Driver has stopped responding

[Pirate Neilsouth]

This happens far too often for my liking, it happened in evolve and it happens in Skyrim. Now I thought It was my clocks of 1100/1500 with upped volts and power limits, but it's doing it even at the stock boost clocks of 1050/1500.

There are no artifacts, no overheating and no stuttering.

MSI OC 280X

 

[night]

Have 2 screens perhaps? I don't have ati, but I get it randomly when playing a game and watching youtube on the 2nd screen. Very randomly. Has happened with multiple games, multiple driver versions, and with a 460, 570, and current 760.
I don't think it's actually the drivers or even nV related.

 

[t0adp1p3]

Have 2 screens perhaps? I don't have ati, but I get it randomly when playing a game and watching youtube on the 2nd screen. Very randomly. Has happened with multiple games, multiple driver versions, and with a 460, 570, and current 760.
I don't think it's actually the drivers or even nV related.

happens to me every day while surfing rage3d.

 

[The Mac]

Turn off hardware video acceleration.

The UVD hardware required different clocks than 3D games.

 

[lemonhead]

happens to me every day while surfing rage3d.

In the last few months of my 7950 crossfire setup, I had quite a few of these crashes under various scenarios. When I got GTX 970, and moved one of the 7950s to the HTPC, I found that the card was defective. It could only post video in BIOS, safe-mode or Windows logo screen - basically anywhere, with lower resolution. In Windows the card would just show black screen.

Now, it was the secondary card on the crossfire setup and the PC worked as expected in games with higher frame rates, except for strange crashes here and there on desktop. I ran the card as single GPU when I purchased it, and it was fine back then.

Sapphire and AlthonMicro handled the RMA quickly enough and I got a replacement 7950, which works fine on the HTPC.

I wonder if all (or most of) the crossfire issues I had on Windows desktop were simply because of this broken crossfired card. Someday, I'll put the two 7950s together again and verify.

 

[t0adp1p3]

In the last few months of my 7950 crossfire setup, I had quite a few of these crashes under various scenarios. When I got GTX 970, and moved one of the 7950s to the HTPC, I found that the card was defective. It could only post video in BIOS, safe-mode or Windows logo screen - basically anywhere, with lower resolution. In Windows the card would just show black screen.

Now, it was the secondary card on the crossfire setup and the PC worked as expected in games with higher frame rates, except for strange crashes here and there on desktop. I ran the card as single GPU when I purchased it, and it was fine back then.

Sapphire and AlthonMicro handled the RMA quickly enough and I got a replacement 7950, which works fine on the HTPC.

I wonder if all (or most of) the crossfire issues I had on Windows desktop were simply because of this broken crossfired card. Someday, I'll put the two 7950s together again and verify.

Thanks dude, I have been suspecting for a while one card might be somewhat bad, I am just too lazy to figure out which one. After RMA'ing the first 2 cards, I just figured the odds that 3 of 5 would be bad would be in my favor lol. These 290x's have been a terrible experience for me.