ok..
sequence of events...
plugged in new card... black screen.. led light on for the pcie card on the board...
shut off...
restarted...
pcie led light off.. still black screen...
restarted...
prompted to restart windows normally and card functions.. however...
ug... if I have any more that one application open, with this card installed, windows give me an error that it has to revert back to normal mode and that windows aero is shut off due to lack of memory... I have 32 gb ram.. and when I unintalled the drivers, and went back to the r9 280x I have ( going to return when I have this figured out... ) then it works fine, outside of slow fps...
so.. now what?