adam, this is my experience of the 5850 card I have:
grey screen of death happened when I first got the card (mainly when watching tv in full screen), until drivers eventually patched it out.
Then in February the ati drivers with the new CCC showed up, and the problem started appearing again. Mainly caused when i was watching tv and also opened up a youtube video, it was instant graphics driver crash.
Supposedly its caused by power-play down-clocking when it shouldnt. Theres a big thread about it here: http://hardforum.com/showthread.php?...&highlight=uvd
Anyway, the only supposed fix is flashing the vbios. techpowerup has everything you need (RBE, ati winflash, and GPU-Z).
By setting UVD to full speed clocks and voltage, it did seem to solve the driver crashing when i had tv and a youtube video running at the same time. However, I also starting getting occasional BSoD's. They were ATI related BSOD's, windows was able to tell me that much.
So I decided to flash back to the original Vbios. Installed the march drivers when they came out, and tested to see if it would still crash. It happened almost straight away..... but then suddenly stopped. The last time I had the ATI driver crash was a full week ago.
I was completely error free until last night, when my computer froze up completely, doing nothing intensive at all. Im just kinda hoping that was a once off too.
You could argue I should go back to late 2010 drivers, and if I get more problems I probably will.


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