HD7970 Display driver crashing

[Spacekiwi]

I have a Asus HD 7970 Direct CU II. Over the past month or so I have been having problems where my computer would either freeze force 1-2 seconds or I would experience some strange artifacting on screen (sorry I didn't get any screenshots of artifacting, Will try and get some next time it happens).

 

I have linked a picture of my event viewer logs just so you can see how frequent these crashes are. I have also noticed that since this has been happening my videocard makes a strange ticking noise when under load. I have attached an mp3 of this noise but the quality is not that good as it is hard to isolate the sound from all other fans etc in my case.

 

Steps I have taken to try and resolve this problem:

• Changed from Beta drivers to release drivers.
• Changed power supplies (My current one is a Seasonic M12 II Bronze 750W)
• Tried installing different BIOS on videocard and chaning to the secondary BIOS on the switch
• Disabled hardware acceleration in google chrome (Thought other processes could be causing the problem)
• Removed my overclock and set to default settings

Thanks in advance for any help resolving my issue.

Video Card noise.mp3

[mgsstar]

Use this tool to uninstall the driver and try reinstalling it to see if it fixes it: http://www.guru3d.com/content-page/guru3d-driver-sweeper.html

 

Try running Heaven to see if there are artifacts, if it artifacts, then I would RMA/return your card.

 

Found this thread about this problem: http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?t=106841&highlight=display+driver+recovered

[Spacekiwi]

Thanks for the reply mgsstar.

 

I used have used heaven for about 2 hours solid on maximum settings and 1920x1080 resolution and do not get any artifacting/crashes. The crashes are very random, and sometimes happen on very graphically intensive games like tomb raider, crysis 3 etc and sometimes on games like League of Legends or CounterStrike GO.

 

I will use the Driver sweeper now and get back to you with results, however I cannot be 100% sure that it has fixed the problem as these crashes/artifacting is very random.

 

Edit:

 

I Just finished with Driver sweeper. It was a disaster, my comptuer would get BSOD as soon as windows loaded. I eventually fixed it by cleaning registry with CCleaner and uninstalling video card drivers in device manager.

 

I will report back here if problems persist.

 

P.S. I removed some NVIDIA stuff with driver sweeper from my last card (GTX 560) that may have been causing issues.

[xAcid9]

Driver Sweeper is old, use Driver Fusion instead.

[brownninja97]

You arent overclocking are you.