During games like Soldier Front 2 & counter-strike GO my screen is freezing up an stalling out however, I can run Crysis 3, Newvegas, Blacklight: Retribution, Natural selection, trine 2, ROTT and several others with no issues. I don't have anything overclocked now. I would love it if someone could take me step by step with bios, catalyst, Afterburner etc and help me with my settings because I am new to OCing. I have used the Easy mode in BIOS (asus crosshair v formula z) yet it is on normal now. All my drivers are up to date as far as I know except I am using 7970 regular instead of BE (boost edition) didn't know which one to grab at first. Just now grabbed HWMonitor to watch temps but I don't know if it'll log them. FX8350 4.21 / msi 7970 lightning / Phanteks PH-TC14PE_rd using a 720p monitor on 1366x768 also tried 720. Ordered my new monitor yesterday (1ms 144hz 1080 etc) Not sure what else to add.
(sorry maybe this sould of went to graphics forum but I also want oc so eh)
re-install those games and make sure they are up to date. >>> maybe they are clashing with latest amd drivers...
therwise>>>>
Remove the overclock completely.
Test games that fault.
if faulty> uninstall gpu drivers, run driversweeper, re-install drivers
As for overclocking - im sure you're familiar with google, otherwise here is a quick vid here
(head to reviews of your motherboard and chances are there will be one with the same config as you. Use it as a rough guide but dont be disappointed if you dont get the same results)
hwmonitor keeps a running record of min/max whilst app is open. You can also save the values to a file.
>>golden rules - never leave vcore voltage on auto, never use 3rd party software to oc just use BIOS, always go up in small increments, stability test for a decent amount of time at each interval, be patient.
i moved this topic to the overclocking section. i know for sure people on here can help you out. You also could read some other topics in this section about overclocking there are plenty of them.
Thank you and thank you. I have uninstalled games and reinstalled had on my E: drive used Steam mover put back on C: then deleted and reinstalled. I will try Driver sweeper. Also thanks alot on golden rules. Sorry I know this is probably so highly over asked and such I use google when I can house is rather busy so when I'm not chasing daughter around... and my answer to any question I don't know is "google" :P ty and ty for the move. Leaving as soon as my car gets back for monitor.
Generally if the display driver stops responding (e.g everything goes black and then freezes for about 20 seconds) then you probably have the overclock set too high and the card is failing under heavy load.
Posted on another forum with HWMonitor log nothing was stated as an overheat issue (didn't post here don't know if spoiler tag works) Updated my bios to 1503, thought they were but I was wrong. I receive "access violation at address 7558139D in module 'kernel32.dll'. Write of address cccccc0" also "access violation 1002eec5 ezulib.dll"when trying to use EZ Update. Don't know what that's about. Video still stalls repeating same audio goes black returns. Main games I test it on Counter-strike: GO and Soldier Front 2.
Try reinstalling your motherboards chipset drivers, run memtest86 (could very well explain that violation error), using both hwmonitor and an asus suite will give very false readings of near on everything. Use one or the other in this instance (right click exit on the taskbar to close the asus utility).
Just manually flash bios's with a usb stick and do it in the bios (I personally never trust software flashing apps).
Perhaps there is something dicky in you os install itself - if there is access violations occuring with the kernel... hmmm. I would and it may be a pain in the are but either give re-installing windows a crack or running a distro of linux off a usb stick then install amd drivers, steam > cs go etc and see if the problem persists.
I was using HWMonitor without the suit installed I know it's a little confusing from my previous post seeings that I was doing several things at once. I actually used hwmonitor before all my drivers and programs were installed thought I had all my mobo stuff upto date but didn't :( and as far as I can tell from their site it is all upto date now it's just that I was trying out the ez updater and such and received those so I thought I'd share as a side note.
Just reinstalled Chipset and all before my last post.
Memtest = Pass complete, no errors, press Esc to exit (Can add a photo if needed.)
I have a few multi-boots usbs I'll try later I really don't want to go through and reinstall everything I have a backup I could try but it's a bit dated :( I have some optional updates from windows as well I will run for now. But I'm going to get some much needed rest too much to do :(
Update: Installed Ubuntu 12.04 LTS (alongside Mint 15) on another HDD. I get a Binary Whitelisted Message. I have additional driver list on Ubuntu not certain which to use assuming the "non"Experimental / beta but I also have experimental amd binary xorg driver and kernal module ati/amd proprietary fglrx graphics driver (**experimental** beta) Have only installed updates, steam, Additional drivers & 7zip Was going to instal games but need to read up on wine / http://www.playonlinux.com/en/ (based off wine) to try out the problematic games or see if the linux based ones will also give an issue here on windows side. From what I see on the whitelisted message it seems grub2/UEFI related but it's making it so most people can't install the OS in which I'm already passed. I know little on UEFI and it's implementation other than it's better for certain things and is based as a replacement for bios. Assuming I will keep the 3rd HDD as linux distros I will probably use something like burg > grub in the future but leaving it be till this is worked out. Going to research running win games on linux. (also overclocking seems time consuming but not as confusing as I previously thought and my ram is at 1333 instead of the 1866 which I haven't even adjusted yet.) EDIT: I don't know what to do here. I keep comming up with new things and trying to keep the topic uptodate but don't want to keep bumping it... now I have a whole slew of new issues though from trying to fix things grr...
am I suppose to get chipset drivers from motherboard site or amd? I was getting them from http://www.asus.com/Motherboards/CROSSHAIR_V_FORMULAZ/#support_Download_30 but now I think I was suppose to get them from http://support.amd.com/us/gpudownload/windows/Pages/raid_windows.aspx#2 Could be a culprit, second off I uninstalled CCC used their uninstaller and Driversweeper and ended up re-installing with errors. Same drivers.
I also tried running it on linux but received an error lead me into looking some things up got what I believe to be the proper drivers for linux but botched the windows ones and went to bed. Pre-trying new drivers I used all 3 listed here
I've also used some things like RegCurePro which I'm not sure if that's why I get the Kernal error or not but I have used autoruns to stop the EZupdater anyhow.
I can add logs for HWMonitor or Catalyst fail if need be. Also I am sorry but my OC is not "stock" as I was undertanding it is actually "auto" which I couldn't see a big difference in but know little about OCing and took it as base configurations as to where actually OCing would be the "level up" and so forth. I will look up the information I need to manually set it to "stock" after I try the AMD site chipset drivers, see if I can fix the faulty CCC instal and perhaps try the other 7970 drivers I have for linux. (I also have a seperate boot / HDD management issue i'll leave alone for now)
Edit: after installing chipset from amd (vs mobo site) it has disabled my audio. Still listed fine in device manager but not on taskbar (show disabled devices is checked with no resaults). Tried system restore and... nothing :( I'm going to walk away before I have a mental breakdown... Guess I'll prepare myself for a reinstal :( also bleed into linux instals so atleast that narrows it down a bit.
Uninstal and reinstal directX Should I tried different slot on the mobo? try disabling aero on windows? Set a manual GPU speed?
I also went ahead and tried OCing probably not my best idea things were running fine for a while then the game started acting up again pushed through it and now shortly after aero just disabled itself and I hear a random click / pop from the computer every now and then ... any new thoughts/imput? going to try the drivers on linux I never got to the new ones due to audio going out (which was due to something disabling it in bios)
8 Hours Later:
ran microsoft fixit 50848 (Reboot) uninstalled catalyst (Reboot) used CCcleaner (Reboot) Deleted remaining AMD folder under C: & Program Data C:\Users\REDII\AppData\Local\AMD & ATI C:\Users\REDII\AppData\Roaming\ATI
Deleted Reg Files: ATI, AMD & ATI Technologies from hkey local machine - software
(Reboot) Installed AMD Chipset Drivers v13.4 4/24/2013 (Reboot) Installed Catalyst Suite v13.4 5/29/2013 (Instead of beta) (Reboot) Disabled Aero Tested game FAIL :'( I have it OCed now though. (Reboot)
Reset to default Clocks, Dropped graphic settings. Another Fail
