AMD video drivers not working for my Radeon R9 290

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fyucel789

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Whenever I play games, after 5-20 minutes into the game the screen would go blank (turn off) and the only thing I could do is restart the computer. I uninstalled my drivers and downloaded new ones from the AMD website. After that the screen started getting dots and lines and it was all messed up. I uninstalled the drivers and everything went back to normal (except I couldn't play games anymore). I even reinstalled Windows 7 (formatted everything) and got new drivers, but it still does not work.

Now I am just using my old video card (Radeon HD 7770 GHz) and it all works perfectly, except I can't play on the highest graphics for games like Battlefield 4.

By the way, a couple of weeks ago this video card worked perfectly fine and no problems or anything. I got this video card back in December and it worked fine until recently.

Anyone know what the problem is? Any way to fix it?

My specs:

AMD Phenom II X4 955 3.2GHz Quad Core Processor
Asus Crosshair III Formula AM3 ATX Motherboard
Corsair Vengeance 8GB DDR3-1600 Memory
Samsung 840 250GB SSD
Radeon R9 290 4GB 512-bit Video Card
Corsair TX850 850W Power Supply
Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit
 
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I had the same problem as this when i bought the r9 290 but i resolved this problem by placing the graphics card into a different card slot on my motherboard which proved to work perfectly and cooled the graphics card right down so i'd suggest doing this and hope it works for you
 
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Hi guys, I don't normally post on these forums, but after nearly a week of having the same issue and finally figuring out the problem on my own, I felt it was only fair to give you guys some info as to how to fix this issue - or what worked for me at least.

So I was using my sturdy Radeon 6950 HD for quite some time before I eventually chose to upgrade to the Asus Radeon R9 290X.

When I uninstalled my old card, and reinstalled the drivers from the disk for my new card, I had crazy problems, screen glitching, black screen, computer rebooting by itself, etc. I just couldn't get my head round the fact that surely it can't be the drivers from the disk if that's what came with the card. I was wrong. The drivers from the disk were Catalyst v.14.20 - THESE DO NOT WORK WITH THE CARD!

After reading many forum post of people returning their cards, etc and getting no replys as to which drivers actually do work, I took it upon myself to try out the AMD Catalyst™ 15.4 Beta Driver Optimized for GTAV. - THESE DRIVERS WORK WITH NO ISSUES!

Here is the link - http://support.amd.com/en-us/kb-articles/Pages/latest-catalyst-windows-beta.aspx

After hours of troubelshooting, this is what worked for me, I hope you guys have the same luck. Remember to completely clean your PC of any old drivers in Safe Mode.
 
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