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290 Tri-X Deaded

Nocky24

Nocky24

Nocky24

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I'm now receiving the black screen issue whenever I do anything on boot up. Under safe mode it's absolutely fine. This happened after a driver recovery when playing Payday 2 for about a couple of hours or so.

Got my return in place, but wondered if there's any resolution to this? Sounds like the same issus that Moog had with his first 290 Tri-X. Need a quick response as I'm just within the returns period and will need to go back in the morning if I'm going to do it.

Cheers!
 
Are you using afterburner and was the card overclocked? THe issue you describe can sometimes be caused by an unstable overclock or voltage setting being applied as CCC loads. Or, it can actually be a faulty card. How far do you get in the boot process, does Windows even load?
 
I did wonder if that was the case, but was hoping it would've all reverted to defaults after it did a driver recovery. I went into safe mode and stopped Afterburner from loading as it did have an overclock applied. It does get to the desktop, and it's kind of like it's one of my startup items causing it. Will stick my old 4870 in there and try uninstalling CCC and afterburner.
 
Nocky24 said:
I did wonder if that was the case, but was hoping it would've all reverted to defaults after it did a driver recovery. I went into safe mode and stopped Afterburner from loading as it did have an overclock applied. It does get to the desktop, and it's kind of like it's one of my startup items causing it. Will stick my old 4870 in there and try uninstalling CCC and afterburner.
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I have a better solution for you. Turn the pc off, flick the bios switch to slot 2 and turn it back on. Get into windows and that should sort it. Whatever overclock you were using, apply 1-2 more notches of voltage and you should be golden. I like to undervolt my cards to the point of instability so ive faced this issue a couple of times.

Another fix is to open afterburner the second windows loads and keep clicking the reset button within afterburner until CCC loads. Or you can try to restore defaults from within CCC. One of them is applying your unstable clock, which is causing the black screen loop.

Never use apply overclock on startup unless you're 100% sure it's 24/7 stable.
 
Cheers Matt, but no dice on the bios switch :( exact same issue. Going to try and boot in with my 4870, clear it down and retry.
 
Nocky24 said:
Cheers Matt, but no dice on the bios switch :( exact same issue. Going to try and boot in with my 4870, clear it down and retry.
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You could try Booting into safe mode and uninstalling the drivers and manually deleting the afterburner stored settings might do the trick. You need to go to the afterburner directory and delete everything inside the profiles folder.

Or you can try it your way, whichever is easier. :)
 
wont system restore to few days ago ect in safe mode cure it?

use trixx it don't have option to apply oc at startup:D
 
Ok I put my 4870 in and removed CCC and the drivers and cleared my AB profiles. Then used DDU in safe mode to clear my AMD items (and Nvidia items while I was at it!). Back in now on the 290 on 14.7 beta. Ideally wanted the 14.6 beta, but couldn't find it on the AMD site. Will try a few test runs at stock for a couple of hours and hopefully it'll be ok!
 
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Ok I put my 4870 in and removed CCC and the drivers and cleared my AB profiles. Then used DDU in safe mode to clear my AMD items (and Nvidia items while I was at it!). Back in now on the 290 on 14.7 beta. Ideally wanted the 14.6 beta, but couldn't find it on the AMD site. Will try a few test runs at stock for a couple of hours and hopefully it'll be ok!
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Cool beans. Looks like your overclock was the cause, it usually is in the instance you described. :)
 
Mine died completely no output at all even In safe mode.

Seems like yours is good to again now. Feels good when things start working again....

Enjoy.
 
Nocky24 said:
All looks good again at stock, phew. Here I was thinking the worst.

Cheers Matt :)
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Glad it's working mate. I dread to think how many people have RMA'd 290 cards for the same reason thinking it's faulty. Nonetheless i would expect a slight redesign for the next generation of AMD cards regarding this.
 
I would suggest you to considering not enabling "Applying overclocking at system startup"...just manually apply the overclock when you game. That way even if your overclock was unstable and cause a black screen crash, when you reboot back into window the card would be on stock clock.
 
I have the same card, too much memory gives me the same black screen crash, it doesn't like 1500 mhz.
 
Thanks Marine, have taken that advice on board. Been a bit too used to the Nvidia drivers sorting any failed overclocks out for me so this was a new one on me :D Cheers all
 
Yea the black screen issue of the 290/290x is specifically related to the vram speed, and tends to happen when the memory clock is unstable.

But the memory performance on the 290/290x mileage varys quite hugely- some unlucky people (back then) the memory was stable even on stock clock 1250MHz and caused black screen, others who have no problem with stock clock, their max memory overclock range is quite large- like mine would only stable yup to 1375MHz, whereas some other people managed 1625MHz or 1700MHz even :p

But the type/brand of memory used on the card has some impact as well...generally the Eplida memory cannot clock as high as the Hynix memory...
 
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