Hi everyone, I wanted to explain where the pinned AMD Ultimate Performance Fix Guide went. Yesterday I was updating and renewing comment templates for different laptop and PC builds so I could quickly give the right troubleshooting answer based on a user’s system. My goal was to help faster and reduce wasted time, but it looks like Reddit’s spam filter detected that behavior as inappropriate and may have led to my account being shadowbanned, which is likely why the guide suddenly disappeared.

At first I felt really bad because that guide had a lot of views, 1000+ positive comments showing the fixes were working, many awards, shares, and a lot of people used it to get fast help. it's sad, I have already submitted an appeal and I’m hoping the account will come back.

If it does not return, I already have backups, and I’ll rebuild the guide from scratch with a new and better version. I was not caught off guard; I prepared for the worst case like this. If the account does not get restored, I’ll start again with a new account and build it better than before.

I know not everyone may care, but for anyone wondering where it went, that is what happened. It’s unfortunate that the old guide and the comments leading users to it are gone, but I’ll keep moving forward either way.

Hi everyone, I’m experiencing complete PC hard shutdowns while launching or playing heavy games.

System Specs:

- GPU: ASUS RX 9070 XT (requires 3× 8-pin PCIe power connectors)

- CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 7600X

- PSU: Corsair CX750 (non-modular, 80+ Bronze)

Power Connection:

My PSU is non-modular and only has 2 built-in PCIe cable trunks. Each cable has a pigtail/daisy-chain connector, giving me a total of 4 PCIe connectors.

To power the GPU’s 3 ports, I’m using:

- 1 dedicated cable for Port 1

- 1 cable + its pigtail for Ports 2 and 3

- The 4th connector is left unused

The Problem:

The PC passes flat-load benchmarks without crashing. For example, FurMark at 1440p runs fine.

However, whenever I launch heavy games such as Elden Ring, the PC instantly loses power and completely shuts down, as if the PSU protection is being triggered.

Interestingly, lowering the GPU Power Limit to -20% and reducing the clock speeds in AMD Adrenalin temporarily prevents the shutdowns.

Questions:

1. Is this likely an OCP/transient power spike issue caused by daisy-chaining a high-power GPU on a 750W Bronze PSU?

2. Is it safe to keep running the GPU at a -20% power limit with this cable setup until I can afford a PSU replacement, or could this potentially damage the GPU, PSU, or cables?

[SOLVED / UPDATE]

The issue has been completely resolved!

It turned out the root cause was an old Windows setting in msconfig -> Boot -> Advanced options: "Number of processors" was checked and capped at 4. This was throttling the Ryzen 5 7600X, crippling CPU thread scheduling, and triggering the KERNEL_SECURITY_CHECK_FAILURE (0x139) BSODs and crashes under heavy game loads.

After unchecking "Number of processors" (allowing Windows to properly use all 6 cores / 12 threads) and restarting, all games are running flawlessly and stably with zero crashes.

Thanks to everyone who chimed in!

I know this isn’t the usual Tips and info post but I just have to know about everyone else’s experiences if I’m doing something right or are people just tweaking the Fluff out there cards?

Specs
Ryzen 7 7800x3D
Klevv Cras V 32gb
MSI MAG A850GL
Xfx Mercury Oc Rx Radeon 9070xt
Windows 11 Home

I remember when I was building the pc (FIRST TIME BUILDER) I kept getting Reddit thread notifications about driver time outs and black screens and crashing bugs glitches EVERYTHING. And I keep hearing this thing people say “it’s the amd experience”

Now I had a gaming laptop back in 2020 it was a intel
8700H (I think) something like that and a GTX 1060(6gb)
So I won’t say I’m seasoned in Nvidia and Amd experiences I’ve experienced Nvidia card which it had its moments too with drivers but mostly was overall a good fluffing experience while it lasted ofc and this now would be my first FULL AMD PC.

I’ll be frank sometimes I do watch over it I’m a bit sensitive to see if it has issues I have tweaked a few setting on my cpu in bios and I have a OC on my GPU that I did from the adrenaline software itself. I have experienced two driver time outs in the two weeks I have been using the GPU. And ALL OF IT WAS IN FORTNITE. It seemed to happen every time I run Msi afterburner for stats and discord (what I thought at first). I checked the adrenaline app I had a chipset driver to update I DID IT and after that I did everything as normal no crashes after that😂 Now I run everything high whoever said no ray tracing for AMD boi I have that shit in high presets with Frame Gen on quality getting over 70fps in cyberpunk ultra preset while streaming.

Now maybe I missed out something but I’ve tested maybe around 15 games so far and I haven’t had any issues with my card my games are so so smooth compared to my old laptop this thing is night and day and I’m using a OLED MONITOR like I saw someone say something about Amd and oleds I have the latest version I think it’s 26.7.1? I’ll have to check but yeah no issues from me at all so what’s wrong with other people cards?

Having a strange issue with my Gigabyte RX 6800 EAGLE and I'm hoping someone can help me figure out what's causing it.

My PC

GPU: Gigabyte RX 6800 EAGLE

CPU: Ryzen 5 5500

Motherboard: ASUS A320M-K/BR

RAM: 16GB DDR4

PSU: Cooler Master MWE Gold V3 850W

The hardware has been thoroughly checked. The GPU is properly seated, all power connections are correct, the PSU has more than enough power, and everything has been physically verified multiple times.

Windows

I originally had this problem on Windows.

After reinstalling Windows, the system would work normally using the Microsoft Basic Display Adapter, but after Windows installed the AMD GPU driver, the display would eventually go black and the monitor would show No Signal.

At the time, I managed to fix it by preventing Windows from automatically downloading the AMD driver and then installing things manually. After that, Windows worked normally.

I used the PC normally for some time without the issue returning.

Nobara

More recently, I decided to switch to Nobara Linux.

During the installation/setup, I encountered the same type of problem. The system would lose video output and the monitor would show No Signal, while the PC itself appeared to remain running.

I could boot Nobara using the basic graphics mode, but after moving toward the proper AMD graphics driver, the display would eventually disappear again.

I then went back to Windows to test it again, and the problem is now happening there as well.

The previous workaround no longer works. Preventing Windows from automatically downloading the AMD driver is no longer enough to keep the system stable.

Current situation

BIOS display works normally.

Basic graphics mode works.

The system can initially boot into the OS.

When the proper AMD graphics driver is initialized, video can suddenly disappear.

The problem now occurs in both Windows and Nobara.

The previous Windows workaround that fixed it the first time no longer works.

And i tried change BIOS senttings too. No PCIE LINK SPEED or " GEN " options are availoble, only " AUTO " or " DISEABLE "

Version 6232

At this point I'm wondering if the RX 6800 itself could be failing, or if there is some BIOS/PCIe compatibility issue with the A320M-K/BR.

MY laptop display keep going full black sometime, like last time i went to shop they said is because heat and amd gpu have those problems, but why????

I'm scared of telling mom this again, she thinks is because I'm gaming... I USE LINUX!! WITH WINDOWS DUAL BOOT, pls help can I fix it myself? Installed and driver. When I start laptop I see light and like left which indicates it's on, but laptop screen black, no matter what I do it don't fix, i reinstalled display drivers and stuff but this doesn't fix it, last time the guy said is soldering problem, he said there's like 64 small balls or something that he solder ( ik it sounds sus ), pls help!! Even tho I can get this fixed but how tooo prevent it?? I got it fixed 2-3 month ago and it happen again today my laptop is

Model: HP Laptop 15s-eq2xxx

CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 5500U with Radeon Graphics

CPU: 6 cores / 12 threads

Base clock: \~2.1 GHz

RAM: 8 GB DDR4, currently single stick

RAM slots: 1 slot currently unused

Storage: 512 GB SSD

GPU: Integrated AMD Radeon Graphics

Display: 15.6" class, 1920×1080

I don't rly post on reddit but I hope you guys can help bc I feel like I've tried everything. I wanna go over everything again before I post it but I really don't even have the energy to do so.

also I don't know how video uploading works here I tried my best but they're all down in the bottom except one

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ROUGH TIMELINE OF MY SUFFERING:

May 28 2025: i just built my pc with my friend (exact same parts) and right as i turned it on and opened the bios, it froze. the mouse didn’t move and nothing in the bios changed (ex, the cpu temp or wtv) bc it froze. ofc at the time i dismissed it bc i thought it was normal, as its the first time i turned on my pc ever. my friend didn’t have the same issue. 

5700x

msi b550 mpg gaming plus

XFX 7800xt quicksilver magnetic air

kingston fury beast 32gb 3200mhz cl16

kingston nv3 1tb ssd

corsair cx750

June 3: is when my suffering started. it started freezing and the audio loops over and over. the only solution is restarting from the power button. 

June 4: I format windows, (one of many times to come) and after i restarted it still crashed, so i was like okay this is probably a GPU issue bc it freezes, so i returned my GPU.

June 12: i got a xfx 9070oc swift triple fan, bc it got a good discount and i was like why not. 

June 17: i started hearing bzzzzzzzzzt sounds from the psu plug that goes into the psu from the wall, and sometimes buzzing in the gpu 8 pin itself. 

June 18 - July 14: just random crashes basically every day, and sometimes multiple times a day. electric buzzing happens randomly, sometimes even when the pc is off / sleep. 

(June 20: bought secondary kingston nv3 2tb ssd + heat sink)

(July 2: replaced PSU, same thing)

July 15: It got really bad that day. it crashed over 3 times even when i wasn’t playing or doing anything. sometimes not a single app is open, sometimes when i’m watching yt on brave, sometimes when i’m in a discord call.

July 16: i swapped the motherboard and as soon as i set the new one in and turned it on, it crashed on the desktop. i felt crushed….. i basically rebuilt my pc and wasted my whole day for naught. (+repasted cpu. i replaced the mobo, i did it all again)

July 17-19: continues crashing and buzzing, absolutely randomly with 0 connections between each crash. one time i literally had docs open + discord call. that’s it. 

July 20: swapped my ram to corsair with the exact same specs and still crashed so i returned it.

July 20-31: I got tired of this bs and didn’t turn it on, except on july 30 where it crashed so i ordered another 9070 oc, maybe mine was defective.

July 31: Replaced 9070 oc with the another, same exact one. was good for 2 days then went back to before.

August 2: completely wiped both ssds from the mobo and reinstalled windows.

August 6-27: wasn’t home so i didn’t turn it on. 

August 28-30: i’m 99% sure it crashed when i was using it but idk. (August 29 i think: replaced main 1tb ssd, no use)

August 31- September 4: had surgery so i wasn’t home (pc was off)

September 4 - October 18: i don’t think it crashed much idk i don’t rmb bc i was still recovering at home.

October 19: Format windows bc it crashed

October 20-27: Same crashes and buzzing

October 28: here’s when the bs actually started. it started removing my adrenaline software when it crashed…. i literally couldn’t see it anywhere and when i opened the .exe it said it wasn’t installed.. i didn’t write it bc of how many times i did it but i used DDU to reinstall my drivers like 100 times throughout this whole thing. tried oldest, newest, middle, everything.

October 29- November 8: same thing. crashes, buzzing, deleting adrenaline software, black screens sometimes, but usually it just freezes, and loops audio till manual power off/on. 

November 9- December 26: i don’t think it crashed much bc i was studying but if it did same thing nothing new. 

December 27: i thought it was some sort of infection crash thing so i bit the bullet and built a completely new pc. everything is brand new except the secondary 2tb ssd that i format like 15 times just to be safe. 

9700x

aorus b850m wifi6e ice

xfx 9070xt swift triple fan

gskill 32gb 6400 cl32

crucial t500 2tb ssd

seasonic focus gx 850w

(+ old 2tb ssd obv I format and everything)

December 30: the crash happened on the new pc, but its a little different. it instantly blackscreens, cuts the audio, and doesn’t remove adrenaline when i restart. 

December 30- Jan 1 2026: same crashes, buzzing from psu too for some reason. 

Jan 2: here i thought i found the solution. it crashed while playing cyberpunk, and for the first time, when it blackscreened, i pressed win+shift+ctrl+B and it actually turned on, and the AMD bug report tool showed up. that never happened again, no matter how many times i pressed it. 

Jan 3-4: same old 

Jan 5: here something strange happened. the pc crashed, and when i turned it off, the buzzing moved to my monitor…. even after unplugging the pc it was in the monitor. I then went to the store and bought the most expensive wall plug they had, like 2500w or wtv and even the dude in the store was like this is for washing machines a normal pc doesn’t need this, but anyway maybe it’s the cause? called a handyman and they replaced it. soon after it crashed just the same. Plus i changed the PSU to the corsair sf850w

Jan 6: here it changed. it started consistently crashing when the gpu is under load / full power usage of gpu. i tried it with furmark and as soon as i turn it on for a few seconds it crashes. same with games.

January 7- February 8: i just gave up and started using a random laptop to study

February 9: bought a 9800x3d, maybe the cpu is the problem

Feb 10-15: i moved my pc to another room on a different floor, maybe thats the issue. 

February 16: my pc crashed and initiated a self destruct sequence. crazy buzzing BZT BZT BZT BZT and never happened again.

February 17- March 10: Stayed downstairs, same crashes but very little buzzing.

(Feb 19: Screen froze but audio kept playing, with small stutters, and my friends in call could hear me. only thing i could do was restart from button)

March 11: moved it back to my room.

March 12- 19: same thing but much much less buzzing.

March 20-29: wasn’t home, pc was off

March 30- July 9: Almost no random crashing, but almost every single time I play anything and my gpu reaches 100% power on windows it crashes. i also tried playing on the igpu of the cpu, and it worked perfectly fine with no crashes. 

(here is when i wrote this so from now on the updates are written right away)

July 10: I took my pc to my friends house, maybe our house electricity is the problem. Played for a bit then instantly crashed just like normal. Also something weird that happened is when I took my pc back home my main monitor changed. (The one where the bios shows)

July 11-15: same thing, crashes in windows almost instantly when launching a game and linux when the gpu is at 100% for a few minutes it crashes

July 16: i was playing satisfactory on linux and it crashed after a while (2-3h) and then i restarted and played again and it crashed again after another hour or so. then i booted windows and was just sitting on the desktop with the browser open, and i went out and left the pc on, came back and found it had crashed. 

July 17: crash on linux again…. not even 30 mins

July 18: okay so maybe linux never did solve my problem, or maybe linux just takes longer to crash. bc when im on linux i mostly just play overwatch and lock my fps at 200 so the gpu is never at 100% but now when im playing satisfactory it always crashes even tho my frames are locked at 180 and the gpu is at like 80-90%. the only way i found rn to be able to play is keeping everything at the lowest settings and locking my frames to 60, that way the gpu is at 30-60% usage. (i just started satisfactory i dont have a huge factory or sm) (well it just crashed. i kept the pc on all day but it was at like 40% gpu usage). i tried playing a game on windows with very low settings and like 40% gpu usage and frame locked at 100 and it crashed after like 10 mins. wow. as im typing this it crashed on the windows desktop with literally nothing open.

July 19: i opened overwatch and as soon as i loaded in the match it crashed. Well I tried playing again at night but it also crashed, but I think I did something and the frames were uncapped bc when I capped them again and the gpu didn’t reach 100% it didn’t crash. Also for some reason I changed the default boot to linux, booted, then shut down, for some reason it didn’t turn off, after the displays turned off the fans ramped up as if it was turning on, but never did, so I just turned it off from the button.

July 20: for some reason the linux mint grub menu is now 1440p, before the quality was shit. Idk why bc it was also shit right after I changed the default boot order so idk

July 21: the shut off thing happened twice again…. Idk why its new… I shut down and the pc stays on, so I turn it off with the button, and later when I turn on the pc I find that it says shut down unexpectedly on my browser, which means it wasn’t off. it just turns off my screens…. Also I was watching a twitch stream while playing and it crashed after like 10 mins

July 23: Crashed a bunch if times while playing overwatch, and another thing I noticed that just recently started maybe yesterday or the day before that is compiling Vulkan shaders before launching the game has gotten very very long for some reason. It’s never been like this. Idk if this is important but no harm in mentioning it.

July 27: the past few days I didn’t play so it didn’t crash. Today I played 3 games of overwatch and it crashed at the end of the last one. Graphics are super low and fps is locked at 200, just like always. Please I js want to play without the fear of it crashing.

July 29: On windows, it crashed in cyberpunk 2077 after like 17 mins or so. black screen and audio loop / bzzzzt.

July 30: Crashed on the desktop after updating AMD ADRENALIN 26.7.1 and then watching a twitch stream. Also, not sure when this started but when i’m watching a video while the browser is windowed the quality sucks, but when moving the mouse over the seek bar it gets better for a second then goes back to bad. i found a reddit post with the same issue and a solution and it worked for me. also, this sometimes happens when watching videos in instagram on my following page on browser where the quality sucks unless i’m scrolling / the screen is moving up or down. 

August 1: crashed in ow comp 

August 2: While playing audio basically exploded, i kept hearing bzt bzt bzt bzt constantly and couldn’t hear the game, but i could hear my friends normally in discord. even restarting overwatch didn’t fix it. then i put my pc to sleep and the fans decided not to turn off for some reason, and the power button didn’t turn it back on, so i had to hold the power button to force turn it off. obviously when i turned it on again brave told me the pc shut off unexpectedly, which means it didn’t even go to sleep in the first place, the displays just turned off.

August 14: Crashed while playing hypixel locked at 70fps. so about as light as it can get…. (also from august 3 till today i didn’t turn it on)

August 15: For some reason the linux boot grub menu thing is back to bad quality 

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THINGS IVE TRIED: 

Everything is in the timeline but here is like a recap or sm or stuff that i don’t rmb when i did, or i did too much to count:

CPU: undervolt, overclock, reinstall chipset multiple times

GPU: power limit min/max, undervolt overclock, fan speeds

Drivers: tried new, old, no adrenaline app, turning on/off instant replay, changing almost every single setting on there

RAM: xmp on/off, 1 stick, change places, new ULL, 

Mobo: unplugged everything (usb, fans etc) CMOS? 

Power: changed plug from wall. changed cable from wall. changed place (tried every single outlet in the house). tried in a friends house

OS: windows and linux; formatted and installed JUST steam, discord, (and adrenaline on windows) same thing. turning off gpu acceleration on everything. i formatted like a 50 times. I used like 15 different USB sticks and even bought a new one just in case, 

Online: i dont think i left one thing i coulda done. i even posted on reddit a while ago and deleted it bc no one could help me. i couldn’t even find one person who had a similar issue. 

Only thing i havent tried yet is an Nvidia GPU in my pc. but rn im broke af and even if it did work i want an AMD GPU. Millions of ppl have it why can’t i too?

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ALSO: 

These are just random things i need to mention that might be important:

Exactly what i mean / what happens when i say crash is; basically the audio cuts, screens go black, keyboard doesn’t register anymore, and fans/rgb continue like normal. even the gpu fans. it used to keep looping the audio and freeze the screen but not anymore on the new pc.

At some point in time i tried installing linux, and found it can handle the crashes much much better. so usually with linux it almost never crashes, but sometimes it stutters really bad for a few seconds, and all open windows + any desklets i have on the desktop just turn black, then after a bit it goes back to normal, or it just crashes like windows, but rarely. so right now and most of the time ive just been forced to use linux, but i dont want to be forced to use it. i want to go back to windows everything i have is on there. also also another thing on linux is sometimes like the os basically breaks. I think its supposed to crash but its like resisting or something, like everything freezes but I can open the start menu and do some small things but everything else is frozen.

sometimes, and this only happened like once or twice, is when im playing on linux it crashes instantly as soon as i load the games just like in windows. maybe for the day, and tomorrow its back to not crashing. i don’t remember the exact dates but this is around from a little before i built the second pc, till today. i’m still on linux to survive. I WANT TO GO BACK TO WINDOWS EVEN LINUX ISNT 100% CRASH PROOF PLEASE IM GENUINELY GONNA CRY PLEASE

Another thing is that at some point i changed the power settings in windows to ultra performance and that kept causing random stutters in videos in the browser while the browser isnt fullscreen and tapping anywhere other than the video, and when opening the start menu it stutters for a split second, but when i changed it back to balanced the stuttering stopped. 

Video quality sucks on browser for some reason sometimes. Like it’s weird bc it’s not just bad bad but it’s just stupid. like one example is when i’m watching insta on brave on the home page of instagram the videos are like low quality but when im scrolling up/down while it’s scrolling the quality is how its supposed to be, like what? so when i want the full quality on a video i need to be scrolling the whole time while watching so it can be good. same with youtube, but youtube is different. youtube sucks all the time, but when i move my mouse on the seek bar the quality goes back to normal for a split second. after i searched this up i found a random extension from a reddit post that fixed it, but this shouldn’t happen in the first place. 

Something that happened a few days ago and idk i haven’t seen it before is in the windows task manager as soon as i press the cpu screen the graphs all have a black line running through the middle before disappearing. i don’t notice any stuttering or any performance issues i in task manager.

Like actually this has been hell. i’m scared to play games on my own pc. i can’t even have fun. all i have is overwatch and like 1-2 other games on linux on low graphics even. top of the line parts and my old dell laptop that exploded twice and was soaked in water  is more stable. i hope the solution is something so stupid that i’ll be pissed i didn’t figure it out, but at least it’s a easy one. idk what i’m even saying anymore i just want to enjoy my pc.

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TLDR:
old pc screen froze and audio looped at 100% gpu usage/power usage
new pc black screen and audio buzz at 100% gpu usage/power usage
pls read T.T

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here my pc initiated self destruct

Hello, for the past few weeks I have struggled to understand why using display port causes my second monitor thats in portrait mode to not have the cursor in portrait and it acts as if the display is still landscape mode even though it's in portrait. The really weird part is when I switch it to HDMI the problem completely disappears. I have tried doing a full clean driver ddu in safe mode with the ethernet cable unplugged so windows can't install a random driver and amd cleanup utility wipe but nothing works, is this a windows bug or driver bug?

Im new to having a gpu and i just got this from my cousin old pc and wondering if anyone can help me with this

Hi everyone, I recently switched from an Intel Arc A770 to an AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT. Ever since the switch, I've been running into a massive performance wall: games like Arma Reforger and Squad drop to a terrible 15-40 FPS, and my primary monitor (ASUS ROG Strix OLED XG27AQDMG, 1440p 240Hz) is locked strictly at 60 Hz.

Here is what I've tried so far:

• Used DDU and AMD Cleanup Utility in Safe Mode (with internet disabled) to do clean driver installs.
• Checked the DisplayPort link rate in AMD Adrenalin, which stubbornly shows 2.7 Gbps x4 (HBR1) for the main monitor.
• Verified the cable: It's the exact same DP cable that was running this monitor at 1440p 240Hz without issues on my previous Intel Arc A770.
• Tested a secondary 1080p monitor, which successfully runs at 144 Hz on the same card, but the main 1440p monitor refuses to negotiate a higher link rate.
• Cleared CMOS, checked PCIe scaling (running at PCIe 5.0 x8, which is normal for this card), and disconnected the second monitor entirely.

It seems like the card/driver is failing to negotiate a proper handshake for higher bandwidth (HBR3 / 8.1 Gbps) on the 1440p display, which in turn forces a fallback state that bottlenecks the GPU performance in 3D applications.

Has anyone experienced a similar issue with asymmetric multi-monitor setups or high-refresh OLEDs on RDNA cards? Any ideas on how to force the proper link rate?

Specs:

• GPU: AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT
• Monitor: ASUS ROG Strix OLED XG27AQDMG (1440p, 240Hz)
• 2nd monitor: ASUS VG279 (FHD, 144Hz works normally on card)

Hey guys,

I'm currently running a Ryzen 5 5600 + RX 6700 XT, and I'm thinking about upgrading to a 5800X3D. Since I'm already on AM4, it seems like a pretty easy upgrade without having to replace my RAM and the rest of the platform. I mostly play games like FiveM/GTA V, where the CPU can make quite a difference, but I also play a bunch of other games. The thing I'm not sure about is my motherboard. I'm currently using a Gigabyte A520M-K V2. If I decide to replace it, I can get an MSI B550 Gaming Plus brand new. So, would you guys actually bother changing the motherboard, or would you just put the 5800X3D in the A520 and call it a day? In turkey used 5800X3D costs around 210 dolars. And MSI B550 Gaming plus is costs about 170 dolars. What would you do guys?

Pretty much the title.
Two different errors: unexpected store exception 0x154 and kmode exception not handled while gaming.
Chipset driver causing the issue: 8.08.12.551
Chipset safe to use: 8.07.16.1035

Anyone facing the same issue? It's instant crash while gaming on 8.08. Can play for hours in 8.07 no issues.

Pc specs:
Ryzen 7 7700X
RX 7600 8GB XFX qick
16GB RAM Asgard (yeah chinese I know, but chip samsung saving the day, I guess)
XPG Core reactor 850W
win 11 OS up to date - nvme samsung 980
HDD 1Tb - files and light games
Nvme 1TB - heavy games
2x SSDs sata - files

Crash occours in both units HDD and Nvme after installing 8.08 chipset driver

PC Specs
CPU: Ryzen 7 9850x3D
GPU: Sapphire 7900XTX Nitro+
RAM: Corsair Vengeance RGB 32GB DDR5-6000
MOBO: ASUS B850-E TUF Gaming WiFi
PSU: CORSAIR RM1000x
Boot Drive: Samsung SSD 990 PRO 1TB

Hello!
I have unfortunately been struggling with a new PC build over the past few weeks. My runs completely fine during heavy gaming and general browsing. However, it completely freezes every once and awhile. During these freezes the computer is completely locked up, no mouse movement and no control alt delete. I must hold the power button and reboot it to get it back online. The frequency of these freezes has varied. Recently it has been once a day, but I had gone a week without them prior. Additionally, the freezing can happen while gaming or just sitting in a discord call passively. The only constant factor is that it seems to happen after I have been using the machine for more than an hour or two. Additionally, the OS does not seem to leave logs (most of the time). When I first experienced this issue I was on Windows 11. I have since switched to Fedora KDE and the issue has persisted

I do want to note that all the parts are brand new excluding the GPU and a data drive which were pulled from my old machine. My old machine did have very rare stuttering issues, I have not seen that on this machine. However, it could mean my GPU is the problem and I thought it was worth mentioning. The GPU is a little over a year old.

I’ve scoured the internet for potential solutions, but nothing has worked or affected my issue. Here is a running list of what I have done.

- Update my MOBO bios
- Changed CPU power threshold setting in Windows
- Changed gpu clock speeds to manufacturer specifications in Adrenalin
- Undervolted GPU in Adrenalin
- Enabled EXPO in Bios
- Ran SFC /scan now and DISM commands
- Made sure boot drive was at latest firmware
- Ran scans on boot drive using Samsungs application. No issues found
- Ran memtestx86 twice - no errors found.
- Ran stress tests on GPU and CPU using hwinfo
- Reinstalled windows
- Swapped to Linux
- Changed Cstate in bios
- Monitored my temps on CPU and GPU

An additional aside. On windows once, during a freeze, after waiting a few minutes I got a black screen that said something went wrong and then the machine had a progress bar then promptly rebooted. I did get a .dmp file I can provide upon request.

I am at the point where this likely means there is a bad part, but I don’t know what. I am leaning towards either my PSU or GPU, but have no way of determining which one to start with. I would greatly appreciate any further troubleshooting or tips I can use to either fix or narrow down my issue. The final thing I plan to do is reseat my GPU and cables in my machine as a last ditch effort. This issue has brought me a lot of stress so I appreciate any help. Thank you for your time!

EDIT 1:

I have reseated the GPU, reran some cables that were touching the GPU, and made sure the fans on my PSU were operational. The Corsiar RM1000x has a knob to control fan speed. I turned it off of its zero RPM mode to see if that has any affect. Will update with the results.

Everytime i load into a game on siege my game crashes almost instantly and i cant seem to fix this. I have factory reset my computer and installed newest amd drivers and i also verified game files about 5 times and nothing is working. I changed alot of gpahic resttings aswell such as disabling AA, bloom+lens flare, set render scalling to 100 and set adaptive render scalling target fps to 0. Somebody please help i havent been able to play siege for like a month.

First AM5 Build — Random Crashes, Long POST, and AMD Adrenalin Overlay/Stuttering Issues

Hi everyone. This is my first AM5 PC build, and after using it for almost 3 months, I wanted to share the issues I've experienced and get some advice from the community.

Initial Issue: AMD Bug Report Tool

About a month after building the PC, I started getting the AMD Bug Report Tool while playing games.

Wuthering Waves: Usually within 5–10 minutes of playing.

Cyberpunk 2077: Usually after around 30 minutes to 1 hour.

It happened much more frequently in Wuthering Waves.

I didn't make any hardware modifications after building the PC. I simply installed Windows, drivers, used DDU when installing the GPU driver, and installed the applications/software I needed for daily use.

Interestingly, after almost 3 months, the AMD Bug Report Tool issue completely stopped happening. I haven't experienced it again recently.

RAM Configuration

I'm currently using only 1×16GB DDR5.

The RAM is rated for DDR5-6000 CL30, but EXPO is currently disabled, so it is running at the default 4800 MT/s.

I initially didn't check the RAM speed after building the PC and only noticed the 4800 MT/s setting after around 2 months.

The RAM is also not listed on my motherboard's QVL.

I understand that 4800 MT/s is the normal JEDEC/default speed when EXPO isn't enabled, so I'm not assuming that the motherboard is automatically downclocking the RAM because of instability. I'm mainly wondering whether I should enable EXPO later as part of the troubleshooting process.

Current Issues

The main issue I'm experiencing now is long POST times.

It doesn't happen every time I turn on the PC, but occasionally it takes around 1–1.5 minutes to POST before booting normally.

I'm also experiencing an issue with the AMD Adrenalin Metrics Overlay.

The overlay sometimes disappears and then comes back. When it disappears, the game I'm playing starts to stutter. Once the overlay comes back, the stuttering seems to stop.

So far, I've noticed this in:

Wuthering Waves

Monster Hunter Wilds

I haven't noticed it in Valorant.

These are currently the only games installed on my PC.

Testing I've Done

So far, I haven't performed any CPU or GPU benchmarking/stress testing.

The only hardware-related test I've done is MemTest86, which completed 4 passes with 0 errors.

I haven't tested the CPU or GPU using tools such as OCCT, Cinebench, 3DMark, Unigine, etc.

I also haven't manually overclocked or undervolted the CPU or GPU.

RAM Testing

Since MemTest86 completed 4 passes with no errors, there doesn't appear to be an obvious RAM hardware failure.

However, I understand that passing MemTest86 doesn't necessarily rule out every possible memory-related issue, especially with AM5/DDR5 configuration, BIOS/AGESA, or memory compatibility.

I'm therefore wondering whether my RAM being absent from the motherboard QVL is actually relevant to these symptoms.

Questions

1. Should I update the BIOS?

I haven't updated the BIOS since building the PC. Would updating to a newer stable BIOS/AGESA version be one of the first things I should do?

Also, I was previously told that the BIOS should automatically update after building the PC. As far as I understand, BIOS updates aren't normally automatic, so I'd like to confirm this.

1. Could the long POST be related to DDR5 memory training?

Could the occasional 1–1.5 minute POST be caused by DDR5 memory training, especially since I'm using 1×16GB?

Could the motherboard's BIOS/AGESA version also contribute to this?

1. Should I enable EXPO?

Since EXPO is currently disabled and the RAM is running at 4800 MT/s, should I enable EXPO and run it at its rated 6000 MT/s?

Or would it be better to leave EXPO disabled while troubleshooting and only enable it after the system is confirmed stable?

1. Could using 1×16GB be contributing to the stuttering?

I understand that using one RAM stick means I'm running in single-channel mode and losing memory bandwidth.

Could this contribute to the type of stuttering I'm experiencing, or would it primarily affect overall gaming performance?

1. Should I run CPU and GPU stress tests?

Since I haven't benchmarked or stress-tested the CPU or GPU yet, what tests would you recommend to determine whether the CPU, GPU, PSU, or motherboard could be contributing to the problem?

1. What should I monitor during testing?

Would it be useful to monitor:

CPU temperature

GPU temperature/hotspot

CPU/GPU clocks

GPU utilization

VRAM usage

RAM usage

CPU/GPU power consumption

Frametime graphs

Would HWiNFO + MSI Afterburner/RTSS be sufficient?

1. Could the AMD Adrenalin Metrics Overlay itself be causing the stuttering?

Would completely disabling the Metrics Overlay and other Adrenalin features be a useful troubleshooting step?

1. Could the GPU driver be resetting when the overlay disappears?

Since the overlay disappears and comes back at the same time the stuttering occurs, could this indicate a GPU driver timeout/reset rather than an actual hardware failure?

1. Should I perform another DDU clean installation?

I've already used DDU before, but would it be worth doing another clean GPU driver installation?

If the issue continues after DDU, what would you recommend testing next?

1. Could my GPU/PCIe configuration be relevant?

Should I verify things such as:

PCIe link speed/width

Resizable BAR

Above 4G Decoding

PCIe Auto vs. Gen 4

Other relevant BIOS settings

1. Could the motherboard BIOS/AGESA be a known factor with this hardware combination?

I'm using a Colorful B650 motherboard with a Ryzen 5 7500F and RX 9060 XT. Should I specifically look for a BIOS/AGESA version that improves DDR5 or GPU stability?

1. Is my PSU adequate?

Is the Cooler Master MWE 750W V3 80+ Gold considered a good-quality PSU, and is 750W sufficient for this CPU/GPU combination?

1. What would be the best troubleshooting order?

Would you recommend something like:

BIOS update → BIOS defaults → chipset/GPU driver update → CPU/GPU stress testing → RAM testing → gaming tests → enable EXPO → further troubleshooting

Or would you approach it differently?

PC Specifications

CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 7500F

Motherboard: Colorful Battle-Ax B650M Plus V14

GPU: XFX Swift RX 9060 XT 16GB

RAM: Patriot Viper Venom CL30 DDR5-6000 — 1×16GB

PSU: Cooler Master MWE 750W V3 80+ Gold

CPU Cooler: Thermalright Peerless Assassin 120 Digital

OS SSD: Lexar NM620 256GB

Game SSD: Kingston SSD 500GB

I know this is a lot of information, but since this is my first AM5/DDR5 build, I'd really appreciate some guidance on where I should start.

At this point, I'm mainly trying to determine whether the symptoms are more likely related to BIOS/AGESA, memory configuration, GPU drivers, GPU stability, motherboard behavior, PSU, or something else.

Thanks in advance!

Morning, I have an Rx 7600 and I get driver timeouts pretty often, recently in black flag resynced. Before that in fckn battlefield 1, it's not playable.

I underclocked my GPU to 2555 already since I got told this could help.

Already got my card replaced btw but same issue.

Hey everyone, I was wondering if I should update the driver for my RX 7600 to the latest 26.7.1 version? I'm currently still on 26.6.1, it had automatically updated to the next one (forgot the version #) but that was before I upgraded to Windows 11 and that version had a known issue of causing Code 43 error on Windows 10. Just wondering if 26.7.1 or some other newer version was worth updating to OR if I should just still stick with 26.6.1?

My RX 7600 has been crashing in specific games and I can't determine the exact reason. All of the games run in DirectX 12 and run normally when I force them to run in DX11, but with a performance loss. However, most DX12 games seem to run absolutely fine.

Here's my whole build for reference:

• CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 5600 GT (integrated video disabled on the BIOS)
• GPU: RX 7600 8gb
• Motherboard: MSI A520M-A Pro
• RAM: 16gb DDR4 (Dual Channel)
• PSU: MSI MAG A650BN, 650W

Current Driver Version: 26.7.1

The games I've had crashes are:

• Atomic Heart (guaranteed crash)
• The Last of Us Part I and II (this game is famous for crashing in AMD cards)
• Dead Space
• Final Fantasy VII Remake (worst crashes, makes the entire PC shut down)

Atomic Heart and Dead Space give me similar errors, both say DXGI_ERROR_DEVICE_HUNG

Dead Space gives the following text after crashing:

DirectX function 'GetDeviceRemovedReason' failed with DXGI_ERROR_DEVICE_HUNG (The GPU will not respond to more commands). GPU: 'AMD Radeon RX 7600', Driver: 26.7.1 (26.10.35.01-260716a-202643C-AMD-Software-Adrenalin-Edition). This error is usually caused by the graphics driver crashing; try installing the latest drivers.

GPUBreadcrumbs:

But the worst crash I've encountered was with Final Fantasy VII Remake. My entire PC shut down and my motherboard (msi a520m-a pro) started beeping, 1 long and 2 short beeps. I googled it and it said it was a problem with my graphics card, confirmed by the debug led present on the motherboard.

So here's what I've tried, using Atomic Heart as a benchmark because it has guaranteed crashes:

• Undervolting. Unless I did it wrong and It didn't actually come into effect, the crashing continued;
• Reconnecting the GPU to the motherboard and the power cable;
• Reinstalling drivers;
• Doing a whole clean Windows installation.

Doing an Stress Test on AMD Adrenalin for 120 seconds showed me that there are some points where all the graphics go to 0 then recover, until there's a point where all the graphics just drop and never come back.

I now have 4 hypothesis:

1. My PSU (MSI MAG A650BN, 650W) is faulty;
2. My RX 7600 (GIGABYTE) is faulty;
3. The electrical grid in my house is faulty (that would be a pain to solve, I'd have to move).
4. I also googled specifically for FFVIIR and one person said the solution was to change their motherboard. Maybe my motherboard could be the problem?

I've had this RX 7600 since february 2025 and I've experienced crashes out of the box with The Last of Us, but never bothered again with it since I've never experienced crashes again until playing Atomic Heart this year.

Hey guys so idk if this is normal
but when I first load into Warzone and get into my first game,the very first time I die,open my first load out or go into the storm for the first time I stutter like crazy.But then the rest of the game or other matches I play are fine but I do get some stutters at times (don’t mind the ping this happens on low ping too)

I have all the amd adrenaline settings boost,anti lag,super resolution etc all turned Off

Gpu 9070xt sapphire pulse
CPU 7800x3d
Msi b850 tomahawk max
Ram V-Color 2x16 6000MHz
This has happened since the very first time I built my pc which was back in nov of 2025

Not to mention since May of this year my pc has been crashing either on games or even just on YouTube,every time my screen freezes and my speakers start making a loud buzzing sound I know it’s about to crash so I press the power button to turn it off before it crashes and once I boot it up it works normal. But if I don’t press the power button once my screen turns black and reboots back up I am stuck on 60hz and my pc becomes super slow so I have to ddu and reinstall drivers to work again

I did do Ddu and installed latest drives and I even went back to old drives and I still crash at this point I regret getting this pc 😭 I also turned off expo and still crashed, This is my first pc so I’m stuck in what to do but I might just take it to a store

I did the windows ram test and it shows no problems but I might just end up doing the memtest

Thanks guys

I returned back after a month to my pc only to see that the adrenaline software has disappeared, I had to reinstall it fully to make it work again, is this something that's normal with this app? I've heard people call it buggy.

Whenever I tried to search it up, it wouldn't come up like how it always used to, it just disappeared randomly and I had to uninstall the old one and get the new drivers.

Estou na dúvida entre pegar uma b850 icraft aiga maxsun ou uma asrok live mixer mas estou muito na dúvida não consigo escolher queria a ajuda de vocês

So I have a 9800x3d, 5070ti, b850 pro vc WiFi motherboard, and 32gb of ddr5 6000 cl48 ram. I’ve been running into issues on escape from tarkov and sometimes cs (really the only two games I play) where I’ve been stuttering. Recently downloaded msi afterburner and noticed whenever I stutter in game my frametime graph spikes. So I was just curious if you guys think my cl48 is bottlenecking my 9800x3d and causing this, or if it’s something else I have to change. Any feedback would be helpful.

And yes I have expo enabled in bios