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I've bought 6950 about 2 months ago and started noticing problems starting somewhere in the past month.
I havent been gaming until recently so i can't really judge how bad it really was but right now as it seems to be random i'm getting annoying BSODs that ONLY occur when crossfire is activated.
I've tried changing Crossfire link, putting my cpu overclock back to default speed, switching ram sticks in different board spots, removing ram stick.
Even tho it can be fine for a while, suddently it just starts out of no where and become pretty much chaotic again.
So the crossfire setup can work for a while as i played BF3 for a couple days and had maybe 3 BSOD which didnt alert me given the beta catalyst 11.10 waas what i was using and that BF3 is still in a beta state but then today **** started to hit the fan to the point i can't even play without having a freaking bluescreen.
Formatting 'seemed' to have temporary fixed this but it came back again...
I tried disabling crossfire and overclocked my first card pretty high and it was completly stable even tho the OC was 1000/1500mhz but trying to overclock with Crossfire activated was a NO-NO today,,, but worked fine days ago.
The problem is just that it seems to be so random that at this point i'm completly clueless on what the problem could be.
The BSODs are obviously ATIkmtag 016
What are the possibilities here? I just want to be guided a little...
Given that it works sometimes and then doesnt... im guessing that the card can't be considered dead.....
Could my Ram have a problem once crossfire is activated?
Could my motherboard be starting to have issue running it?
Could my SSD have some problems with the Atimktag corruption?
I'm just trying to convince myself that the card isnt faulty cause i hope for god's sake that it isnt the case.... as i likely wont be able to get it 'refunded'
My power supply is a brand new HX1050W so power can't be the issue here either.
I,ve also did some memtest and it didnt show any errors and my CPU was stable....
I havent been gaming until recently so i can't really judge how bad it really was but right now as it seems to be random i'm getting annoying BSODs that ONLY occur when crossfire is activated.
I've tried changing Crossfire link, putting my cpu overclock back to default speed, switching ram sticks in different board spots, removing ram stick.
Even tho it can be fine for a while, suddently it just starts out of no where and become pretty much chaotic again.
So the crossfire setup can work for a while as i played BF3 for a couple days and had maybe 3 BSOD which didnt alert me given the beta catalyst 11.10 waas what i was using and that BF3 is still in a beta state but then today **** started to hit the fan to the point i can't even play without having a freaking bluescreen.
Formatting 'seemed' to have temporary fixed this but it came back again...
I tried disabling crossfire and overclocked my first card pretty high and it was completly stable even tho the OC was 1000/1500mhz but trying to overclock with Crossfire activated was a NO-NO today,,, but worked fine days ago.
The problem is just that it seems to be so random that at this point i'm completly clueless on what the problem could be.
The BSODs are obviously ATIkmtag 016
What are the possibilities here? I just want to be guided a little...
Given that it works sometimes and then doesnt... im guessing that the card can't be considered dead.....
Could my Ram have a problem once crossfire is activated?
Could my motherboard be starting to have issue running it?
Could my SSD have some problems with the Atimktag corruption?
I'm just trying to convince myself that the card isnt faulty cause i hope for god's sake that it isnt the case.... as i likely wont be able to get it 'refunded'
My power supply is a brand new HX1050W so power can't be the issue here either.
I,ve also did some memtest and it didnt show any errors and my CPU was stable....