Grey stripes issue

[Steevo]

Black Panther is a woman.

Use MSI Afterburner, it is readily available on the internet, does NOT require a reboot, and will overclock your card, and possibly control the voltage.
Do you have your fan speed set manually, at what RPM, Have you tried 100%?


I had the same exact issue, forcing clocks in Afterburner fixed the issue. My 4850 had a custom BIOS on it shortly after I bought it, as does my new 5870, I only had issues with the very low powerplay settings and the higher 3D when I have overdrive enabled. I no longer have issues, and have fixed and seen fixed grey stripes with using afterburner.


If you are unable to use google and find afterburner, then you are more than likely not able to understand the use of it, and thus shouldn't be building computers. That isn't trying to be mean, but if you really don't understand this stuff, and are unwilling to learn you should not be doing it.

 

[Azhrei]

My speed is set manually to 55%, 3756rpm. When sitting idle on the desktop (or playing video) the temperature is usually 46 degrees celsius, when under load (playing a game, for example), it usually sits at around 60 degrees. Set the fan to 100%, are you mad? Have you heard a 4870's reference fan at 100%? I don't think the neighbours would approve

Seriously though, setting the fan to 100% is out of the question, it is really loud. I rely on sound when it comes to games, for example in Modern Warfare 2 I can detect where an enemy is coming from by the sound of their footsteps - having the fan being so pervasively loud would destroy that, force me to abandon my speakers and use headphones all the time. There's no point to it anyway - the temperatures are stable at 55%. At 100% the fan is louder than our hoover!

I'm pretty sure I'm capable of finding Afterburner - in fact, once you attached MSI to it I immediately knew what program you were talking about. It's good to know that you solved your problem this way, and I didn't mean to appear ungrateful and unwilling to try out the forcing clocks method, but I really wanted to find an updated bios before messing around with clocks, whether I went with Black Panther's suggestion of throttling back, or Sir_Real's suggestion of forcing the 2D clock to the default 3D clock speed of 750MHz. I would still prefer to have an updated bios over forcing the clocks either way, especially as temperatures are stable on the card, and don't move at all when either idle on the desktop or playing a video...

I believe someone mentioned issues with playing high definition before, but I'd just like to point out that no matter the quality, whether 240P on YouTube or an event recorded on camcorder and burned to a DVD video disc, the problem repeats itself on all settings.

Edit -

This is confusing me. Both Catalyst and Afterburner say the core clock is running at 500MHz while on the desktop, but the slider to (presumably) change the core speed has defaulted to 750MHz. How can I force the clocks on this when it is defaulting to it in the slider, but the actual speed is different?

 

[Peter1986C]

What voltage does your card work at @idle?
Don't forget that when playing video the idle clocks are used (afaik, at least). You could use ATI Tray Tools or MSI Afterburner to adapt the voltage at idle (2D) if it appears to be to low. My 4850 needs at least 0.9-something volt at idle, so to use a safe margin I would say keep it at at least 1 volt (though not to high to stay away from reckless tactics). I believe my 4850 runs 500/750 at roughly a volt idle, but I currently haven't installed ATI Tray Tools so I still need some time to verify it. I will check it, though.

Edit: Tray Tools is giving (false?) positives in McAfee, so I guess I will check my settings in Afterburner too. It's weird that it happened now but never before, but just in case I will switch program.

 

[Azhrei]

It's running at 1.20V idle, so no worries there.

 

[Steevo]

My speed is set manually to 55%, 3756rpm. When sitting idle on the desktop (or playing video) the temperature is usually 46 degrees celsius, when under load (playing a game, for example), it usually sits at around 60 degrees. Set the fan to 100%, are you mad? Have you heard a 4870's reference fan at 100%? I don't think the neighbours would approve

Seriously though, setting the fan to 100% is out of the question, it is really loud. I rely on sound when it comes to games, for example in Modern Warfare 2 I can detect where an enemy is coming from by the sound of their footsteps - having the fan being so pervasively loud would destroy that, force me to abandon my speakers and use headphones all the time. There's no point to it anyway - the temperatures are stable at 55%. At 100% the fan is louder than our hoover!

I'm pretty sure I'm capable of finding Afterburner - in fact, once you attached MSI to it I immediately knew what program you were talking about. It's good to know that you solved your problem this way, and I didn't mean to appear ungrateful and unwilling to try out the forcing clocks method, but I really wanted to find an updated bios before messing around with clocks, whether I went with Black Panther's suggestion of throttling back, or Sir_Real's suggestion of forcing the 2D clock to the default 3D clock speed of 750MHz. I would still prefer to have an updated bios over forcing the clocks either way, especially as temperatures are stable on the card, and don't move at all when either idle on the desktop or playing a video...

I believe someone mentioned issues with playing high definition before, but I'd just like to point out that no matter the quality, whether 240P on YouTube or an event recorded on camcorder and burned to a DVD video disc, the problem repeats itself on all settings.

Edit -

This is confusing me. Both Catalyst and Afterburner say the core clock is running at 500MHz while on the desktop, but the slider to (presumably) change the core speed has defaulted to 750MHz. How can I force the clocks on this when it is defaulting to it in the slider, but the actual speed is different?

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v201/Rihani/afterburner.jpg

Afterburner when used WIHTOUT overdrive will force the clocks to the proper speed you select. Thus the reason I asked you to use it alone. Most other programs will allow ATI powerplay to still change the clock settings, thus dropping back down to the idle state.


Use afterburner ONLY to change your GPU and memory speed, then try it. If you want a monitoring utility try GPU-Z.

 

[Azhrei]

Okay, I stopped Overdrive, and ran Kombustor with a saved profile in Afterburner. When I change the slider, it's already set to 750MHz, but running at 500MHz. When Kombustor ran, the clock changed to 750MHz, as it should. But seeing as the slider is already set to 750MHz, how can I tell Afterburner to keep the clock at that speed?

 

[Athlon2K15]

save a profile? or do u want 3d clocks all the time?

 

[Azhrei]

I thought that was the point, rather than having to load up Afterburner every time I wanted to go to YouTube or watched a video? And yes, I created a profile, but I'm not sure Afterburner is actually doing anything. I set the fan to auto and it never moved of it's own accord at all - not even when I set it manually to 100% (while the temperatures were low) then set it back to auto... absolutely zip. I still don't know how to set the clock to 750MHz because, while it reports that it's running at 500MHz while on the desktop, the slider to set the clock speed has defaulted to the 3D speed of 750MHz...

 

[Steevo]

Stop using other utilities. Use afterburner only.



Have you edited the afterburner config file to allow you to overclock with it?

If not http://www.overclock.net/ati/640563-msi-afterburner-1-4-0-bypass.html

Google is your friend.


Set your clocks, voltage and fan speed manually to 100%, not as a everyday running profile, but as just a test. GO and try the media. If it works or not post back.


I do not care if your card causes your neighbors hair to fall out from the noise, or if you go deaf. This is just a test, only a test, nothing more. If you continue to not listen to simple easy instructions no one will help you.

 

[Azhrei]

Never mind.

 

[Frogger]

Never mind.

club 3d used a different voltage controller on many of it's cards & from reading the above thread prob the rest of the controllers too! have you tried W1zz's tool will not give voltage but show give you clock control...

failing that you will have to mod the bios & flash it