Specs: Win7 64 bit i5-3450, 3.1 GHz Sapphire r9 390x Nitro (8GB) 8GB DDR3 RAM PC Power and Cooling silencer mk ii 750w
So I've been having issues for a while now that I think are GPU or driver related. Pretty much at least once per day chrome will briefly lockup and I'll get a message saying something about display drivers crashing and recovering. My understanding is that this is related to hardware acceleration in chrome.
Later I started seeing quite a bit of nasty artifact and some CTDs going on in a game called Starbound. The game is graphically simple so I can't imagine it was pushing the GPU too hard. Temps seemed fine in Afterburner.
A couple days later I turn on my PC and login and after about 5-10 seconds my screen went black, no mouse, nothing. This persisted after multiple resets, and I even yanked my GPU at and reseated it. No dice. So I booted into safe mode and do a DDU uninstall and reinstall with the latest AMD drivers, and still the problem persists. I've had the drivers in question installed for roughly a week beforehand with no problems. I decided to try some older drivers from December and ran both CCleaner and malwarebytes. CCleaner showed quite a bit of registry stuff that was off, though I think the bulk of that was related to programs that have been deleted off my PC but not entirely removed. I regret not looking at everything closer. Malwarebytes only showed a couple PUPs, nothing horrible that should be causing those issues. One way or another something worked and I was able to login after restarting and everything seemed fine. Starbound ran fine with no artifacting.
Yesterday however playing another more graphically intense game (Rainbow 6 Siege) I got the dreaded BSOD. atikmdag.sys was apparently the culprit. Which to me means drivers, except for the fact that I must have wiped and clean installed at least 5 times in the past 2 days. A day later I am now BSODing on boot before I even get to the windows login screen.
I've had this GPU since April 2016 and as far as I can recall only started having these issues over the past couple months. I'm sort of at a loss at this point beyond trying to get Amazon to take this GPU back and switching over to NVIDIA.
TL;DR Artifacting in a non-graphics intensive game with normal temps. About a week after installing the newest AMD drivers I get a black screen shortly after logging in to windows. Problem persisted after DDU uninstalling and reinstalling the same drivers. Problem fixed after going back to older drivers as well as a CCleaner sweep and Malwarebytes scan. No more artifacting in the game from earlier. A day later I BSOD during a different game with a atikmdag.sys apparently the problem. And now I'm BSODing before I can even login. GPU bought in April and seems to have been working fine until a couple months ago. What do I do?
So I've been having issues for a while now that I think are GPU or driver related. Pretty much at least once per day chrome will briefly lockup and I'll get a message saying something about display drivers crashing and recovering. My understanding is that this is related to hardware acceleration in chrome.
Later I started seeing quite a bit of nasty artifact and some CTDs going on in a game called Starbound. The game is graphically simple so I can't imagine it was pushing the GPU too hard. Temps seemed fine in Afterburner.
A couple days later I turn on my PC and login and after about 5-10 seconds my screen went black, no mouse, nothing. This persisted after multiple resets, and I even yanked my GPU at and reseated it. No dice. So I booted into safe mode and do a DDU uninstall and reinstall with the latest AMD drivers, and still the problem persists. I've had the drivers in question installed for roughly a week beforehand with no problems. I decided to try some older drivers from December and ran both CCleaner and malwarebytes. CCleaner showed quite a bit of registry stuff that was off, though I think the bulk of that was related to programs that have been deleted off my PC but not entirely removed. I regret not looking at everything closer. Malwarebytes only showed a couple PUPs, nothing horrible that should be causing those issues. One way or another something worked and I was able to login after restarting and everything seemed fine. Starbound ran fine with no artifacting.
Yesterday however playing another more graphically intense game (Rainbow 6 Siege) I got the dreaded BSOD. atikmdag.sys was apparently the culprit. Which to me means drivers, except for the fact that I must have wiped and clean installed at least 5 times in the past 2 days. A day later I am now BSODing on boot before I even get to the windows login screen.
I've had this GPU since April 2016 and as far as I can recall only started having these issues over the past couple months. I'm sort of at a loss at this point beyond trying to get Amazon to take this GPU back and switching over to NVIDIA.
TL;DR Artifacting in a non-graphics intensive game with normal temps. About a week after installing the newest AMD drivers I get a black screen shortly after logging in to windows. Problem persisted after DDU uninstalling and reinstalling the same drivers. Problem fixed after going back to older drivers as well as a CCleaner sweep and Malwarebytes scan. No more artifacting in the game from earlier. A day later I BSOD during a different game with a atikmdag.sys apparently the problem. And now I'm BSODing before I can even login. GPU bought in April and seems to have been working fine until a couple months ago. What do I do?
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