Recent content by inaMemo

Maybe, it seems to work fine on integrated and a different GPU. Could be one of them doesn't want to play well with the 290. I've been thinking about upgrading to a new CPU anyways since I don't doubt my current one is bottlenecking the GPU. I've done that, still froze afterwards. I use...

Sometimes. I haven't found any particular programs to be always on when it freezes except for Catalyst. I can have many programs open, or be playing a game, or watching a movie on VLC, or streaming youtube, or let it be idle. Sometimes it freezes within 20 minutes of turning the computer on...

I forgot to mention that it only freezes in normal mode with a driver installed. BIOS, safe mode, and normal mode with no driver installed run fine.

Can I RMA though, I bought it directly from the reviewer not the store. I feel like I'm stuck with it unless it's a driver problem that will be addressed or I find someone willing to buy a possibly defective card.

Nothing is overclocked. I've tried the 6950 and that still works. And yeah I did get the card open box. It was a review card used by a reviewer and they didn't report any problems with it. My PSU is a little dated, I pulled it out of an old build that had a Q9650 in it when it was still...

So as the title says I've been plagued with intermittent hard freezes since I installed my new card a month ago. Nothing I do seems to help. I've reformatted Windows, installed clean drivers, ran RAM tests, hard drive tests, cpu tests, psu tests, updated the mobo bios, used default settings...