New strange problem

SO I've been playing FFXI tonight, and my video has crashed twice, fully locking my computer. On my last crash, I flashed back to 209 and uninstalled P4G. Seemed ok until it fully locked, screen went black, but video driver seemed to reset and was fine. 2-3 minutes later it crashed again, this time with a vomit shade of green. This straight crashed the game I was playing, but didn't crash my computer.

However, I noticed right away some black artifacts on my screen. Even as I type this, I am seeing some really weird artifacts showing up when I start typing anything, but disappear as soon as I stop.

Any thoughts? (GPU temp is 79 right now with game running). Running CCC 10.8, stock vBIOS, bios 209.

 

Quick picture of said artifacts, not that anyone really needs to know what they look like...

 

I had that problem with unmodified vbios and 10.7a or something. I posted about it and had a screenshot of it just like you. I guess I'll have to dig through my old posts and see what will pop up.

 

Here we go. http://forum.notebookreview.com/asu...39-blinks-im-confused-10-7-a.html#post6584597

 

I dunno, after all of this, I decided to flash my vBIOS to the beta version, and downgraded to 10.7a. We'll see. I'm somewhat paranoid to be gaming right now as it is, waiting for my ICD7 to come. I did notice, however, that after doing this, my idle temps are down quite a bit. Not sure if its because of lower ambient in my room (honestly don't know what it is, I'm running a bit of a fever because of an infection) or if its because of something else. Time will tell. Happy that temps are down to 61C from 68-72C idle though.

 

With 10.1 and stock vbios, I idled at 61C- 64C. With 10.7a and the modified beta vBios, I idled at 54C (before I ramped the clock to 705/1100 because I was still GSOD'ing).

 

Well, the other side of it is that I'm clocked at 405/1000. Not 100% sure whats up with that, but I'm more interested in seeing if this thing goes crash crazy. Trying to log in to the FFXIV beta right now to test, such tedium with THAT many people spamming it. x.x

 

Dunno what happened, after the downgrade to 10.7a and vBIOS to the beta, seems ok. Idle temps are down which is nice. The GPU is clocked at 400/1000 in the AMD tool, but when I fired up GPU-Z while running the FFXIV beta (when I finally managed to connect), it said I was 700/1000.

Regardless, aside from one flicker in 30+ minutes, it never crashed (well, the beta itself crashed, but that was the beta itself doing it, as far as I can tell). I wanna stress it some more, but with my temps soaring to the mid-90s during cutscenes (was hovering around 70-80 while running around town), I'm afraid to push it too far without shutting down or doing some damage. When I get my ICD7, I'll feel better about it.

At least this seems like its working for now. Not really enough time to reliably say either way though.

 

The clock changes are normal. That's PowerPlay working It downclocks when not in 3D.

 

I figure that was what happened. Now, what exactly does the "overdrive" version of said vBIOS do? Force it to overclock?

 

Well, only if you enable it in CCC. The modified beta vbios unlocks the option to use Overdrive but by default in CCC it's not enabled.
If/when you flash to the modified beta, hop onto Windows, open up CCC, check the menu and it should be there. Then set your clocks.
Every time CCC starts (At login by default), your computer will change the clocks to what you have (although it still underclocks itself when idle and other stuff, I think). That's something I didn't like, was having the screen flicker every time I log in. Blegh.

 

Mine likes to flicker on the starting windows screen. Figure its the driver starting though.

 

Yeah, just the driver starting. The screen will also flicker when your desktop appears if you have the clocks different from stock, that's the card changing clocks. Annoying, imo.