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AMD Sapphire R9 290 BSOD

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Hey,


Ever since I bought this 290 I've been experiencing BSODs at random times.
By that I mean its crashed on me in game (bf4, f1 2013...) sitting idle on the dekstop (win 7 64bit) and watching some TV in vlc player.

I've been keeping up to date with latest Beta drivers and yesterday updated to the newest full "stable" release. Alas I'm still crashing.

I've reinstalled my OS, reinstalled gfx drivers and obviously reinstalled games. I'm out of ideas.

Is this a card issue or is it a driver issue, are others experiencing this?

Any help is appreciated.
 
Marine-RX179 said:
Have you checked the temp?

Also using two separate leads for the PCI-E 6pin and PCI-E 8pin might improve stability (I recall Gibbo saying this).
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Temps are high, on load and after an hour of gameplay it's at 90c.
Strange thing is this is on auto fan. On my old card I used to manually set the fan speed (4870x2) But in the catalyst control centre I cannot set the fan speed manually in overdrive.
I mean at 90c its only running 40% fan. This was the case with every beta driver and now the 'stable' release.

The card is run off 1x 8pin and 1x 6pin, separate cables.


*edit*

Just looking at the OverDrive closer and I've pushed down the 'Target GPU Temp' to 70c and the fan speed to 45%.
Now I'm assuming that once it hits 70c the min fan speed with be 45%. I'll just test this now.

*edit 2*
Temps seem much more stable now. Fan is now much higher when in game, I guess I wait to BSOD, or not.
 
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Unfortunately I am still getting BSODs.

The latest one was from a cold boot, crashed when the gpu was only 25c.
Any ideas on how I can proceed?
 
Highly unlikely to be caused by the gpu imo. If you can snag more info about the BSOD that will help diagnose.
 
The BSOD code was:

0xa0000001 (0x0000000000000005, 0x0000000000000000, 0x0000000000000000, 0x0000000000000000)


Looks like it was caused by atikmdag.sys

Having a quick scout around shows that a common resolution is to reinstall the OS and AMD drivers...Which I have done and still the issue prevails.
Hmmm....
 
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Just removed the driver again in safe mode and reinstalled (13-12_win7_win8_64_dd_ccc_whql)
Within 20seconds of the reboot after installation I BSOD again.
 
Rma the card mate. If you can try it in another pc first to rule out your system, I would do that or also try the card in another slot on the motherboard to rule out a faulty slot.
 
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