I hope that it continues to run fine for you, it sucks when a problem is
so difficult to solve. I've been toying with the idea to crossfire two
5770's together and even bought another mobo and DDR3 RAM for my game box
to support x8 x8 crossfireX. Reading up on the subject more I don't like
the amount of energy two of these old cards use. I am real tempted to get
a 6950 and flash the BIOS to a 6970 which has been recently reported by
W1zzard over at techPowerUp!. Apparently since all the current cards are
reference designs this trick works on nearly all of them and it would
almost certainly use less power.
On Sun, 02 Jan 2011 04:55:03 -0600, Anthony Q. Martin
<[email protected]> wrote:
Hi Stan,
Thanks for asking.
I'm still working on this. Here is a short list of where I'm at:
1) Sapphire has replaced the one card (5770). It is sitting on my desk.
I'm currently using the old HIS card (5770). I bought the HIS last
January and dumped it for the Sapphire version in March.
2) I had been running the HIS version when I sent back the Sapphire. It
seemed to work much better with more recent drivers, but then my system
started acting up with similar, but seemingly different problems.
Windows seem to blame the ATI driver as having stopped working (figures).
3) A few days ago, I reinstalled Windows 7. I did an "upgrade" over top
if my existing installation so I could save all of my settings (quite a
bit since I have the apps on the SSD and everything else on the
HD...it's a lot of work to start from scratch).
4) Now I'm waiting. :) So far so good. I just need it to act up once.
It it turns out the problems still exist, I may just get a new power
supply. And if that doesn't help, I'll consider a new mobo/CPU/RAM. It
kinda sucks though because I don't feel I need a new system right now.
If anyone has any ideas on what to try, let me know.
Happy New Year!!!
ps. The HIS card works differently with different ATI drivers, so I'm
suspect of this business. But the Sapphire card worked great for months.
The two cards are slight different in that the Sapphire has two DVI
ports while the other has one. There may be some other differences too.
On 1/2/2011 5:30 AM, Stan Zaske wrote:
Did you ever figure out what the problem was Anthony?
On Tue, 07 Dec 2010 00:35:23 -0600, Anthony Q. Martin
<[email protected]> wrote:
All of a sudden, I'm getting messages in Win764 saying that my driver
is crashing. Mostly it recovers, but after about 10 times the just get
the blue screen.
I already had one bad card back in January of this year. I ate that
and just bought another one (rather than deal with the RMA and trying
to prove to a tech on the phone that my card is bad -- I just don't
have patience of that).
Has anyone heard of problems with the latest ATI/AMD drivers? Windows
Update just put a new driver on last month...I took that one off after
these problems started and installed an older driver, but the problem
still exists. Even while typing this message the driver has crashed
twice.
Dammit!
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