Hi there,
I do regret buying this used XFX R9 280x, as it caused me a lot of paranoia. I've had it about a year now, and I've tried several times to find answers, and XFX don't want to give me any information on it, apart from "it's a fault".
Occasionally, it will boot with a blue background, and the image quality is bad (windows logo for example) when that occurs. Once the welcome screen appears, it is normal. Now I cannot for the life of me notice any performance issues, but that's not to say I have on far too many occassions been disappointed with shadows in games and wondered if it was the card. Would anyone here be able to explain what is "wrong" with it? I have tried replacing the v-bios, but that did nothing. If I just do simple restarts without removing any USB devices, it will boot with the normal black start-up screen. However, if I do a hard shutdown, like a crash or power cut, or even mess around with USB plugged-in devices, it will often boot back up in blue, correcting itself when the OS has loaded. This happens when booting with a live USB too.
Any ideas guy please? I would be really grateful. Someone's got to use this card, as clearly it is "working". When I see that horrible blocky flickering shadow that is all too common in today's graphics , or that sudden texture pop, I always wonder.... and I hate it!
Thanks!
I do regret buying this used XFX R9 280x, as it caused me a lot of paranoia. I've had it about a year now, and I've tried several times to find answers, and XFX don't want to give me any information on it, apart from "it's a fault".
Occasionally, it will boot with a blue background, and the image quality is bad (windows logo for example) when that occurs. Once the welcome screen appears, it is normal. Now I cannot for the life of me notice any performance issues, but that's not to say I have on far too many occassions been disappointed with shadows in games and wondered if it was the card. Would anyone here be able to explain what is "wrong" with it? I have tried replacing the v-bios, but that did nothing. If I just do simple restarts without removing any USB devices, it will boot with the normal black start-up screen. However, if I do a hard shutdown, like a crash or power cut, or even mess around with USB plugged-in devices, it will often boot back up in blue, correcting itself when the OS has loaded. This happens when booting with a live USB too.
Any ideas guy please? I would be really grateful. Someone's got to use this card, as clearly it is "working". When I see that horrible blocky flickering shadow that is all too common in today's graphics , or that sudden texture pop, I always wonder.... and I hate it!
Thanks!