I had issues with not being able to power the monitor via HDMI prior to vid driver install,just a black screen.DVI solved that for me Wink

Good Point. I will try with DVI cable and see how it goes as HDMI and VGA cables did not help only to show no signal.

I had a HDMI (vid card) to DVI (monitor),a DVI to DVI worked.

The GPU is officially dead as I only get a message as "Monitor going to sleep" when i tried with DVI | HDMI etc...
I am going to get R9 380 ....

You could save it. I have saved a bunch of cards by baking them.

Put it in the oven for 10minutes and try again

I tried on my 7950, it did not work. My card died slowly, so it may not be the solder problem. Just unlucky.