R9 290 Vertical stripes on boot (Requesting Help)

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I have recently reapplied my reference cooler to my R9 290 everything was fine and I went to play BF4 and the fans spun up to 100% then blacked screened so I had to restart. On restart I've had this issue since and can't get rid of it, when it happened the VRM's temp was fine although the Core went upto at least 85c, I know this as I had afterburners OSD up.

I've tried to use onboard to get into windows to remove the drivers but even the onboard graphics seem to blackscreen, I took the cooler back off the 290 to check for any burns on VRAM (feels like a memory issue) but the card looks immaculate, I had been having some artifacts/stutter in some areas for about a week so not sure if it has just given up the ghost.

Need it to last until Vega otherwise I'll have to get either a Fury (£300) or GTX 1080 (£600) and I like my freesync :(

If anyone has any ideas please shoot so I have some ideas tomorrow :D May the PC gods be with me.

EDIT: Forgot to add I have indeed tried it in my second PCI-E slot and it had the same issue so gotta be either GPU or PSU right?
 
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Could be static damage when refitting the cooler has borked the ram. You could try reducing thr Memory speed and down clocking the core.
 
CEUOTC said:
Could be static damage when refitting the cooler has borked the ram. You could try reducing thr Memory speed and down clocking the core.
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Weird thing is it was working perfectly until it started 3D clocking then went weird, I'd of thought it'd of just been dead from static although if I can get into windows somehow I'll downclock the core and memory, not sure how to get in when it just artifacts and dies.
 
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