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Radeon HD 3800 series crashes
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08/28/11 07:50 AM
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Hello! Hope this is the right topic for this post. I recently updated my graphic card drivers. From this point on i experienced crashes even my pc begun to restart. I think it's because of overheating cause even when i'm not playing anything the GPU temp is above 70 degrees Celsius. Can you please help me? I don't know much about these staff so any help is wellcome
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Re: Radeon HD 3800 series crashes
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08/28/11 09:02 AM
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Hi Volkana, I'd suggest rolling back your drivers to the version you had before which was problem-free. Check out THIS Glitches thread which covers the same issue, with an explanation on how to roll back.
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Re: Radeon HD 3800 series crashes
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08/28/11 09:59 AM
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Definitely roll the drivers back - 70 degrees Celsius is way too hot for that card. If it continues to overheat, make sure the GPU fan is working. Download and run GPU-Z from the site below. You'll see the fan speed on the sensor tab. GPU-Z
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Re: Radeon HD 3800 series crashes
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08/28/11 11:18 AM
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The GPU-Z shows me that the fan is working at 40%. It also shows 72 degrees temperature. I decided to update the card drivers cause it's had been almost a year since my last update. I read somewhere that this particular card works better with Catalyst 9.3. Now i'm using 11.7. Could that might be the case?
GPU Clock 800Mhz Memory 1126 Mhz
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Re: Radeon HD 3800 series crashes
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08/28/11 02:07 PM
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Ok i tried to roll the drivers back but the option was not active so i uninstalled the new ones and i reinstalled the ones i had saved on my hard drive last time i update the card hoping there were the old ones. The thing is i can not remember which version i had. now i have catalyst 10.10 but i can find it anywhere to open it. Anyway the temperature remains at the same levels as before. Any other suggestions? i admit that all this time even though the temp is at 70-74 degrees i didn't experienced any crash. I guess the temp was even higher when the crashes have happened. Is there a setting i can do? Thanks for all your help
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Re: Radeon HD 3800 series crashes
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08/28/11 07:00 PM
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Re: Radeon HD 3800 series crashes
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09/06/11 08:38 AM
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Well hello again. My pc crashed last week and the windows could not start. That's why i couldn't answer to you earlier. Now my PC is fixed (i think). I took out the graphic card and i cleaned the fan and the space around it as much as i could (took aut a coat of dust with tweesers ). There was a lot of dust in there and i couldn't see it without removing it from the motherboard). After a good dusting and a format now my temp is 44 degrees in idle mode. We will see while playing a game if the temp will rise. A big thanks to all of you for your precious time. Always helpfull Lots and lots of kisses
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