Need help troubleshooting graphics

[doryfishie2]

Hi, I have a problem with my graphics. Sometimes I will suddenly get a BSOD after using the PC for a long time. Something to do with system being unable to reset graphics driver. So I reboot, but when I get to windows, there is no signal on monitor but can hear hard disk whirring. Usually what I do is force shut down then wait a few hours and it'll go back to normal. But after a few hours or even a few days of use, the BSOD will occur again etc.

Today I tried something new. Booted to safe mode, went to device manager and uninstalled my amd display driver. I can see my amd 6800 series under display adapters, so it's not like the card totally failed. Reboot, ended up at normal windows mode, installed amd 15.7 CCC (also tried 14.4). After reboot I get no signal on monitor again. Checked device manager in normal mode after uninstalling card drivers again, only have standard VGA driver. Another thing to note is I didn't upgrade to amd 15.7 ccc recently, have been using it since last year.

Using 5-6 year old Asus 6870 1gb with 2 year old system (i5 4570 3.2 GHz, 16gb ddr3, win7 x64, 550w psu).

I was monitoring the card temp for a few days. Stays around 60c surfing and 75-80c in games. Monitor seems fine, connected to laptop with no issues.

Any ideas? Besides buying new graphics card.

 

[ZrE0_Cha0s]

Not much say but to tell u that ur GPU life might be ending soon. And would need to get a replacement. Well if u have done fresh driver installation and still having bsod, den go for replacement

 

[ZrE0_Cha0s]

Btw what is the error msg when u got hit with bsod

 

[doryfishie2]

Btw what is the error msg when u got hit with bsod

Can't remember exactly, something about not being able to reset display driver.

 

[ZrE0_Cha0s]

Can't remember exactly, something about not being able to reset display driver.

Den maybe u try removing all the display driver stored in ur graphic card by finding driver remover in Google, there u will find guru3d for the software. Do follow as told and boot in safe mode. Once after removing, install the crimson driver and test and see.

If y still experience BSOD maybe u write down the msg. Try removing you GPU and test with onboard graphics. If onboard really no issues, den we can conclude that GPU near its ends of it life cycle.

 

[doryfishie2]

Thanks, will try it out and update when I can

 

[doryfishie2]

I used guru3d's display driver uninstaller in safe mode, clean and restart, and now cannot install both crimson and catalyst. PC also takes very long to boot and shut down now. Looks like it became worse.

Any ideas?

Edit: okay nvm. Forced shut down then powered on. Boots at normal speed now and when in normal mode I can run crimson. Will wait and see if I get BSOD again.

 

[tigerwoods]

Also try a previously working fine gfx driver

Sent from my Android using GAGT

 

[doryfishie2]

With Catalyst 15.7 - used about a year without issues

BSOD says something about unable to reset display driver

With crimson beta 16.2.1 - used after guru3d driver wipe, failed after 20+ h use

BSOD says display driver stuck in infinite loop etc

(Images won't show, can click the links to see full BSOD message)

Looks like even if I wipe drivers and reinstall, I still have to wait a few hours before there's signal on monitor. If I want to surf or do non graphics intensive stuff I can still uninstall driver and use default "standard vga driver" from windows.

Just hope it can last till amd 400 series gets released

 

[ZrE0_Cha0s]

Well after looking at the error, not sure if u willing to tweak the 1st error with his method :
https://support.microsoft.com/en-sg/kb/2665946

Whereas 2nd one, am think if u wanna remove that beta and test with stable version?

If both method still fails or u doing 2nd sti fails, probably u will need for Polaris or Pascal release.

 

[doryfishie2]

I tried the regedit, updated gfx driver with windows update, still no signal at startup.

No stable version allocated to my gpu. I just used the version the amd site directs me to.

Ya seems like I need to wait for Polaris. Probably should look into getting a second-hand card to tide me over.

Thanks for your help so far