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Motherboard killing graphics cards?

Techen

Techen

Techen

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So, I had to RMA my 290x because everytime I installed drivers it would black screen and not recover (Fine in safe mode)

So I put a 7750 in till I got my RMA'd 290x back. The 7750 was fine last night, playing games, No issues and today I turn my pc on, boots into windows then these strange stranges come up and then it goes black screen'd once again. Is my motherboard killing graphics cards? PSU Issue? Ram? CPU? Am not sure what the issue is and I hope I haven't just ended another graphics card.

Am having to type this in safe mode....
 
vonex said:
use DDU to uninstal the drivers and reinstall the latest drivers from amd website
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Thanks for reply, The only way I can boot into windows (Not safemode) Is to use DDU to remove the AMD drivers. Same happen on my 290x, HOWEVER Installing any drivers, weather it be 13.12 or 14.3 will just result in the same issue as stated above, Happen on my 290x over and over. Uninstalled drivers, install new ones, Black screen. Is this a AMD driver fault or something else?
 
Frenzy said:
Would be useful if you actually listed the model numbers for your pc parts.
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GA-Z68XP-UD3P Mobo
HD7750 Gigabyte GPU/290X Asus 4GB
DDR3 1866Mhz ram
Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-3570K CPU @ 3.40GHz (4 CPUs), ~4.5GHz
 
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"Fine in safe mode"

Are you overclocking? is your overclocking app loading up when you get to Windows? if your overclock is wrong it will Black Screen, if your overclocking app is loading the overclock when you enter windows it will Black Screen because the overclock is unstable.
 
Try a non amd card if you can, if that's fine then it may be a compatibility issue between the z68 chipset and your graphics card. I had this issue which forced me to upgrade my motherboard.

For me:

290x blue screened with drivers installed.
290 As above.
7970 flawless.

Upgraded the motherboard and it was fine on the 290 series. As with yourself I had no issues in safe mode.

For reference I had a GA-Z68X-UD7-B3
 
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Frenzy said:
Try a non amd card if you can, if that's fine then it may be a compatibility issue between the z68 chipset and your graphics card. I had this issue which forced me to upgrade my motherboard.

For me:

290x blue screened with drivers installed.
290 As above.
7970 flawless.

Upgraded the motherboard and it was fine on the 290 series. As with yourself I had no issues in safe mode.

For reference I had a GA-Z68X-UD7-B3
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I sadly have no access to graphics cards that are not AMD, So I can't test that . Interesting that you got issues on a mobo such as mine. Might be a issue with the Mobo itself. I did buy it on clearance off Overclockers.
 
humbug said:
"Fine in safe mode"

Are you overclocking? is your overclocking app loading up when you get to Windows? if your overclock is wrong it will Black Screen, if your overclocking app is loading the overclock when you enter windows it will Black Screen because the overclock is unstable.
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I never thought of this and have no uninstalled the overclocking software. However if it was overclocking the 7750, Why was it working fine for the entire last night and now has suddenly stopped working today? I'll try and reinstall drivers now the software is removed.
 
Techen said:
I never thought of this and have no uninstalled the overclocking software. However if it was overclocking the 7750, Why was it working fine for the entire last night and now has suddenly stopped working today? I'll try and reinstall drivers now the software is removed.
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As you can see i have a 290, the only time i get black screens is if i push the memory to far, of course i can hard reset the computer but every time it boots into windows it black screens as soon as MSI AB loads up.

The way i sorted that was to unistall MSI AB in safe mode and reinstall once back in normal windows, i know now not to push my memory past 1500Mhz, simple, and its never happened again :)
 
humbug said:
As you can see i have a 290, the only time i get black screens is if i push the memory to far, of course i can hard reset the computer but every time it boots into windows it black screens as soon as MSI AB loads up.

The way i sorted that was to unistall MSI AB in safe mode and reinstall once back in normal windows, i know now not to push my memory past 1500Mhz, simple, and its never happened again :)
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Heh, I donno what it was but uninstalling asus/MSI afterburner, reinstalling 7750 drivers and booting windows seem to have worked.

Which brings me to my next question, Did I just RMA a graphics card that had no problem............
 
Techen said:
Heh, I donno what it was but uninstalling asus/MSI afterburner, reinstalling 7750 drivers and booting windows seem to have worked.

Which brings me to my next question, Did I just RMA a graphics card that had no problem............
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What happened to the 290X? you said "until i got it back" i take it you got it back with no fault found and are now running it just fine after installing those drivers?

If so, quite possibly.
 
Someone here with similar boards to ourselves asked gigabyte support to check this out and they told them it was something to do with the Gigabyte board not having UEFI BIOS. Now on my MSI 290 the quiet switch was supposed to switch to a legacy compatible BIOS, even with this I still had the issue. I must have spent 5 days on this issue, gigabyte support was useless.
 
humbug said:
What happened to the 290X? you said "until i got it back" i take it you got it back with no fault found and are now running it just fine after installing those drivers?

If so, quite possibly.
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The 290x I was playing with overclocks until one day I wanted to switch from 14.3 to 13.12 for a more stable driver/overclocks, However using the software to remove the old drivers and install the new gave me black screens, Even when I went back to 14.3, Black screen. I tried everything and never got it back so I called them and they said to RMA it.
 
Frenzy said:
Someone here with similar boards to ourselves asked gigabyte support to check this out and they told them it was something to do with the Gigabyte board not having UEFI BIOS. Now on my MSI 290 the quiet switch was supposed to switch to a legacy compatible BIOS, even with this I still had the issue. I must have spent 5 days on this issue, gigabyte support was useless.
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I run UEFI Bios on my motherboard. I know all about that switch, One setting makes the computer fail to boot and the other switch allows it to boot with no issues, It's not that problem as I worked it out in the end :P
 
Techen said:
The 290x I was playing with overclocks until one day I wanted to switch from 14.3 to 13.12 for a more stable driver/overclocks, However using the software to remove the old drivers and install the new gave me black screens, Even when I went back to 14.3, Black screen. I tried everything and never got it back so I called them and they said to RMA it.
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Right, do you still have the card? or another 290?
 
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