going insane! ( 7057 x64 )

[Jigoku]

just built this computer and decided to run windows 7 on it.

system:
asus p6t deluxe v2 motherboard
core i7 920
640gig wd caviar black hd
corsair 6gb dominator ram
saphire radeon 4870 512mb graphics card

problem:

every game Ive tried so far will appear to run perfectly fine ( awesome fps ) and running smoothly.. but then the screen will flash black for a second.

It will continue doing this every minute or so until the game crashes or the dreaded bsod happens. :[

I even just ran the windows performance test and I got this message after the screen flickered black. " ati radeon has stopped responding and has recovered "

I've updated to the latest catalyst drivers and tried almost everything I can think of. Is this common with windows 7 gaming or is it possible my gfx card is bad?

any help is greatly appreciated.

 

[ickymay]

just built this computer and decided to run windows 7 on it.

system:
asus p6t deluxe v2 motherboard
core i7 920
640gig wd caviar black hd
corsair 6gb dominator ram
saphire radeon 4870 512mb graphics card

problem:

every game Ive tried so far will appear to run perfectly fine ( awesome fps ) and running smoothly.. but then the screen will flash black for a second.

It will continue doing this every minute or so until the game crashes or the dreaded bsod happens. :[

I even just ran the windows performance test and I got this message after the screen flickered black. " ati radeon has stopped responding and has recovered "

I've updated to the latest catalyst drivers and tried almost everything I can think of. Is this common with windows 7 gaming or is it possible my gfx card is bad?

any help is greatly appreciated.

I would be inclined to experiment with drivers

 

[Jigoku]

I've been doing that for hours. I'm about ready to take a baseball bat to this computer.. lol :sa:

 

[Mark]

I don't know if it will help but have you tried adjusting your power options to High Performance.

 

[angryman]

temps ok as well?

 

[davehc]

I would look at heating problems with the Graphics card or the CPU.

 

[chev65]

I agree it sounds like overheating to me also. Those ATI cards can get very hot without good case flow but it's nothing that adding a couple fans won't help.

 

[TripOG]

im trying to help a friend now with a saphire radeon 4870 1gb card, hes having the same problems with vista and 7.

getting bsod with this error...

*** STOP: 0x00000124 (0x00000000, 0x8c796028, 0x8c2000040, 0x0020114a)

 

[TripOG]

well problem solved on his pc, windows diagnosised the problem linked to a update for the intel i7 chipset.