Weird GPU Issue. Black screen on cooling down.

PureEnergy · 8 Mar 2018 at 01:11

Hey, guys got this really weird problem where I can play games for hours and bake my card no problem, but as soon as I stop playing. As the card is cooling down it will just turn off the display and won't come back. Rebooting the pc fixes it (although sometimes it will go off again a few times after booting)

I'll be honest I'm starting to suspect the motherboard as I had issues with a PCI network card(Still do really) where it seemed to be the card at fault but then I tried a few and all of them had the same issue(ended up wiggling it a little and it worked, haven't touched it since)

Any ideas?

postmanfw · 8 Mar 2018 at 02:35

Welcome to the forums

Is the gpu overclocked at all?

PureEnergy · 8 Mar 2018 at 08:04

Hey

I believe it's clocked from factory. It's a Sapphire R9 290 tri-x.

Also, the motherboard is an Asus m5a99x evo v1.0.

EDIT: Yes, overclocked by Sapphire.

Habakkuk · 8 Mar 2018 at 18:36

This sounds like a OS issue rather than a hardware issue - can you boot windows & play a game from another hard drive?

P4Clock · 8 Mar 2018 at 18:48

First thing you do is a full driver pull and fresh install. any aftermarket programs like "MSI afterburner" or what ever remove them all.
i have had a few 290's with the black screen problem, but normally its mid game as the card heats up.

"This normally is the card on its way out - if it is the heat problem"