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R9 290 - 3 Days and broken, help!

Mr_White

Mr_White

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So I got an R9 290 on Friday and last night it started throwing up black/white artifacts OS wide. I wasn't sure if it was the card or the OS and drivers etc that had screwed up.

So I've reformatted and reinstalled today, still the same thing happening, only before it was OS wide, but now it's just on 3D applications and Firefox and things like that, if you're just on windows it's fine. I've tried it in all the PCI-E slots, tried all the outputs and it does the same thing. Tried different connectors from the PSU.

So I'm thinking that it's borked, not best pleased.

It has been mining litecoin 24/7 since I got it, but never have I let it run out of control so it's constantly throttling or anything, temps have been a consistent 92c with no throttling, the only thing that I've done to it is undervolted it by -44 and -66% via afterburner for maybe a day or two, just to get the temps down a little more so the fan can run a tad quieter.

Do you think undervolting it has broken it or it was just gonna do this anyway? I've underclocked it to 840 core whilst it was being undervolted, so not much was being demaned of it.

Any help would be hugely appreciated, what's the oldest driver that is compatible with the card? I may try that if anyone knows!

Any assistance would be great, it's been a while since I've dealt with finicky highend GPus like this!

http://i.imgur.com/MccqokC.jpg

Here's a screen shot of it only doing it Firefox and not OS wide, it seems anything that's using much GPU acceleration is getting artifacts or something?
 
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Mining wouldn't kill it if setup the way you say, FireFox does use GPU acceleration and what your picture looks like is memory related. that doesn't mean its broke, FireFox and GPU's don't always agree with eachother.

How is it in gaming, benching ecte...?

In the meantime you can turn GPU acceleration off in FireFox (Options > Advanced > uncheck 'Use Hardware Acceleration')
 
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Use a different browser like Chrome and ill bet those black squares go away, unless the card really is faulty.
 
Those artifacts are present in anything that seems to be using the GPU, and benchmarks/games will either persist with the artifacts or lock up and crash completely The screen shot was just to show how separate the issue is from the rest OS really. I'm thinking it's just screwed and it's RMA time.

Mining hashrate isn't terribly affected I don't think, I've been spending more time troubleshooting, but that would fit in with the memory thing. I'm just futilely looking for an answer that isn't a broken card I think, when I just have a broken card :p
 
Mr_White said:
I'm just futilely looking for an answer that isn't a broken card I think, when I just have a broken card :p
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Ha ha. We all do it.

Just get it back ASAP and get yourself one that works. Alternatively, custom cooled are available to pre-order now if you wanted a refund from your RMA :).
 
Mr_White said:
Those artifacts are present in anything that seems to be using the GPU, and benchmarks/games will either persist with the artifacts or lock up and crash completely The screen shot was just to show how separate the issue is from the rest OS really. I'm thinking it's just screwed and it's RMA time.

Mining hashrate isn't terribly affected I don't think, I've been spending more time troubleshooting, but that would fit in with the memory thing. I'm just futilely looking for an answer that isn't a broken card I think, when I just have a broken card :p
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Then its RMA time.
 
Rusty0611 said:
Ha ha. We all do it.

Just get it back ASAP and get yourself one that works. Alternatively, custom cooled are available to pre-order now if you wanted a refund from your RMA :).
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Well my plan was to custom cool this until it decided to commit seppuku! So I think I'll just try and get a replacement ASAP and carry on as I was. Could have done without this though :(
 
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