I am currently having issues with my computer getting the Black Screen of Death after windows loads. I have done countless searches and googling to the end of the internet to fix my issue to no avail. I am wondering if one of my cards is bad, however I cannot get a good result and would like another input before I RMA it.
I recently bought 2 Sapphire R9 290x's and put them in my case. About a week or so after I did that, the drivers crashed while using it. No big deal, right? Wrong. I restarted my computer and it showed the window's logo and then where I am normally supposed to be able to log in, I get a black screen. No windows sounds, however my LED keyboard is light up.
I then go into safe-mode and uninstall drivers and run driver fusion/driver sweeper and CCleaner to make sure I cleaned everything up and boot up normally again. Windows works and it procedes to install normal VGA drivers and work fine. I then attempt to reinstall the AMD 13.12 drivers package from AMD's website. It would finish then needed to be restarted. I would do so and then boot up to the same black screen.
From here I was irritated and turned my computer off and walked away for a few hours. I come back and it boots up just fine, no issues. I run a quick stress test on Furmark with no issues. I then am browsing the web and it crashes again. I repeat what I did before only with the 13.11 Beta drivers from AMD's website and it boots fine after the install/restart.
After a day of constant use and playing BF4 it crashes again. This is where I start to wonder if it is hardware related. I start off making sure everything is seated fine by taking the cards out and placing them back in, however this did nothing. I then started to test each card. I put one in, and it booted fine, so then I tried the other card and it failed to start.
Dead card right? Nope. Again I waited a few hours and came back and it proceeded to boot normally and work.
I should also mentioned I turned off my OC on my cpu and booted with minimal components (mouse, keyboard, display)
There's moments in time where I hate technology.
Specs:
Asus Crosshair V Formula
AMD FX8150 OC 4.85GHz
2x Sapphire R9 290x
1000 watt Kingwin PSU
Please let me know if you have any questions or if anyone can help or if I did any of this wrong. Thanks for reading all this <3
I recently bought 2 Sapphire R9 290x's and put them in my case. About a week or so after I did that, the drivers crashed while using it. No big deal, right? Wrong. I restarted my computer and it showed the window's logo and then where I am normally supposed to be able to log in, I get a black screen. No windows sounds, however my LED keyboard is light up.
I then go into safe-mode and uninstall drivers and run driver fusion/driver sweeper and CCleaner to make sure I cleaned everything up and boot up normally again. Windows works and it procedes to install normal VGA drivers and work fine. I then attempt to reinstall the AMD 13.12 drivers package from AMD's website. It would finish then needed to be restarted. I would do so and then boot up to the same black screen.
From here I was irritated and turned my computer off and walked away for a few hours. I come back and it boots up just fine, no issues. I run a quick stress test on Furmark with no issues. I then am browsing the web and it crashes again. I repeat what I did before only with the 13.11 Beta drivers from AMD's website and it boots fine after the install/restart.
After a day of constant use and playing BF4 it crashes again. This is where I start to wonder if it is hardware related. I start off making sure everything is seated fine by taking the cards out and placing them back in, however this did nothing. I then started to test each card. I put one in, and it booted fine, so then I tried the other card and it failed to start.
Dead card right? Nope. Again I waited a few hours and came back and it proceeded to boot normally and work.
I should also mentioned I turned off my OC on my cpu and booted with minimal components (mouse, keyboard, display)
There's moments in time where I hate technology.
Specs:
Asus Crosshair V Formula
AMD FX8150 OC 4.85GHz
2x Sapphire R9 290x
1000 watt Kingwin PSU
Please let me know if you have any questions or if anyone can help or if I did any of this wrong. Thanks for reading all this <3
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