I have had my new pc build for 6 months now and have been using it without problems. Recently it has been giving me artifacts and crashing to a black screen, when i start up again windows sometimes reports it as a bluescreen.
I am lead to believe that it is a software error of some kind (like drivers or something), because i have tested this problem in safe mode and no error occurred. it is starting to happen more and more frequently (5 - 10 mins after startup), although sometimes i can game for hours on end with no problems. The error almost always happens when i watch a movie in VLC in fullscreen.
I used 'Whocrashed' to try and figure out what was going wrong. It says the most likely causes are "atikdag.sys" and "atikpag.sys". so i did a complete reinstall of my drivers (I had the 15.5 beta driver but after uninstalling i installed the 14.12 driver), however i still have the problem
the only other cause i can think of would be not enough power to the gpu, but i was using my pc for months without the problem. - i even tried replacing the pci-e cable
Thanks in advance
My build:
Sapphire R9 290 vapor-x
AMD fx-8350
GA-990FXA-UD3 (rev 4.0)
Corsair RM650
Seagate 2TB SSHD
I am lead to believe that it is a software error of some kind (like drivers or something), because i have tested this problem in safe mode and no error occurred. it is starting to happen more and more frequently (5 - 10 mins after startup), although sometimes i can game for hours on end with no problems. The error almost always happens when i watch a movie in VLC in fullscreen.
I used 'Whocrashed' to try and figure out what was going wrong. It says the most likely causes are "atikdag.sys" and "atikpag.sys". so i did a complete reinstall of my drivers (I had the 15.5 beta driver but after uninstalling i installed the 14.12 driver), however i still have the problem
the only other cause i can think of would be not enough power to the gpu, but i was using my pc for months without the problem. - i even tried replacing the pci-e cable
Thanks in advance
My build:
Sapphire R9 290 vapor-x
AMD fx-8350
GA-990FXA-UD3 (rev 4.0)
Corsair RM650
Seagate 2TB SSHD
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