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Gigabyte 290OC - Win7 fails to boot

kronos13

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I got the Gigabyte 290OC last night and installed that in my computer. I previously had the Gigabyte 7950 running with the latest AMD 13.12 drivers working without problems.

I didn't remove the drivers, only installed the card and at first boot it worked fine, detecting a new card and new drivers was loaded by Win7.

After this it refused to work with any ATI drivers. The Win7 loading icon will appear, when this is supposed to go away and the logon screen must appear it just get's stuck with a blank grey screen and the computer never goes beyond this point. It's almost like something crashes at this point, nothing is displayed or in the event log.

I have completely removed and re-installed the drivers from scratch as well, still it refuses to go beyond that point.
Only way to get it back is to run the standard VGA card driver.

Setup:
AMD 8120
Asus M5A99X EVO
16 Gig memory Gskill Ripjaw
Win7 Ultimate 64bit

Anyone have any ideas?
 
old gamer said:
driver sweeper in safe mode to completly clear the old drivers might be the best bet
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Hi,
I've done that already as well. Just been on the phone to Overclockers, they recon they memory modules on the card might be faulty, so I'm sending it back. What a disappointment, was looking forward to me new 290... :mad:
 
Might be a bit of a pain but maybe a new install of Windows?

I always like to do that whenever I upgrade to any new hardware.

What is the power delivery like on your motherboard?

When I first got my 290X I had a Socket 1156 motherboard that sometimes wouldn't boot with the 290X plugged in and I would just get a blank screen. It only had a 4pin cpu power connector.
 
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the1gooner said:
Might be a bit of a pain but maybe a new install of Windows?

I always like to do that whenever I upgrade to any new hardware.

What is the power delivery like on your motherboard?

When I first got my 290X I had a Socket 1156 motherboard that sometimes wouldn't boot with the 290X plugged in and I would just get a blank screen. It only had a 4pin cpu power connector.
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I have the 8 pin cpu power connector.

This is the motherboard, it should handle the card.
http://www.asus.com/Motherboards/M5A99X_EVO/#overview

I also have a Be Quite 730W powersupply.

I spoke to Overclockers and they said the card is faulty, they recon it could be memory modules and have issues me an RMA.
Maybe I was just unlucky....
 
Just for contrast, my Gigabyte 290 OC arrived yesterday too. It was to replace an aging GTX470 in my Asus M6H.

I disabled my net connection, removed the GTX470 drivers and uninstalled the card in windows ( 8.1 x64 ), then powered off, put the 290 in and booted into safe mode, ran DDU, rebooted and installed the 13.30 beta drivers and have been grinning inanely ever since.

Long may it continue, it's a great card, nice and quiet too.

Hope you get yours sorted quickly Kronos, it'll be worth the delay :D

Edit: FYI, mine came with the F3L bios installed.
 
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Finguz said:
Just for contrast, my Gigabyte 290 OC arrived yesterday too. It was to replace an aging GTX470 in my Asus M6H.

I disabled my net connection, removed the GTX470 drivers and uninstalled the card in windows, then powered off, put the 290 in and booted into safe mode, ran DDU, rebooted and installed the 13.30 beta drivers and have been grinning inanely ever since.

Long may it continue, it's a great card, nice and quiet too.

Hope you get yours sorted quickly Kronos, it'll be worth the delay :D
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You should use the 13.12 WHQL drivers mate. The 13.30 drivers are not for discrete gpu's, they're Kaveri launch drivers.
 
Finguz said:
Just for contrast, my Gigabyte 290 OC arrived yesterday too. It was to replace an aging GTX470 in my Asus M6H.

I disabled my net connection, removed the GTX470 drivers and uninstalled the card in windows ( 8.1 x64 ), then powered off, put the 290 in and booted into safe mode, ran DDU, rebooted and installed the 13.30 beta drivers and have been grinning inanely ever since.

Long may it continue, it's a great card, nice and quiet too.

Hope you get yours sorted quickly Kronos, it'll be worth the delay :D

Edit: FYI, mine came with the F3L bios installed.
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Cheers mate, will do. I've put my trusty Gigabyte WF3 7950 back now. Will wait for a new 290.
 
Well there's no point arguing of course, but I was gaming and benching for hours last night and there has been no throttling thus far.

If it should happen in the future I'll let you know.
 
If you randomly see the core clock dropping to 867mhz or some other figure, then you know why.

Pyrage said:
For some reason this driver makes my 290 throttle like crazy. Even without any OC as soon as i play any game my clock goes all the way down to 600-700. Powertune settings seems to not do anything.

I've done 2 clean installs with DDU, nothing. Rollback to 13.12, everything works great again, including my 1150/1400 Overclock. Then i tried to do a clean install of this driver again, everything gets broken again.

Idk if it's just me but it seems that this driver doesn't really like my 290.
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LOL!

Huge noob alert...

I downloaded both the 13.12's and the 13.30's, and upon checking just now, it seems I installed the 13.12's :o:o

Sometimes I wonder how I remember to breathe regularly :D
 
Finguz said:
LOL!

Huge noob alert...

I downloaded both the 13.12's and the 13.30's, and upon checking just now, it seems I installed the 13.12's :o:o

Sometimes I wonder how I remember to breathe regularly :D
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Never question the ways of LT. ;) :p
 
Indeed, if you hadn't pointed that out I would've been going around extolling the virtues of installing a driver I had never tried :rolleyes:
 
Finguz said:
Indeed, if you hadn't pointed that out I would've been going around extolling the virtues of installing a driver I had never tried :rolleyes:
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If you're feeling brave try out the driver. :D

We'll be getting a new driver shortly (13.35) that comes with Mantle and TruAudio support. :cool:
 
After what you've said I think I'll wait for the 13.35's, and obviously make sure I don't try and install some printer drivers instead ;)
 
I'm going to RMA the card on monday, will have to see how long it takes to get it tested.
I've done some reading to decide what my next 290 should be and found the following.

Sapphire Radeon R9 290 Tri-X:
Reference PCB, Custom SK Hynix memory modules

MSI 290 Gaming Edition:
Custom PCB, Non reference memory - MSI uses SK Hynix memory chips (thus not Elpida)

Gigabyte Radeon R9 290 OC WindForce:
Custom PCB, Not Sure if the Vram are the reference type? Think this is the Elpida chips.

Asus Radeon R9 290 DirectCU II:
Customer PCB, Not Sure if the Vram are the reference type? Think this is the Elpida chips.


Based on this the MSI looks like the best card to go for with the custom components.
Can anyone add to this?
 
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