Attention HD5970 owners

[Scaniris]

To be honnest most (all) of the lockups issues disapeared after driver update with version 9.12. I did not reproduce lockups... but I've tested only one day with new driver. And what's reallystrange ist that some lockups occured after block installation, not before... but maybe before I didn't use the card with same apps or during same 3D load. I don't know.

Something else: I NEVER had any problem with Furmark... after many hours of stability test. Seems to be higher on my PCB but I prefer to make sure and ask him to double check.

And last thing: if this component is critical, why don't we have any monitoring of it? I mean if this component was critical and subject to high temps, ATI would have probably put a sensor on it? I don't know ... maybe?

But anyway this is really important that people know that it MAY happen to them. And check component high during block installation. And what's the workaround to fix it.

You know when I received my GTX285 PCB Rev 2 waterblock... I first had a look on forum to have feed back about the mounting. And on the XS forum I saw a thread talking about bad contacts at the end of the waterblock between VRM and block, because the PCB was bended even if using the spacers. As I saw this BEFORE mounting the waterblock, I applied the workaround proposed by people on XS and it was perfectly working, I didn't have to do it later. Great to have people sharing this kind of information. Very helpful for beginners like me.