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post #15831 of 25459
9/14/12 at 10:22pm
I'm running into issues with my Sapphire 7970 OC.

I'm running stock clocks on 12.4 drivers (I've tried them all trying to fix my problem) and I get hard crashes to a black screen. I then have to hold my power button to shut down and restart. Sometimes I can't even get a boot screen, there's audio, but no video. I then hard shut down and try again. If I can get it to boot properly, it'll browse the internet with zero issues, but the moment I start a game, I'd lucky to make it 2 minutes before a hard crash.

Any ideas? I've tried all drivers from 12.4 to 12.9 beta and I get the same result every time, a hard crash to black screen.

Occasionally, it'll crash to a black screen, then display a "lined" image of varying shades of black and dark grey. When I hit keyboard commands, I can get it to flicker here and there, but the only way to fix it is to hold the power button down again and restart.

Is an RMA in order?
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9/14/12 at 10:23pm
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I'm running into issues with my Sapphire 7970 OC.

I'm running stock clocks on 12.4 drivers (I've tried them all trying to fix my problem) and I get hard crashes to a black screen. I then have to hold my power button to shut down and restart. Sometimes I can't even get a boot screen, there's audio, but no video. I then hard shut down and try again. If I can get it to boot properly, it'll browse the internet with zero issues, but the moment I start a game, I'd lucky to make it 2 minutes before a hard crash.

Any ideas? I've tried all drivers from 12.4 to 12.9 beta and I get the same result every time, a hard crash to black screen.

Occasionally, it'll crash to a black screen, then display a "lined" image of varying shades of black and dark grey. When I hit keyboard commands, I can get it to flicker here and there, but the only way to fix it is to hold the power button down again and restart.

Is an RMA in order?

Are you overclocked, or at stock speeds?
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9/14/12 at 10:54pm
Stock BIOS 2 speeds, 1000/1450 at 1.115V.
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post #15834 of 25459
9/14/12 at 11:11pm
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Stock BIOS 2 speeds, 1000/1450 at 1.115V.

Then yeah, sounds like your card itself is bad. You can try BIOS 1 instead, see if that helps any at all. You can also try flashing BIOS 1 over to the GHz Edition BIOS. But it sounds to me like the card is faulty. Which sadly, does happen from time to time.
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9/14/12 at 11:27pm
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Sapphire hd7950 OC 950mhz edition (this ver. with black 7970 PCB)
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I can play without issues many hours in BF3, fifa13 demo, sleeping dogs demo, and 3d mark11 no issues.
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Stock speeds
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post #15836 of 25459
9/14/12 at 11:32pm
It is odd, sometimes it behaves fine, and will work for weeks on end. As long as I'm able to do a proper shut down, I reboot fine. It's booting after a hard crash that can take a few tries.

I just bumped the voltage using Trixx to 1.135V, and played Metro 2033 for about 30 minutes on max to stress it as much as possible, and didn't have a single issue. Before it would crash by the time I could click "continue" at the menu.

Is there a way to adjust the voltage in the BIOS so that it boots at a higher voltage? Before RMAing I'd like to see if I can have it boot to 1.135V and then check for reliability over the next week before jumping to any conclusions.
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9/14/12 at 11:34pm
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It is odd, sometimes it behaves fine, and will work for weeks on end. As long as I'm able to do a proper shut down, I reboot fine. It's booting after a hard crash that can take a few tries.

I just bumped the voltage using Trixx to 1.135V, and played Metro 2033 for about 30 minutes on max to stress it as much as possible, and didn't have a single issue. Before it would crash by the time I could click "continue" at the menu.

Is there a way to adjust the voltage in the BIOS so that it boots at a higher voltage? Before RMAing I'd like to see if I can have it boot to 1.135V and then check for reliability over the next week before jumping to any conclusions.

You could always just use Trixxx or MSI AB, and have them boost the voltage at startup.
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9/15/12 at 12:06am
Anyone saw similiar screen corruption ?
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9/15/12 at 1:56am
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Anyone saw similiar screen corruption ?

I've seen it only with a beta set of drivers, 12.7 if my memory serves me correct. It was happening while browsing on Firefox and mostly when the card was slightly overclocked.

Do you have the latest BIOS at your Motherboard? Also, did you try to set just the core clock at 800Mhz?
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post #15840 of 25459
9/15/12 at 2:35am
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Then yeah, sounds like your card itself is bad. You can try BIOS 1 instead, see if that helps any at all. You can also try flashing BIOS 1 over to the GHz Edition BIOS. But it sounds to me like the card is faulty. Which sadly, does happen from time to time.

wow you can OC your second GPU bios!! Thought that was meant to be like a safely back up that would not OC

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Is 12.9 more stable than 12.8 in general ?
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