What happens right now is when I start my pc with installed drivers, screen goes black (after windows loading) and after 2-3 minutes I get BSOD with atikmdag.sys. (and sometimes atikmpag.sys) Safe mode works fine so there I can use driver sweeper to delete files so I can get back to "normal" windows and there uninstall rest. It started with 10.2 when I was playing games, screen went black occasionaly (not realy often) when I was quiting or alttabing so then I had to do hard reset. But on my last play I got some artifacts (little blue circles all over the screen) so I exit the game and *PUFF* black screen and windows didn't start to this day ;( And after this it happens with different drivers like 9.11 and 9.12. Spec: Vista 64bit SP2 c2q q9550@3.2 Sapphire 4870X2 with Arctic Cooling Accelero Xtreme Asus Rampage Formula 2x 2GB DDR2 Kingston I kinda rulled out overheating because in idle it gets to 34'C and in stress to 48'C (and gpu was not o/c). Tried windows recovery from few days back, didnt help also read about one windows update that causes bsod but uninstalling didn't help :/ Installin just display drivers without ccc also no luck. any advice ?
Same thing started happening to me on my XFX 4870x2 a week ago just a few days after installing 10.2. Went back to 9.12 and it continued to happen. Happened during POST as well. These issues didn't happen every time I started my computer or played a game. Then, yesterday, I found I could not boot my computer at all. Nothing came up on my screen. I reseated the card and nothing. The card had no dust clutter on it as I regularly clean my PC with cans of air. I put in an old 9500GS i had which allows me to now use my PC. Sucks going from a 4870x2 to a 9500GS. I got an RMA # and sent the card back today.
You RMA'd because of a bad driver installation? Are you saying installing 10.2 broke your gpu? lol :3eyes:
can you tell where I can find it ? or what prog to check these temps but I can't run any game right now so dunno if I can read temps under stress doesn't work So should I assume that my card is ok because it runs without drivers, can play my hd movies or watch clips on youtube etc or something could have broke and does it work "differently" with drivers and should I say goodbay to it ? :|
Use the hardware monitoring option in Rivatuner and check for VRM temps under load I was having some black screens and found out that the temps VRM were really high (100+ degrees) because of that I was having those problems. Core temps were fine (watercooled) but VRM were insane. I fixed the position on the block and it is all good now. Btw when these black/blue screens happen are there lights on the videocard "on"?
Sorry for late reply but suddenly net at dorm decided to stop workin for a day ;( ehh really got some bad luck lately Rivatuner is showing 71'C on vrms in idle (can't check it in stress, without drivers nothing wants to work ) so i guess its bit too high for just waving mouse in windows. I'll be trying to get some "equipment" and do something through weekend. Thanks
Revert to Catalyst 9.11. Catalyst 9.12 and onwards doesn't seem to treat Radeon HD4XXX users very well. See all the user complaints about it from the Catalyst 10.2 thread on this forum. Also if you are using a partner board for example a HIS Radeon then you may wish to try using their drivers. HIS update drivers once every 3 months which is often enough.
Hehe, I RMA'd cause my GPU stopped working altogether. I'm not saying 10.2 broke my GPU. Just was a coincidence to happen shortly after installing them.
4870x2 here with 10.3, works like a charm, never heard about "drivers treating not well" seems like u got a differen problem, good shot at the vrm temps, check them...
10.3 is still only in beta stages... I wasn't referring to beta drivers. I was referring to 9.12, 10.1 & 10.2 which don't treat the Radeon HD 4xxx series very well. We all know 10.3beta treats them better and if you want to test beta then that's up to you. Either way the latest certified driver is 10.2 and 9.11 is the best driver for most people on the HD4xxx series so far and when 10.3 comes out then hopefully it'll be the step up that most people are looking for in terms of stability and performance.
There is something serious wrong with 10.2. I've had overheating issues with these drivers to the point my room smelled burned. (this was after whole day idling @ windows desktop) Some kind of 2d/3d bug is in this release, althrough i could not confirm it. Anyway, i've installed rflairs drivers and problems are gone. PS: Didn't bring it up before since it's considered normal that ATI ****s this up.
Wow, I just got my replacement card back for my failed 4870x2 and it's a 5870. I hope it turns out to perform just as well as my 4870x2 did.
My card did something similar. In 10.1 I saw some minor artifacting that I didn't really care about,in 10.2,games that use a lot of video memory started to artifact (Blue rectangles.) and my computer kept crashing randomly,it happened a lot when I was watching flash videos on Youtube,and I was using the GPU powered Flash beta. Uninstalled the drivers and did a total clean out with Driver Sweeper,installed 9.12,and also tried 10.1. No changes,kept doing the same. Used OCCT and it located 27999 errors within 36 minutes,I did an RMA but haven't got a replacement yet. Hopefully I get a 5870. (Bought a card meanwhile,had to order a bunch of other things anyway,and they said it would take 4-8 weeks to get a replacement.) Does anybody know how big the chance of getting a 5870 is? I mean,after all,the 4870x2 haven't been manufactured for quite some time. If anybody wonders my was a Club3D. This issue might've been a coincidence with the 2010 drivers or it was the cards time to go,funny though,my card had been running at around 80 degrees since I got it,reaching 95 when gaming. I couldn't do anything to fix that though since that would void the warranty.