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**THE AMD DRIVERS THREAD**

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gareth170 said:
yeah i know.

so far i played for about 15min without crashing on power limit +10 thats even with the voltage set on 0

the reason why im thinking it's something to with the power is because when it blackscreen it seen to of turned the gpu off completely and the only way to to get it back working is to turn off the computer then back on, a reset doesn't being it back on.
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Interesting. Funnily enough I've had that happen once or twice to mine, but that was after i was overclocking hard and running +200mv. The pc locked up and i had to hard power off to get the display back. Was fine after that though.
 
AMD Catalyst 14.7 RC3

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Feature Highlights of the AMD Catalyst™ 14.7 RC3 Driver for Windows

Includes all improvements found in the AMD Catalyst™ 14.7 RC driver
Display interface enhancements to improve 4k monitor performance and reduce flickering.
Improvements apply to the following products:
AMD Radeon R9 290 Series
AMD Radeon R9 270 Series
AMD Radeon HD 7800 Series
Even with these improvements, cable quality and other system variables can affect 4k performance. AMD recommends using DisplayPort 1.2 HBR2 certified cables with a length of 2m (~6 ft) or less when driving 4K monitors.
Wildstar: AMD Crossfire profile support
Lichdom: Single GPU and Multi-GPU performance enhancements
Watch Dogs: Smoother gameplay on single GPU and Multi-GPU configurations
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RC3 has no changes that affect me so I will stick to the previous 14.7 which have been error free for me since day 1.
 
Been reading through the various problems that people have had with Blue Screens of Death/Youtube/Flash video both here and elsewhere. Unfortunately this was after I'd bought a pair of used R9 290s. D'oh.

Can anyone suggest a driver version that will not produce the BSOD (A0000001) error? Tried both cards separately, 550w and a 750w psu. I think this is definitely a driver issue as I've cleaned the drivers completely from a virtually fresh Windows 7 x64 install and played Youtube videos without AMD drivers installed (just using windows generic vga driver) and they play fine.

Got a disappointed little boy was expecting a gfx card for his birthday and spent all day trying to fix the BSOD, including a new PSU and case to give more room/better cooling.

Will try drivers 13.9 or 13.12 in the morning but at the moment the 'fix' for my sons' old computer is to put his 6870 back in and put up with the odd black screen here and there.
 
Blue screen? Try putting your CPU to stock especially with 16GB of RAM. 16GB can easily throw out a dodgy OC with a different card (i.e. different circumstances) as it places more strain on the memory controller.
 
Edit, or try that first ^^^

Meetgrinder said:
Been reading through the various problems that people have had with Blue Screens of Death/Youtube/Flash video both here and elsewhere. Unfortunately this was after I'd bought a pair of used R9 290s. D'oh.

Can anyone suggest a driver version that will not produce the BSOD (A0000001) error? Tried both cards separately, 550w and a 750w psu. I think this is definitely a driver issue as I've cleaned the drivers completely from a virtually fresh Windows 7 x64 install and played Youtube videos without AMD drivers installed (just using windows generic vga driver) and they play fine.

Got a disappointed little boy was expecting a gfx card for his birthday and spent all day trying to fix the BSOD, including a new PSU and case to give more room/better cooling.

Will try drivers 13.9 or 13.12 in the morning but at the moment the 'fix' for my sons' old computer is to put his 6870 back in and put up with the odd black screen here and there.
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I have never come across this so had to do some googling my self, it seems to be an older problem that 13.12 had fixed, for some? but other than that I could not find an explanation or a fix it pill

What Drivers are you running? we are on to 14.4 WHQL's now.
 
The only time I saw that code was when I put too much load on psu. Or rather pushed the clocks too high on CPU and gpu's weren't getting enough power.

That was with a clocked 3960x and 3 x clocked 290. Backing off the clocks stopped it.

You have mentioned 550w and 750w psu, but not makes. And what's the rest of that setup including clocks, etc?
 
Sorry guys, I should explain better (had been at the damn thing all day and was tired when I posted).

My Son has an old (Q6600, running at 2.4, 4gb ram, W7 x64, Samsung 840 SSD, nothing else in the box) PC I thought would tide him over till Xmas, and in the meantime (his birthday) get him a better video card.

I also figured a better PSU and case with more room might be in order (R9 290 is huuuuuuge). He uses the PC for Youtube, Minecraft, Terraria and not much else at the moment but wants to max out his visuals with shaders, view distance etc, plus at some point he will switch to non block based gaming (I assume...)

Wiped the old drivers (HD6870 card in there), installed XFX R9 290 (used), get to windows, install new drivers, fire Google Chrome up and head to Youtube... Blue screen.

I bought two of these things, an XFX and an MSI TwinFrozr (which the seller had said was an RMA return and barely used). Both have Manufacturers warranty remaining I think. Both do the same thing. Get to Chrome, then it's a matter of time before BSOD.

Looked on the internet, lots of people have this 'A0000001' BSOD, apparently caused by 'atikmdag.sys'.

Before the AMD drivers (tried 14.4 and Beta 14.7) are installed they work fine as generic VGA cards on generic monitor. Youtube, Chrome, fine, multiple videos playing. Not tried gaming with it like that so might do. Anyway, put a driver in (latest 14.4 or Beta 14.7) and BSOD shortly after opening Chrome or sometimes at random.

Driver issue or hardware fault? Got me stumped. Before I put one in mine (as per sig) I need to get my sons's sorted. If all else fails I will try to return/rma these and give my son the GTX 660 out of my box, and I will make do with whatever I have lying around, or swap with his 6870.

Will also try the drivers that come with the card on the disc. Always figured later drivers=better but in this case, maybe not.
 
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