Seems to be an output issue.
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Why is AMD quiet about black screens on 290x?
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Seems to be an output issue.
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First black screen after using the new drivers. I am running the non X version. It happened almost instantly @ 1.3v with 1125cc and 1400mc. I took the cc down to 1100 and now everything seems to be fine. I am hoping it is not just a crappy card. I want to put it under water after xmas, seems like a wast if i am not going to get much out of it. Many 1.35 volts will be enough to push it further.
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So you haven't "black screened" at stock speed then?
Only whilst overclocking?
Still all good for me at stock. No Black Screens
Very much looking forward to mantle and hope it lives up to peoples expectations. Very pleased BF4 will be one of the first games to use it too.
It has it's problems but I'm loving Bf4
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Nope no problems at stock, to be fair i havnt really played much of anything at stock. BF4 gave me the black screen, single player more so than multi. How long till mantle now? by xmas?
Okay back to the same 'monitor signal lost' issue after a fresh install of Windows and gpu at stock voltages/clocks. As I said, played ACIV for about an hour and a half with no issues, left the computer running, came back after an hour, downloaded D3dOverrider, booted up ACIV again and was greeted with a black screen/display loss at the menu. Booted up Batman Origins, same thing.
Guess I will keep the card undervolted until the next set of drivers come out and hopefully fix the issue.
Guess I will keep the card undervolted until the next set of drivers come out and hopefully fix the issue.
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So you haven't "black screened" at stock speed then?
Only whilst overclocking?
Still all good for me at stock. No Black Screens
Very much looking forward to mantle and hope it lives up to peoples expectations. Very pleased BF4 will be one of the first games to use it too.
It has it's problems but I'm loving Bf4
Update!
Thought I would have a quick game of the single player (BF4) and I got the BSOD . In the exact same way as I experienced many times prior to these drivers.
Hard reboot needed.
I'm at a loss.
EDIT: I know BF4 has it's problems but it doesn't cause the BSOD. (I got all the way through the single player campaign without a single crash on my old 6950's crossfire) I've been an AMD customer for years now and this is the first time I've had problems with them . All depends on how this problem 's sorted now , if I'm to continue being an AMD Customer.
I want a replacement card that will not BSOD no matter what "Drivers" I use. there seem to be many cards (R9 290x's) that do not BSOD.
I simply want one of these Cards and will not settle for any thing less.
This card is going back.
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And again, just played BF4 for 20 minutes and black-screened with the 13.11 9.4 Beta driver -.-
I payed a f'in bunch of extra money for early adopting and AMD behaves like there are no issues at all and it's the customer's fault...
Concretely speaking: I'm not able to play most games with the card longer than an hour or two which is no fun at all; besides, I lost somewhat 1/10 of the time (= $$) I should used to have fun gaming with the R9 and like I stated before, I payed a lot of money (actually 100 bucks) to get this thing on release day and what's now?
My experience concerning nVidia-cards are somewhat 'clean' & better until now.
HD 5770 - no issues
GTX 550 Ti - no issues
HD 7850 - no issues
GTX 770 - no issues
GTX 780 - no issues
R9 290X - associated with an immense load of driver-issues and early-adopting conflicts
Independent from the fact of nVidia-consumers having also dealt with several driver-/early adopting-issues, my next card will be nVidia. AMD should have fixed such unusually widespread issue much earlier.
To be honest, since the issue got worse like now, the card and my main-rig is a dust catcher at the moment. I regret it so bad to have spent 560$ for that. That's not what I'd call a "Titan killer" - it's a GPU being launched 8 months too late with a freakin' bunch of problems and disappointing efficiency. I think Titan buyers had got a tremendously better 'out of box experience' with their card 8 months before.
I payed a f'in bunch of extra money for early adopting and AMD behaves like there are no issues at all and it's the customer's fault...
Concretely speaking: I'm not able to play most games with the card longer than an hour or two which is no fun at all; besides, I lost somewhat 1/10 of the time (= $$) I should used to have fun gaming with the R9 and like I stated before, I payed a lot of money (actually 100 bucks) to get this thing on release day and what's now?
My experience concerning nVidia-cards are somewhat 'clean' & better until now.
HD 5770 - no issues
GTX 550 Ti - no issues
HD 7850 - no issues
GTX 770 - no issues
GTX 780 - no issues
R9 290X - associated with an immense load of driver-issues and early-adopting conflicts
Independent from the fact of nVidia-consumers having also dealt with several driver-/early adopting-issues, my next card will be nVidia. AMD should have fixed such unusually widespread issue much earlier.
To be honest, since the issue got worse like now, the card and my main-rig is a dust catcher at the moment. I regret it so bad to have spent 560$ for that. That's not what I'd call a "Titan killer" - it's a GPU being launched 8 months too late with a freakin' bunch of problems and disappointing efficiency. I think Titan buyers had got a tremendously better 'out of box experience' with their card 8 months before.
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I put a support ticket in at Sapphire and they said .....Drum Roll........
Try it on another Motherboard "
that's it...that's all they said. I know it's not Sapphires Problem but they at least know that "trying it on another Mobo" isn't going to make a difference.
If I was in your shoes I would put the stock cooler back on and try it if it still did not work rma it you have to put the stock cooler back anyway to send it back so give it a go.
Apart from overclocking, overvolting, etc etc...
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...and on the stock cooler at that...
I did try overclocking on +150mV for 1200MHz when I was still using the stock cooler for quick bench, I was sensible enough to manually turn the fan to 100% and kept the temp below 73C. Wonder if he was running the max voltage with temp hitting close to 90C for long period of time...
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It hitting 90+ shouldn't be an issue, if you just leave it at auto, it'll do that by itself anyway.
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What's the max fanspeed on auto by the way? I was using custom fanspeed profile since the beginning and I'm not too sure on that.
But ain't auto doesn't ramp up the speed of the fan till quite late though? If anyone was using max voltage high clock for benches, they should ramp up the speed of the fan from the start, not leaving it to do it automatically after hitting 85C+. With my fanspeed profile of 50% at 70C, 55% at 80C, 60% at 90C, the temp did not exceed 81C and fanspeed did not exceed 55% after 45 mins of Heaven loop...grant that wasn't on max voltage and 1200MHz, but with a more conservative voltage and overclock.
55% according to the [H] review, may have changed since
http://www.hardocp.com/article/2013/10/23/amd_radeon_r9_290x_video_card_review/13
http://www.hardocp.com/article/2013/10/23/amd_radeon_r9_290x_video_card_review/13
Heres my notes of the black screen problem with 290X. My PC is powered down over night and when i start it for the first time it will black screen once within a hour. Then i power down and no problems after that. I think if i start the PC and then shutdown it when windows is loaded and start again im good without black screen. Other night i noticed when i black screened and was playing BF4 and talking with my friends in TeamSpeak3 when the black screen occured i was good for talkin to my friends even the black screen was present at the time. The catalyst beta 9.4 drivers were better and the delay of black screen increased but not gone.
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Is the memory clock at stock clock? Just wondering.
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It was on water.