I keep booting up with a black screen with a XFX HD 7950

thefatz

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I just got this card and when I put it in my PC and turned it on I always get a black screen when it boots up, but if I turn my screen off and on it works fine after that. But if I turn off my PC or reboot, I always get the black screen again.

I have updated my BIOS and took the card out and put it back in and I always get the black screen when I boot up my PC and the only way to fix it is to turn my screen off and on.

Also I have only one PCIe slot.
 
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I think you have one of the monitors that AMD cards don't like, I feel your pain as I'm in a similar position as my 7790 GSOD's randomly as well if I turn the monitor off and it has done it when the monitor is on. If you Google it there is of lot of mention of ULPS being the cause but there doesn't seem to be a sure fire fix.
I think you have one of the monitors that AMD cards don't like, I feel your pain as I'm in a similar position as my 7790 GSOD's randomly as well if I turn the monitor off and it has done it when the monitor is on. If you Google it there is of lot of mention of ULPS being the cause but there doesn't seem to be a sure fire fix.
 
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thefatz

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Damn I guess I have to take it back to fry's and buy a GTX 760, and I was hoping to get away from nvidia, guess I'm stuck with them and there crappy drivers for good, what a joke.
 

thefatz

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I have had some with my old 560 ti, I think the drivers may have kill the card even, but I think it was just MSI junky stuff. You think if I get a EVGA or PHY GTX 760 I well have no driver issues, because I think it was just the older cards that had them?
 
I had 560Ti's in SLi but they died due to a fan failure induced fire not a driver issue so I can't really comment on the drivers being better or worse for the newer cards. I'm not a fan of the 760 though because it's just a OEM 660 non Ti that's had a couple of tweaks and for what I use a card for it's weaker than a 660Ti due to having less cores.
 

thefatz

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One last thing on this, would turning off ULPS in regedit do anything for me if I am only using one card? I don't want to fool with it if it's not going to fix my screen not booting up on startup and maybe it will mess something up.