ATI 5850 dual screen problem

[47]

started crashing my pc (lock up with vertical grey stripes) when i hit apply to set the 2 screen (extended) desktop. used to work fine before.


gpu, why yuno work !?

 

[dead mike]

dusty????

 

[$alvador]

did you change your display drivers from what you were using when it worked?

 

[wh1te]

I have the same vid card, it's full of derp. I haven't had that problem, but mine crashes when running multiple things at once sometimes (games + movie)

 

[cattra]

Yeah the 5850 has had some problems that are known of but none the less its still a nice card. Have you tried any of the following:

1.) re-installing drivers?
2.) Full disconnection of the Card in your tower then re-connecting it?

A Friend of mine has the same card and he says sometimes the drivers like to mess up for no reason. Once he had to remove the card then put it back in for some reason so that is why I put the second suggestion though not sure how truly effective it might be.

 

[OG buckshot jr]

Found the problem... lol

ATI 5850

 

[sage]

I really just dont trust ATI anymore.
No matter how good their gpus got... just dont trust them.

 

[47]

yeah, nvidia next time was always nvidia fanboy, but the 5850 was quite a fast card at the time. ill try finding newer drivers and installing that.

ive been doing the noob update of drivers, i never uninstall old ones. derp derp

how i remove ALL old gpu drivers before i install fresh ?

 

[dead mike]

start fresh with new windows 7 ftw

 

[$alvador]

or can use a driver sweeper or just manually delete the relevant registry entries then restart and reinstall.

 

[OG buckshot jr]

Yup, get driver sweeper, if you can find it... all DL links have been removed as it's no longer 'supported'... I have it though, so if you can't find it, I'll upload it to mediafire or something...

 

[47]

is there a legit way of doing it (thru windows) ? all those driver wipers are a good way to brick your pc and have to format.

 

[OG buckshot jr]

is there a legit way of doing it (thru windows) ? all those driver wipers are a good way to brick your pc and have to format.

They are absolutely not. Driversweeper finds all the shit (either nvidia or ati, you choose), it displays what it wants to remove, and you choose what to delete/keep (it's straight forward), and presto. Gone.

 

[47]

orly, cool, will do then

thank u

 

[47]

fuck, soooo much better now !

 

[Anonymous]

Have you tried
1) re-installing the drivers
2) ajust your resolution
3) have proper leveling of both screens in the sence of visual data( video pictures do they all line up from one screen to the other)
4) dead vga card?

 

[halfbakedchef]

yeah your deffintly using the wrong video card... nvidia all the way