R9 290 - crashes/freezes and restarts to no display after installing driver

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SnorlaxMassacre

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Hey everyone
I have a problem with a newly bought graphics card that WAS faulty and still may be. The fault was caused by the connectors, they needed pressing down for a further firm connection. So what I did is, opened the card up and cut aluminum from one of those curry containers (it was all I had :p) to long pieces. I folded them up so they would fit the sticky pads on the card and I put each piece of folded aluminum on each sticky pad. I then put more sticky pads from another 290 on the folded aluminum pieces.

So, I thought I'd managed to fix it but no, there's another problem. Whenever I installed drivers for the card, it freezes/crashes and restarts but to no display. Now, I know this only happens after installing the drivers.

Any help would be much appreciated.

Specs:
Gigabyte GA-78LMT-S2
AMD FX 4100
4GB DDR3 1333Mhz
R9 290
Hitachi 500GB HDD
Optiarc DVD Drive
EZcool Ambiance 80+ 800w PSU
 
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SnorlaxMassacre

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Nobody's voting here, this isn't a democracy. The card is fine, considering many people have the same problem as I after they install drivers for AMD cards. And they managed to fix theirs.
So please, let's talk logic.
 
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SnorlaxMassacre

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Instead of telling me the card is faulty, which I obviously know, you can tell me why or what you think the fault is. And maybe pick up on something I missed.

Maybe I was a bit too harsh and I apologise. I guess I'm a bit too frustrated about this whole thing with my graphics card. My bad.
 
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It may of had an artifacts problem, though I'm not totally sure. But now I am, I see artifacts all over the damn screen. This happened 20 minutes ago so yeah as a last resort, I could try baking.
When I bought this card, I was sure there was a problem with the connectors. It would post, but no display. How I know this, the card's fan slowed down and keyboard lit up twice. So, I was right until now. I did fix that problem but now artifacts? That's beyond me.
Do you know any solutions beside baking to fix artifacts?
 
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Sometimes this is the result of overclocking or having it run hot. Baking usually fixes a card that won't come up after drivers are installed - it just fails to show anything once drivers are loaded. I don't know if baking would help. I'm assuming that you're using the latest drivers.

My son's 7850 has issues with artifacts with certain drivers, so maybe trying a different(older) driver.
 
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I don't know about it being overclocked as I don't know the history of the card, but it could be the case. Yes, I do have the latest drivers installed, it was fine for a couple of days ( I mean, I couldn't play a game/watch youtube videos or anything video related). Then yesterday I dragged and dropped a file to photobucket, that's when the artifacts came up. Could there be a problem with the video chip? I double padded the heatsinks so the connection would be firm, but who knows? By doing that, I think the main video chip is not getting enough connection. Could this be the case?

 
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