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I hope it is not a dead DP port, Exmortis. I will try the DP port again soon, once I get some stability in the PC. I hope that occurs soon. :)

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I decided to read a few of the other threads to see if there was a solution I could use. Based on that, I decided to uninstall the AMD drivers. The current installed driver was 8.961.0.0. I uninstalled it and shut down. On reboot GPU Tweak did not start and said it "failed to load DLLs. Please install VGA." Upon clicking to close that window, the PC automatically went out and installed ASUS drivers version 8.921.5.0. I launched Firefox and no troubles occurred. I launched Winamp and it started up fine. I clicked on the genre smart view and it worked! No more messages about "Display driver stopped responding and has recovered." So, I think I found the solution. Time will tell. :)

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There are some known issues with 79xx cards who go into save mode (zero core). For example when you let Windows turn your monitor after 10 min power saving features of your gpu will kick in and the system hang when you wake up your monitor. I have been having these problems as well. I am getting random blue screens(one a week) when watching gpu accelerated video content. Also when I start up my system, but leave the monitors off and after 15min turn the monitors on I get the 'Display driver stopped responding' message. Different drivers seem to let the above errors occur often or less often, so your solution might work for the most part.

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I decided to read a few of the other threads to see if there was a solution I could use. Based on that, I decided to uninstall the AMD drivers. The current installed driver was 8.961.0.0. I uninstalled it and shut down. On reboot GPU Tweak did not start and said it "failed to load DLLs. Please install VGA." Upon clicking to close that window, the PC automatically went out and installed ASUS drivers version 8.921.5.0. I launched Firefox and no troubles occurred. I launched Winamp and it started up fine. I clicked on the genre smart view and it worked! No more messages about "Display driver stopped responding and has recovered." So, I think I found the solution. Time will tell. :)

8.961 is 12.4 right ? i knew this drivers were bugged, but that much ?

Was running 12.1(or 2 pre?^^) 8.921.5 had some driver crashed, but only when OC'ing near at the limit!
Right now i'm on 12.5Pre 8.970 and that seems fine too! Crossfire works, ZeroCore also. and again only get driver crashes when i OC around 1250mhz. But i did NOT do a clean install! never in the last few months!

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I upgraded to a 3 monitor setup this week, and bought the referenced Asus 7970 so I could avoid tearing. I've got all three monitors attached using displayport adapters, and I'm seeing constant tearing on my middle monitor in eyefinity. Always in the same place, about a quarter of the way up from the bottom. Does anyone have any clue what could be causing it?

I upgraded to a 3 monitor setup this week, and bought the referenced Asus 7970 so I could avoid tearing. I've got all three monitors attached using displayport adapters, and I'm seeing constant tearing on my middle monitor in eyefinity. Always in the same place, about a quarter of the way up from the bottom. Does anyone have any clue what could be causing it?

The 'reference' 7970 does not have three equal display ports. You need to buy the MSI R7970, the DCII 7970 or the DCII 7970 OC. So you've bought the wrong card.

I decided to read a few of the other threads to see if there was a solution I could use. Based on that, I decided to uninstall the AMD drivers. The current installed driver was 8.961.0.0. I uninstalled it and shut down. On reboot GPU Tweak did not start and said it "failed to load DLLs. Please install VGA." Upon clicking to close that window, the PC automatically went out and installed ASUS drivers version 8.921.5.0. I launched Firefox and no troubles occurred. I launched Winamp and it started up fine. I clicked on the genre smart view and it worked! No more messages about "Display driver stopped responding and has recovered." So, I think I found the solution. Time will tell. :)

I assume that you have installed the special 7970 drivers released by AMD? The 'normal' drivers don't work too well with the 7970 series. This driver will install an older, modified version of CCC.

Moose

PS: That's one fine rig you have there. But as always, the more expensive things are, the more problems you get with it.

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Sorry, I guess I wasn't clear. I didn't say "reference", I said "referenced". Specifically, I have this HD7970-DC2-3GD5 card.

Sorry, I guess I wasn't clear. I didn't say "reference", I said "referenced". Specifically, I have this HD7970-DC2-3GD5 card.

Excuse me, I didn't catch that. Well, if you have tearing, then it must be either;
1. Plugged in the monitors wrong;
2. Somehow drivers are wrong;
3. A defect card (probably the clock generator).

If it's the first case it's easy; with this card you need to hook up all three monitors on the Displayports. You can't mix the DVI outputs with the Displayports (not even with adapters) because that causes tearing.

If it's the second case; you need to make sure you have the correct drivers. AMD has released special drivers for the 7900 series, you need to download those. If the problem still occurs, clear the harddrive and do a clean install to make sure any previous drivers aren't screwing up.

If it's the third case; good luck. I have no idea how to prove that your card's hardware is actually broken, so I suggest you send it back to the shop and let it get tested there.

Moose

PS: Could you tell me what monitors you use? There are users here that have native DVI monitors mixed up with native DP monitors, connected to their cards without adapters, and experience no tearing.

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Are you using active displayport adapters for all three? What brand and type? Have you tried swapping them around to see if the tearing is perhaps adapter related?

P.S. Catalyst 12.4 final seems to be working for me now (knock on wood) and it is actually throttling RAM speeds down properly.

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PS: Could you tell me what monitors you use? There are users here that have native DVI monitors mixed up with native DP monitors, connected to their cards without adapters, and experience no tearing.

Using Dell U2311H with 1x DP nativ, 1x DVI Nativ and 1x HDMI-->DVI-Adapter Never experienced Tearing! And when i was using 3+1 setup with an addition miniDP-->DVi Adapter i didn't get tearing either. (Used Adapter that were in the Box of the Sapphire HD7970!)



@Overstich, thats unbeliveable! 12.4 are the worst drivers ever ^^ you're the first i hear complementing them, just heard bad things about them till now ^^

To be sure use 12.1Previev aka 8.921.5(or 8.921.2) they work flawless. Even though 12.5Pre 8.975 also works kinda fine for me.

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