3870x2 ?

dunatic69 · Feb 20, 2010, 03:21 PM

i have an asus 3870x2 running on a asus p5e3 deluxe board with core2 quad, 8 gigs of ram, and a thermaltake 850 watt power supply. i loaded windows 7 home premium 64 bit and got the 10.2 driver package from the ati site. when i run the windows experience index it crashes on the direct 3d part. does this matter? seems to work okay for everything else. do i need the crossfire x application also? or is my card bad?

Liqourice · Feb 20, 2010, 04:40 PM

Sounds to me more like a driver problem. Try with an older driver and see if that helps.

dunatic69 · Feb 20, 2010, 05:14 PM

will do that, thanks

dunatic69 · Feb 21, 2010, 09:17 PM

older drivers did not help. reloaded 10.2 package and now it crashes every time you wake the pc up from sleep state. would going to a 5850 sapphire toxic card help?

Kizo · Feb 21, 2010, 09:33 PM

My previous card broke a while ago (Sapphire HD 2600XT), and one of the first symptoms was crashing the system in 3D applications (other were: crashes on a video which uses DXVA, and after a few days artifacts in Windows Aero, followed by a black screen and no video signal).

I'm not saying this is the case with your card, but if you have a chance try it in another system, just to be safe.

Feb 20, 2010, 03:21 PM	#1
dunatic69 HardwareHeaven Newbie Join Date: Feb 2010 Posts: 3 Rep Power: 0 System Specs	3870x2 ? i have an asus 3870x2 running on a asus p5e3 deluxe board with core2 quad, 8 gigs of ram, and a thermaltake 850 watt power supply. i loaded windows 7 home premium 64 bit and got the 10.2 driver package from the ati site. when i run the windows experience index it crashes on the direct 3d part. does this matter? seems to work okay for everything else. do i need the crossfire x application also? or is my card bad? Last edited by dunatic69; Feb 20, 2010 at 03:25 PM. Reason: added 64 bit for os

Feb 20, 2010, 04:40 PM	#2
Liqourice HardwareHeaven Senior Member Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: Stockholm Posts: 1,727 Rep Power: 98 System Specs	Re: 3870x2 ? Sounds to me more like a driver problem. Try with an older driver and see if that helps.

Feb 20, 2010, 05:14 PM	Thread Starter #3
dunatic69 HardwareHeaven Newbie Join Date: Feb 2010 Posts: 3 Rep Power: 0 System Specs	Re: 3870x2 ? will do that, thanks

Feb 21, 2010, 09:17 PM	Thread Starter #4
dunatic69 HardwareHeaven Newbie Join Date: Feb 2010 Posts: 3 Rep Power: 0 System Specs	Re: 3870x2 ? older drivers did not help. reloaded 10.2 package and now it crashes every time you wake the pc up from sleep state. would going to a 5850 sapphire toxic card help?

Feb 21, 2010, 09:33 PM	#5
Kizo HHs Valve fanatic/C++ dev Join Date: Apr 2007 Posts: 282 Rep Power: 77 System Specs	Re: 3870x2 ? My previous card broke a while ago (Sapphire HD 2600XT), and one of the first symptoms was crashing the system in 3D applications (other were: crashes on a video which uses DXVA, and after a few days artifacts in Windows Aero, followed by a black screen and no video signal). I'm not saying this is the case with your card, but if you have a chance try it in another system, just to be safe.