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When installing new AMD Drivers, once I restart my PC, my monitor starts flickering and I cant see anything on my screen, however I can see everything on my second monitor, furthermore once I boot into safe mode I can see both of my monitors perfectly fine. Radeon R9 290 Tri-X Sapphire Edition.

EDIT: It wasn't installing the drivers it happened randomly and I tried fixing it by installing the drivers.
 
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thing is you need to be sure its not the card - hate to reinstall a OS with all that you done and collected on it just to find the same issue cause the card had went bad after all

in my experance if the card don't accept the driver its the card cause when the driver unpacks it scans your hardware if the card is not scanning correctly it don't know what to do and fails ..

unless you test the card out in another computer thats known to be in good working order or another AMD card in your system to insure it is the os or something else wrong in your system .

reinstalling the os is a last ditch effort but then if that's all you got to work with I guess your stuck trying and hoping


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No I was playing H1Z1 and thats when it started, and I tried to reinstall the drivers and that didn't help I guess it isn't the drivers then, but before my monitor stars flickering it says AMD Display Driver has stopped working or something like that.
 
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No, I always keep my eyes on my temps, they were around 75 and my target temp for my card is around 80-90 (degrees celsius)
 
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If I uninstall my display driver using driver fusion how would I specifically reinstall the display driver.
 
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don't know ?? never had to use any 3ed party stuff to remove a AMD driver maybe them 3ed party uninstallers removed something it should not of and now it done for ?? whats wrong with the uninstaller that's in the driver pack or just doing it the recommended way AMD states for there drivers ??

then you do see a lot of guys who went with 10 and found going back to there old os's aint working out so well ??
 
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When I go to the uninstaller there is some error and it tells me to exit the application.
 
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Are you running the game on your main monitor or both monitors? If just one is flickering and you're running the game on BOTH monitors, I'm more likely to suspect a cable or the monitor itself rather than the card or the driver. Which outputs on the card are you using? If you swap them around, does the problem move to the other monitor? If you play the game on JUST the good monitor (i.e, disable the bad monitor in Windows), do you have any problems?

EDIT: Just saw your note about the display driver not responding, which does sound like it *might* be the driver or GPU. The same principle still applies though - use the process of elimination to narrow the problem down. It's really curious that just one monitor would be affected by a bad driver...
 
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The flickering doesn't start when I play a game it starts right when I boot up, and it isn't a bad cable, because it works perfectly fine in safe mode, it has to be a software related issue.
 
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only time I got that was when I accidently deleated the folder that had the cim in it [catalyst install manager ] maybe want to test your hard drive as well it may be corrupting data or having read / write issues ?? registry errors ??

then I don't know what went on or what you did overall to start with so all I can do is give a best guess ??


did you try a system restore and go back past all these issues and see if it resolves ??
 
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I'll try a system restore.

 
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Just read through all of this i'll summaries to what i understood of it, let me know if its right.

EDIT: It wasn't installing the drivers it happened randomly and I tried fixing it by installing the drivers.
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What happened randomly? The flickers? If so, i understood the flickers were happening randomly with the old drivers. You updated to latest drivers to try and resolve?

The flickering doesn't start when I play a game it starts right when I boot up, and it isn't a bad cable, because it works perfectly fine in safe mode, it has to be a software related issue.
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So the flickering starts during post? If so, it's not software related here unless i read that wrong and you meant as it's booting to Windows loading screen when gpu drivers start to load.

If i'm right in assuming the gpu flickers at post and the flickering was happening with previous driver, it may well be the card is not healthy.

Just to share some experience of mine with flickering with a Displayport cable i bought (2m) even though apparently HBR2 Vesa certified, it was flickering on me at 1440p@144Hz. Lower resolution/less Hz was fine though, just pushing the bandwidth was too much for the cable's quality. The 1meter cable Acer supplied works like a charm. Thought i'd share just in case you did buy another monitor cable if using Displayport. You could be having multiple problems happening simultaneously.
 
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I did a system restore, the flickering stopped, however it doesnt recognize my second VGA monitor. Also for some reason it detects my HDMI as a VGA, I think while doing this system restore somehow AMD Settings went missing? Ummmmm, what? Should I install my drivers again now?
 
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As I stated, it only happens in safe mode, but anyways after system restore it stopped but my AMD Settings went missing and it detects my first HDMI monitor as VGA and doesnt detect my DVI monitor at all, I think I have to install the AMD Drivers again.
 
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Yup literally just checked device manager and it has a default driver "Standard VGA Adapter". Now should I install the 15..12 drivers or 16.1.1 because I used the auto detect software and it told me that 15.12 is best for this device but seems weird, since I've been using Crimson since it came out.
 
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Reinstall what was working for you previously.

I know this goes against junkeymonkey's view about 3rd party display removal programs but ddu is very popular and is suggested here just about everyday.

http://www.wagnardmobile.com/

Maybe have a look at it and see what it has to offer and guess could come in handy if reinstalling drivers now doesn't help, but looks like it just might now after a system restore.
 
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I love this forum so much, this was probably better then contacting amd themselves, the drivers are still installing wish me luck :)
 
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if it was me and your running windows 7 I would try 13.12 like I said all the newer amd drivers over it semm to all have there little issues but 13.12 for me and my card runs all day -0- issues

that's up to you

http://support.amd.com/en-us/download/desktop/previous/detail?os=Windows%207%20-%2064&rev=13.12

if your on 10 I guess your stuck with the latest ones ??

I'm assuming that the latest drivers like 14.xx and up are more for there newer 300 cards and not much so for our older cards [if I had to guess]
 
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Neither 16.1.1 drivers or 15.3 drivers are helping me I really don't know what to do.
 
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For god sake, I even tried the 13.12 one you sent me and I got an error: Application Install: install package failure!

If I do a fresh install of windows will that help?
 
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Fresh install of Windows usually fixes everything but thats something you need to decide whether to spend the time on.

Have you tried ddu at least to wipe everything it detects display driver related? And delete the AMD folder afterwards if still there to pretend you just came from a fresh install. Possibly a registry cleaner there after.

 
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or something like your hard drive is corrupting things or just now corrupted ?

I guess you can try the card in another computer or another card in your system to insure it not the card its self if the cad seems fine in safe mode but cant operate normally on a driver ??

I guess your down to process of elimination ? then you still maybe down to a fresh install [after you test the harddrive ]

I wonder if that latest .net update from Microsoft may have something to do with all this ??

then here I see they say AMD ended the use of needing .net on ther latest driver ??

well now here it says amd ended the use of needing .net ??

http://www.maximumpc.com/amd-radeon-software-crimson-edition-tested/

don't know ???

whats sad to me is seeing the known issue list is twice as long as the resolved or improvements

http://support.amd.com/en-us/kb-articles/Pages/AMD-Radeon-Software-Crimson-Edition-15.12.aspx

was pointed out by sr71blackbird is how many of these type threads there are I see 2 more just wile I was posting here on this one ??
 
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The 13.12 drivers worked but I want the newest drivers. Do you think it's worth it if I just fresh install Windows?
 
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