Author Topic: Is my graphics card failing? (Read 767 times)

HelplessNobb88 · August 28, 2011, 03:13:06 AM

I get this weird thing that happens at random: The computer seemingly freezes, the screen flashes black, then it goes back to normal with a message saying "AMD display drivers have stopped working and recovered." Now, it has done this several times. No bluescreen. It has always recovered, HOWEVER, is this a bad sign? This graphics card is less than a year old so it shouldn't be dieing.

UPDATE: forget, it happened again. And it isn't recovering...this is the second time.

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Cybertails1998 · August 28, 2011, 03:26:25 AM

what is your graphs card?

HelplessNobb88 · August 28, 2011, 03:30:42 AM

Radeon HD 5700.

Headcrab Zombie · August 28, 2011, 03:41:23 AM

This happens to me on my 5770

TapeDeck · August 28, 2011, 03:50:57 AM

update the driver?

Ethan · August 28, 2011, 03:57:54 AM

Does it happen when running any instances of Flash Player?

Headcrab Zombie · August 28, 2011, 04:03:17 AM

For me it's mostly youtube videos (so yeah, flash) but it also happens watching video files off Hard drive or DVD, or playing games

HelplessNobb88 · August 28, 2011, 10:44:49 AM

Quote from: Ethan on August 28, 2011, 03:57:54 AM

Does it happen when running any instances of Flash Player?

It happens on YouTube fullscreen mostly, but it's done it elsewhere.

KoopaScooper · August 28, 2011, 10:49:35 AM

This happened occasionally when I was using an Intel GMA with Windows XP.
It wasn't a faulty driver, it was the GPU being a total handicap when it came to anything HTML5.
It's never happened since I got my GeForce 6200 and 9500GT cards :|

carolcat · August 28, 2011, 10:56:09 AM

I've had one die on me before. Randomly colored lines EVERYWHERE.

HelplessNobb88 · August 28, 2011, 10:56:55 AM

Most of the time it recovered within a minute, but twice on YT videos the audio kept playing (even though the screen was black with the video slider bar frozen) I finally had to give up and shut it off by the button.

Faoeoa · August 28, 2011, 11:11:13 AM

I would of pulled a NVidia joke but this is too serious.

Do you live in a place with Computer Repairmen or a PC Shop nearby? It isn't a RHJEUBR expensive card, so if you cant sort it, get it repaired and if you must, buy a new one.

Bones · August 28, 2011, 11:20:56 AM

Update, or reinstall the drivers. Does it happen while gaming?

HelplessNobb88 · August 28, 2011, 11:31:33 AM

It's never happened in games, and yeah I will see if the drivers need updating.

Ethan · August 28, 2011, 04:31:07 PM

What browser are you using for watching these flash videos?
I have noticed a trend between Firefox, Flash videos and ATI 5XXX series cards for this behavior.
Also, what OS?

I have a HD5850 on one of my computers, and while running Flash applications on the Vista partition, it would do this approximately once a week. It hasn't happened on a new installation of Windows though, perhaps it's because I upgraded to 7 on that computer, perhaps it just gave it a good cleanout.