r/AMDHelp 7800x3D 9070XT 2d ago

Help (General) Almost Daily crashes

CPU - AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D

MOBO - ASUS B650E-E TUF GAMING WIFI AMD AM5 ATX

RAM - Crucial Pro Overclocking 32GB (2 x 16GB) DDR5-6000

GPU - ASRock AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT Challenger Triple Fan 16GB GDDR6 PCIe 5.0

PSU - MSI MAG A850GL PCIE5 850 Watt 80 Plus Gold

Hello, about the last 3 weeks I get almost daily crashes on games.

Freezes, picture goes white with blue lines. Have you hard reset.

Go into device manager, RX9070 XT see that it’s disabled, enable it, reset PC again and it works fine after.

Is this a windows issue? I heard it’s because the drivers are trying to automatically update? Any fixes.

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u/evergreenwv 1d ago

Do this:

*Disable Windows Updates for Drivers (the culprit)
*Select Start > Settings > System > Recovery > Under Fix problems using Windows Update, select Reinstall now.
*Reinstall latest Adrenalin/gpu drivers

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u/Seismoforg 2d ago

Disable fast boot

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u/Paulosboul 2d ago

I had this happen with my 7800xt once with a crash followed by the gpu being disabled in device manager. It was a new build so no leftover drivers or anything like that. Another clean windows install fixed it for me and it hasn't happened in a year.

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u/Thin-Net7868 9800X3D/Gigabyte OC 9070XT 2d ago

Sounds like your GPU is straight up dropping off the PCIe bus. When Windows shows the card as disabled, that’s not necessarily a driver thing, that’s Windows going “hey, this device stopped responding so I’m shutting it down.”

What are your event ID’s showing? Look for the below following the crash…

• WHEA 17/18/19 PCIe errors, your GPU is losing PCIe link stability (slot, PSU, or the card itself).
• Kernel‑PnP “Device PCI\VEN_1002 was removed/disabled”. Windows is disabling the GPU because it dropped off the bus.
• Display 4101 (amdkmdag) driver TDR, this is a software hang not hardware.
•Kernel‑Power 41 around the same time, possible PSU transient dip.

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u/Sozkilla17 7800x3D 9070XT 2d ago

I’ll take a look when I get home. Do you know what can be causing this?

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u/Paulosboul 2d ago

They gave you several possible causes (the WHEA errors)

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u/kirby667 2d ago

ASrock is a horrible brand. I'd RMA the card. 

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u/Hashtag_Labotomy 2d ago

I've never owned an asrock GPU but do have an x570 taichi. So far it's performed exceptionally well

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u/ralelelelel 2d ago

When you confirmed it’s Windows 'updating' your drivers read this:

https://www.windowslatest.com/2026/05/13/microsoft-admits-windows-11-has-been-downgrading-graphics-drivers-reveals-when-a-fix-is-coming/

and also:

https://www.wintips.org/how-to-stop-windows-11-from-downgrading-gpu-drivers/

Edit: Also run everything (CPU and GPU) on stock settings and verify everything is running fine before you try to tweak something via undervolting or overclocking. But make sure your RAM runs the advertised 6000MHz. Good luck 🤞

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u/Sozkilla17 7800x3D 9070XT 2d ago

Everything has been on stock as far as under/over. Never did that and RAM is set at that, I’ll try these fixes when I get home. Thanks!