dash_barzane
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Hi all,
first of all thank you in advance for any assistance you can provide on this, and also mucho thanks to you all for all the help, info and tools I have receive prior to registering today...awesome resource and community
anyhoo...
Asus Premium PK5 premium - Black Perl edition
Q6600 @ stock
4GB DDR2 ram @ stock
850W PSU (20A/rail iirc)
Win 7 64bit
Sapphire HD6950 2 GB - bios 2 flashed to Sapphire 6970 -no additonal o/c.
running rock solid for ~10months previously.
'bout a week ago my system started misbehaving - (crashes to a black screen and fan @ 100%) - during 3d or HD video.
I'd recently repaired the heating the box room where the box lives, so the temp in there has increased significantly (scotland winter atm) - I thought my system might need a bit of a clean / de-oose so this was done - including removing the hd6950 from the case to get at the 'ring of dust' on the fan...
put everything back together and tried to reboot - same issue except everytime now.. black screen and 100% fan after the widows logo but before the windows logon screen (assuming this is when the ATI drivers are loaded)
VGA (safe) mode is fine so after many unsucessful driver reinstall attempts (including sweeping drivers each time) I decided to revert to the default bios (non flashed) and try again.
Eventually I managed to get it to boot up using older drivers, default bios and using the HDMI port instead of the DVI port.. but as soon as I switched it to the DVI port the screen flickered with a horizontal green line and then went black screen and fan 100% again...
As one final attempt I tried my other os (Vista 32) on the same machine - same issue once the non VGA drivers were installed, black screen and 100% fan..
at a bit of a loss, hoping the card's not fried but not sure what else i can try beyond putting the card in the other PCIe slot...
is the part of the card used by VGA drivers different to that which is used by the full ATI drivers?
cheers
dash
first of all thank you in advance for any assistance you can provide on this, and also mucho thanks to you all for all the help, info and tools I have receive prior to registering today...awesome resource and community
anyhoo...
Asus Premium PK5 premium - Black Perl edition
Q6600 @ stock
4GB DDR2 ram @ stock
850W PSU (20A/rail iirc)
Win 7 64bit
Sapphire HD6950 2 GB - bios 2 flashed to Sapphire 6970 -no additonal o/c.
running rock solid for ~10months previously.
'bout a week ago my system started misbehaving - (crashes to a black screen and fan @ 100%) - during 3d or HD video.
I'd recently repaired the heating the box room where the box lives, so the temp in there has increased significantly (scotland winter atm) - I thought my system might need a bit of a clean / de-oose so this was done - including removing the hd6950 from the case to get at the 'ring of dust' on the fan...
put everything back together and tried to reboot - same issue except everytime now.. black screen and 100% fan after the widows logo but before the windows logon screen (assuming this is when the ATI drivers are loaded)
VGA (safe) mode is fine so after many unsucessful driver reinstall attempts (including sweeping drivers each time) I decided to revert to the default bios (non flashed) and try again.
Eventually I managed to get it to boot up using older drivers, default bios and using the HDMI port instead of the DVI port.. but as soon as I switched it to the DVI port the screen flickered with a horizontal green line and then went black screen and fan 100% again...
As one final attempt I tried my other os (Vista 32) on the same machine - same issue once the non VGA drivers were installed, black screen and 100% fan..
at a bit of a loss, hoping the card's not fried but not sure what else i can try beyond putting the card in the other PCIe slot...
is the part of the card used by VGA drivers different to that which is used by the full ATI drivers?
cheers
dash