I just bought a SAPPHIRE Vapor-X 100283VXL Radeon HD 5770
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814102868 ..
installed it last Thursday and it has been great.
At 01:20 AM 3/3/2010, you wrote:
What card should I get to replace this HIS Radeon HD5770? Another
brand of the same card? I can't deal with the crashing.
On 3/2/2010 2:02 PM, Anthony Q. Martin wrote:
I know for sure that I have the latest mobo bios....and I just
found this comment on newegg (posted on 2/26/2010):
"
*Pros:* It's not HERS?
*Cons:* Anytime I boot up a game, 15 minutes later it crashes (or if
I'm lucky and if all the graphics are on low, it'll just be choppy
as h*ll) Went to RMA it, than found out there was a 2-4 week turn
around time (with more than one(hundred) people online saying
they've been waiting 5 weeks+ for it. I put my old video card into a
build I was doing for someone else at the time, so even 2 weeks
without my main computer is a bad thing, let alone 5.
*Other Thoughts:* It still runs everything but games, but flash
chops up every 10 seconds or so, barely noticeable, but it gets
annoying after a while. Also, it gets 3k below the average score for
the video card in Vantage... What on Earth did they do to my card?
But definitly not buys from HIS again. I'd go $10 and get the
SAPHIRE anytime.
"
I haven't been playing any games...only running the screen saver
and Aero....yet the graphic card would crash (stating a problem
with the driver).
I guess I should try some kind of game that really drives the
card...because I haven't done that. Other than Aero, this card
should be totally cool. WEI is the only thing I have run on this
puppy...and I ordered it on Jan 14.
Looks like I'm going to take it hard on this one....
I can try removing the heatsink...before I toss it. I ought to give
newegg some hassle about this, though.
On 3/2/2010 1:29 PM, Thane Sherrington wrote:
At 02:11 PM 3/2/2010, Anthony Q. Martin wrote:
Thane,
I can't download your reply for some reason...but I can read it
on my phone...I have revision 2.0 of the P35-DS4 mobo. Thanks.
Well, assuming you have the latest BIOS and chipset drivers, then
I think you have a bad card. One thing you could try (if you
can't return it) is to take off the heatsink and replace the
thermal compound. I've resurrected a couple of video cards that
way - they would crash even when they were only on for a few minutes.
T
On 3/2/2010 12:07 PM, Anthony Q. Martin wrote:
Thane,
Which chipset do you refer to? I have a HIS Radeon HD5770. I've
only had this card for about 2 months and frankly, it's been a
bit of a problem from the getgo....the mobo is a Gigabyte P35-DS4.
I've run WEI plenty of times...even with this card, mind you. I
think I was using the 9.x driver and it worked fine
then....giving a 7.4 on the WEI. Only after I went to this 10.2
driver (in either form) did the crashing of WEI start.
On 3/2/2010 11:55 AM, Thane Sherrington wrote:
At 12:44 PM 3/2/2010, Anthony Q. Martin wrote:
Ok...I used Driver Clearer to clean both the previous nVidia
and the ATI drivers from my system.
then I went back and installed the ATI 10.2 CCC drivers.
The good news is I could actually see and open CCC and the ATI
folder from the program menu. This is one thing I could not do
previously as the drivers & software didn't install correctly.
So, I can say from this taht Driver Cleaner actually helped out.
However, with the ATI 10.2 CCC and drivers loaded, Windows
Experience Index crashes the computer. Now, I don't think
this is some kind of litmus test or anything, but that is a
basic app built into Win7...it doesn't seem right that it just
completely crashes my system to a black screen.
Then you either have a bad card, or some sort of Windows corruption.
I run the WEI on all our machines and have never had it crash
(on any card.) What chipset do you have?
T
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