i need some help here on getting ATI 5870 drivers work for windows 7 due to that i have deadpixels on my desktop and i dont know wot to do, ive tryed the drivers off the cd that came with it and lastest ati 10.1 beta driver its the same but with out any drivers or catalyst installed it has no deadpixels on desktop here my current set up if it helps Processor: Intel Core i7 CPU 920 Memory: 6144MB RAM Hard Drive: 2 x 500 GB and 2 x 1T Video Card: XFX ATI Radeon HD 5870 Monitor: Samsung 226BW Sound Card: Creative SB X-fi Gamers Edition Speakers/Headphones: Logtech G35 7.1 surround sound headset Operating System: Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit, and Windows XP Professional 32bit Motherboard: AsusTek P6T SE
I had a similar problem with dead pixels on the desk top and corruption on alll my games, I installed on win 7 and xp but had, no joy even tried a clean install and the problem continued . I have now returned the card and am awaiting a replacement.
thats wot im thinking but support from XFX has been fine, had no problems with them atm yes me too m8 but with out any drivers installed i have no problems thats telling my its a driver problem not a hrdware problem I have fix windows xp by isntalling the 10.1 drivers but with windows 7 thats the problem
It may have something to do with the fact that in Win7 the card is clocked back to very low frequencies in 2D mode, which I did not see in XP. (I have a XP/W7 dual boot system). You could try to increase the 2D-frequencies manually to 'default' values and see if it helps.
I had 100% the same problem with my sapphire 5870 Card, I got a replacment Card and everything works perfect now. So go for RMA
RMA --> returned materials (or merchandise) authorization would say: give your Card back for replacement or reparation
