290 issue

[JamesM]

This happens after about 20-30 mins of watching a video, Twitch for example

I have two 290s and they both do this on their own and in the system together.

Can they both be broken? Or could it be something else?

 

[Mei]

do you mean any video like avi/mp4 or do you really mean online video using flash?
if the later its most likely a flash/browser problem

i like ur screen

 

[snips86x]

Have you tried disabling hardware acceleration in the browser?

Do they do the same after 30-40 mins of gaming?

 

[JamesM]

Gaming doesnt seem so bad?

and it's mostly flash/online video I think

 

[arc@css]

Do you have the latest bios update for your mobo?

 

[Gregster]

That is a strange one. If it isn't doing it whilst gaming but only doing it after a decent period of time on video, it could be drivers. Try a previous driver and see if that helps/fixes it.

 

[gareth170]

Gaming doesnt seem so bad?

meaning what? it happens alittle or something different?

 

[LtMatt]

Disabling hardware acceleration might fix it. Report that bug and link to this thread James when you submit the report to the driver team.

 

[JamesM]

meaning what? it happens alittle or something different?

meaning I haven't noticed it in game but I can't rule out it happening

i've had so many system crashes recently and GPU issues i've lost track

new psu, motherboard, cpu and memory and now I have this ha

 

[Gregster]

James hasn't had a lot of luck recently I feel your pain bro.

 

[JamesM]

Honestly it's a joke, never had so many issues in my life.

 

[Orangey]

Somebody must know what that pattern means.

Strange suggestion but have you tried a more standard monitor?

 

[arc@css]

I don't know if there's anything related to my issues, but you may as well take a look at my thread. Maybe something will resonate?

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18607152

 

[gareth170]

tbh there's so many people (including me) having issues with the 200 series. either random black screen, died gpu, artifacting, ect.

amd needs to sort this. so far I've had 4 290x, 2 asus cards and 2 powercolour cards, they all had/have different issues.

 

[Nexus18]

I had similar screens/issues (mine would be a blue screen but the writing was all messed up and jaggy) but this has fixed all my issues *touch wood*

With my MSI 290, I was having problems with my PC blue screening, locking up, didn't matter if it where just watching a film, youtube video, playing a game, could be fine one day then happen the next day.

Looked at event viewer and atikmdag seemed to be the main thing.

Ever since I did the following "fix", I haven't had any problems *touch wood*

http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/answers/id-1656824/atikmdag-sys-error-bsod-startup.html

edit:

my BSOD error code was 0xa0000001

edit:

i only have the display driver installed, no ccc and no gpu programs like afterburner.

 

[Qitarah]

Out of the 4 290's I've dealt with (as a note all are tri-x r9 290's).


One black screened within 1 min of boosting to 3d clocks, regardless of the program. The replacement (current graphics card) works flawlessly on z97 but was causing infrequent BSODS on my older x58 system.

One for my girlfriend 4 months ago. It recently started artifacting and flickering so will need to be RMA'd.

Built a computer for my friend few weeks back. His tri-x 290 high temp's at not much load and has the infamous "fan wobble". So that will probably have to go back as well.


So 2/4 had issues with them from day one and the 3rd developed a fault at some point.



That being said I think when you actually get one without any issues they are fantastic cards. This one I'm using now is just a lovely piece of equipment and I couldn't be happier with it.

 

[JamesM]

I also get AMD driver errors at stock clocks (975 / 1250)

thanks for the replies so far guys, will investigate further.

Have tried all drivers and win 7, 8 and 8.1

 

[gareth170]

That being said I think when you actually get one without any issues they are fantastic cards. This one I'm using now is just a lovely piece of equipment and I couldn't be happier with it.

the problem is getting one that works without any issues.

has i said above, I've had 4 290x cards total, the first two was asus cards which 1 was overheating and the other had artifacting, the current two are powercolor cards and they both crash randomly to a black screen when gaming..