280x woes with YouTube.

Defy Belief · 11 Apr 2014 at 21:01

So I've moved from a 780 to a 280x as a slight downgrade mainly due to cost,

280s runs games beautifully, can play BF4/Titanfall for hours with no hitches and at superb settings, what's the problem then?

YouTube. :confused:

As soon as I load a video it practically ALWAYS goes to this:
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Forcing me to have to switch off at the button (Can still hear the audio shutdown etc.)

Anyone else had this? It's really annoying, Motherboard BIOS up to date, tried multiple driver versions, card is at stock clocks.

Any help would be great.

thefogo · 11 Apr 2014 at 21:24

RMA it.

Neolink · 11 Apr 2014 at 21:33

I have this issue too on my primary screen(hdmi), second screen (dvi) stays normal. It pretty much only happens on youtube. I don't truly understand the cause, but it stopped happening when I set my GPU memory clocks back to stock, I can overclock the core fine, but touch the memory by even 1mhz and I get that problem again. I am unsure if it is a HDMI issue or overclock issue. Even if I put youtube on the 2nd screen, the primary screen gets the problem again while the vid is playing fine on the 2nd, it is really weird!

My card is a 7950 (oc to 1150 core 24/7), hope it helps a bit!

COYS · 11 Apr 2014 at 21:33

Had the same thing with a 7970 Lightning. Did the same thing in Win 7 and 8.

Also threw up the same problems using Total media Theatre.

i sent it off to the retailer who found nothing wrong with it. Never got to the bottom of the problem so just sold the card.

I read somewhere about turing off hardware acceleration in flash which I never tried so that might work

Defy Belief · 11 Apr 2014 at 22:10

That's what I'm worried about with an RMA that they won't find the problem and it'll just cost a chunk in postage.

I'll give the hardware accelleration a try.

thefogo · 11 Apr 2014 at 22:14

Record the problem and send it to them as proof?

That's what I did when I had a problem with my 7970 Lightnings.

DarkHorizon472 · 11 Apr 2014 at 22:36

Make sure all your drivers are up to date. There are various lock ups and errors caused by older drivers. For example until I updated my sound driver for a known Skype issue every tine is opened Skype it locked up my PC with a similar screen to yours.

funt · 11 Apr 2014 at 22:59

thefogo said:
Record the problem and send it to them as proof?

That's what I did when I had a problem with my 7970 Lightnings.

This sounds like a good idea. At the very least from the video they might be able to diagnose what is doing it if it's not the GPU being faulty.

ThePoundDollar · 12 Apr 2014 at 15:33

I've got the same card and mine works fine with youtube. It could be a faulty card so its probably best that you notify the manufacturer.

joeyjojo · 12 Apr 2014 at 16:00

I'd install updates for graphics and sound drivers, browser, and flash before blaming the card.

Defy Belief · 12 Apr 2014 at 16:56

Get ya noob moment out,

Moved my rig downstairs to put BT Sport on to watch the Gloucester match,

Decided to just take off the window briefly, my PSU is an XFX 850 watt, the two 8 pin and 6 pin cables I'm using can both be either used as 6 pin or 8 pin.

The 8 pin one wasn't clipped, so it only had 2x6 pin inserted.

Plugged them in properly and I haven't had it happen, I'm also now on HDMI though instead of DVI,

Either way, progress even if I was a numpty when I installed it.

humbug · 12 Apr 2014 at 19:35

Defy Belief said:
Get ya noob moment out,

Moved my rig downstairs to put BT Sport on to watch the Gloucester match,

Decided to just take off the window briefly, my PSU is an XFX 850 watt, the two 8 pin and 6 pin cables I'm using can both be either used as 6 pin or 8 pin.

The 8 pin one wasn't clipped, so it only had 2x6 pin inserted.

Plugged them in properly and I haven't had it happen, I'm also now on HDMI though instead of DVI,

Either way, progress even if I was a numpty when I installed it.

lol...

Good to see you got it sorted.

Defy Belief · 12 Apr 2014 at 20:22

Tell a lie, back in my room and it's happening everytime, even with hdmi if I try that.

Never known a monitor to fail in such a way but seems to be all that's left?

TALON1973 · 12 Apr 2014 at 20:36

GRAPHICS CARDS AND HDMI ARE FUNNY BEASTS oops caps lol. Anyway.... my 270x 4gb goes all coloured sprinkles on initial bootup.. No idea why and works fine as far as I can tell.

no Issue with that problem using dvi

Defy Belief · 13 Apr 2014 at 08:57

Right update.

Tried again this morning on my monitor, same old crashes. Tried removing sound card and every other component still same problem.

Moved it downstairs to the TV, with exactly the same components mouse kb etc.

Worked fine - The only difference is the tv is 1080p whereas my monitor is 1200p.

Change the resolution on my monitor to 1080p and guess what? Works as normal,

http://youtu.be/z1lhnrvWbXw

Looks like she's going back..

Edit and just whacked my trusty 7850 PE back in and all working perfect so that settles it.

Double edit maybe not same problem now with the 7850 what the hell is going on.

humbug · 13 Apr 2014 at 13:00

Defy Belief said:
Right update.

Tried again this morning on my monitor, same old crashes. Tried removing sound card and every other component still same problem.

Moved it downstairs to the TV, with exactly the same components mouse kb etc.

Worked fine - The only difference is the tv is 1080p whereas my monitor is 1200p.

Change the resolution on my monitor to 1080p and guess what? Works as normal,

http://youtu.be/z1lhnrvWbXw

Looks like she's going back..

Edit and just whacked my trusty 7850 PE back in and all working perfect so that settles it.

Double edit maybe not same problem now with the 7850 what the hell is going on.

"Double edit maybe not same problem now with the 7850 what the hell is going on."

Thats a bit cryptic. are you getting the same problem with the 7850 or not?

If you are reinstall flash, then drivers... if that fails put a fresh install of windows on another partition or spare driver to test that.

Defy Belief · 13 Apr 2014 at 13:07

I tried all of the drivers, flash etc made no difference.

However, Fresh install of Windows 8.1 and I've just been watching YT for the past 20 minutes with no problems, fingers crossed!

humbug · 13 Apr 2014 at 13:08

Defy Belief said:
I tried all of the drivers, flash etc made no difference.

However, Fresh install of Windows 8.1 and I've just been watching YT for the past 20 minutes with no problems, fingers crossed!

Fingers crossed for you

Sugarhell · 13 Apr 2014 at 13:18

Disable hardware acceleration