Black screen on startup after installing drivers in both Windows 7 and 10.

[Connell_]

I bought an R9 290 off Gumtree and when I installed it yesterday, I encountered some driver issues. At first, it would black screen and freeze when installing the Catalyst installer, but I managed to sort that out. Then it started black screening when Windows was starting up, so I decided to install Windows 7 (Home Premium 64-bit) on another drive to see if the problem still occurred, and it did. If I remove all the drivers in safe mode using Display Driver Uninstaller, then it boots up just fine. However, I don't seem to be able to access safe mode on Windows 7 as it just restarts the computer when I try, so I have to fresh install after every attempt at installing drivers.

I've tried 15.7.1 and 15.10 beta on both Windows 10 and 7.

Specs:

GPU in question - Sapphire R9 290 (reference), cooled by a Corsair H55 with a Kraken G10
CPU - 4690k
Motherboard - MSI Z97S-SLI Krait
RAM - 4x4GB HyperX Fury
PSU - CM V850
Storage - 250GB Crucial BX100 and a Crucial 480GB M500
OS - Windows 7 and 10 64-bit

Any help is greatly appreciated.

[VinoVelupillai]

when i bought my pc this year in February i also went for a R9 290. after i builded it and installed BF4 i was able to play for just 2 min and than it went black or rebooted my pc. turned out i fixed it by putting my power limiter to 50% in catalyst control center. after that it fixed for me. later on i got it back and within 2-3 months i had to RMA it and went for a GTX 970

[Bonebreaker777]

when i bought my pc this year in February i also went for a R9 290. after i builded it and installed BF4 i was able to play for just 2 min and than it went black or rebooted my pc. turned out i fixed it by putting my power limiter to 50% in catalyst control center. after that it fixed for me. later on i got it back and within 2-3 months i had to RMA it and went for a GTX 970

Huh...Imagine that.