Hi guys,

As title suggests, I think my card has just giving up on me just made a cuppa and put a film on, when suddenly both monitors turned off with no signal, fan on the card didn't stop, remained at 55% I'm guessing by the sound.

Powered on the system, no display, keyboard lights came on, looked like it was booting ok.

Tried again, got a display and looked fine booting into Windows, only to get a garbled screen and loss of display again.

I'm pretty gutted as you'd imagine, I've reset the bios as I'd disabled the onboard gpu, system displays with no issues so I'm guessing it's the card.

Ill have a better look tomorrow, the card is a Asus reference 290x and was bought at a competitor on the 14/12, so warranty is no issue.

I wonder what the situation would be on a replacement, I'd prefer a ref card again if possible, I fancy these are better clocking.

Sorry mate

Why not get a reference PCB with an AIB cooler?

I think he plans to go water cooling so getting the cheapest reference card would probably be the best bet.

That always sucks when a gpu dies
Hope you get it sorted quickly.
Will all depend what Asus send back i think

It's a goner... Similar symptoms to when mine died. Switched the machine on one morning. Windows boot up screen artifacting. Rebooted again and no signal.

DEAD....

uksoldierboy said:

Powered on the system, no display, keyboard lights came on, looked like it was booting ok.

Tried again, got a display and looked fine booting into Windows, only to get a garbled screen and loss of display again.

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You using MSI Afterburner or similar and and have it set to apply OC on startup?

I'm guessing your card is not "dead", but more to do with your memory overclock on the card ain't stable and causing blackscreen. I have experienced what you have describe...I had to race to press the "reset" button on the Afterburner before the signal is lost.

What I've learn from that experience is to not have auto apply OC on startup enabled, but manually apply the OC profile before actual gaming (so if you get blackscreen, rebooting the PC you with return to the desktop with the graphic card at stock clock).

Marine-RX179 said:

You using MSI Afterburner or similar and and have it set to apply OC on startup?

I'm guessing your card is not "dead", but more to do with your memory overclock on the card ain't stable and causing blackscreen. I have experienced what you have describe...I had to race to press the "reset" button on the Afterburner before the signal is lost.

What I've learn from that experience is to not have auto apply OC on startup enabled, but manually apply the OC profile before actual gaming (so if you get blackscreen, rebooting the PC you with return to the desktop with the graphic card at stock clock).

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I have found exactly the same. Only use apply overclock at startup if you're 100% sure its stable.

^Same here. Boot in to safe mode to check

thefogo said:

^Same here. Boot in to safe mode to check

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I've managed to get around it by using Low VGA mode as well. Easier and quicker than booting in to safe mode.

Cheers guys,

Its not afterburner in my case, I'm certain of that, I've run the same 24/7 overclock (1150/1400 since getting the card and it's been solid in everything.

I guess it's time to sort out an rma then just hope it gets sorted quickly, never rma'd an Asus card before.

It could be if you installed new drivers?

I had to wind my 24/7 clocks back from 1180 to 1150 after installing 14.6 drivers yesterday. Had artifacts on boot into Windows.

I also get slightly lower clocks with these drivers, however performance is up a fair bit so im happy overall.

Sorted guys booted using IGPU and removed AMD drivers, afterburner etc, swapped back to the card and booted with no issues, installed 14.6 betas and it's all working brilliantly again....and breathe...

One thing though, afterburner isn't allowing me to change any voltages now, any ideas guys?

Massive thanks for the help and support.

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Sorted guys booted using IGPU and removed AMD drivers, afterburner etc, swapped back to the card and booted with no issues, installed 14.6 betas and it's all working brilliantly again....and breathe...

One thing though, afterburner isn't allowing me to change any voltages now, any ideas guys?

Massive thanks for the help and support.

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Definitely the issue we all mentioned mate. Only use apply overclock at startup if you're 100% positive its stable. Probably best to just not use it imo, it's caught me out a few times.

Will do Matt, i'll continue testing today, you had this afterburner issue pal?

uksoldierboy said:

Sorted guys booted using IGPU and removed AMD drivers, afterburner etc, swapped back to the card and booted with no issues, installed 14.6 betas and it's all working brilliantly again....and breathe...

One thing though, afterburner isn't allowing me to change any voltages now, any ideas guys?

Massive thanks for the help and support.

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That's good to know. I didn't get off that lightly

Geeman1979 said:

That's good to know. I didn't get off that lightly

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What did you get as a replacement in the end Gee?

Hopefully gee, will test today it make sure, if not i'll just return it.

Stanners said:

What did you get as a replacement in the end Gee?

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Bought a couple of Titans buddy.

uksoldierboy said:

Will do Matt, i'll continue testing today, you had this afterburner issue pal?

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I have a few times. You can get around it like the way you did, or by starting in low vga mode. Low vga mode might not work for everyone though, but did for me.