Time to Eat Foot

3 BSOD's in 2 days, and now Saints Row is freezing randomly .

I haven't the slightest idea what's going on as it has been running pretty flawlessly for the past couple months and I have literally not installed/changed anything in the machine outside of a few steam games since I got it.

I'm hoping it's just a bad stick of RAM or something and not my 7970 but look at Afterburner logs I can see spikes of where it's dropping from 99% all the way down to 0-10%...........guess I might be eating my foot on some of the comments I made about this card.

As a side-note I am probably going to be an 11 on the 1-10 scale of pissed if this is actually a video card problem..................the last card I had was the infamous Nvidia 8600GT and I'll be damned if I just spent another $1500 on a defective product.

 

Sorry to hear that. For me no BSODs so far (it has only been a day though), but I get freezes when I try to use GPU-Z.

 

I don't have any problems with mine, probably because I only play league Sorry to hear you're having problems though, try to run it without playing games or running less intense applications, and see if you still BSOD. :S

 

Oh no worries Vahlen. Clevo is working on a fix for 7970M. Nothing wrong with them. Everything will be fine :tongue:

 

Have you run memtest? I dont think the bsods are related to enduro problems at least (not sure though). I haven't had a single bsods or freezing with my system.

 

if youve had it for a couple of months have you cleaned the fans and vents out yet. also what temps are you getting.
most prob not causing the bsod though. download who crashed in my signature below and post your dump report.

 

hey , I suggest you use this program to find who is the culprit

Resplendence Software - WhoCrashed, automatic crash dump analyzer

 

it there an echo on here already suggested that but the more the better.

 

just switch to a 680m... you will sleep better at night and will no longer be haunted by nightmares of screen tearing and inconsistent frame rates

 

The thing is I never had any of those problems to begin with My 7970 chew up and spat out w/e I threw at with stable high framerates..........Mass 3, BF 3 (ya even Karkand), and D3. Lately I've only been playing league and a bit of Saints Row3 though so it obviously hasn't been under a ton of stress.

I haven't gotten a chance to run any tests yet but I am thinking/hoping it's just memory (can that change desktop icons colors blue lol?) but I know there have been a other people having issues with their 7970 so that is always a possibility.

Also, I don't have 250-300 more bucks to drop on a 680, I never did or I might have considered waiting for the Nvidia GPU to drop. The 7970 was already at the very top of my budget so I knew i couldnt afford the 680m regardless of its performance.



P.S. Temps are fine for the most part, cpu is a little high for my liking hovering around ~75 when stressed and the gpu never breaks 80 and rarely goes over 76.

Edit: According to Whocrashed it looks like it is my video card or its driver. Though if it's driver I don't understand why it would be working fine for so long and just start throwing me problems now without having changed anything

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On Sun 7/29/2012 5:43:52 AM GMT your computer crashed
crash dump file: C:\Windows\Minidump\072912-44132-01.dmp
This was probably caused by the following module: atikmpag.sys (atikmpag+0x7AE4)
Bugcheck code: 0x116 (0xFFFFFA80075154E0, 0xFFFFF880015A3AE4, 0x0, 0x2)
Error: VIDEO_TDR_ERROR
file path: C:\Windows\system32\drivers\atikmpag.sys
product: AMD driver
company: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
description: AMD multi-vendor Miniport Driver
Bug check description: This indicates that an attempt to reset the display driver and recover from a timeout failed.
A third party driver was identified as the probable root cause of this system error. It is suggested you look for an update for the following driver: atikmpag.sys (AMD multi-vendor Miniport Driver, Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.).
Google query: atikmpag.sys Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. VIDEO_TDR_ERROR




On Sun 7/29/2012 5:43:52 AM GMT your computer crashed
crash dump file: C:\Windows\memory.dmp
This was probably caused by the following module: dxgkrnl.sys (dxgkrnl!TdrResetFromTimeout+0x214)
Bugcheck code: 0x116 (0xFFFFFA80075154E0, 0xFFFFF880015A3AE4, 0x0, 0x2)
Error: VIDEO_TDR_ERROR
file path: C:\Windows\system32\drivers\dxgkrnl.sys
product: Microsoft® Windows® Operating System
company: Microsoft Corporation
description: DirectX Graphics Kernel
Bug check description: This indicates that an attempt to reset the display driver and recover from a timeout failed.
The crash took place in a standard Microsoft module. Your system configuration may be incorrect. Possibly this problem is caused by another driver on your system which cannot be identified at this time.

 

Your temps seem fine. Try removing and re-installing your drivers if you haven't already done so. I know you stated you haven't changed anything but did any Windows updates get downloaded recently?

 

I have windows set to check before installing anything so nope. I did reinstall the drivers this morning and haven't had a crash since but I also haven't been using it much so *fingers crossed*

 

Well, that does seem odd then to just have your laptop spontaneously crash like that. Well, here's hoping that it just needed the drivers re-installed to fix the issues.

 

No crashes so far but I have been getting some pretty severe freezing/stutter reminiscent of the moments just prior to the previous crashes when playing Saints Row/BF3...........I'm at a loss as to what could be going on as I even re-seated the gpu but to no avail, could my card be dieing at just under 2months?