ViperAFK Posted November 18, 2013 Share Posted November 18, 2013 I just got a sapphire r9 280x. I'm having a strange problem since installing it though. When I boot my pc I see the motherboard splash as expected, and then the screen just goes black. I never see the windows boot splash. However windows boots fine; because once I toggle the power on my asus monitor on/off the windows login screen shows right up and everything works fine. This didn't happen with my previous card (amd 6950). When I got the new card I first completely uninstalled the amd drivers, rebooted the pc, shut down the PC, installed the new card, and then installed the latest catalyst 13.11 beta 9.2 drivers. The drivers appear to work fine aside from this issue. I'm running windows 8.1 64-bit. pc specs: biostar tz68a+ mb amd r9 280x 16gb ram antec ea750 psu windows 8.1 64-bit. the mb and the new video card support uefi, but the mb has uefi boot disabled (since my old video card didn't support uefi boot I had it disabled in bios and windows was installed with it disabled), not sure if thats related. The monitor is connected via DVI. Has anyone ever heard of an issue like this? anyway to fix it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ViperAFK Posted November 18, 2013 Author Share Posted November 18, 2013 Managed to workaround it by hooking up my monitor via HDMI instead of DVI. For some reason it works fine that way, I get the windows boot screen as expected. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ve7878 Posted November 19, 2013 Share Posted November 19, 2013 I had a similar issue to this on an machine with Intel based graphics. I solved it by upgrading the BIOS though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ironman273 Posted November 19, 2013 Share Posted November 19, 2013 I have an issue on mine when I switched from DVI to HDMI. Apparently the DVI is "monitor 1" and HDMI "monitor 2". I don't get a boot screen (BIOS, Windows logo) at all. I only get an image once Windows actually starts. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ViperAFK Posted December 10, 2013 Author Share Posted December 10, 2013 I believe I've fixed it by enabling UEFI boot in my bios and then reinstalling windows 8.1 in UEFI mode. Seems to work fine with DVI during boot now, no black screen. snaphat (Myles Landwehr) 1 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snaphat (Myles Landwehr) Member Posted December 11, 2013 Member Share Posted December 11, 2013 I just saw this topic, I was wondering if it was related to hybrid boot. I was having blackscreen issues on reboot with that enabled on a PC at my work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ViperAFK Posted December 11, 2013 Author Share Posted December 11, 2013 I just saw this topic, I was wondering if it was related to hybrid boot. I was having blackscreen issues on reboot with that enabled on a PC at my work. I had already tried disabling hybrid boot before I tried reinstalling windows, it didn't help [for me anyway]. And hybrid boot only effects a full shutdown > boot cycle. When you choose restart it does a full restart anyway. snaphat (Myles Landwehr) 1 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shiranui Posted December 11, 2013 Share Posted December 11, 2013 I have had the same issue ever since switching to 8. Have come to consider it a "feature"" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snaphat (Myles Landwehr) Member Posted December 11, 2013 Member Share Posted December 11, 2013 I had already tried disabling hybrid boot before I tried reinstalling windows, it didn't help [for me anyway]. And hybrid boot only effects a full shutdown > boot cycle. When you choose restart it does a full restart anyway. Oh yeah! You are right about reboot not hibernating the kernel session. I always forget because all of my systems have ssds and I don't notice the difference in boot times. The issue did occur during shutdown so my original post is incorrect. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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