Hi all,
I have just bought a HD 4850 to put into the following PC:
Gigabyte GA P35 D3SL Motherboard
Pentium Dual Core E2200 (don't ask, I was on a budget)
2 GB Corsair XMS2 PC6400 C5
Seagate 7200.9 160gb hard drive
Antec P180 case
Vapochill micro heat sink
X-Fi Extreme Music
Samsung 22" 223BW Monitor
Hiper HPU-4M580 PSU
Some old LG DVD burner
Vista Ultimate x86
The problem I have is that I will be playing a game (e.g. Crysis or Bioshock) and the main rendering window will just go black, but the HUD stays there being rendered, but in black and white. When you quit out back to windows, the whole desktop is in black and white, apart from the window borders, which are flickering (Aero turned on).
I'm using the latest chipset drivers and the beta x-fi drivers. I've installed vista from a clean disk with Catalyst 8.7 drivers. Vista is fully up to date.
Interestingly, I installed some updates earlier which fixed a more serious problem, in that I couldn't play games at all because they would lock up and bomb back to the desktop with an error saying that the graphics driver had recovered (I can't remember the exact syntax). That seems to have been fixed now and replaced with this problem.
Has anyone got any idea what could be causing this and how to fix it?
Thanks guys.
Chris


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I haven't heard of any having anti tamper seals so there's no way they'll know.
) and the system crashes more often. I have a sneaky suspicion that his may actually be power related, or a faulty card. The temperature at crash tends to be around 60 degrees C, which is lower than the idle temps using automatic settings, so I don't think that it is a heat related issue. As a precaution I have turned my fans up a notch (2 x 120mm Antec tricool as fitted to the P180 case), which gives me lower case temperatures for sure (although they weren't bad to begin with). I have also repositioned the gfx cooling duct on the case so that it vents cool air into the area directly opposite the fan on the 4850. Again, no improvement.
