AMD Radeon R9 290X possible problem

[Calmcookie]

Here's the system, - it's watercooled.

Operating System
Windows 8.1 Pro 64-bit
CPU
AMD FX-9590 14 °C
Vishera 32nm Technology
RAM
16.0GB Dual-Channel DDR3 @ 669MHz (9-9-9-24)
Motherboard
Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd. 990FXA-UD7 (CPU 1) 34 °C
Graphics
W2252 (1680x1050@60Hz)
W2252 (1680x1050@60Hz)
4096MB ATI AMD Radeon R9 200 Series (ATI) 33 °C
Storage
238GB Samsung SSD 840 PRO Series (SSD) 30 °C
931GB SAMSUNG HD103UJ (SATA) 24 °C
1863GB Seagate ST2000DM001-1CH164 (SATA) 30 °C
Optical Drives
HP DVD Writer 1260v
PIONEER BD-ROM BDC-202 ATA Device
Audio
Realtek High Definition Audio

All running fine......played quite a bit of BF4 and other FPS games. Started playing Call of Duty Advanced Warfare, and just recently within the last month, the PC as soon as I start COD AW reboots (not every time, but more often than not)......no blue screen and nothing in the Event Viewer except to say the PC didn't shut down cleanly.
I've also noticed on the times when I have managed to get into the game that there is a buzzing noise from the GFX card area. I thought maybe the PSU was not supplying the correct voltage so a changed the PSU to a Seasonic 80Plus Platinum 1000w ( a bit overkill, but I wanted to make sure there would be no stress.) On my specs above, the temperatures show everything whilst running at idle. The CPU & GFX card very rarely get above 40, so I don't believe it is a overheating problem. The noise only appears when there is a GFX intensive screen and only in this game. I am playing at 1680 x 1050 @ 60hz which is the recommended screen resolution.

I'm just about to get another <£100 GFX card to see if the noise appears from somewhere else and it's not the GFX card.....if it is, I hope it can still be RMA'd.

I have got the game and Steam installed on the Seagate 2tb drive and not the SSD C drive....has anyone heard that this could cause this problem?

Anyone else got any ideas to what could be causing the reboot problem?

 

[africanos23]

I would update the bios if you haven't and also clean sweep the drivers with Display driver uninstaller and reinstall.

If that's the only game its doing it on I wouldn't be worried to be honest.

Are you running something like Raptr or afterburner? I get a lot of problems when running third party tools and get random crashes for no reason.

 

[meldarthx]

CoD:AW isn't known for its stableness on windows platform also

As africanos said; if that's literally the only game doing it; its the game not your system...buzzing noise sounds like coil whine......usually comes out in high frames; what model 290 do you have?

 

[Robert_G]

I was having this exact same problem and games would often just exit as if they had been closed. In my case it was a driver problem and went away after I removed the driver with DDU and re-installed it.

 

[Calmcookie]

what model 290 do you have?

It's a Sapphire Radeon R9 290X GFX card which Overclockers kindly fitted the water block before sending it out to me.

I'm going to try running the PC without Raptr......rather think that could be the problem as I think it seemed to start after that was installed.
I had already recently used the DDU program to install the latest Omega drivers...so hopefully I'll be able to report back with some success.

 

[old gamer]

might be worth click properties in steam and veryfi