I have been experiencing random Kernel 41 category (63) reboots ever since I upgraded from a powercolor radeon 6700 xt to a Reference Radeon 6950 xt. When I upgraded I also bought 2x8 sticks of ram. This has been going on for the past two weeks. The error only happens when I'm gaming during either graphic intense times, loading or even just playing a scene. None of this happened while I had the radeon 6700 xt. Here is my pc setup. I'm beginning to think that the issue is that I was unlucky and got a new GPU bad out of the box. I had a similar experience when I had the radeon 5600 gpu. I've only had the PSU since 04/2022 so almost a year old. Overall I can be watching youtube or internet surf all day with no issues. But while gaming these Kernel 41 errors will randomly happen anytime. When I look for the dump file turns out that none was made. Also I've noticed no spikes in voltage or heat once this error happens. When the pc reboots the AMD adrenaline software does not show the wattman error. Any tips will be appreciated. I'm going back to microcenter to exchange the GPU since I have the extended warranty. Hopefully I can replace it with the same GPU. If not I might go and try a NVIDIA 3000 series.
CPU: AMD RYZEN 5600X
MOBO: MSI X-570 PRO
RAM: 4x8 RIPJAWS G.SKILL 3600
MEMORY: TWO M.2 1 TERABYTE DRIVES, 1 TERABYTE SSD
GPU: REFERENCE RADEON 6950 XT
PSU: CORSAIR 80+ PLATNINUM HX1000W
WIN 10
Here are the troubleshooting steps I've tried:
CPU: AMD RYZEN 5600X
MOBO: MSI X-570 PRO
RAM: 4x8 RIPJAWS G.SKILL 3600
MEMORY: TWO M.2 1 TERABYTE DRIVES, 1 TERABYTE SSD
GPU: REFERENCE RADEON 6950 XT
PSU: CORSAIR 80+ PLATNINUM HX1000W
WIN 10
Here are the troubleshooting steps I've tried:
- DDU removal, in safe mode, and installation of radeon drivers
- Removed and reseated the gpu
- Disconnected and reconnected gpu power cables
- Disconnected and reconnected all power cables to PSU
- Removed the two new sticks of ram
- Performed memory test and found no error
- Nothing overclocked and no xmp profile on
- Performed stress test on GPU, CPU, and PSU with no crash and no errors reported
- All chipset drivers and BIOS up to date, also reinstalled latest chipsest drivers and BIOS
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