HD5850 "Display driver stopped responding"

ok....has the card got good airflow..?? all around it.

i'd open a support ticket with the card vendor, let them know what your seeing.... they may think its worth returning.

usually software is the culprit from my experience with these cards, but there are a few defective units, you've reinstalled windows, run all available drivers & still the problem persists, i dont suppose there's another machine you can test the card in before you start an RMA..???

perhaps it just doesn't like your H/W config full stop.

if you do RMA & the new card does exactly the same your gonna be really upset.

but as i say start up a ticket & see what they suggest, b/c (as you know) there's only so much you can try until your left with the H/W as the problem

CptZiggy said:

skunksmash said:

ok....has the card got good airflow..?? all around it.

i'd open a support ticket with the card vendor, let them know what your seeing.... they may think its worth returning.

usually software is the culprit from my experience with these cards, but there are a few defective units, you've reinstalled windows, run all available drivers & still the problem persists, i dont suppose there's another machine you can test the card in before you start an RMA..???

perhaps it just doesn't like your H/W config full stop.

if you do RMA & the new card does exactly the same your gonna be really upset.

but as i say start up a ticket & see what they suggest, b/c (as you know) there's only so much you can try until your left with the H/W as the problem

Yeah, the card got good airflow, and the temp is pretty good all over.
However if there's nothing wrong with the card there's nothing they can do.

So im stuck with a $400 GPU I can't even use..

Called the store I bought the GPU, they had nothing to say except I had to send it back for them to check if there's something wrong with it. (Which is probably isnt.)

forget the store, who manufactured the card..???, get in touch with them :)


even-though it seems to be S/W related, you've still payed for a card which isnt working.

if you cant get this sorted with the manufacturer, the sub vendor will be obligated to refund your money at the very least.

CptZiggy said:

Tried to run with only the windows drivers, and got a bluescreen.

I'll innstall the drivers once again, and give you a screenshot.

You're probably blue screening because you still have CCC installed. Time to start from scratch.

Download and install Driversweeper:
Guru3D - Driver Sweeper

Remove Ati Catalyst install Manager from through control panel Control Panel\Programs\Programs and Features

Boot into safe mode, run DriverSweeper and then Analyze/ clean all the ATI files.

Boot normally and install either 9.12 or the 10.1 RC2 drivers.

If your issue still exists, then it does sound like the card itself may have a problem.


CODM W2 freezing is another issue all together

CptZiggy said:

I did ran driversweeper, no CCC installed.

Bluescreen came out of nowhere.

When did you run driversweeper? before or after letting Windows update install the drivers?

Have you checked your RAM with memtest86+ by any chance?