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First Radeon card in forever but a million problems?

So am back with a evga g3 850w gold PSU. Installed them both today. Wiped my Nvidia drivers with DDU and installed the AMD ones.

Now Everytime my computer boots it gets to desktop and blackscreens. So now I've having to go in recovery mode to reset the OS lol.....
 
Techen said:
So am back with a evga g3 850w gold PSU. Installed them both today. Wiped my Nvidia drivers with DDU and installed the AMD ones.

Now Everytime my computer boots it gets to desktop and blackscreens. So now I've having to go in recovery mode to reset the OS lol.....
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Does it run okay with the card removed so you're using the on board cpu graphics?

If so I'd return the V56 while you still can, With Vega as the Red Teams flagship it's not a good time to buy your first AMD GPU. Pascal is a much better platform & while not meaning to offend I've gotta say that I think your crazy switching teams now.
 
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Well I went into safemode, Uninstalled the Radeon drivers and now am back on the desktop with no issues at all.

Am going to reinstall the drivers once more but if it does it again am going to just return the card as faulty as I've pretty much tried everything, Being the 1060 has no issue whatsoever with gaming.
 
4K8KW10 said:
Has your 850W G3 new PSU arrived and is this experience now with it?
Vega is a power hungry chip and there are possible power spikes that will result in unstable power supply.
You said yours was 650W and you peaked at 600W.
90% efficiency of 650W is 585W, which means you probably go over the PSU seiling and this is why it shuts down, before something is damaged.

Try with at least this 850W PSU.
Also, can you use another application, not Radeon Wattman? Sapphire Trixx or MSI Afterburner.
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I run my vega 56 with an overclocked hex core 3930k on a 750 gold G2 EVGA psu with no issues.

I'd recommend a fresh windows install to make sure all nvidia drivers are gone. I did that going from a 1070 to the vega 56. Although the performance is perhaps similar to the 1070, I prefer the Vega for the tools that it uses like iChill.
 
I dont think you can really class a card as faulty if you've not tried a clean windows 10 install tbh - utilities for stripping out Nvidia drivers are great these days - but not infalible. And get the latest AMD drivers from the web - dont use the CD that comes with the card
 
I don't know why people say go for a windows re-install to fully rid the system of the Nvidia drivers, when that should make no difference, as been able to run both for eons, can even have them working together in gaming with Dx12 now.

Unless Nvidia have done as we predicted, if an AMD card is detected, then No ******* way!. :p
 
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The only systems where I've had both nvidia live with AMD in the same box has been with the AMD card being a firepro variant, or by only using the drivers shipped in windows update and not using anything from the manufacturer - has been a few years since I tried on windows though! Pre windows 7 it was pretty much impossible
 
LoadsaMoney said:
I don't know why people say go for a windows re-install to fully rid the system of the Nvidia drivers, when that should make no difference, as been able to run both for eons, can even have them working together in gaming with Dx12 now.

Unless Nvidai have done as we predicted, if an AMD card is detected, then No ******* way!. :p
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Turns out that was just the case.

Full windows wipe, reinstalled AMD drivers and now no longer suffering from the black screen. Am able to run 3dmark on turbo settings however my GPU make isnt showing.

https://www.3dmark.com/3dm/26706816
 
Have you checked the cards BIOS? If it's the one from the MM, it might've had a tweaked BIOS that could be screwing with things in Windows?
 
Techen said:
Turns out that was just the case.

Full windows wipe, reinstalled AMD drivers and now no longer suffering from the black screen. Am able to run 3dmark on turbo settings however my GPU make isnt showing.

https://www.3dmark.com/3dm/26706816
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I am presuming this is a new card? Is it a reference one or AIB?

Things you should do. (I believe you have a Ryzen cpu?)

Download and install the latest BIOS for your motherboard.
Then install the latest AMD chipset drivers.
 
melmac said:
I am presuming this is a new card? Is it a reference one or AIB?

Things you should do. (I believe you have a Ryzen cpu?)

Download and install the latest BIOS for your motherboard.
Then install the latest AMD chipset drivers.
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Lol no, I have a 8700k not a ryzen chip.All my stuff is up to date :)
 
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