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Hey guys,

I got a little problem here, hope you can help me out.

First 10 to 30 min after startup into Win7 x64 everythings working fine, while GPU folding and watching movies. But after that my movie starts artifacting and the movie player crashes, even my sidebar on the desktop and windows mail got graphic issues.
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I reinstalled codecs for the player and got the newest version, reinstalled the graphic drivers, but nothing seems to work, after a restart everything is normal again for about 30 min.
There are definetly no heat issues as the card never got higher than 60°C and neither did the CPU.

Oh yeah and it's not only the video, the sound comes out in chunks as well when the graphics crash.
This is also happening when I don't turn on GPU folding, so that shouldn't be an issue either.

thanks for any replies

Well it's gotta be one of 3 things from where I sit: graphics card going bad, slot that graphics card is in is going bad, or you have the worlds weirdest lcd problem.
If you can, I'd recommend trying another card in your system. Maybe try your card in another system?

thats what my screen looked like when the caps started popping on my video card...

i'd try reinstalling drivers first, then try underclocking(GPU) if the earlier does not work

thought he said he did reinstall the drivers, i didnt see anything about an overclock though

never overclocked the 5870, since it wasn't necessary. I was just gaming for four hours and didn't have a problem while at it.

have you visually inspected the board? pull it and reslot it?

I took it out and looked at it, but exept the heatsink there is not much to see.

What codec pack are you currently using?

I'm using the k-lite codec pack

Does MPC-HC give you corruption? Are you using the latest build of K-Lite? Even if you are using a 64 bit OS do not install the 64 bit codec pack.
http://www.codecguide.com/download_kl.htm

yeah MPC and WMP both gave me corruption too. I am using the latest build.
I just uninstalled the 64 bit codec pack, we'll see if that did the trick.

seems to be working now after deleting the x64 codec pack.

Thanks for the help

Always glad when it is something easy.

just turned smp folding on and Problem is back, so it's the smp folding client not the codec pack.

at least I know now

ratNukit wrote:just turned smp folding on and Problem is back, so it's the smp folding client not the codec pack.

at least I know now

so guesss you should check your CPU stability

What frequency are you running your PCIe slot at (i.e. 100)?

yeah pcie at 100

Have you tried to contact Sapphire about the issue? Maybe it's a bad/premature driver since you are running Windows 7?