I have been having issues with the display drivers crashing and not recovering. The screen will freeze but the system continues to operate in the background. Windows plays the chime you hear when unplugging a USB device when the driver fails. I was able to save a screenshot and capture a crash message after the screens had frozen with WIN+Print Screen. this is what I saw in the screenshot from AMD Bug Report Tool:
it has recently started beeping through the system speakers while in the OS. usually if I have the ram at full utilization in game and then try to switch windows.
I have tried many different things from upgrading the PSU, running Memtest86 for 24 hours (0 errors), disabling MPO, ran sfc /scannow with no errors, I've tried different versions of the graphics drivers (AMD) ranging from 22.11.2 to the latest driver, updating the chipset drivers, reseating the GPU, reseating the ram, trying running with just one stick of ram, reseating the power connections, reseating the CPU, updating the BIOS, changing the CMOS battery.
I even tried swapping in an old RX580 and it booted up and ran for 3 minutes the system turned off, I rebooted it hit Windows and shut back off immediately, and then would no longer power on at all with the RX580 installed. I put the 6700xt back in and it turns on now at least.
It isn't a temperature issue as temps settle at about 80c when running furmark with cpu burner.
I have been fighting this for a few weeks and cannot figure this one out. The system was brand new in December.
I was thinking the graphics card was faulty but now I'm suspicious of the motherboard or CPU. Not sure what else to do at this point. I don't have another AM4 board or CPU to swap in.
**EDIT** < Playing around with the system some more and only used one monitor rather than the 4 I would normally use. Things seemed to go smoothly but only had it in that configuration for about 2 hours while screwing around in Hitman as it seems to crash fairly frequently when playing that game. I then plugged the other monitors back in and there was some artifacting as Windows was loading that seems to be related to the crashes and got a double beep as Windows loaded in. >
System Specs:
CPU: Ryzen 9 5900x
GPU: ASRock Radeon RX 6700 XT Challenger D
RAM: 4x 8gb Corsair Vengence 3000 MHz
Motherboard: Gigabyte B550M AORUS PRO-P (BIOS: F16c)
PSU: 650W EVGA 650 GQ 80+ Gold
In another instance, I got this message:"AMD crash Defender has detected an issue with your display driver. To prevent a system crash or hang, the display driver is now operating in safe mode with reduced functionality. It is recommended that you save all work and close any open applications. A system restart is required to restore your graphics hardware acceleration."
Often when this occurs, after rebooting the drivers need to be reinstalled as they did not reload and the system falls back to the basic driver. I have used DDU every time I did anything to the drivers as a precaution."AMD software detected that a driver timeout has occurred on your system. An issue report has been created that can be sent to AMD to help us improve our software. Would you like to report this issue"
it has recently started beeping through the system speakers while in the OS. usually if I have the ram at full utilization in game and then try to switch windows.
I have tried many different things from upgrading the PSU, running Memtest86 for 24 hours (0 errors), disabling MPO, ran sfc /scannow with no errors, I've tried different versions of the graphics drivers (AMD) ranging from 22.11.2 to the latest driver, updating the chipset drivers, reseating the GPU, reseating the ram, trying running with just one stick of ram, reseating the power connections, reseating the CPU, updating the BIOS, changing the CMOS battery.
I even tried swapping in an old RX580 and it booted up and ran for 3 minutes the system turned off, I rebooted it hit Windows and shut back off immediately, and then would no longer power on at all with the RX580 installed. I put the 6700xt back in and it turns on now at least.
It isn't a temperature issue as temps settle at about 80c when running furmark with cpu burner.
I have been fighting this for a few weeks and cannot figure this one out. The system was brand new in December.
I was thinking the graphics card was faulty but now I'm suspicious of the motherboard or CPU. Not sure what else to do at this point. I don't have another AM4 board or CPU to swap in.
**EDIT** < Playing around with the system some more and only used one monitor rather than the 4 I would normally use. Things seemed to go smoothly but only had it in that configuration for about 2 hours while screwing around in Hitman as it seems to crash fairly frequently when playing that game. I then plugged the other monitors back in and there was some artifacting as Windows was loading that seems to be related to the crashes and got a double beep as Windows loaded in. >
System Specs:
CPU: Ryzen 9 5900x
GPU: ASRock Radeon RX 6700 XT Challenger D
RAM: 4x 8gb Corsair Vengence 3000 MHz
Motherboard: Gigabyte B550M AORUS PRO-P (BIOS: F16c)
PSU: 650W EVGA 650 GQ 80+ Gold
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