electrobeatz Posted May 1, 2015 Share Posted May 1, 2015 hello my friends!i have this m18x laptop with two 7970m's. verything was normal i was browsing web. then i wanted to play some games, so i started a game.. and got a freeze. i restarted, windows logo popped up... freeze.after that i went to safety mode, and uninstalled intel graphics and amd graphics drivers with a tool. reinstalled again, starting from intel graphics drivers, i got past windows logo. but after a few seconds on desktop.. blue screen.after a few times of reinstall with different drivers and a bunch of blue screens like: MEMORY_MANAGEMENT, SYSTEM_SERVICE_EXCEPTION and PAGE_FAULT_IN_NONPAGED_AREA i tried switching off 1 graphics card at a time..well it worked and after switching that card back i now get a black screen all the time.. no blue screens anymore. obviously i got a faulty cardso my questions are: has anybody experienced the same issue as me and what did you guys do at this point? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zeuxlarsson Posted May 3, 2015 Share Posted May 3, 2015 hello my friends!i have this m18x laptop with two 7970m's. verything was normal i was browsing web. then i wanted to play some games, so i started a game.. and got a freeze. i restarted, windows logo popped up... freeze.after that i went to safety mode, and uninstalled intel graphics and amd graphics drivers with a tool. reinstalled again, starting from intel graphics drivers, i got past windows logo. but after a few seconds on desktop.. blue screen.after a few times of reinstall with different drivers and a bunch of blue screens like: MEMORY_MANAGEMENT, SYSTEM_SERVICE_EXCEPTION and PAGE_FAULT_IN_NONPAGED_AREA i tried switching off 1 graphics card at a time..well it worked and after switching that card back i now get a black screen all the time.. no blue screens anymore. obviously i got a faulty cardso my questions are: has anybody experienced the same issue as me and what did you guys do at this point?Black/Blue screens may often be caused by bad drivers aswell but your error messenge isnt encouraging. You probably got a fault card yes. The question is, did you overlock it in any way? The 7970-cards are quite resilient but you could always get unlucky. My dual 7970-card setup had one of the cards die a year after purchase (heavy overclock, vBIOS/Voltage-mod etc) and the 2nd card died another year after that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
electrobeatz Posted May 8, 2015 Author Share Posted May 8, 2015 so for anyone who is going to find this thread and wondering what happened: i work as a "systems informatics technician" (systeminformatiker auf deutsch) so we got this machine at work called "ersa PL550" and what i basically did was putting some soldering flux at the sides of the processing unit of the 7970 and reflowed it with the ersa machine slowly rising to 235°C. the card is working FOR NOW, lets hope it will work a little longer Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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