Graphics Card

AMD HD 5770

Bios version: 012.020.000.025

Bios date: 2010/12/09 (not sure how to update this though?)

AMD Catalyst Driver Version, and Driver History

Catalyst 12.10

CCC Version: 2012.0928.1532.26058

2D Driver Version: 8.01.01.1266

Direct3D Version: 9.14.10.0926

OpenGL Version: 6.14.10.11931

History: Always kept up to date for the past two years

Operating System

Windows 7 32 bit, 7600.

Issue Details

After about 5-10 minutes of playing most games (BF3, CoD, even WoW and NFS Underground 2), my screen will blackout with vertical lines, mostly the background is black with greyish lines. This has been happening for the past year or so. Accompanying the blackout, my sound would freeze, playing a loud repeated noise.

Motherboard or System Make & Model

Motherboard:

Gigabyte H55M-S2

Power Supply

Huntkey 550W

Display Device(s) and Connection(s) Used

LG Flatron W1934S ( 19 ” ) , VGA cable converted to DVI to connect to my graphics card.

Applications and Games

-       Call of Duties

-       Battlefield 3

-       World of Warcraft

-       Warcraft 3

-       Need for Speed Underground 2

-       Skyrim

-       GTA IV

CPU Details

Intel Core i3 540 (LGA 1156) 3.07GHz

Average Core Speed 1200-2000MHz

Multiplier x9-x11

Bus Speed 133.34

QPI Link 2933.70

Motherboard BIOS Version

Brand: Award Software International

Version: F4

Date: 08/20/2010 (according to software that came with the mobo, it’s up to date   )

System Memory Type & Amount

DDR3, 4096MB, 1333MHz

Additional Hardware

None that will affect this.

Additional Details

I’ve done just about everything, including format my pc. No overclocking, everything is default. 

 

Edited: 11/28/2012 at 03:44 AM by icyDON