AMD Drivers crashing for unknown reasons

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TheGreatClam

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Up until I bought an AOC G2460PF my drivers were working fine, but once I began using the monitor I started experiencing random crashes where the entire screen would be covered in odd colored lines and I was unable to see anything. This only affects that monitor and not my other one so sometimes I am able to mess with things on the second monitor and fix the issue but most time I am forced to restart. Even Netflix causes the drivers to crash every time I try to watch something. My GPU is a Gigabyte r9 270 OC, overclocked to 1100/1550 mHz with no voltage adjustment and I am using catalyst 16.7.3 drivers (Updates don't fix it and AMD recommends I use this).
 
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This will not work, sorry.

This also is not a driver issue otherwise it would have been fixed by now. The issue is the overclock. This is a common issue with the Pitcairn and Tahiti chips where when running 2 monitors the main monitor will go wacked out. There is no known fix for this other than removing the overclock. This was first found when...
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Try using DDU to nuke all the display drivers in your system, and reinstall the latest drivers. Monitor your temps when this is happening. If not, it sounds like voltage degradation is starting to happen to your older graphics card, so see if toning down the overclocks (and voltages) makes the problem go away. When a screen artifacts like that, usually it's a GPU core stability problem.
 
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This will not work, sorry.

This also is not a driver issue otherwise it would have been fixed by now. The issue is the overclock. This is a common issue with the Pitcairn and Tahiti chips where when running 2 monitors the main monitor will go wacked out. There is no known fix for this other than removing the overclock. This was first found when the 7000 series GPU's were launched. Here is a Pic, results may be slightly different but all about the same: AND showing both screens:
 
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Wow, I learned something new today. :)

I ran dual monitors on my overclocked/watercooled HD7950 without issue for years. I don't have that card anymore, blew a vrm doing stupid things with it on its horrifyingly bad stock cooler.
 
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