Possible issues with drivers

[Juuldebuul]

Hey guys,

 

I just put a newish R9 into my pc as my old 6990 went up in smoke. When I login to windows I see my desktop for a few seconds before I get some weird glitches and the screen turns white/black/green/red, yes it's actually been all of those on different tries :S. When I boot into safe mode nothing's wrong, it's all stable. So I used the AMD driver removal thingy in safe mode and removed everything, rebooted into safe mode again, installed the newest drivers that were auto selected for my system, rebooted again... to no avail, same exact issues again. Is my windows still struggling with corrupt drivers? The fact that it works fine in safe mode means the hardware is okay right? Could it be a power or motherboard issue? I tried with a friend's GTX 760 and it worked fine also.

 

Also there's a BIOS switch on the MSI R9, on one setting the pc won't even show the BIOS screen on bootup, actually shows nothing! On the second setting it works but gives the errors above. 

 

AW Aurora R3 / 2600k / 12gb / 250gb 850 samsung evo / AMD R9

 

Weird right?!  I am absolutely clueless right now.

[Gravemind]

It could be a driver, but it sounds to me like your power supply doesn't get along with your card.

[Juuldebuul]

Could it be a voltage thing? I thought maybe the second BIOS mode has a slightly higher voltage (for overlocks) that the psu can't provide so the card can't power up at all in that mode. At least, barely, the fans do spin! Could the card draw less voltage/power in safe mode causing it to work fine? It can't be enough difference between crashing and not crashing right?

[ArumanBE]

do you have any programs running in the background that can affect the cards performance? like an OC program (afterburner, precisionX, ...) maybe set with a custom profile at startup

[Juuldebuul]

I think I deleted all AMD related software with the AMD removal tool and I never overclocked this or my previous card though.

[Juuldebuul]

So I just used the AMD cleaning utility again but this time I didn't reinstall any drivers. Now I'm running windows on 600x400 without drivers BUT it does run stable... that must mean it's the driver's causing the issue right?!