Well poking around only netted me people resolving this by disabling powerplay. With
my 3870X2 VisionTek actually released a BIOS update which raised the clocks to
constant "normal" operational levels which effectively removed power play and solved
the problem for their customers including me.
What I've gathered these past 4+ years is cards built By ATI (BBA's, reference
design)) get copied w/ their bugs by the manufacturing partners yet seem never to get
fixed depite BBA's being fixed?!
It's an bug on 3K 4K series not 5K's but you could trying raising the clocks to "in
use" levels and see if that's the issue:
http://www.warhammeralliance.com/forums/showthread.php?t=118448
On 5/22/2010 6:40 AM, GPL wrote:
It seems my new build has an issue I read about many weeks ago.
In regards to the new XFX ATI HD 5870.
The gray/brown screen with bars I noticed the last few days playing
rfactor and iracing that pop up occasionally. It's been reported
before by ATI users and I would have hoped by now that this would be a
driver issue that fixed it. But this is the latest driver on a brand
new install. I'm wondering if I'm about to RMA my first part of this
build, and the first ATI I've purchased in years.
Can it be something else overlooked?
