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Apr 6, 2012, 06:36 PM
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Running GPU-Z turns off my screens immediateyl
Hi. So I've got a Sapphire Radeon HD6950 2GB Flex Edition card. I've always had a problem with it running around 50°C idle, and today I wanted to run GPU-Z to see what shows up. As soon as I ran it, my monitors went into power-save mode, and I was forced to restart. This happened several months ago as well, but I gave up at that point.
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Apr 6, 2012, 06:51 PM
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Looks like you card needs power that is not provided by resource.
Can you post your system specs? |
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Apr 6, 2012, 06:58 PM
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Hi Khara, and welcome to TPU
 Go into the UserCP and enter your system specs (don't forget to enable them so we can see them). We'll be happy to help once we have more information.
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Apr 6, 2012, 08:56 PM
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ASRock Z68 Extreme4 i7 2600k (not overclocked) Sapphire Radeon HD6950 2GB Flex Edition (I don't believe I have that driver installed that lets me use onboard video for video conversion, while using the dedicated card for games. I can't remember what it is called) 8GB DDR3 RAM 1TB WD HDD + OCZ Vertex 3 60GB cache drive Asus Xonar DX Sound card Antec TP750 power supply White NZXT Phantom case 2X Dell U2211h (hooked up to radeon, not the onboard video) I don't think my card is lacking power, I play BF3 and Skyrim on full settings without any artifacting or power related issues. The issue is that my screens no longer receive a signal as soon as I turn on GPU-Z. Last edited by khara; Apr 6, 2012 at 09:01 PM. Reason: Added monitors |
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Apr 6, 2012, 09:27 PM
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do you have any exotic hardware in your system like an adaptec scsi controller? |
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Apr 6, 2012, 09:38 PM
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Yes, this happened using the latest version, and no I don't have anything exotic like you mentioned. I guess the two oddest things about my system would be the SSD caching (so I have to run my internal HDD & SSD in RAID), and the fact that I'm using 3rd party (Unified drivers) for the Xonar DX.
I just ran it again and it didn't turn off my screens :S I did install CPU-Z earlier, after the first time it happened. |
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