390x bluescreen

[MAP_Finder]

So I picked up a pair of completely untested R9 390xs for really cheap and they came in so of course the first thing I did was try them as they where. It showed a display, it booted normally into Windows, then bam! Bluescreen as soon as I go to put in my password, I've fixed a number of broken graphics cards but I've never seen this before and the other 390x did the same. I swapped over to the
graphics card I was using before and it booted and did things no problem. Put one of the 390xs in, booted to Linux, and it runs completely fine in Linux, threw the other one in to Crossfire test them and it's again, completely fine in Linux. Well, I had a spare hard drive so I decided to make a new Windows install on it and midway through the install it gets stuck on a bluescreen loop, bluescreens, restarts PC, bluescreens, restarts PC and so on. Does anyone know what might be wrong with this? I would take the cards apart to look for any physical damage but if they where damaged in any way I don't know why they would work perfectly fine in Linux, also I don't think it was my Windows install because it would bluescreen while installing Windows on a blank hard drive.

[Helpful Tech Witch]

Drivers. Linux has drivers preinstalled. Windows does not. Just to double check, whats the error code when they bsod?

[MAP_Finder]

Something like

1 minute ago, HelpfulTechWizard said:

Drivers. Linux has drivers preinstalled. Windows does not. Just to double check, whats the error code when they bsod?

Something like APPLICATION_NOT_HANDLED but I'll check for what it says exactly in a minute

[MAP_Finder]

This is the bluescreen the 390xs cause

[MAP_Finder]

4 minutes ago, MAP_Finder said:

This is the bluescreen the 390xs cause

Looks like I need to install Ubuntu and install drivers then, won't boot in Crossfire with my R9 Fury X into Windows and the driver support for Linux Mint is non existent.

[Helpful Tech Witch]

27 minutes ago, MAP_Finder said:

Looks like I need to install Ubuntu and install drivers then, won't boot in Crossfire with my R9 Fury X into Windows and the driver support for Linux Mint is non existent.

You could install drivers on old GPU or an iGPU, the ddu the current ones.

[MAP_Finder]

58 minutes ago, HelpfulTechWizard said:

You could install drivers on old GPU or an iGPU, the ddu the current ones.

Oh, yeah I for some reason figured I would need the graphics card installed for that but that wouldn't be the case unless the driver somehow physically changed the firmware, thanks for that time saving tip Lol