PC crash allways with Radeon HD 4870

[Aogle2]

is the card overheating?

is the cpu overheating ?



[DeathByAPeanut]

MY GOD I HAVE SAME PROBLEM ITS DRIVING ME NUTS FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU­UUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU!

PLEASE PLEASE HELP

(psst it doesnt allwase freeze but it somtimes kinda pauses my game shows with a random colour and then goes back) and crashes the game!

[mistershadowx2]

@TheGermanDrifter Warum erzählst du hier eine dermaßene scheiße??? Vista ist vlt. nicht das beste OS, aber zuverlässig ist es trotzdem und für solche Abstürze kann es nicht verantwortlich sein. Und deine Nvidia-Fanboy Meinung, dass ATI ein generelles problem ist, hilft auch nicht weiter, weil es schwachsinn ist. Als wenn man grundsätzlich seine ATI Karte wegschmeißen und eine Nvidia kaufen müsse, um ein System stabil laufen lassen zu können. Es wird ein fehlerhaft installierter Treiber o.ä. sein

[KyDelete]

Have you fixed this problem? I have the same exact problem.

[InfinityShikai]

it is Vista. What you want?^_^

[ultimatelife11]

haahaaha i LMAO at the way you talk

[Duzzify]

For me too it just crash when i play gta sa-mp! cs and all games

[dejong19]

after 15 years, the Ati drivers still suck, I have never had this problem with Nvidea EVER and with my first Ati Radeon I can almost play no game

[kuza261]

@dejong19 bro i agree but for the AMD price you cat beat cheep shit i got a MSI version of ATI Radeon 5450 and no problems only pain 51 dollars including shipping

[kuza261]

@dejong19 bro i agree but for the AMD price you cat beat cheep shit i got a MSI version of ATI Radeon 5450 and no problems only paid 51 dollars including shipping

[rigby18]

same happens to mine exact same model except 1gb, did you ever find a fix for this?

[Sieberliebangbang]

p90 noob

[CaptainDishman]

My opinion. If you are overclocking, you might need to up the voltage. I would recommend DDR3 RAM. Vista is still buggy, switch to 7 if you can. Are you still getting this problem running one HDD (no RAID)?

[whooped9]

This same thing happens to me i have a nvidea 9800 GT for graphics card, can someone please inbox or reaply if you know the problem and how to fix it

[unleasheth]

@whooped9 i know you hate to hear it but in my previous experience with nvidia i used to get the same shit and it usually resulted in me buying a new card....after a few years i swapped over to ATI bro i love em. ATI cards, AMD cpus, and ASUS motherboards are all i stick with now. anyhow i know that doesnt help, your not overclocking the card or anything in your rig are you? i know my nvidia cards also always had fucking driver issues that would give me BSOD and dump the memory and reboot.

[unleasheth]

@whooped9 usually its getting too hot in your room too if you get these lock ups and it results in taking you back to the desktop with or without a reboot and you will get a driver failed, give it more air flow in your case and make sure the GPU has sufficient thermal compound on it...if you are having trouble with heat problems and you know for a fact you are, just put a few more fans in your case and make sure to use Arctic Silver thermal compound if you do replace the GPU thermal compound.

[unleasheth]

@whooped9 hope that helps 8) and when you do get ready for an upgrade try an ATI card out man you wont have these kind of probs. Im using the XFX ATI HD 5850 it never has heating issues and thats with the stock cooler on it. Matter of fact ATI claims that they beefed up the cooling on some of their particular cards and said that you will not have heat issues with them. I had a fuckin nvidia bfg 8800gtx oc 1gb gddr3 back in the day $500 new and it failed on me after a few months 8(...fuck nvidia

[greyfoxzero]

Driver sweeper. That is all.

[ktosi11]

I have same problem but in windows not when playing games... runing on 8600 gts :D

[Fuzi9n]

so many ppl here think that they really know something about graphic cards n stuff and they think like that you need some fucking 1ghz core clock and gddr5 @ 1.3ghz on ur graphics card really????? Ive been playing with my old school trashcancomputer with 2.6ghz single core and ati radeon hd4350 or 9400gt and 2gb of ram these new games, like bad company 2 , mw2, cod4, crysis, crysis warhead, just cause 2. That old rig runs all graphics on maxed but resolution 1024x something...

[NoOdL3z18]

Maybe bad drivers, ATI is known for that. On another note, that would be a great screenshot!

[Remington870s]

go to activision->Call of Duty 4->miles and rename the mssmp3.asi to mssmp3.bik

hope it works

[RoyalJackofSpades]

"i don't know what the problem is", then don't go right away blaming it on the 4870. I think its a great card. Not the best out there but a good one nonetheless.

[killer2752]

@RoyalJackofSpades on that card you cant play games anymore man you need minimal a nvidia geforce 260

[compizlars]

@killer2752 A HD4870 is almost as good as a Nvidia Geforce GTX260

[realflow100]

the only way i have ever crashed my Ati Radeon 3100 is to change everything in crysis to high then change the AA to x4 or x2 i get black screen instead of a blue screen and my computer restarts itself and satrts up fine

[Jefneurotoxin]

your PC hates u

[LK2H]

lol epic crash moment

(or is that yourwallpaper lol)

[MultiDunners]

i dont think your motorboat is the problem dude.........

[PanamaSupra]

This is a problem with ATI powerplay - what this does is it switches the clock frequency from 750MhZ to 500Mhz to save power - but what happens is that in game the switching between these two power modes casues the crash in the video. I researched this for many months before finding the problem.

Riva Tuner fixes this - download that and set the frequency to 750MHZ and set to start when windows starts - - this will fiz any crashes like this

[violaxetos]

it happens to me but with ati 4890, is an unstable CPU overclock or GPU, sure.there are videogames that are unstable with overclock,that is one of them

[ResourceMovies]

Install the latest bios worked for some other peoples.

[Tr1pleHeAdShOt]

Buy a new card coz the driver atikmdag.sys fails all the time so stopps gpu from running stable!Just buy a new card and update the drivers

[TreloC4paTsi]

lollll hey idiot...You fucking damb ass dont change your overdrive in ATI programms.U will kill your card.

[smileforeverever]

LOL NOOB NOOB i have 4870 no problem man NOOB

[MrFelzi]

If your video freezes and the sound and there is no grey picture with scanlines on it then your CPU is too hot. As I can see you overclocked it over 300mhz. Do you use an non stock cooler? Lower your clock and it should work well or get a new cooler. But when I look at the date when this video was uploaded I think that you already solved the problem. ;)

[Tr1pleHeAdShOt]

@MrFelzi @MrFelzi That isnt the prob cpu is fine coz when the newer cpus overheat the auto turn off the pc.Gpu is the prob coz the hd48xx series card has errors in drivers so the driver atikmdag.sys fails all the time!He should buy a new card.

[mohsun123]

either a hard drive problem or a software error. did you overclock your video card? try updating your bios for mobo and video card.

[duongduo]

Your pc crash in the most beautiful scence of the game dude :))

[roxasrox123]

Either it's windows or it's something else. Not your video card.

[f4sty123]

p5q;) sayss all bad mobo

[xxxREDOXxxx]

well... just do what i do, use the PC only for important stuff and internet, and for games: a good and old console, that...well.. was designed to play games only.... nothing against PC players, i love playing PC games, i just think consoles are a better option because you just have to play games on it, and because i think the pc should be exclusive for important stuff, and some more, but not games

[LFCforEver12341]

hey try uninstalling cod4, the drivers, and the patches, reinstall everything again, and try overcklocking and UNDERCLOCKING in the ati control center, if still no results then try an older card (if you have one) to determine wether its the card or a component in the computer (cpu, processor, etc).

[xDamianZ]

Hey man i know how to fix it

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[Plxi]

amd is the best!!

[DimebagCFH4Life]

Intel is for work AMD is for gaming hahaha

[LFCforEver12341]

@DimebagCFH4Life yh people always tell me amd is better for gaming, ive always wondered WHY?

[DimebagCFH4Life]

@LFCforEver12341 Cuz its wayy cheaper than intel chips and just as powerfull!

[aljay0007]

its probably a CPU freeze or ur Hard Disks aint connected good anymore i changed disk cables and all work fine for me now :) even i removed some of lag

[WrigglingGibbon]

At least it froze at a cool moment

[Dbentzjr]

It looks like your video card and pc are both fine, but your power supply is not getting enough juice to your video card. I recommend getting at least a 500 watt (or greater) power supply and I think that will solve your problem. It worked for me on my old GeForce 6800 card.  Hope that helps!

[0123456789jesper]

new power supply helped when it happend to me

[bioswat96]

alien3000ful who is racist and why

[NNzak]

i had this problem in the past and i'm having it again now. i believe the computer specs have nothing to do with it, sometimes reinstalling the game is just what it needs, the problem is, it happens to almost everygame i have installed oin my computer

[andrewtran123]

THis happened to me but it was a nvidia 8800gt lol

[Ikilledyou123]

nothing wrong with graphic card because if there was you would get different coloured stripes across the screen, vista without a doubt is your problem

[AMDandATIFoReVeR]

У меня также было но помоему из-за перегрева

[afiqhanifah]

could be display driver or windows problem!

[Popino09]

I have the same problem, I get a new graphic card(better) and a new power supply and the problem continues :s

[albetrockman]

get nividia buddy

[younoooob]

vista theres ur prob

[M3taCaf3]

Windows, theres your problem. :D

[AndyLauV]

@M3taCaf3 What other computer program is there cause Macs cant play games i know that for a fact

[halfpol]

swatz85

надобыло брать 4870 с 1 гигом xD

[zzxxcvbgfhyu]

у меня такаяже фигня была -на новых дровах 9.12 все пофиксили

[victorzvyagin360]

@zzxxcvbgfhyu

EbaaaaaAAAT', ne mogu NICHE delat'- u jmna ta zhe xuinya, tolko ekran ne zastyvaet, a stanovitsya black- i vse

Drova ne pomogli

Che mne delat'? Pzhalsta, napishi, ya ne znau chto za xren', uzhe vse proboval, rivatuner tozhe, i nifiga- kstati, zvuk takzhe zastyvaet, i "Dergaetsya"

Pls, pomogi chivak- u menya hd 4870, 1 gb

Blok pitanie 700 w i 4 gb rama

(Win vista 64bit, chetyrexyadernyi, s 2.4 gigagertza )

[eagle102938]

just give ur card to me lol

[aljay0007]

Update Drivers DUH! and Buy more Fans and get bether Mother board fuck Pentium chipset This is old time not for CoD4,Crysis n Stuf Just Keep Hard Disks :P

[herhhh]

@aljay0007 I know a AMD Quad Core is better (or Almost better) then a i7 and AMD is cheaper.

[dylex666]

i read that the drivers of the card turn the fans to 0% so maybe it is the overheating so you need to find a way to make the fan do work

[xxkajimaruxx]

my comp did that yesterday i reset it like u since couldnt do anything more and now it doesnt even show no image at all including windows starting lol

[mytube0000000000]

game crashs are caused by dust damage or the computer needs to be upgraded and clean the mobo

[geunsjl]

got the same card, it works great, even on high settings...

[knuckles7397]

same problem with cod4 and cod6

i thought it the card was getting too hot so i decided to place a fan directly yo the card and still getting the same shit, really good card but if i cant play cod it sucks lol

(a house fan not one for a pc case lol)

[ZiqpY]

that happends to me all the time too

[sonnycrysss]

hey your pc is overheting and you also have a hiden blue screen of dead! upgrade your grafical drivers and you might resolv that

[kibblecat1234]

increase your GPU fan speed to 66%, should fix the problem.

[darknessRO02]

some problem here -.-

[badman2009]

same here same shit I got every time I play CoD 4 had same thing dont know why .

I dont know how to fix it , I google btw still no use

-_- tbh Hate when happen this thought only me that happen Crash

[rcooper95]

go shoot yourself in the head it might help with the computer and your accent

[alien3000ful]

fucking racist ...go fuck yourself

eat the dick

p.s. fuck you

[madeinchinavids]

you need a better psu i would say about 500watts or 750watts (depending on quality of make)500watts if its somet like coolmaster 750watts if its a rubbish brand lol

hope you get it fixed :)

[bigdima3]

i ahve 550W rubbish piece of shit power supply, i run 8800gts lol, and get same freezes :(

[madeinchinavids]

is it a stable ampage? that psu should run it with ease

[KKOPPI]

I lol'd your engllish xD

[dR0pz0rRR]

noob

[King00000000000000]

Sounds like Arnold Schwarzenegger

[thespartenkid]

its your raid 0

[papelpro]

Change your operative sistem to Windows Vista Ultimate X86 not X64 version.

[mafogo]

why should that help?

[bacardee]

then his 4gigs of ram would be useless

[madeinchinavids]

lol first of all 4gb ram.... look :)

second of all x64 is faster

and 3rd WHAT FUCKING DIFFERENCE WILL IT MAKE XD

[fALConxxii]

get RivaTuner and set your clock speed to 750 mhz. that happens to sapphire cards because they keep switching from 500 to 750 mhz and back to 500mhz. it will fix the problem

[diamelo]

i think its that problem every saphire 4870 has it under clocks the card to 500mhz and then over clocks the card automatically to 750mhz when you start playing a game this also happens with the 9800gtx+ im not sure if they all do this but my friends card did and he had a hard time fixing it

[chernogorski]

Your PSU is weak. I have the same problem with ATi HD4850 when my Fan is on 100%

[angelflorin]

you need at more PSu power and a upgrate at you bios and other video card, 2 video card in csrossfire :)

[raumrqz]

upgrade the sapphire bios

[raumrqz]

u have to upgrade the bios

[madzane94]

i got this with my 8500gt i think it's overheat

[SmashCrazy]

if aa is on then thats why... for some reason if u disable aa then it should be fine. thats wat i did

[Banchel663]

iam pretty sure it is ur memory u over clocked too much

it happened with me before

[nicktexel]

it is your memory it cant handle your cpu because you overclocked it the only solution is or overclock your memory or reduce the clock on your cpu like syedjaafar said

[xXVietDynastyXx]

Get a stronger PSU.

[Mercu4a]

I had same problem.

It is videocard causing that. I have same videocard Sapphire HD4870 512

You need to update Videocard BIOS and it will stop crashing.

[Bosnascarface]

Prozessor fucked up! Its freezing!!

[syedjaafar]

hmm..reduce ur oC..and what PSu u using now?

[elition]

I have the exact same issue, but its only with a few games. For example, I get the same issue when I run Bioshock, Spore, Fallout 3 and sometimes it did it on Supreme Commander.

However, even when I run at max resolution on Red Alert 3, Racedriver: GRID, and others, it works a treat.

My specs are:

Intel Core 2 Duo E8400 @ 3.00ghz

2x 2gb 800mhz ddr2 ram

512mb Saphire ATi Radeon HD4870.

Im about to do a catalyst update and hopefully this works... =[[

[madzane94]

p.s i hav ur same motherboard.....

[madzane94]

i ot this with my old 8500gt..it's not the 4870......it's punk buster dude...update it....or take off any software that monitors ur gpu...i.e gpu-z

[agumon12]

are you getting the BSOD ??

cuz im getting that with all the newer games, anything younger than CoD4, i have no problem running, but CoD4 and up crash BSOD every five minutes of playing. it pisses me off.

[richardh754]

Have you got any USB items plugged in?

[lightphoenix1]

I got the same problem but i got the solution!!!

What my problem is is that my computer case is not big enough my computer gets overheated.

So try what happens when you put open your case and playing the game. At my computer it works.

[munktorp]

I uderclock my card and no more crashing!

[cranos666]

its becoz ur a p90 noob!

[ocelot00000000]

fuck you

[sale666]

did you try to underclock the card?

[Dantei136]

Hey man i got the same spec and same problem like you....

Just update the graphic driver to Catalyst 8.12...

Your pc will be fine after the updated....

[1nicelad]

hahhahah faulty graphics card

[ilirshaqiri]

something is wrong m8 becouse i bought a computer like this its nothing wrong with your grafic card i think the store who sold it to u did something with it becouse it seems that some of the stuff your pc have are not working together as they should that means they are wrong or they dont fit with your pc

[vittu69koipina]

i think ur temps are too high.. sound freezin usually tells that

[SonsOfHateSphere]

What a loud fan. Lol. Update your system.

[skroger81]

Same problem with my 'ex-' 4870...

I just sent it back and reinstalled my 'old' 8800gt.

everything, gaming, windows even the ie runs better again, perhaps not faster but more constant and accurate!

no i always installed drivers correctly...

[ppatrikfromEST]

maybe overheating is causing this

[Q8soldiersOFdeath]

freezing caused by...unstable oc

viruses...or windows probs

+using noob p90 in cod4

[teckim]

correcto

[xxxREDOXxxx]

@Q8soldiersOFdeath anything against people who like the p90? like i do

[Jizzo13945]

@Q8soldiersOFdeath or when he upgraded to hd4870 he did not upgrade his power supply and he dosent have enough wattage to run every thing properly and at high gpu stress levels wattage drops and pc fails

[illectrikSkope]

its because you are using a P90

[cheapkah]

u cheat me meh !!! i use 8800 gt also can play in high resolution! 100% is ur card to heat la !!! put it beside aircon

[Yamcha67]

Im pretty sure that its because your cpu is overclocked.. make sure its stable use 2XPrime 95.. it's not because of the 4870 :P.. either put ur cpu speed down to stock.. or up the voltage and then run Prime 95 for 12 hrs at least.. if it doesn't crash then ur safe most likely.. when you get time try running it for 24hrs..

[TheJokeStir]

get a nvidia card 9800gt to be exact.

[DarkNoex]

LMAO 9800gt is the worest card ever.

Did you know that this card have DDR5 memory?

[munktorp]

maybe go to activision support an ask them

[munktorp]

My card is Ge Force 9600 gs and crashes every time i play cod 4.

And my pc is found a possible solution.

Need to upgrade BIOS.

Sorry 4 bad english!!!

[kenkoyABC123]

i think because GTA is design on Nvidia, i had the same problem too, im planning to buy a 9800GT to replace my old ATi

[marcelojiu]

dude its happen cause the heat of gpu. in my hd4850 when running cooler auto, too heat, but install catalyst 8.12 and change de cooler to a 45% to resolve this and even silent here

[tomerleon]

swatz85-why cod4 crash on your computer? the bios update not solve the problem completely, in all the games?

[calboreansergiu]

Hi, i had the same problem on an nvidia geforce 9600gt...the problem is the heat, the resolution and monitor is too big and thats why it crashes, you have 2 choices..change your monitor or your graphics card...

[swatz85]

No, i foud a way to fix it! I Updated the bios from VC, all the games are ok, no crashes, exept, COD4. I dont know how to fix it. And have more heavy games, like crisis, fsx and both dont crashes anymore.

[TheHaloMan2009]

I had this problem too but thats just cause my CPU overlock was a little too high. Put it down a little bit and all is okay.

[munktorp]

what is overlock and how to do that?

[gazzxr]

buy windows XP i don't EVER , EVER, EVER have crashes with windows XP only with SP 3 soo buy Windows XP Service Pack 2 and ur pc will not crash ... but u can try XP SP 3...

[firestormcomputers]

I need help, I am crashing constantly too, so you say the motherboard bios update will work?

[LCCDrummer]

What is your powersupply? How much are you overlocking?  Temps?

[lbjfan408]

that happens to me except the screen goes totally black! >:( can anybody out there help me?

[Gamerdudeeee]

this shit happend to me to so i bought a xfx 9800gtx+ and it works perfekt

[kalimul]

What are the temps during load?

[damosys]

I have the exact same problem except I'm using 2 9800gtx's in sli. 4gb ddr3 and a q6600 on a 790i evga motherboard. No idea how to stop this from happening.

[sof2finchy]

Have you got ATI Catalyst 8.12?

[ltsmikis]

i have same problem to and i dont know how to do i try update all drivers scann or viruus who can helm me ?

[swatz85]

I updated the bios of my VC, all the games are working fine! GTA4, FSX, but the COD4 Still crashing sometimes, but it takes a long time to crash, before was about 1,2 minuts. I think i going to reinstall the game.

[swatz85]

I found a way to fix it!! Download the new bios on sapphire website. And update it fron boot disk on dos. No more crashes, even in GTA IV.

[koeasi]

Hello could you tell me where I can find de bios update for the Radeon HD 4870??? I can`t find it on the sapphire website...i have the same problem as you had..

Thanx

[swatz85]

download the ATIWINFLASH and use it to update your bios, than download the bios from shappire website. If you cant find the files, please add me at msn, search on my profile

[goro8992]

i think your videocard is overheat.... use "riva tuner" to turn your fan speed higher!!

[swatz85]

Yes i use this. I put 40% fan speed.

[buraneli69]

probably memory RAM

[R3APERvsTYETREE]

It is cpu for sure asus board will only reset the bios if your overclock fails to get into windows, it wont detect small errors or instabilities once you are in windows run an app prime 95 for atleast 2 hrs on small ffts that will truley test the cpu any tiny error it will pick it up, but also dont buy ati there cards are cheap for one reason and its not becuase they waNT TO SAVE THE CUSTOMER SOME MONEY, total lack of quality in the cards and the drivers are coded by monkeys

[fanvetfanvet]

Dude try playing in default clock speed bios does not allways post "overclock faild" just reset bios and try again if not working RMA the card....

[UnknownBallin]

Send me the GFX card and I'll see what's wrong with it. PM me, if you'd like to comply.

[livonallemaney]

it is the cpu clock asshole

[swatz85]

I should never bought this video card "Radeon", lower price, but high crashes.

The problem is not with the overclock, i tested... Asus reset the computer if have a

overclock problem e show a messege on the post bios "Overclock faild" and restart

automatically the bios to default.

[moeenmoghal]

It could be your CPU, try to reduce the Clock back, to its original settings. that should help!

gd luck!