So the UPS brought me a shiny new 290X Vapor-X, to replace my 390X Tri-X (it kind of makes sense). I installed the new card (after uninstalling the old driver, cleaning registry, running DDU, the works), everything went fine and I played around a bit checking gpu-z etc. But then, as I had to shut down and restart, I started getting "horizontal waves" followed by a black screen, either in the log in screen or immediately upon reaching the desktop; sometimes it wouldn't happen until I tried to double click any icon or perform any other action but as soon as I did, boom, black screen.
Sooo out with the 290X, in with the 390X; everything works. I uninstalled the driver again and cleaned everything and threw the 290X back in; it seemed to be working again. Fast forward an hour or so and the same thing happened: horizontal "waves" or "ripples", followed by black screen, after restart upon reaching Windows. This time I remedied it by uninstalling the driver in the safe mode and it worked as it did the first time around.
What's a man to do? The driver is the latest one for Windows 10 and it hasn't been giving me any troubles with the 390X. Dud card, dud driver, both of the above or neither of the above? I haven't been dabbling with these new(ish) generation AMD cards for very long yet this time around so there might be things I'm overlooking.
Thanks in advance.
Sooo out with the 290X, in with the 390X; everything works. I uninstalled the driver again and cleaned everything and threw the 290X back in; it seemed to be working again. Fast forward an hour or so and the same thing happened: horizontal "waves" or "ripples", followed by black screen, after restart upon reaching Windows. This time I remedied it by uninstalling the driver in the safe mode and it worked as it did the first time around.
What's a man to do? The driver is the latest one for Windows 10 and it hasn't been giving me any troubles with the 390X. Dud card, dud driver, both of the above or neither of the above? I haven't been dabbling with these new(ish) generation AMD cards for very long yet this time around so there might be things I'm overlooking.
Thanks in advance.