XFX RADEON HD 5870 Grey Screening

[ThePlague]

Welp, seems my days of having a great computer are coming to some sort of wall. Just a few minutes ago while I was watching the 2nd season of Battlestar Galactica on Netflix (damn great series so far), my screen went to a grey picture with vertical lines throughout and froze the computer. I had to turn it off, switch the PSU's power off and on, and wait a few seconds to get it back up and running. I was on google browsing for a solution to the problem, when suddenly the screen turned purple, with the same line patterns on it.

Bear in mind that I wasn't gaming any of the times, after the first restart I set my GPU clocks back to stock and checked temps, and they were at 38C.

As of now I have my graphics card next to me, and am posting this on my netbook. Did my card bite the dust, or is it something software related?

My computer information is as follows:

Windows 7 Ultimate 64bit
Western Digital Caviar Blue 1tb HDD
AMD Phenom II x4 925
XFX Radeon HD 5870
Cooler Master eXtreme power plus 500w
ADATA XPG gaming series RAM 4gb (2gb x2)
ASRock M3A770DE AM3 AMD 770 ATX
Antec 300 w/ 2 fans (one top one rear)

[nuttyyayap]

I saw this once on my nVidia (Yeah, you can laugh :saddowns:), and in my case it was a corrupted driver. Try a system restore or something~ :downs:

[ThePlague]

I don't have a system restore, but I think I can run the computer long enough to uninstall and install the ATi drivers. Should I get the same version, or backtrack?

[Amit]

Does this happen in Safe-Mode, too? I almost always install/uninstall drivers in safe-mode anyways. I suggest using VGA mode for windows if you get the issue in safe-mode and then uninstall CCC, drivers, and anything else that's related to AMD video drivers. After that, download and install the latest drivers. Catalyst Control Center 2 has been released, btw. Until you try another video card in your system, you can't be sure that it's an issue with any other component. If drivers aren't the issue the only things that I can think of that would be wrong with your computer is that the card itself has gone bad (e.g. malfunctioning fan leading to overheating) or the PSU isn't providing enough power to the card (which I doubt since your card has worked no problem for a good while, even after you overclocked it).

[Patrickssj6]

Go get a copy of Ubuntu. If it starts fine it's a Windows software problem, otherwise a hardware problem.

[ThePlague]

I have a few Ubuntu live cd's lying around, and if this doesn't work i'll check them out. I'm thinking its a PoS driver problem, my 4650 used to freeze up also :\

[Amit]

Was the HD 4650 XFX brand as well?

[ThePlague]

Nah it was Sapphire.

Uninstalled Ati shit, used CCleaner, restarted computer, installed new Ati shit. So far no problems.

[Amit]

I win.

[ThePlague]

Actually, Freelancer told me about it before you posted it...You both said pretty much the same thing though.

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[Cortexian]

Awesome.

In after the lock.