If you pulled a dusty ATI Radeon HD 5850 from a drawer and started searching for a “cheap Windows 10 driver” to make it work, stop and read this first: the HD 5850 is a capable vintage card with clear, archived vendor support, but chasing bargain driver packages from third‑party “driver shops”...
I have a system that's acting strange. It's a new mobo, cpu, ddr3 & psu. It has a HD 5850 GPU & has been working great but over the last few weeks it's been randomly going blank. I could have the pc system on & then all of a sudden I get a black screen. No mouse cursor, no response from any...
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Just replaced a GeForce 9800GTX+ with an ATI HD5850. Dual boot XP x86 and Win 7x64. Monitor is a HannsG HH251 25" LCD. In Win 7 the screen is filled. In XP however the screen isn't (has black border all the way around about 1 inch). Resolution and refresh are set correctly (1920x1080 60Hz)...