AMD R9 290 - Horizontal Pixelated black lines on screen after installing driver

EGGSonPC557

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Not overclocked. Core Clock @ 980-1000 (Less than stock). Temps are fine.

Was playing Skyrim and it goes quite glitchy and crashes. (Display driver has stopped working and successfully recovered). Several crashes in display driver followed by a smattering of horizontal black lines with colored pixels in them. Had a few BSODs too.

Restarted in safe mode, uninstalled drivers, seems fine in normal mode but can't play games etc.
Tried the 3 latest AMD drivers (Omega, Beta , 14.9 ), everytime I installed the new drivers my PC would restart with pixelated black lines in the exact same spots, then upon login,my display driver would continue to crash repeatedly until it BSODs or I restart it.

GPU usage would spike to 100% at one point of time too.

Specs:
Asus P67 Sabertooth - i7-2600k
Corsair 1833Hz 2x8gb RAM
R9-290
Seasonic 750W

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Card is 1 month old, recently got it after I exchanged a spoilt one for it. Any ideas?
 

andreii707

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I can't say for sure, but try installing thr 14.4 drivers, see how they work for you. Make sure you do a clean installation by deleting the old drivers completely. All the drivers above 14.4 have been problematic for me too, for some reason. Give it a try, see how it goes.
 

EGGSonPC557

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Installed 14.4, getting really slow FPSs now on Skyrim.

Another thing, I opened the case and readjusted the GPU, it now runs pretty okay although there are still occasional patches of pixel-glitches coming up. You think it could be a motherboard issue (the area in contact with the GPU) or is this still a GPU issue?
 

andreii707

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It could be, I cannot say for sure. My knowledge is rather limited but I will try to help as much as I can. Did you clean your PC of dust recently? If so, double check the slot on the motherboard, see if it has any dirt or dust on it.