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yeaaaahhh... I kinda just broke down, and bit the bullet, and got me an XFX RX570 8gb ordered. Well, thanks for the help.

Oh, I should also mention, this R9 390 was bought used, with no warranty, off of ebay. It worked flawlessly for about six months. But, given the used nature.... RMA ain't gonna happen, most likely.

First time posting, but I had a weird problem crop up last week, that I'm hoping can be fixed with your assistance. First off, the rig, "BB-35" AMD FX-8120, formerly running OC'ed at 3.85ghz, now at stock speeds after troubleshooting efforts. 16gb 1600mhz DDR3, no-name, whatever I could find that works Gigabyte GA-970A-UD3P mobo (I know it's not great for overclocking with its poor VRM cooling....but it was like, $10 from a guy on craigslist. Building on a budget, yo.) EVGA Supernova NEX750B 750W 80+ Bronze power supply Patriot Torch 120gb SSD boot drive (yo, this thing sucks, son. Periodic freezing when the drive is at 100% load.) Toshiba 3tb mass storage Seagate Barracuda 1tb extra-mass storage Two 500gb 5400rpm laptop hard drives. Because I had them, so whatever. Put 'em to work. XFX AMD R9 390 8gb GPU, currently an NVidia GTX570 1.25gb I had laying around, since FX series chips don't have on-board video outs to work with. The problem: The other day I had just got out of the shower and was going to message a friend, when the screen flickered, went black, and stayed black. Upon reboot, it would get stuck between the windows logo and the "spinny balls" in terms of loading, and the screen would go black. I managed to get into safe mode, at which point I uninstalled the drivers, and attempted a reinstall. It went black and stayed black halfway through driver install. Many, many times. Using any iteration of driver you wished. From the most recent, all the way back to 16.11.5. About halfway through, it just goes black, and don't come back. The longest I let it run, in the hopes that it'd wake back up, was an hour or two. Run and got groceries, and came back to no change. So, out comes the R9 390, and in goes the GTX 570. I then had the bright idea to plug the R9 390 into my other PCIe slot, playing second fiddle to the 570. This booted just fine(because it booted from the 570), at which point I was able to reflash the GPU's bios using a copy I found online, I forget where. And several attempts later, I finally succeeded in installing drivers. Except now, it's still getting stuck on bootup. Troubleshooting steps tried: - reflash of Mobo bios - reflash of gpu bios - reinstallation of gpu drivers - reverting of all overclocks back to factory speeds - total removal of all AMD drivers possible from the machine using AMD's cleanup utility in safe mode w/networking - removed all but one ram stick, along with all non-essential drives. - total reinstallation of windows I'm on a budget of $0.00 USD, but I am relatively decent with troubleshooting and repair. The card itself looks fine, no damage I can find. If this card can be saved using something I haven't thought of trying yet, well... that's one less thing I need to stress over. I know my rig ain't great by today's standards, but I gotta do what I can to keep it running. She's all I got right now. Any and all help will be appreciated.