Rather annoying situation with this 5870. My new PC ran fine with the GTX280 but was giving me a grayish screen with vertical bars at default settings. I lower the clock and memory speed down a bit and its much better. I sent the card back, it took them 2 days to get the card to fail their test so they sent me another one, and this one was tested and it passed the XFX tech test. Well I get it home and its doing the same thing. Again I need to lower the speeds in the ati control panel.
I have to assume its the video card because the GTX280 ran fine when the 5870 was out of it and the PC never experienced the gray screen/vertical bars. Now they want me to put the 5870 in another machine to try and see if it does it there too. Like I have all these machines around to test such issues. I have a triple core I build with an Antec EarthWatts EA650 650W power supply in it but I have to check and see if its enough for this card. On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 10:29 AM, GPL <[email protected]> wrote: > 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? >>> >> >
