For the past few days, I have been experiencing my display driver crashing on me while playing games. I have tried everything in my power to eliminate this issue: being re-installing drivers, going back to older drivers, sweeping out all AMD drivers. None of these have solved my problem.
The crashing does not always occur in the same time frame. Sometimes it will crash soon after the launch of a game. Sometimes a long time after. The driver would always recover at least once before BSoD error of the driver not recovering.
System Specs:
- XFX Radeon HD 7950 FX-795A-TDBC @ 1100MHz Core @ 1250MHz Mem
- AMD FX-4130 @ 4.5GHz
- 8GB G.Skill Sniper 1866 2x4GB
- Gigabyte GA-990FXA-UD3
- OCZ ModXStream Pro 600W
This has been my setup for quite some time. My guess is that maybe something is going bad, which I hope it's not.
Windows Recovery Report:
Problem signature:
Problem Event Name: BlueScreen
OS Version: 6.1.7601.2.1.0.768.3
Locale ID: 1033
Additional information about the problem:
BCCode: 116
BCP1: FFFFFA8008DE32B0
BCP2: FFFFF8800427DDAC
BCP3: 0000000000000000
BCP4: 0000000000000002
OS Version: 6_1_7601
Service Pack: 1_0
Product: 768_1
That would be an unstable graphics card overclock.
Yes, that is either an unstable gpu overclock or too much heat.
Well it's been running at that speed for quite a long time with no problem up until now. I'll go ahead and lower it though to see if that solves the issue.
It could also be a sign that your PSU is dying. If there is some variance in the current or it isn't putting out enough juice it could cause instability.
IYou have a multirail PSU and one of the rails that the GPU is pulling from could be failing.
How long have you had that PSU? OCZ stuff isn't the best to begin with so if you've had it for a bit it could be on its way out.
You'll need more voltage to sustain 1100 core after awhile. Drop down to 1000 and remove any memory oc you have.
Well, I dropped it down to the 1000MHz core. Did good there for a while. Started having the same issue though just now. I've had the PSU since March 17, 2012.
Also, the card came stock 900 core 1250 mem.
I also was on vaca there for a bit. if anyone wondering why no replys.
Remove the oc completely ie set back to defaults. If it still isnt stable enough, test in another machine before RMA'ing it. My HIS 7950 didnt like its heavy oc either, after awhile even when underclocked it would artifact in windows etc. They sent me a new one to on sell so use your warranty if its still valid.
I will give it a shot. Hopefully I don't have to RMA though. I don't want to go with out a card.
Another thing I think that might be the cause is the latest update to Raptr, allowing the "Shadow Play" functionality to AMD cards. That's when it started happening. Maybe a combination of the OC and Raptr.
Yeah probably shouldve removed raptr at the first start of trouble. Most rma's if your card is stuffed take about 6 weeks. Even if you can borrow a shitty old gpu in that downtime you can enjoy some pretty fun indie games.
Correct, sometimes overclocks don't last forever, what was stable for months or years can become unstable in time.