MAJOR Emerging Issue with Radeon Cards

[Skeeterxi]

I have a 4870x2, the one with two gpu on one card. It BSODs on me and I can't figure out why for the life of me. Everything else in my system is fine. The blue screen I get is a page fault in non page area error, I thought it might be my ram going bad but its not. My temps are fine and my power supply is plenty. I've pretty much given up trying to pinpoint the problem, I can't even predict when its going to happen. I can go a couple days gaming and not have a bsod or I can have 3 or 4 in one day. I didn't bsod once with my system before getting this card. I had a gtx260 on lend for a couple months before the 4870x2 and it was fine.

I know one thing is for sure, I won't be buying ATI products again.

[Furtwangler]

Did you run memtest?
People don't seem to understand that one line/card may have particular issues, doesn't mean they all do, even in that line. NVidia has had their share of problems too. Compare what you just said to any other thing in life. If you got a bad component on delivery, would you RMA it and get another? or trash the brand and find something else?
Every company ships out bad eggs, its one thing if they do it consistently, but just because you got unlucky is no reason to slap the entire brand on the wrist with your ruler.

[Skeeterxi]

Did you run memtest?

Ya I did. I've pretty much ruled out everything but the card itself. I had a gtx260 for months before it and never had one bsod. I usually don't completely rule out a company for getting a bad egg but this isn't the first card I've had trouble with from them(old system). I've owned a couple generations of nvidia cards and they ran beautifully with no problems. Past two generations I've went with ATI because I was on a budget and they had better price to performance. When I get my degree and I'm out of school I aint gonna give shit, I'll over pay for nvidia.

[Amastacia]

And suddenly the urge to facepalm is overwhelming...

[Olo401]

Sigh.. requesting a lock on this thread because it's quickly becoming a q_q fest instead of a discussion about a now mostly-resolved driver issue.

I've used video cards from many different manufacturers over the years.. ATI, NVidia, even going back to Voodoo cards. You need to realize that the GPUs themselves are built to render graphics differently and therefore will not fault to the same things - which is why a lot of people had issues running FFXI with NVidia cards but not as much with ATI cards, for example. But the software is where the real issues are.. Every problem I came across was either a conflict with another program or the OS, or something involving the drivers (update, rollback, registry tweak, or your program doesn't like the settings you're using). Before you start falling into laziness and fanboyism, learn what affects your card in a bad way and what you can easily do to fix an issue.