Just encountered this with latest drivers.
I did some searching, and issue seems to not be well answered.
First the PC was going to a black screen immediately upon bootup. Safe mode would work, but then a standard windows boot would go straight a black screen. Made me think it was the drivers??/
Then after removing the drivers I installed from AMD's website, and installing the drivers through Windows Update, it seemed to work again....until I tried to play a game.
When launching a game it would go straight to the black screen.
(a) Some recommended not using the Y-Splitter, and feeding the card with two different lines to ensure that it could be fed with enough power. I tried it and saw no change.
(b) Others talked more about driver installs, but that doesn't seem to be doing much for me.
(c) Some are talking about lowering default clocks for GPU and MEM....I lowered it from 940 core/1250mem to 800 core/1000m no changes.
(d) When I go to device manager the screen goes to vertical black and white pin stripes, even if I haven't launched a game.
Most of my searches online gives me hits from Tom's Hardware - is there some other fix that I just haven't encountered that resolves all of this? Is this an ongoing issue with the R9 280?
The Motherboard is an older Biostar TA785G3 from around 2010, does the R9 280 need something with a UEFI bios? I'd be amazed that a board from 2010 isn't supported. I looked through the motherboard's bios to find any setting relating to eufi and i didn't find anything.
I know that I could delve into the details of the PSU, but its 80+ Bronze and probably 500W (case is covering the exact wattage) so I'm amazed it can't handle the system.
Is there really an easy fix that is known to those in the circle, or is it time to start doing a full root cause analysis and break it down?
I did some searching, and issue seems to not be well answered.
First the PC was going to a black screen immediately upon bootup. Safe mode would work, but then a standard windows boot would go straight a black screen. Made me think it was the drivers??/
Then after removing the drivers I installed from AMD's website, and installing the drivers through Windows Update, it seemed to work again....until I tried to play a game.
When launching a game it would go straight to the black screen.
(a) Some recommended not using the Y-Splitter, and feeding the card with two different lines to ensure that it could be fed with enough power. I tried it and saw no change.
(b) Others talked more about driver installs, but that doesn't seem to be doing much for me.
(c) Some are talking about lowering default clocks for GPU and MEM....I lowered it from 940 core/1250mem to 800 core/1000m no changes.
(d) When I go to device manager the screen goes to vertical black and white pin stripes, even if I haven't launched a game.
Most of my searches online gives me hits from Tom's Hardware - is there some other fix that I just haven't encountered that resolves all of this? Is this an ongoing issue with the R9 280?
The Motherboard is an older Biostar TA785G3 from around 2010, does the R9 280 need something with a UEFI bios? I'd be amazed that a board from 2010 isn't supported. I looked through the motherboard's bios to find any setting relating to eufi and i didn't find anything.
I know that I could delve into the details of the PSU, but its 80+ Bronze and probably 500W (case is covering the exact wattage) so I'm amazed it can't handle the system.
Is there really an easy fix that is known to those in the circle, or is it time to start doing a full root cause analysis and break it down?
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