I ended up sending the 5870 back RMA. I put in a GTX 280 and it worked fine and I'm using that card for now while I wait for the ATI to come back.
On Sun, May 23, 2010 at 4:54 AM, maccrawj <[email protected]> wrote: > 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? >> >
