Possilbe Solution Hard Crash-Grey Stripes

[Fast_Turtle]

Turns out that my new 5670 doesn't like something as I suffered the first blackscreen lockup about 3 hours after installation.

That forced use of the reset button

This morning I suffered the Gray Screen/Stripes issue that forced a hard reset once again.

After some digging, it seems that this is a common problem for the 4/5 series cards and I'm hoping that it's driver related and not a hardware issue.

Now all I have to do is stress test the card using some benchies and see if it crashes/locks the system using the default VGA driver. If I'm able to go 72 hours w/o problem, I'll consider the solution useful and since I'm not a gamer (my most demanding is SimCity 4 - Rush Hour) I'll simply stick with it until they finally get stable drivers.

[Rubenoa]

Your new system has everything up to date, right? From previous posts of yours I would say so. Wait until next catalysts, they should come maximized for this new series.

Regards turtle"

[Fast_Turtle]

Grabbed the rc3 driver and that seems to have solved the problem for me since I haven't had a crash in 24 hours now.

[shagg]

I'm using the 9.12 hotfix driver and was getting the Hard crash-grey stripes screen in games like L4D, Dirt2, and COD-MW.

After switching to the dvi connector at the bottom (the one away from the Hdmi port) all my problems miraculously went away. It's been 4 days of gaming about 6 hours daily and no problems.

I suspect this is a hardware problem with most of these cards. May explain why half the people get it, and the other half don't.

If you believe I am incorrect in this assumption please share your views. I would like to believe its a driver issue and not a hardware issue.

[shagg]

In the last 10.1 release notes, Ati admits there is a problem with the hard "grey stripe" crash, but hasn't fixed it yet.


"Intermittent grey screen or vertical line corruption may randomly appear on the screen"

Hopefully 10.2 will fix.

[shagg]

This helped with the infamous GSOD.

http://support.amd.com/us/kbarticles...rruptions.aspx


Been running strong for about 6 hours playing Dirt2, L4D, borderlands, COD:MW, and no GSOD.

on my sapphire HD5770 have my core at 950 and mem at 1300.