The AMD battle . .

[Aofil]

I will give a brief description of the problem and what i've found out . . .
While playing games on my pc i find that the screen goes black after random amounts of time (depending on the game some end quicker than others), the screen appears to go into standby mode as the led light continues to flash but the screen is black. Also the sound in the game will continue as if nothing was wrong, the only thing i can do is to hard reboot my pc and turn the monitor off and on (after which it works perfectly and the image is there) this problem does not occur during normal pc usage but only during games. During say sims2 the issue never occured but sims 3, crysis etc all incur the problem. . I really don't know what to do. I researched amd forums and found many people with this issue starting threads that were never resolved. What on earth is it. . Psu is fine btw and i have tried disabling vpu recover in CCC. . . PLEASE HELP

 

[Chevron]

Sounds like a graphics card or driver issue. Maybe even a directx issue.

 

[killadoob]

What version of windows you using? have you reloaded?

 

[Aofil]

I'm using xp x64. . . But i don't think it's an original. I couldn't find my 32bit cd when i bought my new rig so i borrowed this one.i can change that though it isn't a problem. Multitudes of people had this issue on the amd forum. . .

 

[PostmanPot]

Sounds like a graphics card or driver issue. Maybe even a directx issue.

What version of windows you using? have you reloaded?

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Install latest drivers if you haven't already and test - http://support.amd.com/us/gpudownload/Pages/index.aspx.

I would then test the GPU in a friend's PC (hopefully with the same OS and drivers). And a friend's GPU (hopefully a half decent one) in your motherboard.

If you haven't come to your answer as to what is faulty yet, try reinstalling your OS.

 

[PostmanPot]

I'm using xp x64. . . But i don't think it's an original. I couldn't find my 32bit cd when i bought my new rig so i borrowed this one.i can change that though it isn't a problem. Multitudes of people had this issue on the amd forum. . .

Definitely try XP 32-bit.

 

[killadoob]

Does not matter if it is not original but i do know xp 64 bit was not as well supported as vista and windows 7 64 so if i was you i would get either windows 7 64 bit or get xp 32 bit

 

[nihilist]

Sounds like your monitor is losing signal.

It could be a driver issue, check in your Event Log to see if the ATI driver is crashing.

Also check your CPU temps with CoreTemp and your GPU temps with GPU-Z, both support logging, so you should be able to record the temps at the time it crashes.

The fact that the newer games (Sims 3, Crysis) are crashing hints that it's a faulty GPU or a temperature issue.