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&39C 120B8&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,at icfx32,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)

 

[Fardringle]

What is the new power supply? If it wasn't a good quality PSU it's possible that it was actually a downgrade and not an upgrade, and it may not be providing enough power for the new video card.

 

[fueloficarus]

It's a 400W dynex, up from the 250w standard in the HP Pavilion.

 

[fueloficarus]

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).

 

[Fardringle]

Dynex is definitely not a quality PSU brand, but they aren't terrible either. 400w should be sufficient for your computer, so if you have confirmed that everything is installed properly and securely including the power connector directly to the video card, and that the drivers are installed properly, then you may have a bad card. I'd remove the video card completely, reseat in in the PCIE slot, and then completely uninstall and reinstall the ATI graphics drivers to see if it resolves the problem. If not, then I'd see about getting the card replaced.

 

[sm625]

Pull the card out and put it back in. Maybe set bios "init display first" to pciE.