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December 13, 2013 10:44:03 AM

I just get a black screen after the windows-logo.

my specs:
Mobo: Gigabyte GA-Z87-HD3
GPU: Gigabyte Radeon R9 290
CPU: Intel i5-4670k
RAM: A-DATA 8gb (2x4gb)
PSU: be quiet! 600W 80+ Gold
HDD: 1TB Seagate desktop SSHD

I did send in the GPU and there's no hardware error in it. I've tried reinstalling windows 7, downloading all updates, installing all mobo-updates, flashing the BIOS, using Display Driver Uninstaller before retrying to install the GPU-drivers. But whatever I do i still get that damn black screen after installing the GPU-drivers.

The latest thing I tried was disabling the onboard graphics in BIOS, this will also make windows not start. So I'm guessing that windows 7 is using onboard graphics through my r9 290? Or maybe it believes that the r9 290 is the onboard gpu? I don't know, I have huge gaps in my knowledge about computers. Anyone know what I should do next?

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December 13, 2013 10:49:40 AM

What drivers have you tried ?
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December 13, 2013 10:54:19 AM

The latest drivers from the AMD website and the ones I could find on gigabytes webpage specifically under my graphics card. And I did make sure that I chose the drivers for Windows 7 64-bit.
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December 14, 2013 5:07:53 AM

No one who knows what I could do?
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December 16, 2013 9:07:30 AM

Did you do a driver sweep to make sure there was no drivers left over and try installing AMD CCC 13.11 Beta 9.2 instead of 9.5
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December 21, 2013 10:48:51 AM

same issues, but with R9 270x instead.
Tried with beta9.2, beta9.5, 13.101, none works.
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December 24, 2013 4:57:06 AM

I'm having this exact same problem on a bran new lowercolor 290 on a fresh windows install. PC worked fine until I installed the lastest driver.

Any fixes?
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December 28, 2013 1:03:38 AM

To the guys having Black screens. Uninstall your current drivers and use Display Driver Uninstaller to clean the remaining off then install AMD CCC 13.12
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December 30, 2013 7:27:22 AM

gamerkila57 said:
To the guys having Black screens. Uninstall your current drivers and use Display Driver Uninstaller to clean the remaining off then install AMD CCC 13.12

Thx for the help, this seems to fix this ongoing problem!!! But what helped me in the end was NOT to use AMD Catalyst Uninstaller before but ONLY using the Display Driver Uninstaller.

Update: still some black screen crashes, but only early in gaming like within 15-30 minutes. In long gaming sessions when the GPU fan is constantly blowing at 50-57% no crashes yet. Read some posts that referred to a GPU memory heat issue, what can explain the early gaming crash when GPU, CPU and Case fans are not at full speed yet.

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January 7, 2014 10:22:40 AM

Been having same problem with 280x. Found a fix. Go to safe mode. Then msconfig. Under services disable AMD fuel and AMD external something. Reboot to normal after doing that.
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January 17, 2014 6:22:30 AM

Hello there guys. I had the same problem for years. BUT i found something to fix it WITHOUT unistalling the CCC . Follow me carefully step by step! First of all my aplogize mine is in Dutch.

So first open up the CCC by rightclicking on your desktop and click on AMD Cataclyst Control Center.



Click on "preferences". Its on the right top corner.

Now select advanced view.

youre panel should now look like this.




On the left click on video and select color. And there you have the tricky thing. Its probably checked on Default which make everything just a black screen for some reason. All you have to do is select one of the other choises like i did on the picture.




All you have to do now is save your settings again :) .


I didnt register so i would be happy if you just say thnx in comments if it worked ofc.


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January 21, 2014 3:25:03 PM

I have internet cafe with Radeon 260, 270, 270X. The same problem with all new Radeon R7/R9 cards. Nothing can halp me.
The only idea is to wait for new drivers.
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January 23, 2014 10:39:20 AM

Sergey Novak. Please check the post above you. It helped me. I hope you can do something with it.
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January 29, 2014 2:44:08 AM

gamerkila57 said:
To the guys having Black screens. Uninstall your current drivers and use Display Driver Uninstaller to clean the remaining off then install AMD CCC 13.12


This got me past the black screen and freeze immediately after logging into windows.
Have a new R9 280.

Still getting crash and freeze when playing games after a few minutes.
Using the Gigabyte GURU app, have determined it appears to crash when the GPU temp hits about 78 degrees C.
My work around at the moment is manual fan control, which is a little more agressive than the auto fan control.
This is working so far with 3DMark where I've been testing.

Edit: correction. After a few more crashes, I was running the Firestorm demo in 3DMark, and the system froze. Now windows won't boot, and I've discovered graphical glitches in the bios menu, that weren't present with the old video card.
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February 14, 2014 12:19:05 AM

I have this problem as well. Brand new MSI R9 290 Gaming 4G. After driver install, I get a black screen after the windows logo comes up during boot. I've tried the beta 14.1 and 13.12 drivers. They both do the same thing. Even did a OS reinstall both times.

Anyone got a fix?
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February 14, 2014 12:43:07 AM

Following on from issues above, I returned the Gigabyte R9 290 to the shop and got it replaced. (They tested it in front of me, and issued an RMA on the spot. Got to love Scorptec)
The replacement card has had no blackscreen issues, or system freezes. The System bios is back to normal too.
I did have a few BSOD's, but the system seems to have stabilized since. Only running 13.12 drivers, without the control center UI.
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February 14, 2014 1:15:22 AM

midspace said:
Following on from issues above, I returned the Gigabyte R9 290 to the shop and got it replaced. (They tested it in front of me, and issued an RMA on the spot. Got to love Scorptec)
The replacement card has had no blackscreen issues, or system freezes. The System bios is back to normal too.
I did have a few BSOD's, but the system seems to have stabilized since. Only running 13.12 drivers, without the control center UI.


Thanks a lot for the reply. I've literally done almost everything I can think of and the remedies online and I guess I'm going to exchange the card as well. The only problem is that they're out of stock and I've been waiting forever for this :( . The wait continues then...
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March 19, 2014 10:15:01 PM

jumpmanxt said:
I have this problem as well. Brand new MSI R9 290 Gaming 4G. After driver install, I get a black screen after the windows logo comes up during boot. I've tried the beta 14.1 and 13.12 drivers. They both do the same thing. Even did a OS reinstall both times.

Anyone got a fix?


Go to Device Manger, display adapters, back click videos card, update, browse my computer, Let me pick, click on the msi r9 290 series, click next. It applies the driver throw windows.

I'm running win 8.1 and I have an Asus 290x CU2OC
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June 18, 2014 10:26:16 AM

Greetings. I also had a similar issue with my r9 290. I've just found the solution which worked for me. I hope it will save someone a lot of hassle like I had :) 

symptoms:
Screen goes in to no signal mode after latest amd driver is installed (catalyst 14.4, 14.6 beta). This also happens after system is rebooted back to Windows.

about the issue:
I am certain that my problem was not caused by hardware failure because I never experienced this problem before I installed catalyst 14.4 stable or 14.6 beta. AMD says that this issue was caused by AHCI driver which they've removed However in my case this did not help. I was able to revert the system back to 13.12 by booting in to safe mode removing the 14.4. Form there my gpu was working perfectly like it was before. Well that might be ok for somebody but not for me i was slightly annoyed with 500 euro GPU running on outdated driver so tried remoting on to my system using a team viewer and i found out that the resolution is locked to 640*480 which gave me the conclusion something was wrong with the catalyst control centre

my specs:
mobo: Gigabite 970A DS3
GPU: Sapphire R9 290
CPU : AMD FX Vishera 6350
RAM: 8gb 2*4gb
PSU: OCZ ZS series 750W
OS: Win 8.1 64

my resolution:

    Uninstall amd drivers using the Display Driver Uninstaller program in safe mode.


    start the driver installation and under installation type go for custom



    Install just the driver. some options are mandatory dont worry about those. After the installation is done reboot



    Now install remaining items except for catalyst control center. as per screen shot. again don't worry about mandatory stuff. after the installation is done reboot again



    install catalyst control center it should work fine ....


I hope this will help
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June 30, 2014 2:29:26 PM

Hi there.

I just got my brand new Graphic Card r9 920 windforce and havet the same problem.. nothing can help me. I think that this whole serie is just messed up and this problem should be more loud becouse people should know what do they buy. I hope that i could bring it back and buy nvdidia geforce gtx 780. this was always the best choice but radeon had better score in benchmarks or games test than nvidia.

anyway, in my opinion radeon isnt worth its price. 1500 zl (~$500) for graphic card which dont even work ? are you kidding me ?
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June 30, 2014 9:31:18 PM

Hey there,

I too have this problem, bought R9 290 Tri-X OC few months ago and found out that installing 14.X drivers are pain the arse. Either it shows me black screen after Windows logo or it'll just straight giving me the black face in the middle of installation. So far 13.12 is the sweet spot for me now.. just hoping that AMD solves this problem as soon as possible or I'll just jump back to the greens on my next card.

P/S: I'm not good at English
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July 7, 2014 10:54:16 PM

Hi,
Got this problem and this is what works for me:
Unmount the GPU completely and remove it from the case, then mount it back. I know it sound ridiculous but after I reinstall the card it boot with no problem. I didnt have to reinstall the driver because it was already installed.
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July 8, 2014 2:37:06 AM

Xxela said:
Hi,
Got this problem and this is what works for me:
Unmount the GPU completely and remove it from the case, then mount it back. I know it sound ridiculous but after I reinstall the card it boot with no problem. I didnt have to reinstall the driver because it was already installed.


Glad to hear that you're able to bypass the black screen issue. Unfortunately for me, the card I'm using now are forever plague with the black screen issue, black screen after Windows logo is one thing but black screen in a middle of the installation? That's a paddlin..

Anyway.. gonna send it back for RMA by the end of this month. Hope that I can get a Vapor-X edition as replacement due to Tri-X stock were cut off or something. *finger-cross*
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July 10, 2014 2:08:07 AM

jumpmanxt said:
I have this problem as well. Brand new MSI R9 290 Gaming 4G. After driver install, I get a black screen after the windows logo comes up during boot. I've tried the beta 14.1 and 13.12 drivers. They both do the same thing. Even did a OS reinstall both times.

Anyone got a fix?


I have the same exact card with the same exact issue, I have not get rid of the problem yet, but a temporary fix is replugging HDMI cable, then black screen should disappear.
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July 17, 2014 1:06:09 PM

Having the same problem

I just got from XFX R9 280X Black OC Edition, since my 7970 Black Edition was dead, they gave me the new GPU. So I am running windows 8.1 fully up to date, and before I installed the new card, I removed the old drivers, and shut down the unit put the new one in, with new drivers.

So now, when I play "World of Tanks" or a other game, when I get right into it, Black Screen. But dropping from MAX settings to High, I lasted 5 mins, so a bit longer.

Someone told me, look at "EventViewer" and few of them are saying Kernel-PNP, Kernel-power Service control manager, Application error, DistributedCOM, Have no idea what most of it means. I just had no problems intill I put this new damn card. Would a format fixs it? still not sure what's going on but I left it over night watching blu-ray movies and came back 10 hours later, works fine.

Never has this problem with my 7970 at all. but here is my rig

CPU: FX 8350
MB: Sabertooth 990FX 1st gen (BIOS fully up to date)
RAM: G.Skills 2 sticks 4GB each and at 1600 but low volt
SSD: Samsung 128Gb Pro
HDD: 1TB WD Black
PSU Corsair AX850 Gold
Networking Card: Killer 2100
SoundBlaster Card: ZX
CPU Cooler: Corsair H80i liquid cooling
Antec 1200 Case with 5 120mm LED fans and one 200mm with LCD fan contorler.

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August 9, 2014 3:43:22 AM

Exactly same problem with r9 270x. Only thing is nothing's seems to be working . I tries 13.12version too...guys please help
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August 9, 2014 2:46:05 PM

If anyone's having issues with black screen crashes, I've found a fix that seems to work pretty well for me.
First of all I have a Powercolor R9 290x and Im using AMDS 13.12 drivers because the latest drivers give me a lot of issues.
I installed just the display drivers and then installed MSI Afterburner.

It seems that the black screen crashes are caused by the memory overheating as far as I can see from reading around.
This however only happens to cards that happen to have Elpida memory on them. Cards with Hynix memory seems to work fine under heavy load.

To determine if whether you have Elpida or Hynix memory, download MemoryInfo 1005: http://www.mediafire.com/download/voj4j1rlk0ucfz4/Memor...

Anyway once you have MSI Afterburner installed you'll see that the r9 290x's memory runs stock at 1250Mhz and unfortunately you're gonna have to downclock that down to 1000-1080Mhz, make sure the fan speed is at least at 55% and I've also upped the power limit by 25% just to be safe.



Make sure you save those settings as a profile and you apply them every time you start up windows, or else your memory will overheat and you'll get a black screen.

One last thing I did just to be safe is that I plugged two separate PCEI cables into my GPU instead of just one to make sure the video card gets as much power from the 12v rails on my PSU. Doing this is optional and I don't guarantee it will help.

Here are my full system specs in case anyone is wondering:

AMD FX-8150 OC'ed @ 4.0GHz
16gb of Corsair XMS3 1600MHz RAM
R9 290x 4GB DDR5 RAM
Corsair RM850 PSU
ASUS M5A97 Motherboard
1x Kingston 120gb SSD
1x 250gb Seagate HDD
1x 500gb Seagate HDD
1x 1TB Western Digital HDD
1x 3TB Western Digital HDD
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August 11, 2014 8:58:07 PM

qintinator said:
Hello there guys. I had the same problem for years. BUT i found something to fix it WITHOUT unistalling the CCC . Follow me carefully step by step! First of all my aplogize mine is in Dutch.

So first open up the CCC by rightclicking on your desktop and click on AMD Cataclyst Control Center.



Click on "preferences". Its on the right top corner.

Now select advanced view.

youre panel should now look like this.




On the left click on video and select color. And there you have the tricky thing. Its probably checked on Default which make everything just a black screen for some reason. All you have to do is select one of the other choises like i did on the picture.




All you have to do now is save your settings again :) .


I didnt register so i would be happy if you just say thnx in comments if it worked ofc.




I have an XFX R9 280X with 3GB DDR5 double dissipation and I've been experiencing the same issues OP is having after installing the AMD display drivers. I would try this method but I don't see how it's possible if you've already installed the driver.

EDIT: I'm an idiot, I realized you could just download the Catalyst package and do a custom install without the display driver.
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August 13, 2014 9:27:58 AM

had the same problem with r 270x. sounds silly..but all i did was take out the card, place it firmly in the slot..even after the lock..just press it a little more. turned on and voila. black screen gone. but found another issue "grey screen"..that happened when i tried to open any application..even chrome. so..the card was faulty i believe. waiting for r9 280 now. but black screen was gone.. so try this guys.
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August 13, 2014 3:48:23 PM

harry92008 said:
had the same problem with r 270x. sounds silly..but all i did was take out the card, place it firmly in the slot..even after the lock..just press it a little more. turned on and voila. black screen gone. but found another issue "grey screen"..that happened when i tried to open any application..even chrome. so..the card was faulty i believe. waiting for r9 280 now. but black screen was gone.. so try this guys.


Will do. I'm at a wit's end.
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August 17, 2014 6:42:47 PM

i have found a permanent solution to this problem , what i did was tore out the crappy amd product and returned it and instead purchased a 780ti

now my video issues are all flawless
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August 30, 2014 11:55:39 AM

Having blackscreen issues here too. I also had problems of not being able to wake my LCD from sleep Im not sure if I fixed this (I already RMA'd the GPU, the one before also couldn't wake the screen up, and had a bad fan bearing thats why I RMA'd it). It's a really random problem. R9 270 OC 2GB Gigabyte Windforce in question.

First I had 2 black screens on The Crew, then I played some Minecraft (with some shaders) and got a black screen again, but that time with barely visible vertical lines (the music and game sound was still playing normaly and the fans didn't go crazy). Then I rebooted and tried to run FurMark, which gave me the Black Screen. Reboot again, run some other game > black screen 10 sec later AND reboot again.
Now everything works fine. Gonna try reinstalling drivers. I run Elpdia memory.

yukapuka said:
i have found a permanent solution to this problem , what i did was tore out the crappy amd product and returned it and instead purchased a 780ti

now my video issues are all flawless


And this will probably be my solution as well! I used Nvidia for years prior to this and never had problems.
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September 6, 2014 5:38:06 PM

hanouch said:
Greetings. I also had a similar issue with my r9 290. I've just found the solution which worked for me. I hope it will save someone a lot of hassle like I had :) 

symptoms:
Screen goes in to no signal mode after latest amd driver is installed (catalyst 14.4, 14.6 beta). This also happens after system is rebooted back to Windows.

about the issue:
I am certain that my problem was not caused by hardware failure because I never experienced this problem before I installed catalyst 14.4 stable or 14.6 beta. AMD says that this issue was caused by AHCI driver which they've removed However in my case this did not help. I was able to revert the system back to 13.12 by booting in to safe mode removing the 14.4. Form there my gpu was working perfectly like it was before. Well that might be ok for somebody but not for me i was slightly annoyed with 500 euro GPU running on outdated driver so tried remoting on to my system using a team viewer and i found out that the resolution is locked to 640*480 which gave me the conclusion something was wrong with the catalyst control centre

my specs:
mobo: Gigabite 970A DS3
GPU: Sapphire R9 290
CPU : AMD FX Vishera 6350
RAM: 8gb 2*4gb
PSU: OCZ ZS series 750W
OS: Win 8.1 64

my resolution:

    Uninstall amd drivers using the Display Driver Uninstaller program in safe mode.


    start the driver installation and under installation type go for custom



    Install just the driver. some options are mandatory dont worry about those. After the installation is done reboot



    Now install remaining items except for catalyst control center. as per screen shot. again don't worry about mandatory stuff. after the installation is done reboot again



    install catalyst control center it should work fine ....


I hope this will help

I can confirm that I've had this same problem, and after trying everything else in this thread, following the exact instructions in this post solved it for me - i.e.: Complete cleanup in safe mode with driver uninstaller, install 14.4 driver only, reboot, install everything but CCC, reboot, install CCC.

As for everyone else, this only pertains to the problem of a completely black screen immediately after the Windows logo during startup. If you're getting black screens in games or benchmarking it's something completely different and nothing to do with this, so this will probably not help. Random black screens after you get into Windows or in games is something I've seen happen frequently in any kind of DisplayPort setup. It happens with Intel cards, with NVidia cards, and with AMD cards, with a dozen different types of monitors too - it's just a common thing with displayport. Either that or a hardware fault and not an issue with the driver.

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September 8, 2014 9:59:56 PM

Uninstalling the drivers and reapplying them works for a bit but the problem comes back a few boots later.
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September 17, 2014 9:32:48 AM

Guys i had the same problem with an hd7000 amd driver. I did everything and the thing that worked for me when i got the black screen on the monitor after the windows logo i change me hd cable to the motherboard, still said no signal then changed it back to one of the hdmi ports in my graphic card and there it was! my monitor had signal
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September 19, 2014 9:20:16 AM

If no one has researched, the r9 270x. 280x and 290x are all having black screen problems amd during gamellay within 5 to 15mins. I dummo whether its a temp thing where the fans are.not full speed yet or.not but I was talking to a gigabyte tech and he was saying that the cards are pretty much having a physical malfunction. Its on the design whether its the factory OC or not im not sure but its not software or driver related from what iv been told. Just do a little research, its not just the one brand its all brands (asus, gigabyte, msi ect.) Currently nvidia chips ate yhe only reliable chips that are stable. EVGA Gtx 770 dual SC w/ ACX cooler 4gb is my choice its got the 4gb of vram for heavy vram sucking games like heavy modded skyrim ultra 1080p, can play watchdogs ultra 1080p at.like 45-55fps average (don't quote me) can play bf4 on ultra woth good fps too. Just check some of the youtube vids with peolle with fraps and have a.look aroundm or go the 780 or 780ti 3gb if you dont want the 4gb cos 3 is plenty with most modern games but personally im going to get the 4gb. I had a 290x oc gigabyte and ive rma'd it for cash refund to buy another card amd I had the black screems.problems til the vard.must have burnt out on me and then would not boot after my mobo logo at boot, it would.just start insanely spinning the gpu fans.full speed amd very noisy and nothing else, no boot just black screen. So went into safe mode and unstalled the display driver amd then rebooted amd it wad running on 16mb of vram hahah pitiful. But at least I could browse the net whilst looking fot a fix til I realised there really is none. Aorry to be the bearer of bad news but amd are losing thier game if only these 3 chips didnt have the black screens they would still be up with competing with nvidia
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September 29, 2014 1:14:46 AM

matthewleigh21 said:
If no one has researched, the r9 270x. 280x and 290x are all having black screen problems amd during gamellay within 5 to 15mins. I dummo whether its a temp thing where the fans are.not full speed yet or.not but I was talking to a gigabyte tech and he was saying that the cards are pretty much having a physical malfunction. Its on the design whether its the factory OC or not im not sure but its not software or driver related from what iv been told. Just do a little research, its not just the one brand its all brands (asus, gigabyte, msi ect.) Currently nvidia chips ate yhe only reliable chips that are stable. EVGA Gtx 770 dual SC w/ ACX cooler 4gb is my choice its got the 4gb of vram for heavy vram sucking games like heavy modded skyrim ultra 1080p, can play watchdogs ultra 1080p at.like 45-55fps average (don't quote me) can play bf4 on ultra woth good fps too. Just check some of the youtube vids with peolle with fraps and have a.look aroundm or go the 780 or 780ti 3gb if you dont want the 4gb cos 3 is plenty with most modern games but personally im going to get the 4gb. I had a 290x oc gigabyte and ive rma'd it for cash refund to buy another card amd I had the black screems.problems til the vard.must have burnt out on me and then would not boot after my mobo logo at boot, it would.just start insanely spinning the gpu fans.full speed amd very noisy and nothing else, no boot just black screen. So went into safe mode and unstalled the display driver amd then rebooted amd it wad running on 16mb of vram hahah pitiful. But at least I could browse the net whilst looking fot a fix til I realised there really is none. Aorry to be the bearer of bad news but amd are losing thier game if only these 3 chips didnt have the black screens they would still be up with competing with nvidia


So your point is: r9 270x 280x 290x is bad, do not buy them.
If that's simple, why do you babbling so many words that made a lot of people got the headache?
Please do differentiate posting in a forum and chatting, as in chatting you can say anything you wanna say without any proper grammar.

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October 5, 2014 11:36:56 PM

subZEROx264 said:
matthewleigh21 said:
If no one has researched, the r9 270x. 280x and 290x are all having black screen problems amd during gamellay within 5 to 15mins. I dummo whether its a temp thing where the fans are.not full speed yet or.not but I was talking to a gigabyte tech and he was saying that the cards are pretty much having a physical malfunction. Its on the design whether its the factory OC or not im not sure but its not software or driver related from what iv been told. Just do a little research, its not just the one brand its all brands (asus, gigabyte, msi ect.) Currently nvidia chips ate yhe only reliable chips that are stable. EVGA Gtx 770 dual SC w/ ACX cooler 4gb is my choice its got the 4gb of vram for heavy vram sucking games like heavy modded skyrim ultra 1080p, can play watchdogs ultra 1080p at.like 45-55fps average (don't quote me) can play bf4 on ultra woth good fps too. Just check some of the youtube vids with peolle with fraps and have a.look aroundm or go the 780 or 780ti 3gb if you dont want the 4gb cos 3 is plenty with most modern games but personally im going to get the 4gb. I had a 290x oc gigabyte and ive rma'd it for cash refund to buy another card amd I had the black screems.problems til the vard.must have burnt out on me and then would not boot after my mobo logo at boot, it would.just start insanely spinning the gpu fans.full speed amd very noisy and nothing else, no boot just black screen. So went into safe mode and unstalled the display driver amd then rebooted amd it wad running on 16mb of vram hahah pitiful. But at least I could browse the net whilst looking fot a fix til I realised there really is none. Aorry to be the bearer of bad news but amd are losing thier game if only these 3 chips didnt have the black screens they would still be up with competing with nvidia


So your point is: r9 270x 280x 290x is bad, do not buy them.
If that's simple, why do you babbling so many words that made a lot of people got the headache?
Please do differentiate posting in a forum and chatting, as in chatting you can say anything you wanna say without any proper grammar.



I am really not sure if your bad grammar is ironic or if you don't know proper grammar. If you can't use proper English yourself it would be best if you don't correct other people's.
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October 6, 2014 2:21:50 AM

rishiswaz said:
subZEROx264 said:
matthewleigh21 said:
If no one has researched, the r9 270x. 280x and 290x are all having black screen problems amd during gamellay within 5 to 15mins. I dummo whether its a temp thing where the fans are.not full speed yet or.not but I was talking to a gigabyte tech and he was saying that the cards are pretty much having a physical malfunction. Its on the design whether its the factory OC or not im not sure but its not software or driver related from what iv been told. Just do a little research, its not just the one brand its all brands (asus, gigabyte, msi ect.) Currently nvidia chips ate yhe only reliable chips that are stable. EVGA Gtx 770 dual SC w/ ACX cooler 4gb is my choice its got the 4gb of vram for heavy vram sucking games like heavy modded skyrim ultra 1080p, can play watchdogs ultra 1080p at.like 45-55fps average (don't quote me) can play bf4 on ultra woth good fps too. Just check some of the youtube vids with peolle with fraps and have a.look aroundm or go the 780 or 780ti 3gb if you dont want the 4gb cos 3 is plenty with most modern games but personally im going to get the 4gb. I had a 290x oc gigabyte and ive rma'd it for cash refund to buy another card amd I had the black screems.problems til the vard.must have burnt out on me and then would not boot after my mobo logo at boot, it would.just start insanely spinning the gpu fans.full speed amd very noisy and nothing else, no boot just black screen. So went into safe mode and unstalled the display driver amd then rebooted amd it wad running on 16mb of vram hahah pitiful. But at least I could browse the net whilst looking fot a fix til I realised there really is none. Aorry to be the bearer of bad news but amd are losing thier game if only these 3 chips didnt have the black screens they would still be up with competing with nvidia


So your point is: r9 270x 280x 290x is bad, do not buy them.
If that's simple, why do you babbling so many words that made a lot of people got the headache?
Please do differentiate posting in a forum and chatting, as in chatting you can say anything you wanna say without any proper grammar.



I am really not sure if your bad grammar is ironic or if you don't know proper grammar. If you can't use proper English yourself it would be best if you don't correct other people's.


Okay, I sincerely apologize for my bad.
Please forgive me.

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October 6, 2014 9:30:04 AM

subZEROx264 said:

Okay, I sincerely apologize for my bad.
Please forgive me.



Let's keep this as constructive conversation. I am in the market for a 290 and if AMD fixed this with 14.9 WHQL it would be great otherwise I will wait for 3XX series. I can't find anything about the issue in the release notes, they don't even have it listed as a known problem in the 14.9 documentation.
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October 9, 2014 11:57:10 AM

I have 2 powercolor r9 290s in crossfire I purchased as part of a pc build about 2 months ago and have run into this same problem and after contacting both AMD and powercolor, updating my bios for cards and motherboard, using driver sweepers, doing multiple clean installs of Windows, along with all the other random things I found in forums nothing really solved this problem for me. The only half solution I have found was to roll back to 13.251 drivers but I have now noticed that even after this I am experiencing random restarts and have lost work because of it, so I tried another clean install of Windows with the old drivers and still was experiencing instability that is only seeming to get worse. I know when looking at this problem it seems like it is just a driver issue but I have a feeling it is actually a hardware defect exposed by the driver update...would explain why AMD has not even acknowledged this problem even with all the people suffering from it. Long story short I spent a boatload of money on these cards when I would be better off with a 150 dollar chrome book so I could actually do my work for grad school. I would steer clear of these cards, I was so feddup I bought a gtx 980 and am installing it today. I have owned both AMD and Nvidia and it is clear that AMD has serious issues with support and drivers compared to NVidia. Will NEVER buy an AMD product again because of this, lost so much money. Sorry for long post but I am super pissed and don't wanna see this happen to someone else
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October 9, 2014 12:10:17 PM

So if you are waiting for AMD to release an update to fix this problem I wouldn't hold your breath, Google this issue and you will find posts about this exact same issue that are almost a year old. I would have tried doing an rma but can't wait any longer without a working computer. It just really pisses me off this issue is not even acknowledged by AMD, that's the kicker. And before any AMD fanboys hate on my posts try spending over 2 grand on a computer and then also more money on a 4k tv to go along with it and then have to deal with this crap. I seriously spent probably 40 hours trying to troubleshoot this problem and finally just had it. I AM TELLING YOU DO NOT BUY AND R9 290 it is not worth the risk. To people stuck with this card and affected by this problem trust me I can sympathize with you and I would recommend you just get an rma because even if using old drivers fixes this issue why should you have to compromise on performance with an expensive card like this........Alright.....am done venting
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October 9, 2014 12:17:05 PM

I know. The 7XXX series cards are really getting old (relative to the pace of GPU releases). Without a decent replacement the 280X (7970) is still the most reliable card. I would just wait until 3XX series starting with 380X to look for a new card. The worst part is that not a single mention in the release notes
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October 13, 2014 6:57:43 PM

I have been pulling my hair too.
Went through the ordeal of making my system stable 3 months ago.
I was getting black screen on start up ( would see the the desktop for half a second and crash)
Managed to get my 2x R9 290 stable using Afterburner with 25mV offset and disabling ULPS.

I have now updated to Afterburner 4.00 and CCC 14.9 and it is turning to crap again.
The Afterburner trick doesn't work anymore, it seems that profile is applied to late in the startup procedure.
Funny thing is that if I start with both my 1080 TV on HDMi and my IPS 2440x1560 on DVI it doesn't crash.
Monitor only crashes every restart with CCC
I've managed to get a stable system by installing the 13.12 driver only (no CCC) but it's rubbish and I want to be able select games with ot without Crossfire ( Diablo3 with crossfire used to crash randomly)

My PC:
Windows 7
AsRock z77 extreme 4 with I5-3570k
16GB of corsair RAM
Samsung SSD for OS and main programs + HD
Seasonic 1000W platinum
H727 TV card
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October 14, 2014 6:15:52 PM

Issue seems to be fixed with Afterburner on startup: +25mV vcore and downclock Mem to 1250 (instead of 1300Mhz default).
ULPS is back on ( top GPU was running 62degC on idle without it, now back to a comfy 30)
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