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Why is AMD quiet about black screens on 290x?

Rangerjr1 said:
Black screen of death? Its not of death exactly, i just have to reconnect the DVI or alt + f4 the app causing it.

And yes, ONLY if volts are applied.
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Does doing a power off (holding power button) not solve the black screen?

I can get my pc to black screen when I oc the memory anything over stock but the core can go to 1150 on stock volts, I've tried the sapphire bios, asus 290 bios and asus 290x bios all the same result.

When my pc gets the black screen it needs me to turn off and back on to get display back.
 
vUNREALv said:
Does doing a power off (holding power button) not solve the black screen?

I can get my pc to black screen when I oc the memory anything over stock but the core can go to 1150 on stock volts, I've tried the sapphire bios, asus 290 bios and asus 290x bios all the same result.

When my pc gets the black screen it needs me to turn off and back on to get display back.
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Its probably a driver/OC tool issue.
 
Have you tried all the different various overclock tools? Afterburner, gpu tweak, his iturbo, trixxx, the powercolor overclock tool. (don't know the exact name of it) There might be others i can't think of.
 
LtMatt said:
Have you tried all the different various overclock tools? Afterburner, gpu tweak, his iturbo, trixxx, the powercolor overclock tool. (don't know the exact name of it) There might be others i can't think of.
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AFAIK only MSI AB and ASUS Tweak will over volt. And both cause the same issue.
 
Gregster said:
I offered you a reason why it could be doing it and you chose not to accept it. Your attitude stinks and you seriously need to chill out a bit.

No bother though, as I will add you to the ignore list function.
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Cool.

You're claiming im whining about a dud overclocker, which im not. I did 1270 on this card. How is your reasoning valid when the clocks i have issues at could be anything?
 
vUNREALv said:
I wonder how many of us who can either get the black screen by overclocking or get it at stock are on Windows 8/8.1?

I am on 8.1 x64.
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Try to max out the voltages in MSI AB and launch valley. Spin around quickly, this induces the black screen very fast. Stay on stock clocks though.
 
Rangerjr1 said:
Try to max out the voltages in MSI AB and launch valley. Spin around quickly, this induces the black screen very fast. Stay on stock clocks though.
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That doesn't black screen for me.

What causes the black screen for me is taking the memory anything over stock 1250 even 1255 will black screen.

Are you windows 8, 8.1 or 7?
 
It would be good to know if anyone who is black screening has done so on windows 7, I might just reinstall 7 and give it a try see if I can produce the black screen in that OS.
 
To be fair this is not the only complaint about Black Screens on the 290/X.

Having said that if your not getting them with the card (untouched) then its not broken as such, thats not to say nothing is wrong with it, or the drivers, or a combination of that and the OS.

If its Black Screening (untouched) just send it back, if not, accept you didn't get a great one for tweaking, wait for improvements, or DSR if unimpressed.
 
To me this sounds like the vddc isn't applying correctly and its mucking up voltages suitable for stock clocks.

Have you tried a different bios? What brand is the card? If not asus try the asus bios.

And I say this in the nicest possible way....speak to others how you wish to be spoken to, users will be less willing to help if you speak to them like dirt :)
 
humbug said:
To be fair this is not the only complaint about Black Screens on the 290/X.

Having said that if your not getting them with the card (untouched) then its not broken as such, thats not to say nothing is wrong with it, or the drivers, or a combination of that and the OS.

If its Black Screening (untouched) just send it back, if not, accept you didn't get a great one for tweaking, wait for improvements, or DSR if unimpressed.
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I did 1270 on it, and it scored appropriately. I had a black screen during the whole bench.

Now really guys, this is not about the cards capabilities of ocing.
 
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