Recently I purchased a Powercolor Red Devil RX 5700XT, and for the first couple of days I had the card installed in the "Silent mode" setting that the card offers via a physical switch on the card itself. I was getting pretty satisfactory performance, but out of curiosity I wanted to try the "OC mode". After changing the switch and reinstalling the card using DDU, the first thing I noticed was that the audio coming from my PC would constantly pop and crackle. At first I thought it was my speakers, but I tried a different device with no audio issues whatsoever. Next, the display would frequently flicker, and even YouTube videos would refuse to load. There were was also constant freezes and crashes in this mode. I tried changing the PCIE settings in the bios to see if that would solve anything but no luck. Does anyone know any work arounds with this issue, or should I just reinstall the card again and keep in Silent mode?
Update: As of now, even with reinstalling the card back to "Silent mode" I'm getting the same audio and visual issues that I had in the OC mode, which did not exist prior to when I switched just yesterday. Yesterday I used my PC for a couple hours without any issues whatsoever. Now, the moment I launch, I face issues on startup. I'm currently reinstalling windows to see if that fixes anything.
Update 2: After completely reinstalling Windows, the problems seem to have ceased. No flickering or freezing immediately on startup and the audio is back to normal. Now the question is, is it worth trying to set the bios switch back to "OC mode" again, but maybe needing to freshly re-install Windows once again.
Update: As of now, even with reinstalling the card back to "Silent mode" I'm getting the same audio and visual issues that I had in the OC mode, which did not exist prior to when I switched just yesterday. Yesterday I used my PC for a couple hours without any issues whatsoever. Now, the moment I launch, I face issues on startup. I'm currently reinstalling windows to see if that fixes anything.
Update 2: After completely reinstalling Windows, the problems seem to have ceased. No flickering or freezing immediately on startup and the audio is back to normal. Now the question is, is it worth trying to set the bios switch back to "OC mode" again, but maybe needing to freshly re-install Windows once again.
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