Sapphire Tri-X R9 290 no signal w/ drivers installed

AE321

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Glancing around, it would seem that issues arising with this card aren't out of the ordinary, as I've seen more than one thread here bringing it up. The most recent of which suggested the PSU was the culprit behind the cause, though I doubt such is the case here.

Like the title says, my V. card refuses to display picture to my monitor while the drivers are installed. It gets up to Windows logo and then abruptly shuts off where a "no signal detected" message then flashes across the screen (the OS does boot up properly given I managed to maneuver around enough to play a MP3 file while the display was dead). Bizarrely, I can get display just fine when I uninstall and delete the drivers from the system once I get into safe mode and access Device Manager to do so. The card worked fine before this happened (didn't come across the reported "black screen in games" issue), so I'm wondering as to what could've caused this.

Specs:

Mobo: ASUS Hero VII
CPU: Intel i5- 4690K @ 4.5 Ghz
Graphics: Sapphire Tri-X R9 290
Ram: 16GB Trident X
PSU: EVGA Supernova G2 1000W

Really, I heard ATI drivers had some issues, but this is ridiculous.

My (terrible) jokes aside, any idea as to how I can fix this little dilemma (aside from simply purchasing a card that can better retain stability in the long-term*)?

*While I may be tempted to do so (especially with the new 300 series that's rumored to debut later this month), I'd rather not make a habit of wasting money.
 

Jak_Sparra

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Well for a start it's not the drivers, if it was then there would be thousands of peoples complaining about the same fault. I have a similar set up to you including the same graphics card. I've had every version of drivers since I bought it last year and the card has been solid as a rock (gets used up to 14 hours a day).
We had a lad in our gaming clan who constantly complained about low FPS in most the games we played as well as a string of problems, crashes and other issues. He swore his PC was working correctly as he and an 'expert' mate had built it and they'd both built PC's before.. Turns out he had the monitor plugged into the on-board graphics display rather than the actual graphics card, for 6 months.

Now, I need to know when did it last work for proper full on gaming without any issues?

What changed at that time when it stopped working? i.e, upgrade other parts of the PC, or software/driver changes etc.

We can take it from there.

Also just to confirm, do you have an 8pin AND 6pin power cables plugged into the card and are those cables feeding power to anything else and are they plugged into the PSU? It's possible a cable has come loose (unlikely, but certainly possible) so just unplug and plug them back in to make sure.
 

AE321

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So not only are my jokes terrible, they're irreverent. :( Oh? Well, at least someone's having better luck than I am.

Always the simplest things, eh?

When was I last playing... Forty-two days was the last time I was actually playing a game. The only thing that really changed was that I updated the drivers on the card since I was getting BSoDs in short periods of time one after another the crash logs pointed to the the video card as causing the shutdowns.

I can confirm that both the six pin as well the "eight pin" (it's six with an extra two to bring the total up to eight) adapter are pulled into both PSU and GPU without any extra stops in-between the two, as I've just popped them out and inserted them back in.

Also, unrelated to my little inquiry, but what do you use six HDD's for?