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Questions about GIGABYTE products => Graphic cards => Topic started by: calvincoetzee on June 26, 2011, 02:05:41 am

Title: ATI HD6870 no signal crash / GPU turns off
Post by: calvincoetzee on June 26, 2011, 02:05:41 am

My apologies for this double post, I posted initially in the mobo section.
Quite urgent to get some feedback as I have only until Wednesday should I want to return my newly purchased gpu.

Orginal post:
My system specs:
Gigabyte X58A-UD3R (REV 1.0)
Gigabyte ATI HD6870 Windforce 3x factory overclock
Gigabyte Odin 720W (600W, 720W peak) PSU


The following happens when rendering 3D graphics, unpredictably:
Problem where GPU shuts down while the rest of the system remains powered on, looks like all power is lost to the GPU including fans not being operational.
CPU, motherboard and rest of components seem to be powered at event of crash.
Monitor shows a blank screen.
Solution is to forcefully reboot/power it off.

GPU temperature does not exceed 70 degrees Celsius under heavy load for a substantial amount of time.
ATI/AMD Catalyst suit 11.6 driver package installed.
Chipset driver version uncertain, >6 months old.

Has anybody experienced this problem before with this HW combination or this GPU model with another?
Is there a fix or could my GPU be faulty?

Title: Re: ATI HD6870 no signal crash / GPU turns off
Post by: Dark Mantis on June 26, 2011, 10:27:08 pm

I have already responded to this post in the other section so please leave dead.
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Title: Re: ATI HD6870 no signal crash / GPU turns off
Post by: NightGSR on November 05, 2011, 03:19:36 am

Quote from: Dark Mantis on June 26, 2011, 10:27:08 pm

I have already responded to this post in the other section so please leave dead.
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Sorry which section please??

Title: Re: ATI HD6870 no signal crash / GPU turns off
Post by: Dark Mantis on November 05, 2011, 08:10:22 am

The post that is being used instead of this one is:

http://forum.giga-byte.co.uk/index.php/topic,5949.msg46950.html#msg46950