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GPU Crashing Under Load (R9 280X)

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June 17, 2014 3:32:53 AM

Hi,

my PC has excellent airflow and temps are real good. CPU 30c idle and and GPU around 40c idle, at load gpu reaches 82c and then crashes.

It only crashes once it reaches 82c on furmark, or around 80c. Never crashes from 40-78c though.

It's the MSI R9 280X 3G gaming graphics card.

I have a small bent pin on the DVI and have bought another DVI and another HDMI cable to test, as I remembner once the previous cable did snap and might have actually ruined the output... but not too sure.

Under load it crashes to a solid colour or a solid colour with horizontal/vertical stripes.


I want to know if i can boot my PC on one of my mechanical drives by partitioning around 20GB of a mechanical drive and installing windows 7 and a game or something on that partition, that way I can always have a 'test' drive. I currently run an SSD with 2x 3tb hard drives, boot from SSD and so don't want to mess with my current setup because I can never get firefox to remember bookmarks and return to the way it was before windows reinstall.

My specs:
AX850 PSU
16GB Corsair Vengeance
R9 280X
i5 4670K

Driver: 14.4 non beta. Tried latest 14.9 beta and 13.11 and so forth, drivers dont affect problem but do reduce crash times by a few seconds i think.

I dont crash under little strain games eg company of heroes or other games, and dont even crash in far cry 3 for some reason but under many games i definetly crash after 5mins eg bf4, gta etc.

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a c 389 à CPUs
June 17, 2014 3:36:01 AM

Can you try another card in your pc or your card in another pc?

How are you measuring temps?

Is it overclocked?
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June 17, 2014 3:44:46 AM

HWMonitor & Speedfan & MSI Afterburner. I just record idle and furmark temp before crash.

Non oc'd, 1050 & 1500. I'll reduce to 1020/1500 though but I mean my card should go to 1150/1500 for god sake.

I have thought about trying another card but I cannot. I can try integrated if you believe that will work? I'm sure the i5 has an integrated GPU.

nvm idl;e gpu temps are 33c not 40c


update: underclocking to 980/1500 worked much better as it took a bit longer to reach the temps of 83c but as soon as it hit 83c, exactly as soon as it did mega artifacts occured for two seconds following solid colour and then I had to restart.
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a c 389 à CPUs
June 17, 2014 4:10:28 AM

Not integrated. I thought of testing through pcie.

Whats your cpu doing? Is this a dual bios mobo?
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June 17, 2014 4:24:50 AM

yea ofc ths is a gigabyte something or other. z87-d3hp i think. my cpu is excellently cool, running off an alpenfohn k2 mount doom so probably one of the best air coolers.

i can borrow my friends nvidia gt640. but otherwise i think other cards do work tbh. is MSI a good company to RMA is the support good?
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a c 389 à CPUs
June 17, 2014 4:30:42 AM

Depend where you are and how friendly your store is.

cpu GHz? Its just I found similar where the cpu was bottlenecking the gpu which made it overheat. The cpu was throttled back because the wrong bios was loaded.
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June 17, 2014 4:37:32 AM

hmm that sounds like an interesting scenario.

my cpus on stock but ocs to around 4.4ghz with good temps, its a pretty bad cpu tbh as vcore runs higher than most to get a decent clock speed.

Do you recommend overclocking the CPU then?
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a c 389 à CPUs
June 17, 2014 4:41:44 AM

No its running Ok from what you told me.

Looks like you have to rma the card though.
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June 17, 2014 5:13:56 AM

thats a damn shame. ok well thanks anyway.
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August 7, 2014 5:47:04 PM


Have the same card MSi R9 280X 3G. Boot no probs, only have probs while gaming. I seem to have resolved my crash/blackscreen issues ( so far....)

Open CCC - Video - Color -switch to "Use AMD Settings" - "Presets" to Standard
Under title " We suggest " Properties Digital Flat Panel" UNCHECK " Enable ITC processing" and apply.

NEXT - Afterburner - properties - General - Compatibility Properties - SWITCH from "User mode" to "Kernel Mode" OK

Related Info: Driver 13.200.0.0 Catalyst 13.10

If this help ur obligated to pay it forward or the GPU gods will strike
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less than a minute ago

Ok Listen Up.
I searched for a VERY long time for a fix to this problem.
Basically its NOT the graphic card at all.
I replaced my graphic card with a completely new one of the same model (R9 280X)
I even replaced my RAM just to check if that would work.
The problem is to do with the OS, look IDK why but it is.
I rolled back drivers with no success, I changed hardware with no success.
The problem lies in the OS.
So if you re install Windows 7 (Put old files on a external HDD), then install all old driver as per usual. I GUARANTEE a 100% Fix.
Please reply to this.

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