Driver not responding Radeon HD 5770

[ipwnatlyfe]

I saw a similar thread here with the solution of increasing the idle clock speed of your GPU: http://www.sevenforums.com/graphic-cards/38277-windows-7-radeon-hd-5770-a-14.html

I am having very similar problems where my graphics card driver seems to crash all the time when I'm doing thing that don't stress the GPU. This started happening after I added 8 GB of memory that I bought recently. The thing is I can't find a way to edit the idle clock speed of my GPU in the new CCC. I have tried using the 11.12 and 12.1 and its the same thing. In my C:\Users\{YourUserName}\AppData\Local\ATI\ACE\ folder I noticed that the profiles.xml file is what has the CoreClockSpeed option but I can't seem to edit it (I open it and change the numbers but when I save it gets reverted right away). Is there a different way to do this in the new CCC or is it possible that there is a different problem ? Thanks for the help.

 

[M1GU31]

try changing the clock speed with afterburner
MSI Afterburner
and about CCC ,its odd have you tried uninstalling CCC and then wiping all traces of it then reinstalling it?

 

[Lemur]

Hmm..

Do you have the latest bios version - 17.G

Are you getting BSODs, or just reboots or lockups?

Is your virtual memory auto or set? If set, change to auto.

 

[ipwnatlyfe]

No BSODs. No reboots even, just the message that the display driver crashed and restarted successfully. My memory is on auto right now just to make sure that wasn't the problem. I would like to try turning up the idle GPU speed solution but I'm not sure how to go about doing that. I just downloaded afterburner but I only see a max GPU clock speed setting, nothing to let me set what it idles at. I'll keep looking maybe I missed it.

 

[ipwnatlyfe]

Alright so I finally got this working, I guess I just wasn't using the new "presets" option in the CCC correctly but I finally just followed the directions in my first link and raised my idle clock speed. So far it has fixed my problem with the driver not responding. Thanks everyone!