video card problems

[brent]

Hi guys I just got a new video card after my old one went bad took it back on warranty and got a new one and now I cant get the new one to work. The drivers keeps failing w/e I do anything, or even when its just sitting there idle they fail. Im using windows7 64bit and the video card is a radeon hd 5770. I have no idea whats wrong and it seems tech support doesnt know shit either. Ive uninstalled all my drivers and ran a program to make sure they were all gone and then done a fresh install, Ive tried it with all the software installed Ive tried it with just the drivers installed. When I do a fresh install it will work for a few hours but then itll go back to being totally unstable. My next step is to reinstall windows which Id rather not do but w/e. When it fails sometimes itll have little dashes then freeze and go to a solid blk blu or white screen, then itll go back to normal usually. sometimes it fails and I have to power it down and restart. And it fails even if its just idle or browsing. ive given up on tech support after 3 phone calls and multiple emails. They just keep telling me to reinstall the drivers. Any ideas on how to fix it or anyone have similar problems with this set up?

[xerodok]

If it's working for random amounts of time then failing, that sounds like a hardware issue. First, I would remove the graphics card from your computer. Take a can of compressed air or a vacuum to clean out all the dust from around and in the PCI slots on your motherboard (treat it like a NES cart, sometimes when you have nothing in that port or you add/remove cards, dust offsets the pins in the slot). After everything is clean, put the 5770 in another PCI-e slot if you have it, (it doesn't matter which slot it's in) if you don't have another one, put it in the same one you used before.

If this doesn't work, there's a few more steps that can be taken.

[brent]

But the message says its the driver failing not the device. And if I do a fresh install of the drivers it runs for a few hours sometimes a day but then the next day itll fail within minutes of being turned on.

[xerodok]

But the message says its the driver failing not the device. And if I do a fresh install of the drivers it runs for a few hours sometimes a day but then the next day itll fail within minutes of being turned on.

Try it regardless.

[CoronA1979]

Yah, try a different PCI-E slot

[Byrthnoth]

I may be getting a similar error but with an entirely different setup:
Windows 7, 64-bit (i5s)
GeForce 310M (laptop edition)

"Display driver NVIDIA Windows Kernel Mode Driver, Version 189.90 stopped responding and has successfully recovered"
* It backscreens, kills FFXI, and "recovers."

Obvious first step is to google the problem, which has led me to a variety of difficult-sounding possibilities. Everyone suggests installing the most recent driver (except those who recommend installing old drivers), but when I download the newest GeForce 310M driver from the Nvidia site (Windows 7 64-bit edition) it tells me that it's incompatible with my computer somehow.

[brent]

Tried a different pcie problem still persists also blew out the other one. still doing the same shit. Ive found some threads saying windows 64 and alot of the Ati software is unstable. Seems like a semi common problem but still scant find a fix ;;.