AMd Raedon 6900 HD GPU crashes regularly.

[Kiazak]

So while playing world of warcraft, or searching on YouTube, I get an alert sound, the game errors, or the browser restarts and then within about 2 seconds I see a blue error screen, says something about dumping physical memory, and then the computer restarts.

I figured this is more a graphics card problem then anything else though I could be wrong (I'm not entirely computer literate)

Any suggestions?
Should I go Nvidia?

Plus I have crossfire enabled most of the time, though some games wont run until I turn it disable it.
What can I do?

 

[AshleyUK]

That dosent really round it down to graphics card, blue screens of death can mean anythng.

From any bit of hardware to even a driver issue, what's your full your desktop, is it still in warenty may be worth giving PC's a ring timrooww as blue screens aren't the most easiest to diagnose.

 

[vanthus]

Try uninstalling then updating graphics driver from here,
http://support.amd.com/us/gpudownload/Pages/index.aspx
what is the error showing on the bsod,
If the PC restarts too quick for you to see it,disable automatic restart.to do this type SYSDM.CPL in the Start Search box.
Click the "Advanced" tab and click the "Settings" button under "Startup and Recovery"
Uncheck the option Automatically Restart.

 

[Kiazak]

Wicked thanks for the advice, I'll post my specs up here later today, I'm going to bed now lol night!

 

[Kiazak]

Okay so this has just happened again but this time a pop up box came up saying "AMD Driver had stopped working but has recovered".... what the hell is that about?

 

[NilSatis]

It generally means you have had a crash that can be attributed to the gpu driver; although to be honest I have never had this happen and I have a 6950 2gb gpu. It could suggest there is another problem at hand, but in case it is corrupted drivers this is the first thing you should try:

Go to AMDs website and download the latest drivers for 6**** hd series and your operating system. Then go to control panel and express uninstall all amd drivers. This will mean your system will revert back to onboard graphics for the moment. Then reboot the machine (it will reboot with onboard graphics i.e. crap resolution) and on reboot navigate to where you installed the drivers and run the installation. When complete; reboot the pc as the installer suggests and you will have the latest drivers installed. I am using the latest 11.11c drivers which are beta drivers, but work brilliantly and have optimisations for crossfire gpu setups and performance increases for single gpus aswell. I would suggest to get these, but if you cant find these simply download and install the 11.11 official drivers; which came out on the 29th November. The latest (11.11c) ones came out on the 5th December I believe.

The initial blue screen crashes etc. could possibly be related to the driver, although it could also mean that one of the gpus is faulty or even the ram that the machine has installed in it. Having the latest drivers is very important, and even more so if you are running a Crossfire setup as they include the latest profiles for games and many performance and bug improvements. As you have noticed some games simply dont like crossfire but having the latest drivers fixes more and more of these problems.

If you still get the crashes give PCS a call after noting down the details of the crash as explained above. You can also go into administrative tools in your control panel to look at crashes. Good luck mate!