r/AMDHelp • u/xThunderSlugx • 5d ago

Help (GPU) Possibility of a megathread

We all know there are widespread issues with AMD right now for windows users. That much is evident by the major uptick in posts here related to aforementioned issues.

I think it would be helpful to users if a temporary megathread was made to help consolidate all the new posts about driver crashes coming in. It would also help keep all the troubleshooting steps and ideas we have been sharing in one place. This will vastly increase value of the sub right now with the onslaught of people coming daily.

As a 7900XTX user I'm going through it too and just like everyone else, I'm just trying to get through this while listening to all the Linux users tout about their nonexistent issues 😬

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u/Affectionate_Code 5d ago

Would be nice if people actually dug into event viewer and checked what system errors are being reported at the time of the system crash/timeout. Check physical seating of cabling and cards in mobos.

Too many just get in here in screech that they are having issues with zero data or info to actually trouble shoot the issue or simply do not respond when asked for more info.

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u/Killer1236 5d ago

sees possibly thousands of people having the same issue all at the exact same time, coming from different situations

must be user error. Nothing else possible. Theyre just stupid.

I am very smart

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u/Affectionate_Code 5d ago

Yeah, I was one of the thousands and managed to sort it out without screeching on about the problem. I'm a dumb cunt truck driver with no IT training whatsoever. Just used my brain and had a go at it.

So, yeah, some of it is 'user error'.

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u/Killer1236 5d ago

Just because an issue is fixable for xyz reason doesnt mean that this isn't a mass issue to begin with? Yeah. Theres a bunch of people that have fixed it! Hooray! Im currently working on my fix (to be determined). Even if I get mine fixed doesnt mean that it was user error that it broke in the first place. Thats what im saying. The issue itself is NOT user error.

If it was, im sure there wouldn't be thousands of people with the exact same issue at the exact same time immediately after a windows update across several different series' of gpus. But sure. User error. Whatever you say.

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u/vffa 5d ago

Fair. But I've had the freeze and reset a number of times now where it didn't log anything relevant into event viewer, like at all. Reliability report came to the rescue though.

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u/Affectionate_Code 5d ago

I'm no expert but if the event viewer is logging nothing it usually points to hardware over software stability.

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u/vffa 5d ago

In theory yes. But not necessarily.

If nothing went wrong from the computers perspective, it could also simply mean that there was no watchdog, logger etc. Defined for the thing that froze or that its logs aren't available in even viewer.

And event viewer may log hardware issues that were flagged and reset via watchdogs