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BSODs after installing HD 6770
Hi All,
I’ve come across a series of BSODs since installing my new HD 6770. A bit of googling came up with results indicating a a history of BSODs with the card. Below are the specs of my computer.
CPU: AMD Phenom II X4 940 Black Edition
MB: ASUS M4A78-E DDR2 Motherboard
RAM: Corsair XMS2 DHX TWIN2X4096-6400C5DHX 4GB DDR2 2X2GB PC2-6400 DDR2-800
PS: OCZ ModXStream Pro 700W Modular Power Supply
CASE: Antec Three Hundred
OS: Windows 7 Professional 64
VIDEO: Gigabyte Radeon HD6770 775MHZ 1GB 4.0GHZ GDDR5
I’ve had the system for about 2.5-3 years now, running problem free with the on-board video card. I recently purchased the HD 6770 to play Diablo 3. I installed the card as one normally would and installed the drivers from the ATI site. I fired up Diablo 3 Beta and this is when the BSODs started to happen – 8 in the span of 2 days. All would occur in the middle of the game, completely random and not at any specific point at the game. I remember one happening when I was just idle in town.
I’m not all that familiar with troubleshooting BSODs but after some reading I tried the following:
- Update all drivers with Slimdrivers
- Set BIOS back to default settings
- Complete update to Windows 7 via Windows Update
- Removed and re-seated video card
- Installed AMD Catalyst 11.6b Hotfix (Resolves blue screen, screen flicker at idle and corrupt mouse pointer issues; AMD Catalyst)
- Replaced Logitech wireless mouse with MS wired mouse
- Ran Memtest86+ and passed
At one point, I managed to log in about 60 minutes before the system crashed. After replacing the mouse, I played about 45 minutes last night before calling it quits, crash-free. I come home today, and had another 2 BSODs not related to Diablo 3. I've attached a zip file of folder Windows_NT6_BSOD_jcgriff2 minus the perfmon HTML since it was coming up with an error message ("The service did not respond to the start or control request in a timely fashion."). I'll try to get that fixed and uploaded asap. In the meantime if you guys can take a peak at what I have so far, that'd be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance for everyones help!