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Started by Flyingfish | | 17 answers
blue screen with r9 290
Hi . I just bought a gigabyte windforce r9 290 . I just installed thr disc amd drivers.
Everytime the card is put under load the computer throws out a blue screan and restarts . Im busy downloading beta drivers 14.7 if it driver issue s also I have a thermaltake 650w litepower black edition . ? What may cause the problem?
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September 8, 2014 5:19:49 PM

turn off vsync.
September 8, 2014 1:44:00 AM

I will keep that in mind .

I see I still cant play watch dogs at max I leave v sync at 1 getting 30 fps not more not less ?

Maybe I need more ram sins I only have 4 g at the moment ?
September 8, 2014 12:55:41 AM

Flyingfish said:
Did do a fresh windows . But kept al the amd files on my ext and placed it back in the new windows .

So I shot myself in the foot with that one ..

But thanks allot everyone..

Anyway, i am glad we could help somehow. The entire point of a fresh install is to NOT keep anything old (except bakups of docs, pictures, music, movies , stuff like that). :D 
September 8, 2014 12:49:54 AM

Did do a fresh windows . But kept al the amd files on my ext and placed it back in the new windows .

So I shot myself in the foot with that one ..

But thanks allot everyone..
September 8, 2014 12:45:11 AM

so, basically you did not do a fresh install of Windows, but you said you did :D  :) .
September 7, 2014 10:45:02 PM

yep
September 7, 2014 2:52:33 PM

I ran a burn test and thw blue screen test and found that my previous hd 7950s drivers couse the new r9 290 drivers to crash. So I took it to a pc work place and they removed the old drivers with some sort of driver cleaner?

The card works fine now . My only concern is that the temp is pretty high hitting 84 °c under full load . Is this normal ??
September 6, 2014 3:58:53 PM

Specks are

I7 4770k
Asrock z87 pro 4
Thermalgske 650 w lite power
Gigabyte r9 290
4g strotum ram
September 6, 2014 3:45:11 PM

Flyingfish said:
Windows 64bit .
Whatch dogs 1600 x 900


which version of windows?

what is the blue screen saying? what cpu do you have?

how much ram?

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