R9 290x Stuck at 300Mhz/150Mhz Clock.

In that first picture the GPU is running at 984mhz, and it should be running at 1000 or more.

And a Royal King 290x looks like it should be at 1030. http://www.club-3d.com/index.php/products/reader.en/product/radeon-r9-290x-royalking.html

Power spikes... may be caused by the PSU, the Corsair VS series is really pretty bad: http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/id-2547993/psu-tier-list.html

Doesn't have to be power breakdowns, your PSU is just low quality and performance hiccups can be expected with it.
But it could be a damaged GPU from power surges, especially if your computer isn't plugged into a (working) surge protector.

A stabilizer isn't really the same thing, as it may not protect from high spikes/surges.
You can test the GPU in another computer to see if it does the same thing, if it doesn't the GPU is fine and the PSU isn't. You can't really test a PSU.

Well, that still doesn't prove anything.
Got any friends with PCs?

I posting here because this topic has better position in Google.


@up It's good, working final solution. Although, here are mine, if somebody is too lazy to reinstall whole thing.



If it not helps, try to just run MSI Afterburner if you have it installed. If still nothing, revert clocks. If works, you may set OC again. If still nothing,

uncheck Win logo (autostart) and choose option override official limits, and then restart computer. Previously you can revert default clocks, if nothing changes. If still nothing, uncheck this option again, and again restart computer.

If you have default clocks now, just use other program for OC, eg. Trixx, and set revert clock in options to set it automatically after each starting of program, and optionally autostart. If you have problems with changing default values with other program, check override option in AB, and restart. Don't touch checked option of auto erase settings on reboot. Don't touch AMD OC settings. Still, it may work to next restart, when you may encounter stock clocks without any posibility of changing them, until you uncheck override option in AB, restart computer, and check again, and restart. So as you see, it's much faster to uninstall all drivers.



If you have to use MSI Afterburner which causes 150 MHz bug, you need to use DDU to uninstall whole AMD driver, and unistall all OC programs before. Then make fresh driver installation.

Please note that specific software of your vendor of GPU may be able to control voltage values, eg. Strixx, ASUS GPU Tweak, not only properly modified AB.



There is also registry entry available to delete for wattman compatible GPUs (according to reddit) "PP_CNEscapeInput" to revert settings. Older GPUs/driver may not have this entry.

More info how to find entry.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Amd/comments/5oykt8/bugworkaround_150300_mhz_memory_stuck_200300/



If you started to have problems with changing clocks again, and nothing happens in software such Strix or GPU Tweak, you need to download MSI Afterburner again. By default, it may behave exatcly as previous software, so without result. But in options I enabled unofficial oc mode without powerplay support, and there was 150MHz bug again. The same for with PP mode. Then I disabled unofficial mode, and only ticked option to extend OC limits, and after restart, I had my clocks OCed