 4 Logical Processor(s)
BIOS Version/Date American Megatrends Inc. 6.09, 9/7/2010
SMBIOS Version 2.6
Windows Directory C:\Windows
System Directory C:\Windows\system32
Boot Device \Device\HarddiskVolume1
Locale United States
Hardware Abstraction Layer Version = "6.1.7601.17514"
User Name
Time Zone Eastern Daylight Time
Installed Physical Memory (RAM) 8.00 GB
Total Physical Memory 7.99 GB
Available Physical Memory 5.97 GB
Total Virtual Memory 16.0 GB
Available Virtual Memory 13.7 GB
Page File Space 7.99 GB
Page File C:\pagefile.sys


Display Specs (After install)

Name AMD Radeon HD 6670
PNP Device ID PCI\VEN_1002&DEV_6758&SUBSYS_318C1682&REV_00\4&39C120B8&0&0010
Adapter Type AMD Radeon Graphics Processor (0x6758), Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. compatible
Adapter Description AMD Radeon HD 6670
Adapter RAM (2,147,483,648) bytes
Installed Drivers aticfx64.dll,aticfx64.dll,aticfx64.dll,aticfx32,aticfx32,aticfx32,atiumd64.dll,atidxx64.dll,atidxx64.dll,atiumdag,atidxx32,atidxx32,atiumdva,atiumd6a.cap,atitmm64.dll
Driver Version 8.980.0.0
INF File oem78.inf (ati2mtag_NI section)
Color Planes Not Available
Color Table Entries 4294967296
Resolution 1920 x 1080 x 60 hertz
Bits/Pixel 32
Memory Address 0xD0000000-0xDFFFFFFF
Memory Address 0xFE9E0000-0xFE9FFFFF
I/O Port 0x0000C000-0x0000CFFF
IRQ Channel IRQ 4294967294
I/O Port 0x000003B0-0x000003BB
I/O Port 0x000003C0-0x000003DF
Memory Address 0xA0000-0xBFFFF
Driver c:\windows\system32\drivers\atikmpag.sys (8.14.1.6268, 359.00 KB (367,616 bytes), 6/11/2012 12:26 PM)

 

[SolMiester]

Hi, have you disabled the onboard video and are using the discrete card outputs? Does this card have extended power plug?

 

[fueloficarus]

Yes I disabled the onboard, but I've since had to re-enable it to have any use of my monitor. I do not know of this discrete card outputs? And no it doesn't have a power supply, it draws from the PCI board.

Also, interesting thing happened, now in my screen resolution preferences I can choose one of two monitors. One is running off of my onboard HD4200, the other is running off of the 6670. The onboard runs fine, but when I switch over to the 6670 (used Skyrim to determine how this looked) I'll get overlays (when you close a window but it "stays open," the image is stuck on the monitor even though nothing is there as far as the CPU is concerned).

 

[SolMiester]

Blue spots etc before windows loads suggest some hardware issue or perhaps a bios switch regarding the dgpu.
Really need to see if the card does the same in another pc....

 

[Jaydip]

This looks funny from ur specs section
INF File oem78.inf (ati2mtag_NI section)
First remove all the ati drivers and run ccleaner to clean the registry.Now go and check that peg is enabled in ur bios.Now install the latest ati drivers from their site.

 

[alexruiz]

Welcome to the forums. As suggested already, update the drivers. Grab the catalyst 12.6 WHQL form AMD's site

 

[fueloficarus]

Jaydip - What's funny about the INF file? Also, I've run Ccleaner a few times, lol. Could you clarify but what you mean by peg in my Bios? I have the latest drivers from ATI, I've already downloaded the latest Catalyst (Thanks for the welcome Alexruiz). As I said, I ran Ccleaner, but you'll see by this screenshot that some ATI stuff remains in my registry. Should I manually take that out?

 

[Jaydip]

It had "oem" in it and ur system is bought from a oem Now on topic do not delete anything manually from the registry.As a last resort u can use driver sweeper.

 

[fueloficarus]

I've done all this, but I still get the little pixellated squares popping up everywhere, and sometimes things just straight don't work. Windows won't open, browser won't maximize, etc.

 

[fueloficarus]

Any other ideas? TY for everything so far, as well!

 

[Jaydip]

Ok what about reinstalling the windows?