Possible blue screen with Radeon R9 270x playing steam games?

[krz4]

Whats up guys.
I am seeking for any opnion on this topic. The reason is that i've just built a pc myself couple days ago and i've got 2 blue screens today playing steam games (1 time in Dota2 and 1 time in TF2).
My computer specs:
Processor: AMD FX 6350
Graphics: Gigabyte Radeon R9 270x 2GB OC
Memory: 8GB of Corsair Vengeance 1600MHz
MB: Asus M5A99FX PRO R2.0
PSU: Corsair CX 750W
Storage: Samsung EVO 120GB

So I played Crysis 3 today with no problems on High - Ultra High settings for like 6 hours straight with no problems. But I've got 2 blue screens playing Dota2 and TF2. That kinda scared me. I ran Crysis 3 again and bench marked my CPU and GPU, both run stable and cool even at max loads. What could be the main possible problem?

Thing to note: Radeon drivers ara latest version.

Could there be a problem with these new R9/R7 drivers that came only few weeks ago?

Thank you.

[V1RK]

mCap*님이 먼저 게시:

Ok guys so... Today I launched TF2 and got a F**** blue screen again... AND on top of that my PSU started squealing randomly. I read up about this issue. The PSU might be faulty.

return it and go for hx or tx range in corsair

[Birb_Byte]

I've got a Sapphire Radeon R9 270X and I get constant blue screens in a day and even my game crashing every 2 minutes. It happens to games like Far Cry 3 or even Ace of Spades (anything really) I've ran prime95 tests and furmark tests and I still can't determine the issue, I've tried changing my CPU clock speeds and memory clock speeds and even tried running the fans on the graphics card at max and it doesn't effect it at all, still crashing and whatnot.

my specs I'll keep it basic;
CPU: Intel i5 3570K (OC 4.4GHz)
GFX: Sapphire Radeon R9 270x 2GB OC
RAM: 12GB (not sure specifically)
MB: Gigabyte Z77MX-D3H
Data: 2TB 5400RPM HDD and 256GB SSD (SSD is boot drive, all steam and games data is on the HDD)

Sooo my guess is this specific type of graphics card is just unreliable? Don't really know...

[Bad 💀 Motha]

You have AMD FX and Win7 OS, did u ever install these. As they are needed to fix performance issues related to DX/OGL apps on Win7. Some games will refuse to work, or just crash and give errors without such updates applied.

http://www.ngohq.com/news/21092-amd-bulldozer-performance-hotfixes-for-windows-7-a.html

[krz4]

I no longer get BSOD after clean Win reinstall with new AMD beta drivers. BUT i've got one when tried to 'overdrive' my just a tiny bit. Aparently AMD's drivers kinda suck, hope they'll release stable version soon. So currently i have no problems as long as I keep clock speeds stock.

[Maverick]

I'm having the same problem as you, when I play dota 2 screen freezes and the sound continues to play like you're running or it gives the error atikmdag.sys, you know how to fix? please help me!

I've tried formatting, change driver, replacing windows, and also tried to install the driver without Catalyst Control Center.

I5 3470 3.2 Ghz
Gigabyte b75m-d3h
Vengeance 2x4GB Mem Pro
Sapphire R9 270x 2gb Dual OC
Sentey 650W 80 plus gold

[_I_]

r9 270x is a 180w gpu

what brand/model pwer supply?
having 80+ rating does not = quality, its just its efficency not the stability of the power

[Maverick]

The model is a SENTEY GSP 650-SM

[_I_]

sentey uses superflower, i wouldnt trust it as far as you can throw it

[Maverick]

But i'm afraid to change my psu and the error does not stop, what can i do ?

[Chris]

atikmdag.sys is your ATi driver. Update your display driver or possibly try downgrading to a previous known working version.

If the blue screen happens only when playing DOTA and no other time during heavy use then it's probably not your PSU.

[Maverick]

Where i can find old drivers from amd ?? In AMD website i just found recent drivers

[krz4]

The way i managed to fix this, was installing beta drivers from amd website. I did that on clean windows install without uninstalling/reinstalling old ones. Also i've dug some info about my corsair CX 750W. The issue was ECO friendly PSU BIOS settings. I turned them off also. And the third thing (probably most bizarre) is that PSU started making squeaky noised under heavy load. The cause of the sound was - electricity outlet when other appliances were pluged in. So probably the main reason i had BSOD - electricity outlet overload/PSU settings.

[JustOnePepsi]

mCap*님이 먼저 게시:

The way i managed to fix this, was installing beta drivers from amd website. I did that on clean windows install without uninstalling/reinstalling old ones. Also i've dug some info about my corsair CX 750W. The issue was ECO friendly PSU BIOS settings. I turned them off also. And the third thing (probably most bizarre) is that PSU started making squeaky noised under heavy load. The cause of the sound was - electricity outlet when other appliances were pluged in. So probably the main reason i had BSOD - electricity outlet overload/PSU settings.

Don't mean to bump a thread that's a couple months old, but have you had any more problems? I built a rig last December that has a CX500 PSU, an XFX R9 270x, FX 6300, and is running on a Gigabyte 990FXA-UD3.

I checked my BIOS for any sort of economy power setting and couldn't find one.

I've been having completely random crashes whenever playing games or even watching Netflix. It doesn't happen while watching Youtube... oddly enough. Only Netflix. I also play a lot of Diablo 3 and while it runs fine for the most part, it will randomly glitch out (vertical lines appear on the screen of a few different colors), and if it recovers, I'm logged out of the game. If it doesn't recover, I get a blue screen.

Just recently, I installed S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Clear Sky, and no matter what settings I use, the game will crash. Either on the loading screen, it will produce those same vertical lines... or during the opening cutscene. I did manage to get the game to apparently load... but the screen was black. This was with maximum settings. Changing the settings and renderer to the lowest settings, it tried to play the first in-game cutscene, but the screen went black and the same vertical lines appeared three times before it finally froze and I had to reboot.

This baffles me... as I can play games like Battlefield 4 and this issue is rare... but I can't even get into Clear Sky before it crashes.

I've tried re-installing drivers... re-seating my GPU... running memory tests... nothing has given me any errors, shown signs of overheating, or fixed the problem.

If you haven't had any more issues since this post... I'm going to go ahead and re-install Windows and start over. If you have had more issues, I'll probably skip that and just contact XFX and have them replace my card.

Very frustrating issue.

Thanks.

[krz4]

Hello, as I encountered this myself with 750W power suply, I think your power suply is not powerful enough.

Also try running your GPU in your friends PC and check if it's faulty or not. I did it with my PSU.

[JustOnePepsi]

I don't have a friend nearby with a PC I could use such a PSU in.

Also, the PSU should be more than adequate, given that everything under load only consumes around 350w-375w. The R9 270x requires a minimum of a 400w PSU, but that doesn't mean the card uses 400w... that means anything under 400w won't be able to power the Motherboard, GPU, CPU, and any other components under load.

However, this particular unit could be unstable...

More likely, however is that it's an odd issue with my card, it seems. I played Battlefield 4 for 3 hours today and had 0 problems (other than the usual Battlefield problems... lol) yet if I load up Clear Sky... even on the lowest settings... blue screen before it can even load the opening scene.

I was just wondering if you had any issues after re-installing Windows, or if you had to replace hardware in the end.