7950 vapor x crashing

[Tamzeed]

happens only with watch dogs and witcher 2. pc hangs. i have to hard reset my pc to get things running again. installed afterburner which shows this:
processor: i5 3470
psu thermaltake tr-2 600

Display device : AMD Radeon HD 7900 Series on Tahiti GPU
Display driver : 9.14.10.01029, Catalyst 14.4
BIOS : 015.025.000.099
GUID : VEN_1002&DEV_679A&SUBSYS_3000174B&REV_00&BUS_1&DEV_0&FN_0
Registry key : \Registry\Machine\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\Video\{5500C92A-AF55-42F1-88EA-51C3F61AC279}\0000
VDDC controller : CHL8228 on I2C bus 6, device 30h
MVDDC controller : CHL8228 on I2C bus 6, device 30h

any suggestions?

 

[Shou Miko]

have you tired lowering the clock speeds or adding more voltage to the card with like MSI Afterburner if the card supports software voltage control?

 

[Mathragh]

Fill out your system specs

 

[ne6togadno]

this psu is dual rail 12v with 18-19A max draw per rail. most likely psu fails to supply enough power for high demand tasks and card crash.
try run video bench with 3d mark or unigen heaven to see if it vga will crash again.
test if it will work with single 12v rail psu

edit:
hmm
there are different models tr-2 600w some are single rail some are dual can you give exact model number of psu

 

[Tamzeed]

this psu is dual rail 12v with 18-19A max draw per rail. most likely psu fails to supply enough power for high demand tasks and card crash.
try run video bench with 3d mark or unigen heaven to see if it vga will crash again.
test if it will work with single 12v rail psu

currently downloading unigine heaven. will let u know. althoug this psu ran my 4890. a much more power demanding card if im not wront

edit:
no problem running enigene. it should be noted that i can roam around in watch dogs or witcher 2 for hours without problem. but when i try to trigger something: like restart from checkpoint or some mission after playing a while, this happens

 

[95Viper]

Look at your "Event Viewer" in the Administrative tools to see if it gives any clues to the crash.

 

[mx500torid]

Try lowering the voltage of the card. I use Trixx. I run mine at 1.15 stock is 1.25. Found out it overclocks pretty good at that voltage. 1100 core. Can go higher. That PS looks suspicious too.

 

[ne6togadno]

no problem running enigene. it should be noted that i can roam around in watch dogs or witcher 2 for hours without problem. but when i try to trigger something: like restart from checkpoint or some mission after playing a while, this happens

then problem is not psu or vga card.
if you can play game for 2 hours w/o problems (heaven works fine too) and the problem come when you try to load then it is rather hdd or mb.
check if hdd cable are conceted properly on both sides. check also smart data of hdd.
do you have smart unabled in bios and do you get smart warnings during startup

 

[Tamzeed]

then problem is not psu or vga card.
if you can play game for 2 hours w/o problems (heaven works fine too) and the problem come when you try to load then it is rather hdd or mb.
check if hdd cable are conceted properly on both sides. check also smart data of hdd.
do you have smart unabled in bios and do you get smart warnings during startup

yup they are connected pretty nicely. dont know about smart though. checking it. but then why would other games in the same hdd like crysis 3, dead rising 3 run perfectly? i dond understand

smart is on. should i change the psu anyways??

 

[ne6togadno]

yup they are connected pretty nicely. dont know about smart though. checking it. but then why would other games in the same hdd like crysis 3, dead rising 3 run perfectly? i dond understand

if you have bad sectors on hdd you will have problems only with data that is stored to those bad sectors. try to copy saves of witcher 2 and watch dogs to other folder on the disk or other drive. do you get error message during copy process. do you have same problem with all saves for those games or you have it only with particular saves (autosaves).

when you enter in bios go to pc health section and look for option with S.M.A.R.T. in it. set it to enable and restart pc. if your hdd is going south you will see message with s.m.a.r.t. in it during boot and than boot will be interupted. but that is if hdd is really going bad.

 

[Tamzeed]

if you have bad sectors on hdd you will have problems only with data that is stored to those bad sectors. try to copy saves of witcher 2 and watch dogs to other folder on the disk or other drive. do you get error message during copy process. do you have same problem with all saves for those games or you have it only with particular saves (autosaves).

when you enter in bios go to pc health section and look for option with S.M.A.R.T. in it. set it to enable and restart pc. if your hdd is going south you will see message with s.m.a.r.t. in it during boot and than boot will be interupted. but that is if hdd is really going bad.

no i can load missions fine when i start the game. but if restart a mission or load another after playing for fifteen to thirty minutes, then pc crashes. shouldnt it be an overheating problem?

edit: im thinking that when i run watch dogs/witcher 2 psu is being used 100% and then when it needs some new data, it tries to access the hdd which requires more power and thus the pc crashes. is it possible???

 

[ne6togadno]

no i can load missions fine when i start the game. but if restart a mission or load another after playing for fifteen to thirty minutes, then pc crashes. shouldnt it be an overheating problem?

i dont think it is overheating problem

edit: im thinking that when i run watch dogs/witcher 2 psu is being used 100% and then when it needs some new data, it tries to access the hdd which requires more power and thus the pc crashes. is it possible???

if it was at the edge of the power psu can provide most likely it would crash at some graphic intensive scene rather then hdd read and it would crash at crysis3 too cause it is still the most graphic intensive game atm.
try increase graphic settings in both and see if it will crash during game. try also swap port to which hdd is connected.

 

[Tamzeed]

i dont think it is overheating problem


if it was at the edge of the power psu can provide most likely it would crash at some graphic intensive scene rather then hdd read and it would crash at crysis3 too cause it is still the most graphic intensive game atm.
try increase graphic settings in both and see if it will crash during game. try also swap port to which hdd is connected.

just played shadow of mordor. ran perfectly for an hour. then crash. almost all settings ultra.

when pc hangs it give a rrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr type sound. any clues??

 

[suraswami]

Are you overclocking your CPU or Video card?

 

[Tamzeed]

Are you overclocking your CPU or Video card?

simply No

 

[eidairaman1]

Get a new psu and clean that card, a 750 W Seasonic, Corsair, Enermax will do it.

 

[95Viper]

Get the latest sound and video drivers and install them.
Did you ever check the event viewer?

 

[Tamzeed]

Get the latest sound and video drivers and install them.
Did you ever check the event viewer?

got the drivers. event viewer just says event id- 41, source- kernel power

 

[Ruyki]

Run unigine valley to check if your GPU is overheating.

Scan your disk for bad sectors to make sure your hard drive is ok.

 

[eidairaman1]

got the drivers. event viewer just says event id- 41, source- kernel power

Power sounds like that psu is a pos

 

[ne6togadno]

got the drivers. event viewer just says event id- 41, source- kernel power

did you uninstalled old driver before installing the new one.

 

[Tamzeed]

did you uninstalled old driver before installing the new one.

yeah. i think i solved the problem. went into the bios and saw ram in performance mode.changed to normal. and pc hasnt hanged since.