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Hello guys, here is my problem:

My screen often flickers with 2D display (like in the menu of a game, when watching video/browsing, when playing visual novel). I waited a month before posting, just to make sure I couldn't solve this by miself with forums and stuff, but I am at my last resort. other than flickering, I somethimes experience black screen crash at random (never in a 3d game) when watching videos, doing video editing and general browsing. I tried checking my drivers, my monitor, overclocking options and everything usual. nothing work but I know for sure the problem comes from my graphics card. need help. here are my specs:

CPU: FX-8350
Motherboard: Asus Crosshair-V Formual-Z
Graphics Card: Sapphire Vapor-X R9 290 Tri-X OC
PSU: 750w

RAM: 2x 8 Gb Radeon Memory 2133h (16 Gb total)
1 SSD

1 HDD

Windows 8.1

 

Up to date in all drivers (and even tried beta and oler drivers)

 

The flickering is non-constant, random and very hardcore. I need help.

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oh dear 

 

looks like you are affect by the ramdom black screen problems

 

you need to RMA the card

 

this is related to the VRAM problems

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Hello guys, here is my problem:

My screen often flickers with 2D display (like in the menu of a game, when watching video/browsing, when playing visual novel). I waited a month before posting, just to make sure I couldn't solve this by miself with forums and stuff, but I am at my last resort. other than flickering, I somethimes experience black screen crash at random (never in a 3d game) when watching videos, doing video editing and general browsing. I tried checking my drivers, my monitor, overclocking options and everything usual. nothing work but I know for sure the problem comes from my graphics card. need help. here are my specs:

CPU: FX-8350

Motherboard: Asus Crosshair-V Formual-Z

Graphics Card: Sapphire Vapor-X R9 290 Tri-X OC

PSU: 750w

RAM: 2x 8 Gb Radeon Memory 2133h (16 Gb total)

1 SSD

1 HDD

Windows 8.1

 

Up to date in all drivers (and even tried beta and oler drivers)

 

The flickering is non-constant, random and very hardcore. I need help.

 

 

oh dear 

 

looks like you are affect by the ramdom black screen problems

 

you need to RMA the card

 

this is related to the VRAM problems

What the is the PSU?

 

Black screens are likely to be the PSU, not the GPU. The PSU will reset if under load that it can't handle.

 
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My PSU is a thermal take Smart series M750w

its a good PSU you got there

 

but if you can get another PSU to test

 

you can test the spare PSU with your GPU

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a bit hard to pull off. any other solutions I could try before RMA my card?

guess you dont have a spare GPU either :/

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strange. While scavenging that other totally obselete card in the old PC, I found an old DVI cable and decided to try it out on my actual card. while some tiny lines are seen once in a while in my screen, it does not flicker (it still does, but 1000x less, so like once every hour for .3sec) anymore. maybe the problem was with the HDMI cable (the one coming with the GPU) or something. anyway, the problem is (almost) gone. enough for it not to be a problem anymore ^_^

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talked too soon. after a blackscreen crash, it reappeared. -_-'

yea looks really like the GPU at fault

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I noticed something strange in cataqlyst control center. in the digital flat-screen options, under proprieties, it states that the maximal refresh rate of my monitor (a HP 2509) is 70Hz, while it is in fact 60Hz, checked both on HP website and in perepherial options. could this be at fault?

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I noticed something strange in cataqlyst control center. in the digital flat-screen options, under proprieties, it states that the maximal refresh rate of my monitor (a HP 2509) is 70Hz, while it is in fact 60Hz, checked both on HP website and in perepherial options. could this be at fault?

could be that

 

force it to only 60hz

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I noticed something strange in cataqlyst control center. in the digital flat-screen options, under proprieties, it states that the maximal refresh rate of my monitor (a HP 2509) is 70Hz, while it is in fact 60Hz, checked both on HP website and in perepherial options. could this be at fault?

 

That could be a problem, if the monitor is being overclocked to an unstable refresh rate it will have frame time issues and black screen as if it was unplugged. You should be able to see if it's actually displaying 70 fps here http://www.testufo.com/#test=frameskipping Otherwise you should force it down to 60 and see if the problem stops.

 

Have you tried disabling ULPS? If the card is switching back and forth between the utlra low power state and then back to normal constantly it can cause artifacts and flickering.

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Ok there are 2 diffrent vbios for this card. Had the same idle issue on my msi 280x. Flashing the latest bios fixed it. Turned out it was the idle clock set to low in the older bios so the screen went buggy.

 

Bios (old) for backup

http://www.techpowerup.com/vgabios/156691/sapphire-r9290-4096-140313.html

 

Bios (new) 

http://www.techpowerup.com/vgabios/157520/sapphire-r9290-4096-140313-1.html

 

If you have a dual bios switch on the card set it to "1" or check the manual how it's set to read/write

 

Flashtool amd 

http://www.techpowerup.com/downloads/2232/ati-winflash-2-3-0/start?server=6

 

Extract the .rom file in the winflash folder.

Run the tool as admin then select the rom and press program. Or from cmd (shift + rightclick -> open cmd here)

Execute atiwinflash -f -p 0 "NAME of the BIOS".rom

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When I try to run the programm, it says: "separate ATI video card not found". do I need to put the .rar content in a specific place fo it to work? or more precisely, could you give me a step by step guide to doing that, never flashed a GPU bios before (and my current GPU bios is up to date, if it matters to know)

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help plz,I don't know how to use atiwinflash at all, can someone give me some advices? it says it can't detect my card, is there something I can do?

if you are not sure about flashing the BIOS

 

will suggest sending it for RMA and tell them the problem via email

 

you dont want to brick the GPU if you do the flashing the wrong way

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