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New 290 black screening

budge1972

budge1972

budge1972

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Just installed my brand new msi 290 and it black screens randomly within minutes but usually within 45 seconds after booting up
The catalyst Drivers were uninstalled and reinstalled with the disk it came with.
When i put the old card (7870)back it works fine
Any ideas? Am i doing something wrong?

Msi 990XA-Gd55 mobo
16gb (2x8) corsair vengeance blue 1600
AMD 8320
MSI Radeon 290
Corsair CX750M psu
Corsair 540 case
 
Its the reference 290 bought yesterday from Overclockers
Ive never used an Nvidia card on this pc, ive tried DDU but it wouldn't run for some reason and kept giving me errors :confused: but i will redownload it and try again.
 
budge1972 said:
Its the reference 290 bought yesterday from Overclockers
Ive never used an Nvidia card on this pc, ive tried DDU but it wouldn't run for some reason and kept giving me errors :confused: but i will redownload it and try again.
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thats your problem then lol the reference ones are rubbish, read the thread down below this one about the back screen issues
http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18557629 ! take it back and get the twinfrozr :D its a beast of a card


YOUR BASKET
1 x MSI Radeon R9 290 Gaming Edition 4096MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £371.99
Total : £381.59 (includes shipping : £8.00).

 
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Try downclocking the memory.When i set the memory too high without voltage it blackscreens on the desktop.Try lowering it to 1000mhz if its fine bump some voltage into it and check it at 1250.Might help if not RMA it.No card should blackscreen at Stock speeds.
 
I don't really want to mess around with down/overclocking.I can't anyway because it wont' give me enough time before the screen goes black.
 
Send it back, my Sapphire was like that and they said it was faulty. Spend the money on a GTX 780 you will not regret it, I haven't
 
my R9 290 is at it as well. no matter what game i try it either freezes or black screens. and its running stock settings. not good for AMD atm. seen a lot returned
 
oh :( but at least thats a positive

did you check to see if Hynix mem ? just interested as in the other thread people were wondering if memory manufacturer in general an issue - or whether its something more fundamental design wise

don't recall any black screen issues either with any of the earlier AMD cards, or Nvidia cards
 
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