[Question]Video Card Driver Problem

[jM2.me]

I have Sapphire HD5870 and I am happy with it. But there is a problem.
Six months ago or so driver problem occured, but windows recovered the driver and its was good. Then month after it started to happen constantly at random time. Now it started again. Can be each hour, or once a day/week.

I tried different driver and ccc versions but didn't help.

Should I consider sending this card back to sapphire while it's under warranty?

P.S. I know sapphire isn't the best distributor...

[MentaL]

[MentaL]

Is it screwed in and not come loose from the mobo? otherwise I would just claim under warranty and get a new one , thats how we roll.

[jM2.me]

Is it screwed in and not come loose from the mobo? otherwise I would just claim under warranty and get a new one , thats how we roll.

It's screwed in and stays firm on mobo. Checked few times

Maybe someone will throw in another advice but if not I will send it back under the warranty I guess.

[MentaL]

Dust? Overheating?

[jM2.me]

Dust? Overheating?

Well I clean my rig on regular bases with compressed air. No overheating at all.
Tho the problem with driver itself happens when playing video in flash player. I.e. youtube, streaming, etc.

Never happened during gameplay.

[Phant0m]

Compressed air from a can or from a blower?
The cans can form condensation and we all know what happens when you mix water with your computer :P

[jM2.me]

Compressed air from a can or from a blower?
The cans can form condensation and we all know what happens when you mix water with your computer :P

From compressor, cans are useful when you wanna get high lol

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Btw, offtopic question to mental since he is already here. When is next rank for me? 1500 posts? 2000?

[Phant0m]

1500 :P I want to get mine already haha

[yjlasher22]

remove your driver completely and reinstall.

try reseating your card, replugging the cable to your monitor.

then run stress tests on it.

[Rishwin]

Use Driver Sweeper to remove the gfx drivers (i would do it in safe mode), then reboot and install the latest drivers (No need for the whole CCC unless you overclock).

[jM2.me]

I reinstalled the driver's few times even on clean windows 7.
Before it started to happen I had flickering problem when monitors would start flickering for a bit, That would happen maybe once few days. After that they released new driver or ccc and flickering stopped. But instead this driver problem started to occur since then.

If any of you know what I am talking about, do you know what version was that? Gonna check their changelog, but gotta work ><

[Matthew]

I reinstalled the driver's few times even on clean windows 7.
Before it started to happen I had flickering problem when monitors would start flickering for a bit, That would happen maybe once few days. After that they released new driver or ccc and flickering stopped. But instead this driver problem started to occur since then.

If any of you know what I am talking about, do you know what version was that? Gonna check their changelog, but gotta work ><

This is a known issue with these cards and the *50. A temporary work around is to disable hardware acceleration in flash settings. I had the same problem and disabling it made it stop. Before my driver would stop and the video I would be watching would turn green or black. Followed by this a popup alert came up saying "AMD driver has successfully recovered" or something along those lines.

[jM2.me]

This is a known issue with these cards and the *50. A temporary work around is to disable hardware acceleration in flash settings. I had the same problem and disabling it made it stop. Before my driver would stop and the video I would be watching would turn green or black. Followed by this a popup alert came up saying "AMD driver has successfully recovered" or something along those lines.

That's the one
Hopefully it fixes the problem lol cause it was getting super annoying latelly.

Thanks :)