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Odd screen when updating drivers on 290x

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Hey all,

I've been getting issues when I uninstall the previous drivers for CCC for the last couple of beta drivers.

Firstly my specs are as follows :

- CPU: Intel Core i7 4790K Overclocked to 4.7GHz
- Motherboard: Asus Maximus VII Formula Z97X
- RAM: Avexis Blitz 16GB 2400MHz C10
- Graphics: 3 x Sapphire Tri-X OC AMD Radeon R9 290X 4096MB
- Photon 270 reservoir and D5 Pump combo
- Full watercooling loop - External and internal
- Primary Drive: Samsung 840 Evo Series 1TB SSD
- Secondary Drive: Seagate Barracuda 2TB SATA-III Hard Drive
- Optical Drive: LG 16x Blu Ray writer
- Audio: 7.1 Channel HD Audio with SPDIF I/O
- Operating System: Microsoft Windows 8.1 64-Bit
- Power Supply: Super Flower Leadex Platinum 1200W

I am playing on a Sony 55 inch bravia at the moment but have also tried to fix this issue on a normal BenQ monitor.
Basically, I uninstall the drivers and software, same routine as I've always followed. Restart the pc. But when it comes back on I'm getting a grey screen with artifacting all over it and I can see behind this grey screen that my icons are massive.

I first thought that it was booting back up in such a low res that my TV was unable to display it. Thats why I tried my sons monitor which goes down to 1024x768 but it did the same thing.

Tried to boot into safe mode with F8 and windows disk inserted, but for some really weird reason that is a hit and miss affair, sometimes it works but others it just goes to a bios type screen with boot order options, not safe mode option.

I did mange to get into safe mode twice but wasn't able to install the driver as it failed to initialise a check.

I'm totally baffled with this guys, any ideas what may be happening ?

I have now got the drivers installed because after trying it out on my sons monitor and then switching back the HDMI lead to my big TV it just booted up normally. It's very intermittent and I'm dreading doing the next driver update as this issue lasted for a couple of hours this time. Could one of my cards be up the shoot, as was suggested/feared by OCUK ?

Thanks for looking.
 
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