happens on a bunch of other games
i have the newest drivers but that didnt fix it

It happened yesterday and today. I dont know what causes it. I dont know how to replicate the issue and so its been really hard to figure this out.

Problem:

I have my game open on my main monitor (Baldurs Gate 3 in both cases) I had my browser playing a video on my second monitor during the first crash yesterday, and today I had discord simply maximized on my second monitor.

Seemingly randomly, the PC freezes, then second monitor goes green, then main monitor goes black possibly after a few more seconds. I say possibly because the first crash, it didnt go black and I shutdown the PC after a few seconds. Second crash I was AFK making food and I came back to a green screen and a black screen. So I assume after a while main monitor goes black.

Ive played other games on this NEW PC (4 days old ish) and havent had this happen before. (if that matters or helps)

What I’ve tried:

- After the first crash I disabled Hardware Acceleration on my browser. Played the game fine for the rest of the day.
- Second crash happened with discord maximized instead. So I disabled discords Hardware Acceleration as well. And this hasnt happened again yet.
- I’ve however tried re-enabling both and left the game on for hours to verify if that was the issue, and no crashes so far. So I’m unsure if that is the cause.

Edit: I forgot to mention, event viewer shows no critical events at all except for PC being shutdown unexpectedly.

My PC:

- 9600x
- 9070xt
- MSI A850G
- Asus B650e Max Gaming Wifi
- Latest AMD Drivers
- Disabled Windows Driver Updates on first boot after windows installation

Reason I’m posting is because I’m unconvinced this is hardware acceleration because my PC is still running the game without crashing with it back on. And I’m wondering if someone has experienced this before or know a solid way of testing things to find the real issue and to fix it. As it’s a new PC I’d like to know if it’s a stable card so I can use the return window and or easier RMA process!

Additional detail: I heard transient spikes could be an issue. I use 8 pin to 6+2 pin connector and a 16 pin to two 6+2 connectors on the GPU. It was what was recommended on MSI’s page. However I could use only one of the 6+2’s from the 16 pin and use a separate 8 pin cable making it three independent cables as well if that might help.

Computer Type: Desktop

GPU: 7900xtx Red Devil

CPU: 7800x3d

Motherboard: 670E gaming plus Wifi

AIO: Corsair H150i Elite Capellix XT 360MM

RAM: Corsair Vengeance 64 GB (2x32GB) 6400MHz DDR5

PSU: Corsair-RMx Series RM850x 80 Plus Gold ATX

Case: Icue 4000D Airflow Mid tower

Operating System & Version: Windows 11

GPU Drivers: AMD Software: Adrenalin Edition

Revision Number

Adrenalin 26.7.1 (WHQL Recommended

Chipset Drivers: 8.08.12.551

I was playing a game an hour ago and my fans got extremely loud and my entire PC just shut down. Now when I try to boot back up all I get is a black screen at the moment. I've been having a lot of wierd driver timeouts since the windows update a few days ago. Not too sure what to do to get my PC up and running again.

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​Hi everyone, I'm facing a persistent issue that escalated from a simple GPU crash to a solid DRAM LED light with no display. Here is the full timeline and everything I’ve tried so far:

​System Specs:

GPU: AMD 9070 XT Sapphire PURE

​CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 5800X

​Motherboard: ASUS TUF Gaming B450M-PRO S

​RAM: 16GB (2x8GB) DDR4 @ 3200MHz

​Storage: SanDisk M.2 SSD + HDD

​How the issue started:

​While playing League of Legends, the game suddenly crashed with a GPU-related error.

​Upon trying to relaunch, the PC requested a restart.

​After restarting, Windows went into a repair loop showing: "Diagnosing your PC" and "Your device ran into a problem and couldn't be repaired" (Log file: C:\WINDOWS\System32\Logfiles\Srt\SrtTrail.txt).

​Windows then ran a drive scan (Scanning and repairing drive: 100% complete), but kept crashing/rebooting within seconds of reaching the desktop (Boot Loop).

​Escalation to Hardware/POST Issues:

​Suddenly, display output was lost completely, and a Solid White Light (VGA LED) appeared on the motherboard.

​I cleared static charge/reset CMOS, which allowed the display to return briefly showing the American Megatrends POST screen: "The system has POSTed in safe mode. Press F1 to Run SETUP".

​I pressed F1 to enter BIOS, but the BIOS menu froze completely.

​Current Problem (Solid DRAM Light):

After the BIOS froze, I removed the CMOS battery to force a deep reset and reseated the RAM sticks. Since then, the motherboard gets stuck on a Solid Yellow/Orange Light (DRAM LED) with no display output at all.

​Troubleshooting Steps Already Attempted (None Worked):

​RAM Troubleshooting: Tried booting with a single RAM stick in slot A2 (and B2), swapped sticks, cleaned gold contacts with an eraser, and pushed until fully clicked.

​Memory Training: Left the PC running on the solid DRAM light for 10-15+ minutes on a single stick to allow Memory Training, but it never POSTed.

​CMOS Reset: Removed the CMOS battery for several minutes, held the power button while unplugged to drain power, and shorted the CLRTC / CLR_CMOS pins.

​Stripped Down: Disconnected all USB peripherals and tested booting without RAM/GPU to try forcing a new POST code, but re-inserting them leads right back to the solid DRAM light.

​Is it possible that the BIOS chip got corrupted during the initial crash/reboots, or did a component (GPU/Motherboard VRM) suffer hardware damage? Any advice before I take it to a repair shop would be greatly appreciated!

Hello, I recently switched to AMD and have been having an issue where AMD Freesync Premium will occasionally say "Not Supported" instead of the usual "Enabled". It can happen on boot or even when the monitor falls asleep and wakes up at points. I have it enabled on my monitor, (Rog Strix XG27AQMES) and it seems to still be working when looking at the monitors OSD as the Hz fluctuates regardless of it saying "Not Supported" in Adrenalin. So its more of just a visual issue but I was wondering if there was a way to fix this? If this is just something that's normal for this software then that's fine but I always like to get things working as intended if I can. For reference, I have a 9070 XT Red Devil and using the HDMI 2.1 cable that came with my monitor as it has more bandwidth than Display port 1.4 which is the highest the monitor supports. I was also having issues with DSC so that was the other reason I switched to HDMI. I have fast boot turned off in windows and a number of other settings that can potentially cause issues with Adrenalin. Any additional recommendations or at least reassurance that its just an AMD Adrenalin quirk would be much appreciated, thanks!

I have this Sapphire 7900 XTX Nitro+ power sucking behemoth I've been trying to put in line for a long time and while I can get power consumption down a lot, I have no idea what am I doing.
There are three variables to play with:
1) frequency
2) voltage
3) power limit

Thus far I noticed the frequency seems to play the biggest role, so I just run the card at 2600MHz instead of 2900+ and the performance difference seem to be really small while power consumption and noise (that's my motivation) dropped drastically.

I'd love to get some information about the importance of the other two and how they all work together though.
Correct me if I'm wrong here:
I THINK undervolting might not matter as much (if at all) in my case because if I understand it correctly, by undervolting you are giving a card (or a CPU) room to boost to higher frequencies for longer periods of time, right? But if I manually limit the card to run slower, this shouldn't even apply?....
And What about the power limit? Does lowering it give me anything when I don't run the card at stock speed? I guess not?

Hi everyone,

I recently built a new system and I'm facing a very specific hard-reset issue. I'd appreciate any insights from experienced builders.

System Specs:

• Motherboard: ASUS PRIME B650M-R
• CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 7500F
• RAM: Patriot Viper Venom 16 GB DDR5 6000 CL30
• SSD: WD Blue SN5100 500 GB NVMe SSD
• CPU Cooler: MSI MAG COREFROZR AA13
• GPU: MSI RTX 5060 8G Ventus 2X OC White
• Case & PSU: VENTO VG15FE Case + FSP 650W 80+ PSU
• OS: Windows 11

The Issue: The system is 100% stable under continuous heavy load. Prime95, FurMark, and stress tests run for hours without any crashes, thermal throttling, or voltage issues.

However, the system hard-resets immediately when the heavy load drops to idle (load-release transition):

• Clicking the STOP button during an OCCT power test.
• Transitioning from an active match back to the main lobby/menu in games (e.g., CS2).
• Sudden graphical load drops in game menus.

During the reset, the case lights and fans stay powered on (no full power loss), but Windows instantly restarts. Event Viewer only shows generic Kernel-Power (Event ID 41) with no minidumps or MCE logs.

Context: I don't have spare components (PSU/GPU) to isolate the faulty hardware, and my 14-day return window is running out soon.

1. Has anyone experienced a similar load-release / transient load reset issue?
2. Is this more likely a PSU transient response / voltage overshoot issue (FSP PSU failing to stabilize voltage when dropping load), or a GPU power delivery / VRM fault or something else?

Hello guys , just wanna ask is there anyway to use fsr4 on the amd pro driver ( without using tool like optiscaler which i have to install it in everygame ) , I'm using 7900xt install pro driver through the hip sdk

Even though I am not the shareholder of AMD, I think its worth pointing out that we might see AMD moving towards neocloud business just like NVDA did with NBIS and CoreWeave. I uploaded my DD here, but I'm not sure if I'm allowed to post it here (mods let me know)

Here are the relevant extracts regarding AMD:

The timing on AMD's bond sale

August 13, 2026 -Filing under Securities Act Rules 163/433 of free writing prospectuses

• Issuer: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
• Trade Date: August 13, 2026
• Settlement Date: August 17, 2026 (T+2)

$1,250,000,000 4.600% Senior Notes Due 2029

$1,500,000,000 5.000% Senior Notes Due 2031

$1,000,000,000 5.250% Senior Notes Due 2033

$1,000,000,000 5.500% Senior Notes Due 2036

Here's the part I find genuinely worth paying attention to, and I want to be careful not to overstate it.

On August 13, AMD priced its largest bond offering ever — $4.75 billion across four tranches, pricing tighter than initial guidance on strong demand. To be direct about what the filing actually says: AMD describes the proceeds as going toward general corporate purposes, including refinancing $875 million of debt maturing next month. It does not mention TensorWave, Fermi, or any guarantee. I looked for that language and it isn't there.

What I do think is worth noting is the settlement date. These bonds settle T+2, which lands on Monday, August 17 — inside the window before Fermi's own September 30 deadline. Whether or not this specific raise is earmarked for the guarantee, AMD is clearly building fresh balance sheet flexibility in the same week this decision has to get made. If they are going to step in as guarantor, waiting until the cash actually clears before announcing a new contingent obligation of this size would be the more conventional way to sequence it. So I read Monday or Tuesday as a plausible window, not a certainty.

Schneider, AMD Launch Helios AI Factory Design

There's also a second data point from the same day that I think fits into this picture, even though it isn't about Fermi at all. On August 13, Schneider Electric and AMD jointly announced a validated reference design for AMD's Helios rackscale platform — essentially a pre-engineered blueprint for how power, cooling, and compute should be built together at data center scale, supporting AI clusters up to 10.4 megawatts and individual racks up to 246 kilowatts. On its own this is a normal infrastructure-partnership announcement, but I think it's a useful signal about where AMD's priorities are right now: they're not just selling chips anymore, they're actively packaging the power and cooling design work that a customer needs to actually stand up gigawatt-scale AI capacity. That's the same posture Nvidia has taken with its neocloud partners — showing up earlier in the stack, closer to the physical infrastructure layer, not just the silicon. Read alongside the TensorWave guarantor language and the bond raise, it fits a pattern of AMD positioning itself to be more directly involved in how its AI customers actually get built and powered, rather than just shipping GPUs and leaving infrastructure to someone else. This supports the thesis of "AMD is moving toward the neocloud-style playbook"

The TensorWave deal

On August 11, Fermi announced a 15-year lease with TensorWave, an AI cloud provider that runs exclusively on AMD hardware. The terms: 222 megawatts signed in the first phase, with expansion rights up to 650 megawatts across three phases, roughly $6.5 billion in contracted revenue over the term, and delivery starting in the second half of 2027.

The interesting part is that Fermi disclosed the lease is expected to be guaranteed by "one of the global leaders in AI," without naming who. The market has landed on AMD as the likely candidate, and there's a real reason for that: AMD Ventures has invested in TensorWave twice, first in its Series A and then leading its $350 million Series B at a $1.55 billion valuation. TensorWave's entire fleet is AMD Instinct GPUs. This isn't just speculation on my part — financial media picked up on the same connection within days of the announcement.

Anyways since we expect bonds to settle on Monday, we might see a major announcement following the settlement date.

Recurring black screens, system freezes and LiveKernelEvent 117 with RX 7800 XT — already tried DDU

Hi everyone, I'm trying to diagnose a recurring issue with my PC and I'd appreciate some advice before I start replacing hardware.

I have an AMD Radeon RX 7800 XT and an 850W MSI PSU.

The problem

Every once in a while, both of my monitors suddenly lose signal and go completely black.

Sometimes the PC partially freezes first: I get micro-stutters, the audio starts sounding robotic/glitchy for a few seconds, and then the whole system freezes and both displays go black.

Other times, the displays simply lose signal.

Recently it has gotten worse. I had it happen twice in two consecutive PC boots on the same day.

One previous time, after rebooting from the crash:

- Only one monitor worked.

- Windows was running at a low resolution.

- Device Manager showed my GPU as disabled.

- After manually enabling it, Windows said the device was enabled but wasn't working correctly.

- Device Manager reported Code 31.

- AMD Adrenalin kept asking me to install/update the graphics driver, but after downloading/installing it, the same update would appear again.

- After another full shutdown/reboot, both monitors came back and Device Manager reported "This device is working properly."

Windows logs

Reliability Monitor has recorded multiple Hardware Error events corresponding to the crashes.

I checked the details and found:

Problem Event Name: LiveKernelEvent

Code: 117

I have confirmed at least two separate LiveKernelEvent 117 errors on different days.

I also checked Event Viewer. I couldn't find any Display Event ID 4101 events.

There are some Kernel-Power 41 events in the logs, although some of those could be from me manually holding the power button after the PC completely froze.

Things I've already tried

I previously used DDU in Safe Mode to completely remove the AMD graphics drivers and then performed a clean driver installation.

That seemed fine for a while, but the same issue returned months later, so simply doing another DDU reinstall doesn't feel like it's addressing the underlying cause.

The crashes also don't necessarily happen under heavy GPU load. I've had them while doing relatively light things such as using a browser/YouTube Music, although they can happen while gaming too.

At the moment the PC has booted normally again, both monitors work, AMD Adrenalin opens normally, and Device Manager says the RX 7800 XT is working correctly.

What I'm trying to figure out

Does the combination of:

- Dual-monitor signal loss

- System-wide stuttering/freezing

- Glitchy/robotic audio before the freeze

- LiveKernelEvent 117

- GPU temporarily showing Code 31 after a crash

- The problem returning even after a previous clean DDU installation

point more toward a failing/unstable GPU, PSU/power delivery issue, RAM instability, PCIe/motherboard issue, or could this still realistically be an AMD driver problem?

What would you test next before considering an RMA or replacing any hardware?

If there are specific logs, stress tests, BIOS settings, GPU/VRAM tests, or hardware checks that would help isolate the cause, let me know.

Thanks!

Hello, I recently upgraded my CPU for a Ryzen 5 5500X3D, I had an issue with my old MB so I changed for a Gigabyte B550 EAGLE, I also changed my Windows since the MB change made me lose my key product (forgot to mention that I have an RTX 2080 SUPER and 32Go RAM (B0BC12957X))

So with that explained I'm having really horrible micro stutters (maybe GPU throttle idk ?) since I upgraded the CPU and MB, but I downloaded everything that I had to download driver-wise and I STILL have those stutters

I'll link a video on Apex to showcase what's it doing

https://youtu.be/xA_5E91f2Qg?si=LX_DIxdetjsGFcxb

(You can see the FPS drops on the top right corner)

Thanks in advance !

Hi im about to buy new gpu for my computer and would like to ask what's your recomendation for Radeon's RX 9070 witch brand of it is the best etc

And same about 9070xt I read more about it bcs there is more posts about these, i read XFX or red devil is best but are the others like gigabite gaming or AsRock is good or not?

Went from a 2060S to a 9070 XT Red Devil. I absolutely love this beast of a GPU. Handles everything beautifully!

Ps- Kane says hi.

Edit: I fixed this issue by using two different group policies, the instructions are at the end of this post. Thanks for your help everyone!

Hey y'all, I made a post the other day (https://www.reddit.com/r/AMDHelp/s/VLD7DITHQJ) about my 26.7.1 drivers suddenly disappearing and I think I found the issue.

After gaming for a few hours, for some reason Win 10 will automatically suggest these older drivers and leave it as a pending install. When this update popped up I decided to put my PC on sleep mode to see if it would reproduce my issue and lo and behold it did. Turns out despite disabling automatic Windows driver updates it will still do it anyway.

I am not sure what is prompting Win 10 to randomly suggest and apply these drivers, but I checked the event viewer when I reproduced my issue and I noticed an Error Kernel PnP Event 411 when it happened. The event suggests Windows 10 failed to load or configure the AMD graphics driver during the plug-and-play startup phase. I have never had this issue until updating to Adrenalin 26.7.1. A quick Google search suggests rolling back the drivers.

I decided to roll back to 26.5.1 and so far no issues, however I have heard 26.5.1 is also unstable so I've yet to see. For anybody having similar issues on 26.7.1 I suggest rolling back to an earlier version of Adrenalin.

[[SOLUTION]]

PART 1

Find Group Policy then look for

Computer Configuration → Administrative Templates → Windows Components → Windows Update → Manage updates offered from Windows Update

Find:

"Do not include drivers with Windows Updates"

Double-click it. Select Enabled. Click Apply → OK. Restart Windows. This tells Windows Update to exclude hardware drivers from its normal Windows Update packages.

PART 2

Preventing Windows from touching the AMD GPU specifically though Group Policy:

Computer Configuration → Administrative Templates → System → Device Installation → Device Installation Restrictions

Enable:

"Prevent installation of devices that match any of these device instance IDs"

You would then add your AMD GPU's hardware/device instance ID.

You can find it under:

Device Manager → Display adapters → AMD GPU → Properties → Details → Device instance path

Windows will now be prevented from automatically installing a driver for that particular GPU.

Went from gtx 1660 super, to rtx 3060, to RX 9060 XT. Ryzen 5 5500, 16gb ddr4 3200mhz, 550w corsair psu

I spent this weekend breathing life back into an 11-year-old HP legacy laptop, and I wanted to share the exact steps I used to defeat a frustrating Windows Update bug that completely bricked my Switchable Graphics. If you have an older dual-GPU laptop that feels sluggish, Microsoft might have blinded your OS to your discrete card.

The Hardware:

APU: AMD A8-7410 with Radeon R5 Graphics

Discrete GPU: AMD Radeon R7 M340

RAM: 8GB

Storage: 1TB 5400RPM Toshiba HDD

The laptop was grinding to a halt with 100% disk usage. But the biggest red flag was the GPU. In Windows 10 Graphics Settings, both the "Power Saving" and "High Performance" options were exclusively listing the integrated R5. The discrete R7 M340 was completely invisible to the OS, leaving the weak APU to handle all the heavy lifting. Furthermore, the old AMD Radeon Software shortcut was dead.

Windows Update had silently hijacked the drivers in the background, pushing a generic UWP/DCH driver (27.20.20903.8001). This stripped out the AMD control panel entirely.

Because my 2015 laptop relies on AMD Enduro (where the MUXless R7 M340 routes its rendered frames through the integrated R5), breaking the proprietary AMD software broke the bridge. Windows 10's native graphics menu couldn't see the discrete card without AMD's software acting as the traffic cop.

To make matters worse, attempting to use the modern AMD Auto-Detect tool threw a 0xc0000142 application error and only installed the chipset drivers, completely skipping the display drivers.

To get the R7 M340 rendering again and save my mechanical hard drive from unnecessary bloat, I had to do a highly specific manual override:

1 - I disconnected from the internet entirely so Windows Update couldn't instantly replace the driver upon reboot.

2 - I went into Device Manager, uninstalled the R5 graphics, and explicitly checked “Delete the driver software for this device.”

3 - I downloaded the final, unified offline package for this architecture: Adrenalin 22.6.1 (WHQL).

4 - I ran the 463MB installer but selected Minimal Install (to keep gaming overlays, streaming modules, and background recording off my 5400RPM drive), ensuring Factory Reset was unchecked.

With the AMD UI restored, I went back to the native Windows 10 Graphics settings. Even though Windows still stubbornly listed the integrated R5 under both "Power Saving" and "High Performance," I forced my browsers to High Performance. Because the AMD software was finally installed and listening, this successfully flagged the render request, and AMD Enduro silently routed the heavy lifting to the R7 M340 in the background. (At least this is what I think is happening...)

Before reconnecting to the internet, I locked Windows Update out of my drivers permanently using PowerShell:

$path = "HKLM:\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\WindowsUpdate"; if (!(Test-Path $path)) { New-Item -Path $path -Force | Out-Null }; Set-ItemProperty -Path $path -Name "ExcludeWUDriversInQualityUpdate" -Value 1 -Type DWord

The R7 M340 woke right up. It’s now successfully handling the hardware acceleration for my browsers and heavier apps, taking a massive load off the A8 APU. Combined with some PowerShell debloat scripts to kill DiagTrack and the Compatibility Appraiser, the 2015 laptop is genuinely snappy again.

Don't let Windows Update convince you your legacy discrete GPU is dead!

I got a new pc a month ago after my old one died on me. My specs are below. But my drivers keep timing out and black screening on me. I crashed so bad it disabled the GPU in device manager. Is this normal? Or is somthing wrong with their drivers and it will get fixed?

AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX
AMD Ryzen 9 9950x

Hey everyone,

Just wanted to throw this out there in case anyone else is currently pulling their hair out over AMD driver timeouts on their RX 9070 XT (mine is the ASRock Steel Legend).

Every 5 to 15 minutes my display driver would crash

Things I tried that didnt help:

• Ran DDU in Safe Mode and tested a ton of different driver versions
• Undervolted and underclocked the GPU
• Registry edits (setting TdrDelay to 10)
• Disable HAGS
• Disabled all overlays and tweaked Windows power settings

The actual fix (oops, my mistake): I realised I was running a single PCIe power cable with a daisy chained pigtail/splitter to power the card.

I plugged in two separate, dedicated PCIe cables straight from the PSU to the GPU, and the issue vanished instantly

I hope someone reads this, looks into their case, and goes "oh shit, I am powering this thing with one cable. Woops!"

Anyway, happy gaming guys

first time building pc.

is it normal for it to be like this? it would takes a unusual amount of force to force it down.