My problem: computer hangs with a black screen. only reset solves it.
I bought a new computer custom made and i bought a separate gfx card.
Even when i just installed the game that came with my Sapphire HD 5870 (dirt2) the game hangs/frezzes during the intro right after the map screen where you see your race badge. The freeze occurs always at the same spot which goes to indicate it is not a heating problem (i also manually increased the gpu fan speed and rechecked - same issue)
The computer also locks up in wow (world of warcraft) after a few minutes of playing.
I am using the latest catalyst drivers i could find (11.5).
I saw in the vga bios section that there are newer bios versions than mine (see below mine) there are 12.012.XXXXXXX...
I am a little afraid to brick this expensive card by flashing it's bios.
can someone help ?
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HW
CPU: core-3-2100
MB: Gigabyte H67M-D2H-B3 [latest bios F4]
GPU: SAPPHIRE HD5870 1GB GDDR5 PCIE (Game Edition)
GPU BIOS: VER012.011.000.006.034494
No overclocking in GPU/CPU
SW
Win 7/x64 Professional SP1
ATI Driver: aitumdag 8.850.0.0 (Catalyst 11.5) / Win7 64
I bought a new computer custom made and i bought a separate gfx card.
Even when i just installed the game that came with my Sapphire HD 5870 (dirt2) the game hangs/frezzes during the intro right after the map screen where you see your race badge. The freeze occurs always at the same spot which goes to indicate it is not a heating problem (i also manually increased the gpu fan speed and rechecked - same issue)
The computer also locks up in wow (world of warcraft) after a few minutes of playing.
I am using the latest catalyst drivers i could find (11.5).
I saw in the vga bios section that there are newer bios versions than mine (see below mine) there are 12.012.XXXXXXX...
I am a little afraid to brick this expensive card by flashing it's bios.
can someone help ?
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HW
CPU: core-3-2100
MB: Gigabyte H67M-D2H-B3 [latest bios F4]
GPU: SAPPHIRE HD5870 1GB GDDR5 PCIE (Game Edition)
GPU BIOS: VER012.011.000.006.034494
No overclocking in GPU/CPU
SW
Win 7/x64 Professional SP1
ATI Driver: aitumdag 8.850.0.0 (Catalyst 11.5) / Win7 64