4000/5000 series crashing fix (?)

[Chixofnix]

Hey all,

http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/ATI-Grey-Screen-Fix-5870,news-32676.html

As reported here (linked from frontpage indirectly this week), ATI has confirmed there are a lot of reports of difficult to trace crashing happening with the 4000/5000 series using Catalyst 10/10.1 drivers.

That link, and the lengthy attached comments, contain a wide variety of fixes that seem to be working for individuals.

I seem to have resolved the problem by switching from "unganged" to "ganged" RAM in my BIOS settings... a few mentioned this as having a link to the GPU instability - so far things have been rock solid ...

Anyone been contending with this?

[Niku-Sama]

i just installed a 5770 and started using 10.1 drivers and i dont have any problems, but there werent any older driver bits left over to contend with. but so far i havent had any problems with them.

guanged mode means its running 1 128 bit channel righT?

[netmask]

i just installed a 5770 and started using 10.1 drivers and i dont have any problems, but there werent any older driver bits left over to contend with. but so far i havent had any problems with them.

guanged mode means its running 1 128 bit channel righT?

ganged= 128 bit mode
unganged= 64 bit mode
sorta dual and single channel.

[Chixofnix]

Hrm my instability continues actually... could be anything as it's essentially an entirely new rig... :-/

Ganging seems to have helped in frequency... I really don't understand whether there is a logical link from RAM mode to the graphics card/drivers though... does that make sense at all?