Pc Games Keep Crashing (All) part 2

[Steven511]

Ok not solved lol lasted a day, reinstalled windows 7 complitly and still no luck so must be a hardware issue?

Bought AVG Pc Tuneup 2011 and fixed abut 2500 errors on my pc, some thing bad must of been left behind when I got windows update graphics driver BY mistake



Hello all, I had this problem a while ago it stoped for abit and came back again but not as much, now it started heavy with my monitors randomly flickering 2 of them but never both at the same time and went crazy when I scroll up and down on the mouse so I got some advice to change the CCC clocks abit and that worked fine but half way threw a game about 20mins later I get the pc frozen with the screen going one color with same color dif shade lines right threw it left to right and some reason it came back this time and never done before but got the error "AMD display driver has stoped responding and has succesfully recoverd but after that it never recovers now I have tryed system check/memtest86+ and no errors altho system check did take 6 whole hours and uninstalled ati/ccc drivers and used driver sweeper and restarted and downloaded the latest drivers from sapphire since they published my card but still the same but here is my pc spec below.


Operating System - Windows 7 Home Premium (x64) (build 7600)
Processor - 3.20 gigahertz AMD Phenom II X6 1090T
Motherboard - Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd. GA-890GPA-UD3H
Graphics Card - Vapor-X Radeon HD 5870 (Overclocked Edition)
Ram - 6GB
Power Supply - Antec true power quattro 1200 watt
Hard Drive - 1.81 TB
Monitor - Iiyama Pro Lite 24" Widescreen 1920 x 1080 2ms HDMI DVI-D VGA LCD Monitor with Speakers, 2 of them
Computer Case - Antec Nine Hundred Two

 

[Steven511]

Any one out there?

 

[Fumz]

Ok not solved lol lasted a day, reinstalled windows 7 complitly and still no luck so must be a hardware issue?

Bought AVG Pc Tuneup 2011 and fixed abut 2500 errors on my pc, some thing bad must of been left behind when I got windows update graphics driver BY mistake

... now I have tryed system check/memtest86+ and no errors altho system check did take 6 whole hours and uninstalled ati/ccc drivers and used driver sweeper and restarted and downloaded the latest drivers from sapphire since they published my card but still the same

I'm not quite clear on the sequence of events? Are you saying you reinstalled 7 then ran AVG Tuneup and it found 2500 errors?

System check or check disk, which is very different from memtest?

 

[Steven511]

hey and thx for the reply, look at the paragraphs from top to bottom as 3 2 1 sorry for the confusion but no I done both memtest + system check I reinstalled windows and used the ati driver from the disk nithing else then downloaded steam then black ops and still crashed like when i tryed any other game b 4 i installed windows again

 

[Fumz]

When you reinstalled 7 did you do it clean... as in wiping the partition and starting from scratch, or did you overwrite?

 

[Steven511]

I did it clean/new so im rly thinking its the graphics card I am replacing it but cant get outside the door with the snow at the moment lol

 

[Fumz]

It might be a bad graphics card, but that it took 6 hours to run a system check leads me to believe there's something else going on... nothing should take that long given a 2TB drive.

Did you build this yourself... recently? Something like that sounds almost like you forgot to install your chipset drivers... but still, 6 hours is long even without chipset drivers.

What programs do you have loaded? What's set to run at startup?

 

[Steven511]

I tryed reinstalling windows and install nothing but windows 7 and the graphics card driver from cd but still crashed when I tryed load up a game after installing it I unpluged my net and used a game from cd

 

[Fumz]

It's never really a good idea to use graphics drivers from the cd that comes with the card; they're always old by the time they get to you.

Let's cross our fingers and hope that's it not the card and that these work better: ATI Radeon

Remember to express uninstall all drivers, then run driver sweeper in safe mode. (not saying you aren't already, just saying it for the next guy that comes along looking for solutions)

 

[Steven511]

I have done that and no luck but shouldnt the ati drivers from disc be tested before shiped with the card altho the graphics card should be too imo but looks rly like I got a faulty one because I think iv tryed nearly every thing in the book all my games are downloads so could only use Call of Duty: World at War its the only one I had for disc when I tryed reinstalling windows with no net connection so windows couldnt sneakly update

 

[Steven511]

hmm sorry I should of answerd ages ago but I replaced the hd 5870 with a gtx 580 and not a single hickup so obiously was a fault in the graphics card

 

[Richardc269]

Could have been that your motherboard didn't like your graphics card, or your computer games didn't like the graphics card either. There are some old games out there that don't like the Audigy 2 soundcard from Soundblaster, and liked to crash. Also could have just been that the games didn't like the old graphics drivers you installed from the CD either, or the newest set you installed, too. There's issues like that on occasion.

 

[Steven511]

ah I tryed every thing from new drivers to old drivers and crashed on all games old and new, when my uncel built the pc it was made from sratch, the motherbord was and still is
Motherboard - Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd. GA-890GPA-UD3H

 

[Richardc269]

Might've been that the motherboard didn't like the card. Or it could have been a heating problem. Hard to tell unless you did a step-by-step of taking out parts and testing them. I had to do that before and found out the RAM couldn't handle the heat being put out from the video-card and kept freezing.

Just sounds like your PC didn't like your video-card hardware wise.

 

[Steven511]

Sorry if I didn't say this before but thanks for reminding me, forgot to say that the other graphics card was tested in my uncels pc and crashed on games also so 100% faulty card and kinda a home run with changing to a gtx 580

 

[Richardc269]

Yeah. I figured it was the GFX card. Sounds like the card went "poof" on you. Could have been static electricity, or the card was screwed up being shipped to you, or something. Glad it's working for you.