new 290 again!

[Rroff]

If they're on Windows 8, as i suspect they are, its not gpu related. 290's don't cause red screens. Black screens maybe.

I'd be telling whoever it is to look elsewhere for the cause of the red screen. Had a bit of experience with the red screen on Windows 8 myself on a few different pc's.

Was in a hurry earlier so wasn't quite clear but I'm not saying its something that affects all 290s but its definitely a problem with some of them - found a few reports of the exact same symptoms when googling the issue while trying to troubleshoot it.

Previous GPU(s) worked fine in that system and it caused the same problem on another system which had windows 7 on (PC it was in had win7 also). RMA replacement worked fine without the issue while it was in my hands also. (Same card had the blackscreen issue quite badly and the replacement didn't have any of that either while I was testing it hence my previous post where I said I'm not convinced its a software issue).

 

[MofoKilla]

get a 780 or if you can 780ti you wont regret it.

 

[PhysicsMan94]

I seriously would recommend getting a 780 if you've had so many problems with the 290, you will not regret getting a 780 as others have said. And this is not just me suggesting this because of "Nvidia fanboyism" or whatever they call it these days.

 

[K1LaW8tt5]

I seriously would recommend getting a 780 if you've had so many problems with the 290, you will not regret getting a 780 as others have said. And this is not just me suggesting this because of "Nvidia fanboyism" or whatever they call it these days.

What if the 780 he gets is faulty too? Should he just quit and buy a ps4 then?

Its a bit of bad luck getting 2 bad 290s , 780 is a good card too either choice is a good one.

 

[OvEr_KiLL]

or as i said earlier.....get a NON REFERENCE 290!!!!!!

 

[ShivP]

Tbh I would go the 780 route too, 2 faulty cards in a row isn't really up to a great standard, I would be pretty annoyed too if that happened to me :/

or as i said earlier.....get a NON REFERENCE 290!!!!!!

Someone said earlier (I think) that most non-reference cards are still using the same PCB so probably have similar faults

 

[dribbler]

Ok just played bf4 for nearly 3 hours! Perfect! Then lol I go and run 3dmark (freebie fire strike so have to run all tests) and the first is a demo, black screen with some weird noise kinda like looping! Its defo the card and id say its worse than the first msi one, I never got black screen in bench marks just surfing the net with that one! This one is the other way around! Lol oh well gota laugh!

 

[Boomstick777]

Ok just played bf4 for nearly 3 hours! Perfect! Then lol I go and run 3dmark (freebie fire strike so have to run all tests) and the first is a demo, black screen with some weird noise kinda like looping! Its defo the card and id say its worse than the first msi one, I never got black screen in bench marks just surfing the net with that one! This one is the other way around! Lol oh well gota laugh!

RMA, then order a GTX 780 or 780 Ti, the reference GTX 7XX are things of beauty

 

[dribbler]

RMA, then order a GTX 780 or 780 Ti, the reference GTX 7XX are things of beauty

I think im gona go 780, are there any on overclockers that you can put a waterblock on? This is one of the reasons why I went reference.

 

[MrMarvelous]

Seems to be some serious issues with the 290 cards here. No end of threads on 'em.

 

[nitram100]

Funny, I had to send back 2 x 780's because of them being faulty, the first being sound looping crash with black screen. I had to get a 290 to get away from black screens! Funny old world xD

 

[Suarez7]

Funny, I had to send back 2 x 780's because of them being faulty, the first being sound looping crash with black screen. I had to get a 290 to get away from black screens! Funny old world xD

Problem is for every story on black screens on a 780 there's about 20 of the same for 290's. In fact you're the only person I've seen with a 780 black screen issue on this forum.

 

[humbug]

Problem is for every story on black screens on a 780 there's about 20 of the same for 290's. In fact you're the only person I've seen with a 780 black screen issue on this forum.

They are here, they just get ignored and fall off the bottom of the page. http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18541601

 

[dribbler]

Im just gutted ive had to send 2 back! Ive never rma anything before, oh well! I just dont want overclockers thinking im taking the pi**! But if there faulty there faulty. And its not a cheap card either!

 

[Suarez7]

They are here, they just get ignored and fall off the bottom of the page. http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18541601

lol thanks for the laugh

 

[Gregster]

They are here, they just get ignored and fall off the bottom of the page. http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18541601

LOOOOOOOOOOOL

13th September, a guy gets a black screen and you say "They are here" They is plural for more than one but good find and well done

 

[humbug]

Found it in about 8 seconds flat plenty of it on Google.

 

[K1LaW8tt5]

LOOOOOOOOOOOL

13th September, a guy gets a black screen and you say "They are here" They is plural for more than one but good find and well done

what he means is that the nvidia users that could actually maybe help him are too busy posting in AMD related threads to notice.

poor guy got no replies and no help.

 

[Gregster]

Found it in about 8 seconds flat plenty of it on Google.

I bet if I type black screen issues on my 290, the whole of the first page will be filled with varying sites But I prefer to not stoop to that kind of level. I gave the OP what I thought was good advice.

 

[Gregster]

what he means is that the nvidia users that could actually maybe help him are too busy posting in AMD related threads to notice.

poor guy got no replies and no help.

Maybe none of us have had that issue and didn't have a clue what the problem was? And I don't see what relevance that has to helping the OP, when frankly, the 290/X is getting reports galore of black screens.