Problems of this version with yje update of windows.
I have 3 sapphire r9 290x and with the updates send by microsoft this days of windows 10 to version 1703 i saw that it also it automaticaly updates my drivers to 17.1.1.
I began to have problems of falling.
Has someone the same problems??
You have just run into one of the 2 biggest issues with Windows 10 - it's insistance on (and the VERY HUGE pain of trying to get it to NOT) automatically updating things that BREAK software.
Earlier versions of Windows had the SAME, FREQUENTLY AND OFTEN COMPLAINED ABOUT "feature" but earlier versions made it fairly easy to turn the autoupdate bug OFF - Windows 10 makes it a royal PITA, especially if you do NOT have PRO or "higher" varients.
AMD also has an issue that ALL of their "relive" driver versions are junk bloatware to date, don't work well even on NEWER cards like the RX 470 and are absolute GARBAGE if you have R9/R7 or older series cards.
These sort of issues are why I specifically recommend that dedicated mining machines should run LINUX - once you get a LINUX box up and running, it doesn't BREAK things for you and tends to STAY up a lot more of the time than Windows is capable of doing.
To jddebug:
For my Gigabyte Windforce R9 280x cards, I find that core clock 1100 and memory clock at 1250 seems to give optimal results (anything over 1250 mem clock seems to introduce too much latency, anything over 1100 core and they start crashing) - stock BIOS running 12.4 on XUbuntu LINIX gives me right at 300 sol/s per card (one a tick over, one a tick under) *IF* I can keep them cool enough - the heat wave we had last week had them into thermal limiting a few hours a day, due to the limited ventilation options on my current place.
Your cards may vary, I've seen folks claiming to be able to clock R9 280x as high as 1200, but I don't know if they had "factory stock" cooling on them to achieve that, or perhaps just better luck in the ASIC quality lottery (mine are both mid-grade).
I doubt anyone you're seeing in the 290 sol/s range are running stock clocks AND stock BIOS.
My cards are not undervolted - and in the testing I've done on them they seem to be locked on voltage in the BIOS, as they just shrugged off my efforts to undervolt them when I had them in a Windows machine with Afterburner, so seems like BIOS mod or flash with a UV-specific BIOS are the only options (this makes sense, as my R9 290 cards were DEFINITELY voltage-locked in the BIOS and I had to flash them with a BIOS from TheStilt to get them to undervolt).