Hey Guys,
I was just getting ready to put the finishing touches on my new build. everything was finally purchased, when I ran into an issue.
Upon fresh install (windows 8) everything was running great. I upgraded the video card drivers from the amd website.
Using Display Driver ver. 13.152.
Tried some BF3, Guild Wars 2 and a few games from my steam library and things seem fine. Checked the temps in the AMD overdrive and that seemed fine too.
So on day 3 of my new build it crashed. I was playing FFXIV and bam straight to the desktop. Tried running it again. DirectX error, Tried BF3, The application has stopped responding, seems now like everything 3d related crashed.
So I now go to Reboot the system. It gets to the spinning windows 8 logo and then starts to flash my inputs on my LCD. Like I get a black flash, then my screens lcd goes amber, then blue, a flash, and repeat.
My next step was to enable my CPU's onboard Intel HD Graphics.
I left a HDMI cable in the 7950 and hooked up a 2nd monitor to the On board.
On boot, windows 8 now worked.
Once inside windows I checked the Devices to see if the 7950 was still detected, which it was.
I went into the resolutions and tried to enable my 2nd monitor on the 7950.
BAM everything goes black, and now both screens are flickering.
Reboot Again:
This time I remove all the amd drivers completly.
Still no luck.
And that's where I am right now. Normally if this were a clients rig my mindset would be RMA time. but being my own and not wishing to spend a billion Canadian sending it back to Gigabyte I figured I'd post here for some 2nd party advice.
Some other notes:
With my build I am using Silverstone white GPU PSU extensions. But removed them for the process of the testing.
The MB is new and I did make sure the PCI-E connector on the 7950 was clean so no dust or artifacts should be a problem.
Other PCI-E devices do work in the port so I don't think it's the board.
Matt.
[EDIT: Will UPDATE my SIG with my current build for ease of helping]
I was just getting ready to put the finishing touches on my new build. everything was finally purchased, when I ran into an issue.
Upon fresh install (windows 8) everything was running great. I upgraded the video card drivers from the amd website.
Using Display Driver ver. 13.152.
Tried some BF3, Guild Wars 2 and a few games from my steam library and things seem fine. Checked the temps in the AMD overdrive and that seemed fine too.
So on day 3 of my new build it crashed. I was playing FFXIV and bam straight to the desktop. Tried running it again. DirectX error, Tried BF3, The application has stopped responding, seems now like everything 3d related crashed.
So I now go to Reboot the system. It gets to the spinning windows 8 logo and then starts to flash my inputs on my LCD. Like I get a black flash, then my screens lcd goes amber, then blue, a flash, and repeat.
My next step was to enable my CPU's onboard Intel HD Graphics.
I left a HDMI cable in the 7950 and hooked up a 2nd monitor to the On board.
On boot, windows 8 now worked.
Once inside windows I checked the Devices to see if the 7950 was still detected, which it was.
I went into the resolutions and tried to enable my 2nd monitor on the 7950.
BAM everything goes black, and now both screens are flickering.
Reboot Again:
This time I remove all the amd drivers completly.
Still no luck.
And that's where I am right now. Normally if this were a clients rig my mindset would be RMA time. but being my own and not wishing to spend a billion Canadian sending it back to Gigabyte I figured I'd post here for some 2nd party advice.
Some other notes:
With my build I am using Silverstone white GPU PSU extensions. But removed them for the process of the testing.
The MB is new and I did make sure the PCI-E connector on the 7950 was clean so no dust or artifacts should be a problem.
Other PCI-E devices do work in the port so I don't think it's the board.
Matt.
[EDIT: Will UPDATE my SIG with my current build for ease of helping]
