PC Very Unstable After Installing AMD Catalyst Driver for Sapphire R9 290 Tri-x OC

Charliekenney23

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Problems: PC wont boot into windows 8.1 at all, but could boot into windows 10 TP (I don't know why or how) and after a very slow boot the display is distorted and signal is shortly lost.

How this came about: When building my PC I thought it'd be a good idea to put my GPU in the furthest PCI-E Slot to separate it from the CPU, but found it to be thermal throttling with the airflow restrictions of the NZXT s340 case. I decided I had enough of this so I switched the cards PCI-E slot (while safely removing and grounding my self to earth). After restarting my PC, I went to play a game of Battlefield 4 and experienced frame rates in the 20s and 30s (instead of 90s and 100s). I figured I should remove my GPU drivers and reinstall them, so I did, with DDU. Now, after reinstalling my drivers I'm encountering this problem.

Please help
Thanks in advanced,
Charles
 
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Presumably your 7950 worked in the primary slot?

Yeah contact asus with a support case.

Charliekenney23

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Yeah, they're all in. Just a minute ago I removed the drivers in safe mode and managed to get into Windows 8.1, but no luck with my install. Now instead of crashing at the reboot, I got a black screen of death right in the middle of installing the catalyst driver. I have no clue what is going on right now, its the same driver I've always used.
 

Charliekenney23

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I'll have to look into my Catalyst settings.

I'm back in safemode, what should I do? I've only had this hardware for 2 weeks now

Just got the error: System_Thread_unhandled
 

Charliekenney23

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Switched the PCI-E ports and now it works. Should I contact my motherboard manufacturer about this?
 

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Presumably your 7950 worked in the primary slot?

Yeah contact asus with a support case.
 
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Charliekenney23

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Thanks, I will.