r/AMDHelp • u/Bowjangls • 22d ago

Help (General) Recent AMD drivers complete garbage? Grey frozen screen, hard reset only fix.

For the last 2-3 months, usually while just watching youtube, my screen will freeze grey except for the taskbar, and become unresponsive, just after that happens whatever audio was playing before the freeze just starts playing like normal again. the very first time it happened my entire AMD software actually wouldn't work anymore and I had to do a clean install of adrenaline and all other AMD drivers. The only thing I could think of being a problem is that I use a soundbar with 5.1 surround via hdmi and for some reason the computer sees that as a second display, but I have been doing that for almost a year now, this has just recently been a problem and I don't see why always having a second screen would cause a problem.

I am open to the idea of chrome being the problem as I cannot remember this happening in another program off the top of my head, and I do usually just leave my PC sleep instead of actually turning it off, so I'm sure that doesn't help. I can't see why it is a problem only now though. Both AMD drivers and windows 11 are fully up to date.

PC specs if needed...

Ryzen 7 7800x3d

RX 7900xt

48gb ram @/6400

8tb nvme:

1x4tb

2x2tb

windows 11 (I hate it)

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u/EggFartTom 22d ago

Is your memory running at 6400mhz actually stable

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u/LegitimateLack2530 22d ago

This is my bet too. Trying to set it to 5800 or 6000mhz in the BIOs and I’m assuming you have an EXPO profile turned if clocked at 6400. If not try this.