MSI R9 270X screen flickering and grey stripes

toniperic

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So I have bought a brand new PC and I have the issue where my screen flickers at random times and/or the screen turns into black and grey stripes and the system crashes (I found out it crashed because it once happened while I was watching a video and the sound was stuck at one frame).

MB: Gigabyte GA-970A-DS3P, AM3
CPU: AMD CPU Desktop FX-Series X6 6300 (3.5GHz,14MB,95W,AM3+)
Extra-cooler: LC POWER LC-CC-95, socket 775/1155/1156/AMD
Memory: Memorija Adata DDR3 8GB 1600MHz, AD3U1600W8G11-R (x2)
HDD: SEAGATE HDD DESKTOP SSHD 3.5" / 1TB / 64m/ SATA/ 7200rpm
GPU: MSI Radeon R9 270X GAMING 2Gb
PSU: Fortron Raider S 550W, 80+ SILVER
OS: Windows 8.1, 64-bit

This is how it looks (even though it's not 100% of times like that - sometimes its blue and gray, even a green color sometimes appears):
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This happens a lot. Sometimes after 1-2 minutes of using a PC, sometimes not even for 5-6 hours. Sometimes it lasts even a day without crashing.
I have booted into safe mode, disabled graphic card drivers and came back to normal mode so it's using standard VGA drivers and I have no problems at all. If I hadn't done this, I maybe couldn't write this post now either. :)

Please help me!

PS: I have tried downloading the newest beta drivers, as well as let Windows 8.1 download and install the manfacturer drivers itself, but on both occassions it's still happening.

Here's the video:
[video="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KxEO74gUeMU"][/video]
 

toniperic

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But it is working when in safe mode, meaning the graphics card is okay and it should be the software issue?
 


No .

All graphics cards have to be able to start and display an image without using the graphics cores that will be used for 3D gaming .
Once you install a driver [ not safemode any more ] you are essentially using different circuitry in the gpu .

Its perfectly possible for a graphics card to work excellently in safemode , and be completely unable to operate with a driver