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R9 290 Vertical stripes on boot (Requesting Help)

spat55

spat55

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I have recently reapplied my reference cooler to my R9 290 everything was fine and I went to play BF4 and the fans spun up to 100% then blacked screened so I had to restart. On restart I've had this issue since and can't get rid of it, when it happened the VRM's temp was fine although the Core went upto at least 85c, I know this as I had afterburners OSD up.

I've tried to use onboard to get into windows to remove the drivers but even the onboard graphics seem to blackscreen, I took the cooler back off the 290 to check for any burns on VRAM (feels like a memory issue) but the card looks immaculate, I had been having some artifacts/stutter in some areas for about a week so not sure if it has just given up the ghost.

Need it to last until Vega otherwise I'll have to get either a Fury (£300) or GTX 1080 (£600) and I like my freesync
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If anyone has any ideas please shoot so I have some ideas tomorrow
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May the PC gods be with me.

EDIT: Tried 2nd PCI-E slot with the card same issue.
 
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So do the vertical stripes go away at some point?

Don't forget about things outside the PC, such as the vga cable, the port it's plugged into, and the screen.
 
Ketchup said:
So do the vertical stripes go away at some point?

Don't forget about things outside the PC, such as the vga cable, the port it's plugged into, and the screen.
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It won't even post with the card in it now and I can't even get my integrated graphics to work, get annoyed and punched my R9 290 so I don't think that helped...
 
Ketchup said:
Don't forget to try a BIOS reset when trying to run off the integrated graphics.
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Remove the card and it would boot into windows but I restarted the PC and it just locks up on the BIOS screen, tried removing battery and jumping the CMOS but still nothing, tried all my RAM in different slots which also has failed. Feels like the motherboard is dead and took my GPU with it maybe?

Overclocks are all gone as I wiped them and tried one stick of ram at a time starting to feel like getting rid of this setup and buying myself a 6700k with R9 Fury.
 
I would try the gpu in another pc just to rule out that it has gone bad. Do you have access to another pc to try the gpu in to see if it will work? The other possibility is that you've got a power supply issue. I've had a failing ps spike and fry everything attached to it. Do you have a digital multimeter that you can measure the rails with to see your voltages? Does you mb have a code readout on it and if so what does it show? I never buy a mb that doesn't have a post code readout on it so I can get an idea of where a problem is. Keep trying and let us know what happens.
 
Puffnstuff said:
I would try the gpu in another pc just to rule out that it has gone bad. Do you have access to another pc to try the gpu in to see if it will work? The other possibility is that you've got a power supply issue. I've had a failing ps spike and fry everything attached to it. Do you have a digital multimeter that you can measure the rails with to see your voltages? Does you mb have a code readout on it and if so what does it show? I never buy a mb that doesn't have a post code readout on it so I can get an idea of where a problem is. Keep trying and let us know what happens.
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No I don't have access to another PC and I don't have a multimeter although might invest in one. The motherboard posts and sometimes I get to the BIOS screen but then it will hang. I feel like it is the motherboards issue.

Okay so now I've taken the card out I can easily get to the BIOS screen but it will just come up with the dual uefi screen then reboot feels like both bios's are corrupted?
 
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Well I've managed to get my backup BIOS working so I can now boot into windows with all my RAM and CPU (Not overclocked) but I can't get my R9 290 to be picked up by BIOS or windows so I am really certain it is dead, anyway to verify it other than having a second pc to test in?
 
Not really. That is the only 100% way to know for sure. You can take it to a local PC repair shop to have them test it.
 
spat55 said:
I tried a new R9 Fury in it with no luck so probably a power issue or motherboard?
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Most likely. Generally when people have issues with different graphic cards, it is the power supply.

You can try the video card in a different PCI express slot to rule out your PCI express x16 slot is the issue.
 
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