XFX R9 280X Black Edition - Crash/Screen Flickering

Jibiox

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Nov 11, 2015
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Hello, i purchased a brand new XFX R9 280X Black Edition a while back now i installed and used the provided driver (AMD Catalyst 13.12) everything worked fine, but then after a few weeks when a new driver was released and i tried to update i started having issues (i made sure the old drivers were uninstalled) the issues i was having are as followed when i just updated everything would work fine i could any game etc but as soon as i rebooted my pc shit hit the fan, my screen would started flickering as soon as windows was booted and i moved anything folders/scolled on firefox etc if i tried to boot up a game i would just get a black/black and grey stripes screen and the pc would lock up the only option to reboot would be to force reboot by pressing the power button for 3 seconds.

If i return to the old driver (AMD Catalyst 13.12) everything works fine again..so i decided to wait until a new driver is released again when it did the same problem persisted i just let it be and kept the old driver but now the new games i try to play, Fallout 4 for example requires me to update to the latest drivers or the game wont work :(

I have tried a clean install of windows 7, uninstalled all drivers etc nothing seems to fix the issue as long as the driver stays on the old one (AMD Catalyst 13.12) everything is fine but when i update everything goes ham :(.
 
Solution
Go into safe mode and uninstall the display driver via device manager then go back to windows and get a driver from the manufactures site.
I think it may be a faulty card, you may need to RMA it.

I have Nvidia GTX 970 which works dandy and I just updated to the latest game ready driver ready for fallout 4 yesterday and when I installed it it black screens -> restarts and then windows says recovered from blue screen and I check my driver and its updated fine.... weird, EDIT: I found that Nvidia experience was the cause so get the driver direct of the GeForce site rather than its program.

Drivers can be weird. I have had AMD cards before and the amount of trouble they have causes.

If you want a GPU optimized for the latest games then you will have to get AMD newest available GPU's or one of Nvidia GTX 900 series card for next gen gaming.
-The GTX 950 is the budget option than can run new games low - medium at 1080p depending on the game
-The GTX 960 can just handle 1080p medium high at 1080p 50-60fps
-The GTX 970 is the best power for the price ultra gaming GPU for 1080p high - ultra 60fps
-And the GTX 980 is a beast of a GPU capable of higher resolution gaming and plays 1080p ultra like butter.
-Finally the GTX 980TI, if you can afford a GTX you mine at well reach a bit more and get the best of the best. The GTX 980TI

The 970 is a beast for its price look it up its well worth it.

Hope this helps
 

GuilhermeT

Commendable
Nov 20, 2016
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1,510
I had that same problem. It's useless to update the bios with XFX updates.
To solve this you have to disable ULPS.
TO solve the overheating you have to edit the moronic fan profile from XFX.