R9 290 BSOD

[gazrawly]

Purchased the Sapphire Tri-X OC 290 and all is not well

 

Since fitting the 290 using 14.1 drivers, I have had the blue screen of death numerous times. Has anyone else had this issue? I've read up on a few forums of people having blue screen issues with other drivers.

 

The funny thing is, all seems very stable when gaming and benchmarking. Infact, I am able to run Prime 95 & Unigine Valley extreme HD at the same time without any trouble at all which I presume rules out an issue with the PSU being insufficient? The blue screen seems to happen with reasonable consistency when skipping a video in youtube or opening up HWinfo at the point when it reads all the sensors. I was running a Radeon 6870 HD previously and never had an issue with stability.

 

Bleeding pain in the rear this is :unsure: 

[maazster]

Purchased the Sapphire Tri-X OC 290 and all is not well

 

Since fitting the 290 using 14.1 drivers, I have had the blue screen of death numerous times. Has anyone else had this issue? I've read up on a few forums of people having blue screen issues with other drivers.

 

The funny thing is, all seems very stable when gaming and benchmarking. Infact, I am able to run Prime 95 & Unigine Valley extreme HD at the same time without any trouble at all which I presume rules out an issue with the PSU being insufficient? The blue screen seems to happen with reasonable consistency when skipping a video in youtube or opening up HWinfo at the point when it reads all the sensors. I was running a Radeon 6870 HD previously and never had an issue with stability.

 

Bleeding pain in the rear this is :unsure:

Which PSU are you using?

[gazrawly]

Be Quiet 530w (580peak) 80plus

[kuzimins]

Try 14.2

http://support.amd.com/en-us/kb-articles/Pages/latest-catalyst-windows-beta.aspx

[maazster]

Be Quiet 530w (580peak) 80plus

Hmm, it may be your PSU then, it might not enough amps on the 12V rail, but 530W should be enough for a 290, try using another PSU.

[Liam-McShane]

Happened to me today to (13.12 or something like that). Quick Google of the error seems to point to AMD drivers. I re-installed and am yet to see it recur so far.

[gazrawly]

Thanks chaps. I've just installed the 14.2 beta drivers to see if this solves the issue. Failing that, I may RMA the card and opt for an NVidia card at this rate...

 

Maazster, I have a friend who is willing to lend me their PSU to see if this makes a difference. But, I don't believe this is the problem personally as at full load I don't seem to get any issue.

[kinkywink]

Thanks chaps. I've just installed the 14.2 beta drivers to see if this solves the issue. Failing that, I may RMA the card and opt for an NVidia card at this rate...

Maazster, I have a friend who is willing to lend me their PSU to see if this makes a difference. But, I don't believe this is the problem personally as at full load I don't seem to get any issue.

My stock r9 20 had a similar issue, its from sapphire too.. but my issue was more gaming full screen then switching to desktop it would artifact and then blue screen, even when watching videos wherd the gpu wouldnt be at 100% load. Im sending my r9 290 back and im either getting the windforce version for 50 dollars more or a 780 for 200 more

[Nit3Rid3R]

Try using 14.2 drivers and see if the issue is still there, if it is then move back to 13.11. If the blue screen still occurs try your card in a different system and repeat the test. 

[GamerDude]

Ever since AMD had released its Mantle driver, 14.1 and 14.2, I got to say they aren't as good as previous non-Mantle drivers. While most games run fine, some games result is freezes and even a hard lock or two. With 13.12WHQL, absolutely no problem, with 14.1, some stability issue and game freezes.....and with 14.2, I've even had freezes in UT3, something that has NEVER happened before. Sometimes, it's due to CFX, when I ran Shadow Warrior with dual R9 290X, I had stutters and freezes, disabled CFX and it was most fine.....some minor gfx glitches/artifacts, I put it to the driver (it's a Beta after all).

 

BTW, I forgot to add that while 14.2 B1.3 does have some issues, it seems to be more stable than 14.1 B1.6. One thing though, my TR performance has dropped tremendously with these drivers. Meanwhile, my single HD7970 in my 3rd rig seems to be loving these drivers, no issues at all, COD Ghosts runs buttery smooth. Have yet to try BF3 and BF4 since Origin saw fit to vanish from my rig. When I tried to play any games from Origin, I get an 'Origin is not installed' error message.....can't tell how much I detest Origin.

[Liam-McShane]

It has happened to me again today. This time with the 14.2 drivers. I'll see if it happens again. It has only occurred when i play a video file.

[mc141]

Did u uninstal the drivers first before the 14.2 install

[aquaraider11]

Hmm, it may be your PSU then, it might not enough amps on the 12V rail, but 530W should be enough for a 290, try using another PSU.

I have SuperFlower SF-600P14XE

Its 600w

 

How can i know if my PSY 12V rail does not have enough amps?

 

I m TOTAL noob in case of PSU:s so i dont know ANYTHING about them.

 

I have spare PSU to switch to, but its only 450w bronce and its almost 8 years old (still was perfectly workking as i bought a new one)

 

I THINK that 450w PSU might be enough for my system as i KNOW my prevous setup consumed (with monitors and old GPU) 300W and i read from somewhere that 290x would consume 250w so system (without GPU and monitors) = 200w and GPU 250w = 450. So should i try with my old GPU?

 

Or is there easier way to know if my PSU is insufficient?

 

And if the case is that my PSU is not powerfull enough, what should i do with it? Is "insufficient amppage" valid reason for RMA?

[Sonefiler]

upgrade to catalyst 14.4

[aquaraider11]

upgrade to catalyst 14.4

Does it work?

 

I have been in 14.4 update a while now (beta guru3d version ETC) now i installed 14.4 with the atikmdag.sy_ thingy and still crashes.

 

Should i try without trikky thingy?

[Sonefiler]

Does it work?

 

I have been in 14.4 update a while now (beta guru3d version ETC) now i installed 14.4 with the atikmdag.sy_ thingy and still crashes.

 

Should i try without trikky thingy?

Get an RMA. Don't get a 780. Just get a new R9 290. You got a bad one. It happens to the best of us.

[aquaraider11]

Get an RMA. Don't get a 780. Just get a new R9 290. You got a bad one. It happens to the best of us.

Allready did once, and got new.

(mine is r9 290x msi gaming but it does not realy matter as the problem is the same)

 

But yeah.

 

I dont have ANY idea what the heck i did, but now my crash frequensy is ~7 hours witch is usable for me.

I did NOT install any drivers at all, but i still have all the drivers and software... weird...

I just uninstalled all AMD (and msi) software, then i uninstalled displaydrivers from device manager and then i restartted, went to device manager and updated the drivers and it told the drivers are allready up to date, somewhere in my computer appeared catalyst control center (C:\Program Files (x86)\ATI Technologies\ATI.ACE\Core-Static, i have zero idea how it got itself there as i uninstalled it and i never reinstalled it) and it says my Driver Packaging Version is  13.251-131206a-166151E-ATI.

That is fine for me as i do not use mantle atleast not yet.

 

Also i have done some SERIOUS tweaks for my motherboard as i think its the faulty part and i m getting new one soon. as an example my PCIE clock is 150 (default 100) witch is max and without that crashes are realy common.

Also my HT frequensy is 800 i have no idea who or what set it to 800 it just was 800 one time i went to bios, and i remember setting it to 2200 as 2000 was default, or atleast that was number it picked on automatick.

 

So my comuter is now semistable, i have no idea what i did but there is mostly all that i did.

And i m happy with this semistability, and as i mentioned before i m getting new MOBO and also new CPU if it does not make it fully stable, ill once again RMA my card and this time ill swap it to king of R9 290(x) series MSI R9 290x LIGHTNING

 

EDIT: Funny... AMD driver autodetect says that i do not have any drivers and wants to download some for me... I think i have some drivers as i can play any games on ultra with no lag at all

[Humbug]

Ever since AMD had released its Mantle driver, 14.1 and 14.2, I got to say they aren't as good as previous non-Mantle drivers. While most games run fine, some games result is freezes and even a hard lock or two. With 13.12WHQL, absolutely no problem, with 14.1, some stability issue and game freezes.....and with 14.2, I've even had freezes in UT3, something that has NEVER happened before.

They also just pulled their recently posted WHQL driver, and fixed it. Apparently it had caused some instability in some systems.

http://www.guru3d.com/news_story/amd_cancels_and_reposts_amd_catalyst_14_4_whql_driver.html

[Sonefiler]

RMA it for your money and get http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814131549 this

[GamerDude]

BTW, I think it'd be best to do a clean install. Download and run DDU (Display Driver Uninstaller, you can find at guru3d) and run it instead of using Cat Install Manager via control panel. It cleans out everything, including remnants of driver in the registry, run DDU in Safe Mode (recommended). Upon restart, install the latest Cat driver. I've always used Driver Sweeper after uninstalling Cat driver via control panel, never had a card failed on me for all the years I've been using ATi/AMD cards.

[Ismaildefranc]

Hello guys. I actually have a Sapphire Tri-x R9 290 and I had the same problems as gazrawly. I changed my psu from a 600w EVGA one to a Corsair 750w. This was not needed as I found out later that I had some driver issues so I downgraded from amd's 14.4 drivers to 13.2. Yes you do lose performance in the gpu but at least now I was getting less BSODs and a more stable pc.

 

Now I still get the blue screen if I try to overclock or install windows update or even restart the pc which needs me to use system restores to try to get back to when it was working.

 

I also just realized that I have no earth going to the extension cord for my pc. Does anyone think that this could be a cause for an unstable pc? and only pc cause my mac pro works fine without the earth.

 

Thanks

Ismail