garbage characters on screen after reboot on r9 380 nitro>

Michel Effeich

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Oct 8, 2015
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when i reboot the pc, various random characters in random colours appear on screen briefly and then the booting proceeds normally. the card works normally while in windows as far as i know and this glitch happens on reboot.. has someone seen this? do i have a defective card?
 

Michel Effeich

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Oct 8, 2015
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No.. after windows closes usually you would see the black startup screen with the BIOS info of the motherboard and then it continues loading.. after i installed the card, I see those characters briefly on a BLACK background. the same old dos background that is also the background for the bios loading of the motherboard.

forgot to say I have a 5year old gigabyte motherboard and windows 8.1. did not have this problem with the old card. replaced the card and installed the newest drivers from AMD (the beta ones).. i do not feel that this is a windows issue since the card acts normally under windows and witcher 3 for exmaple is runs fine...do i have a faulty card?????