First of all, let me apologise for opening another topic about the well-known "grey screen crash, coloured stripes" issues but I think the time has arrived to clear up this "mystery". All day long I have been reading through forum posts looking for a proper answer or fix but unfortunately I have not found anything satisfactory yet... There is one thing for sure, a whole lot of people have experienced one of the issues mentioned above. There are plenty of fixes floating around which may or may not help. I think the most important question is, and that is what we all would love to know, whether those problems are hardware defects or all we should do is to wait for a better driver... Here is my story:
First my specs.:
AMD PhenomII 965
2x2GB Kingston HyperX @ 1333MHz
msi 790FX-GD70 mobo
Sapphire HD 5870 1GB
Corsair 750HX
WD CB 640GB
NO OC.
The grey screen with stripes appears randomly when playing any game. After having experienced the "grey/brown screen" glitch for the first time I have started to test system stability step by step. First the CPU (prime95 Large FFTs, Small FFTs aka FPU stress, Blend test: 8+ hrs no errors) then the memory (Prime95 Blend test then Memtest 86+: 8+ hrs no errors) then came the VGA: Furmark: after a minute or so the screen started to flicker and a bit later the well-known grey screen with stripes appeared for a sec then disappeared and then appeared again for a little longer and eventually my PC froze. I even got "HT sync flood occurred error" but that only happened two times. Initially I thought this "grey/brown screen" thing was a Furmark glitch or something like that but the last time when I played Dirt2 this bloody screen appeared again. So now I wonder what the problem can be... Let me list what I have tried so far:
-Placing the VGA into another PCIe slot
-Different drivers
-Different mobo BIOSes
-Disabling audio devices which I do not use in Device Manager
No success.
Well, having put it in a nuts** that is my story. I am about to RMA my VGA tomorrow but first I would like to know whether this is really a HW problem.
Anyway, the main aim of this topic is to help all those who have these issues. Sharing ideas can always help, you know. I would also love to hear a Moderator or anyone official (I know this is a "User to User" forum but still... who knows) what they have to say about these very common issues (grey screen crash, stripy screen etc).