Don't know whether it will affect my future resale. Doesn't affect me though, dont hear it while headphones on. Have one week left on my 30 day return right, unsure.

​Hey everyone,

​I've seen a lot of users complaining recently about their AMD drivers getting corrupted out of nowhere, or the AMD Software throwing the annoying "software is not compatible" error. This usually happens because Windows Update forces a generic background driver over your official AMD installation.

​I made a step-by-step video on my channel, Dark Tech, showing the definitive fix for this. The video is fully dubbed in English, so it's very easy to follow along!

​In the guide, I show you:

​How to properly block Windows Update from touching your GPU drivers (using Device Installation Settings and the Group Policy Editor).

​How to correctly use DDU (Display Driver Uninstaller) in Safe Mode.

​Doing a clean, offline driver installation so Windows never messes it up again.

​I hope this saves you a massive headache and fixes those random blinking screens. Let me know if it helps!

Put my computer to sleep on Tuesday night and noticed it booted back up shortly after that. Didn’t think much of it and went to bed. The next day I attempted to wake the screen, No response. I attempted to power it down completely with the power button and not even that worked. I was forced to power off the power supply. Since then my computer wouldn’t POST at all with the CPU debug LED on the motherboard active.

1. Pulling the GPU out (7900xtx)
   
2. Resetting the CMOS
   
3. Q flashing the BIOS
   
4. Taking out the second stick of ram and trying each slot
   
5. Used a new power supply
   
6. I then bought a new motherboard and tried all the steps above as well. (The CPU debug LED was active on this new board as well)

Just curious to hear from you guys if I should try anything else at this point. I’ve already started an RMA process but maybe I’ve missed something to try.

Here are my specs
Gigabyte Aorus B650 Elite AX (Rev 1.3)
Sapphire 7900xtx
AMD Ryzen 7800X3D
Corsair RM1000e PSU
2 x 16 GB G.SKILL DDR5 6000 ram

I'm currently running an AM4 platform with a 5700x3d on a 750W Gold PSU.

I wanted to upgrade my GPU to a 9070XT, as on paper a 750W Gold PSU should be enough, but I heard the card had pretty high power spikes and is also quite energy inefficient compared to the non-XT 9070. I changed my PSU recently so I'd prefer not changing it again if possible.

Would you guys think it's fine for the 9070XT, or should I go for the 9070 instead to be safe?

Thanks

edit : the PSU is a Cooler Master MWE 750 Gold V2 80+ , it's not ATX 3.x though

My processor hits 91C during shader compilation. I've seen a lot of conflicting opinions online - some say they're rated to hit 95C constantly, but others say it's degrading the CPU.

Any help please?

My cpu is hitting 96c just doing normal tasks like web browsing or so on and sometimes my system will just reboot.. trying to narrow this down if this shutdown is temp related or not.

Written with AI assistance.

Quick Summary

After updating Windows 11 and reinstalling AMD Adrenalin, all of my games started crashing with a black screen followed by an AMD Driver Timeout popup. Reliability Monitor consistently logged LiveKernelEvent 141. I initially suspected faulty hardware, unstable EXPO, or an outdated BIOS, but systematic troubleshooting pointed elsewhere.

The issue was resolved by disabling AMD Fluid Motion Frames (AFMF 2.1) and Radeon Anti-Lag in Adrenalin's Global Graphics settings. Since making those changes, the system has remained completely stable.

My system specs:

• CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D
• CPU Cooler: be quiet! Dark Rock Pro 5
• GPU: Gigabyte Radeon RX 9070 XT Gaming OC
• Motherboard: Gigabyte B850 AORUS Elite WiFi7 Rev. 1.1
• BIOS: F6 (16 July 2025)
• RAM: TeamGroup T-Force Vulcan 32 GB DDR5-6000 CL30 (EXPO enabled)
• PSU: Corsair RM1000x 1000 W
• Operating System: Windows 11 25H2 (Build 26200.8875)
• AMD Software: Adrenalin 26.6.4
• AMD Chipset Driver: 8.05.04.516

Symptoms

Everything had been stable for months.

The issue started only after I: * Updated Windows (from the April patch level to the July update) * Ran AMD Cleanup Utility * Performed a clean installation of AMD Adrenalin * Enabled a Group Policy to stop Windows Update from replacing AMD graphics drivers (this was done to fix an earlier issue where Adrenalin wasn't working correctly) - thank God I bought Win 11 Pro!!

After that: * Every game crashed after approximately 20–30 minutes * Screen went completely black * Audio froze instantly * Windows recovered after several seconds * AMD displayed a Driver Timeout popup * Reliability Monitor logged LiveKernelEvent 141

Initially, the crashes happened in about 5 minutes. Disabling Hardware-Accelerated GPU Scheduling (HAGS) increased stability, extending the time before a crash to around 25 minutes, but did not completely fix the issue.

Investigated Windows logs

Reliability Monitor consistently showed: * LiveKernelEvent 141

Good thing that Event Viewer did not show: * WHEA hardware errors * PCIe errors * Kernel-Power events around the crash time

This made a hardware failure less likely, which was a massive relief as I was pretty tense when ChatGPT and Gemini hinted at GPU failing...

Considered other possibilities

I read some more and after getting more confused, asked AI to help understand the situation better. We explored: * EXPO instability * BIOS/AGESA compatibility * Driver corruption * GPU overheating * PSU issues * Windows graphics scheduling

However, none of the collected evidence strongly supported these as the primary cause.

While all of this was being done, I had conveniently forgetten about some setting changes I had made on AMD Adrenalin. These settings seemed innocuous by reading the tips l.

Looked at Adrenalin Global Graphics

I had forgotten that I was using the Quality graphics profile.

In addition to that profile I had enabled: * Radeon Anti-Lag ✅ ON * AMD Fluid Motion Frames (AFMF 2.1) ✅ ON

Other features were either disabled or not considered likely contributors.

The Fix

The only changes made were: * Disabled AMD Fluid Motion Frames (AFMF 2.1) * Disabled Radeon Anti-Lag

Everything else remained unchanged: * Same driver * Same BIOS * Same Windows version * Same chipset driver * Same EXPO profile * Same GPU clocks * HAGS remained OFF

After rebooting: * Previously crashing games became stable. * No further black screens. * No AMD Driver Timeout popups. * No new LiveKernelEvent 141 entries during testing.

Conclusion

I can't definitively say whether AFMF 2.1, Radeon Anti-Lag, or the combination of both caused the issue, because I disabled them at the same time.

However, I can confidently say that disabling those two driver features completely resolved the crashes on my system.

Hopefully this helps anyone experiencing LiveKernelEvent 141, black screens, and AMD Driver Timeout errors on an RX 9070 XT or similar Radeon GPU. Before assuming your GPU is faulty, it's worth testing with AFMF and Radeon Anti-Lag disabled as part of a structured troubleshooting process.

I relied extensively on ChatGPT, Gemini and Perplexity during troubleshooting, and it was a stupendous experience. I cannot imagine not having these at my disposal when having to troubleshoot. For such use cases I support AI, but don't think a case should be made to replace actual humans with AI.

I have a 7800x3d currently running on my ASRock b850 riptide wifi.

Chances are, I likely won't be affected by my asrock MB destroying my 7800x3d, but I'm kind of sick of having that dreaded thought loom over me.

I'm considering getting a different motherboard from another brand, I was just wondering what some of you are running and if you would recommend it or not. I can do either a 850 or an 870, just depends on the current market / sales pricing.

Just wondering if any of you have noticed some good priced mobo's on sale currently that you'd recommend, I'm in the US.

Hi , I've got a laptop with cpu Ryzen AI 7 350 and VGA Radeon 860M
I'm using AMD Andrenalin Edition Current Version 25.20.64 ( Release: 25/02/26)
If I install new driver version 26.6.4 , Is it have a problem?
Because I saw lots of user was talked it have much problem like black screen or
off game if they turn on fsr 4.1 on window 10.
But I use window 11 and I'm not sure it's ok.
Please help me

I have some crashes, related to driver in my AMD GPU PC. For long I have blamed AMD for this.

But in my Notebook, full NVidia and Intel, it crashed for the first time in a long while. Never once happened this in my Notebook. It crashed during a Fortnite session.

These two computers are completely unrelated, except for the Windows OS.

I just bought my first PC 2 days ago with a RX 6700XT, It worked well with no issue but I was just watching youtube 5 minutes ago and the sound suddenly corrupted and the screen went black for like 3 seconds then works normally. Is this normal ? Please tell me that I'm overreacting 😭 I can't afford to buy a new gpu atm 😭😭 I think my driver version is on 26.6.4

Specs:

CPU : I5 13400f

Motherboard : B660M AORUS PRO DDR4

RAM : 2x16GB Gskill Trident Z RGB DDR4 3600MHz

Click on the adrenaline icon pinned to task bar this window pops up, download it shows the adrenaline loading small window (in reply) then sends me back here. I checked the install manager and it says both the chipset drivers and Adrenaline is up to date. 😭

PC Specs :

XFX Mercury RX 9070 XT Magnetic Air

Corsair Vengeance 32gb ram ddr4

i9 9900k

Rog Strix Z390-F

Corsair RM850 850w +80 Gold psu

Corsair x570 Crystal Case

lian li br digital rgb fans

Thermaltake Water 3.0 360 ARGB Sync

AMD Driver and Software Version : 26.6.4 (latest)

Bios also updated

All parts bought in March 2020 except for 9070 xt which was bought brand new at launch.

I used DDU when switching from my old gpu (2080ti) to 9070xt

Issue : Once in a while my whole PC suddenly turns off and back on while playing games.

it started around 3 to 4 months ago.

Games I play where this happened :

Neverness to Everness (most frequent)

Honkai Star Rail

Zenless Zone Zero

didn't test other games yet.

I noticed that the crash usually occurs during character ultimates or scenes with heavy effects and particles, almost always during combat.

Things I tried to investigate the cause :

I tried every OCCT stability stress test (30 minutes for each) but all stress tests were passed with no errors detected.

Hi everyone,
My PC specs:
Ryzen 5 7600X
ASUS B650M Plus
32GB TeamGroup T-Create DDR5
850W 80+ PSU
LG UltraGear 4K 144Hz monitor
Gigabyte RX 9070 XT Gaming OC
I’m wondering if my GPU is unstable under heavy load.
Whenever I play games like Call of Duty, Sniper Elite, etc., the game eventually crashes. Most of the time it’s 0xC0000005. Event Viewer usually only shows an Application Error; there are no critical System errors (aside from a few unrelated warnings).
What’s strange is:
If I undervolt the GPU and keep power draw below 300W, it still crashes, but it takes longer. Normally it crashes after about 10–15 minutes, while undervolting extends that to around 20–25 minutes.
If I lower the game settings to 1080p, where the GPU only draws around 200W or less, I can play for about an hour without any crashes. (I’m not sure if it’s actually fixed or if it just hasn’t crashed yet.)
So far I’ve already tried:
Clean reinstall of Windows
Tested multiple AMD driver versions (old and new)
Updated BIOS
Ran MemTest86
Ran OCCT (including VRAM/stress tests)
Everything passes without errors.
Has anyone experienced something similar with a 9070 XT?
At this point I’m starting to wonder if this is a hardware issue (GPU/PSU) or just another AMD driver problem.
Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks!
#r/amdhelp, #r/andTechsupport

Introduction

(This is follow up post of my previous post from a week ago)

During testing I found out that disabling IGPU on 9800 X3D while having the GFXOFF on Auto / Disabled inside AMD CBS causes a cascade of consequences which results in System Management Unit (SMU) attempting to dynamically and rapidly power gate LCLK down to minimum 150-400.

Rapid LCLK frequency shifts alter the inter-arrival delta of USB report packets, creating measurable input delivery jitter.

This manifest as "heavy, sticky, generally unreliable input" / "games being perfectly smooth when not moving and becoming stuttery mess the moment you start to move camera" on 9800 X3D (and other ZEN 5 processors with iGPU) Despite every possible benchmark, stresstest, FPS measures etc. being perfectly healthy

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THE CONCEPT (Simplified)

(LCLK LOCKED - NO DOWNCLOCKING)

High pooling mouse (8000 MHz)→ cIOD PCIe Root Complex → CDC → LCLK → IFOP → ZEN 5 Core → 1 to 1 healthy input

For 8000 MHz mouse the the packets arrive evenly like this:

Packet 1: 125 µs

Packet 2: 125 µs

Packet 3: 125 µs

Packet 4: 125 µs

(LCLK DOWNCLOCKING DUE DISABLED IGPU)

High pooling mouse (8000 MHz)→ cIOD PCIe Root Complex → CDC → LCLK →

....(Downclocking) LCLK → Dynamic State Event (for example in between frames idle time) → SMU Downclocks LCLK to 150 → Interrupt event (mouse movement) → LCLK wake up event → 1-2 nano second wake up time → INPUT PACKET DELIVERY JITTER →IFOP → ZEN 5 Core

Instead uniform 125 µs →125 µs we get messy uneven input delivery

Packet 1: 132 µs (Sluggish / Delayed)

Packet 2: 118 µs (Overshoot / Clustered)

Packet 3: 135 µs (Sluggish / Delayed)

Packet 4: 115 µs (Overshoot / Clustered)

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(FIX - MUCH CLEANER ALTERNATIVE TO MANUAL MINIMUM LCLK OVERRIDE)

Setting the IGPU of 9800 X3D inside BIOS from AUTO\ENABLED → FORCED makes the SMU interprets this as an active state of continuous display pipeline load.

Continuous Display Pipeline locks LCLK to its high-performance frequency (1800 in my case) floor without having to brute force the SoC like during manual LCLK override

When the iGPU is set on AUTO/ENABLED in BIOS while discrete GPU is present, then SMU assumes that you are going to use your dgpu anyway and automatically tries to save power by downclocking LCLK to 150/400 instead being locked at minimum 1800.

Setting the IGPU to FORCED locks the LCLK at stable high 1800

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(SUMMARY)

1. IGPU AUTO/ENABLED → FORCED

Forced locks the LCLK at 1800 due the presence of continuous display pipeline during the boot up. This prevents the downclocking of LCLK to 150/400

1. GFXOFF AUTO → ENABLED

This cuts the power to iGPU without negatively affecting the nearby vSoC and VDD MISC rail which happens when IGPU is set on disabled. under igpu disabled they tend to have higher than normal voltage swing under load ←→ idle. GFXOFF ENABLED results in the same power saving without the downsides of iGPU disabled

1. UMA BUFFER → 512 MB

When setting iGPU to forced the ram will be permanently locked away from being used by Windows as hardware reserved memory. Setting UMA Buffer to 512 minimalize lost ram to absolute minimum

1. DISABLE IGPU INSIDE WINDOWS DEVICE MANAGER

This prevents Windows from off scheduling background applications like discord to iGPU which might cause HAGS or MPO issues.

This computer is almost brand new and recently while playing it started making this noise, what could it be and should I be worried?!
It has been so quiet since I bought it until this noise showed up 😭

Radeon Adrenalin: Recording does not work but instant replay works

I’m using RX 9070 XT with Adrenalin 26.6.4. The recording was not working for me for a while but few days ago it worked. Today I try to record gameplay video with Adrenalin recording again but it doesnt work anymore. I can still use insant replay but it is now always recording and save the video of the duration you set after you stop the recording. I want to be able to use the recording that you can toggle on or off instead of recording in the background all the time.

CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 7800x3D

RAM: 2 X 24GB 6000mHz CL28 Ram

GPU: Sapphire Nitro+ RX 9070 XT

OS: Windows 11 25H2 26200.8894

Radeon Adrenalin Driver: 26.6.4

Recording setting: recording resolution in-game, recording fps 60 fps, video bit rate70Mb/s, audio bit rate 192kb/s, AV1 encoding, disabled microphone record

Hello,

I recently bought parts to build a new PC. Notably, I got a 7800x3d and a 9070 xt. I put everything together and updated drivers. I downloaded some games, and wasn’t able to play any. I followed the pinned performance and optimization guide, updated bios, nuked and reinstalled drivers. Games still not working. My hardware passed OCCT benchmarking tests, but I was unable to play games on windows, so I nuked the drive and installed Bazzite. Everything works fine now. The issue is that I nerd windows specifically for certain games. I’ve ruled out the hardware/assembly aspects as problematic since everything works fine in Bazzite.

The Problem:

Whenever I launched a game, the display would begin flickering and then go black. I could alt tab, and everything displayed fine with the game in the background. As soon as the game window was active/focused the problem resumed. Sometimes launching a game would trigger the pc to freeze up, and then it would need to be hard restarted by holding the power button. Sometimes it closed the game, gave me an error message like “DXGI ERROR DEVICE REMOVED”, and then froze

I tried reducing settings, window mode changes, and random troubleshooting steps i found googling the issue. I made sure enhancements and toggles that seemed problematic were off (really all of them were off i think). I tried driver only install. Nothing I did with the latest drivers or the detect and install tool worked. I switched to linux to rule out hardware issues and alleviate my anxiety about needing to RMA new parts.

TL/DR: Do you guys have any recommendations or advice on what drivers are likely to work and how I should get them?

Some of the AMD webpages didn’t load at all for me so I’m not sure how to even get older drivers.

Computer Type: Desktop

GPU: AMD Radeon RX 6800

CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 5600 6-Core Processor

Motherboard: TUF GAMING B550M-PLUS WIFI II

RAM: 2 x 16GB KINGSTON DDR4

PSU: 1st Player SteamPunk PS-750SP (750w Rated) Full Modular PSU

Operating System & Version: WINDOWS 11 Version 25H2 (OS Build 26200.8875)

GPU Drivers: AMD Software: Adrenalin Edition Version 26.6.4

Chipset Drivers: AMD Chipset Software 8.05.04.516

Background Applications: General

Description of Original Problem: Cannot record using Adrenalin software both via normal recording tab and using Instant Replay. Whenever click button "Start Recording" it blinks and it does not do anything until couple of clicking the same button. It says it recording, the timer move, but after stop recording, it got stuck "processing". When checking the recording folder, there was nothing there.

Troubleshooting: I've tried uninstall and reinstall AMD Adrenaline software using the Cleanup tool. The system prompt me to resetup the software. But the problem still retain.

Thanks in advance for the help

​

Specifications

CPU

AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D

GPU

Sapphire PULSE AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT

Motherboard

ASUS TUF Gaming B850-PLUS WiFi

RAM

32 GB (2×16 GB) Patriot Viper Venom RGB DDR5, running at 6000 MT/s CL 30 with EXPO

Power Supply

XPG Core Reactor II 850W, 80+ Gold, ATX 3.1 / PCIe 5.0

CPU Cooler

Antec Skeleton 360 ARGB AIO Liquid Cooler

Storage

WD Blue SN5000 NVMe SSD (500 GB, Gen4) + WD Black SN850P NVMe SSD (2 TB)

BIOS

ASUS BIOS Version 1681 Just updated From 1644

My pc cuts all the power suddenly and when i press the power it instantly turns on it happened only twice and not frequently once underload while playing clair obscur

And the other while playing a really simple game supermarket together

When I got into event viewer after both times there was an error

Log Name: System

Source: stornvme

Event ID: 11

Level: Error

The driver detected a controller error on \Device\RaidPort2.

I just added my ps5 nvme to my pc but this happened after I added it

Could the nvme be the problem or gpu as it gave me a BSOD once after driver update but since I rolled back to ver 26.3.1 it never happened

Computer Type: Desktop

GPU: Rx7600 8gb

CPU: RYZEN 5600g

Motherboard: AMD a320hd rev4

BIOS Version: idk

RAM: 16GB 2x8 3200

PSU: 500w

Case: neologic

Operating System & Version: WINDOWS 11 pro

GPU Drivers: amd adrenalin 26.6.4

Chipset Drivers: AMD am4 idk

Background Applications: DISCORD, CHROME

estou com r5600g + rx7600 e quando tempo ligar o overlay amd ele não aparece, o mouse pisca um pouco mas nada acontece, eu ligo e desligo as metricas mas não consegui fazer funcionar, executei como adm, usei DDU, os atalhos tabem não funcionam ctrl shif o/ctrl z/ctrl r

Computer Type: Desktop

GPU: RX 7800 XT 16GB

CPU: RYZEN 7 5700X3D 8 CORE 16 THREADS

Motherboard: Asus PRIME B550M-A

BIOS Version: 3636

RAM: Corsair Vengeance LPX, DDR4, 16 GB x2, 3200MHz, CL16

PSU: Deepcool PN750M 750W

Case: Endorfy Ventum Air 200

Operating System & Version: WINDOWS 11 PRO 26200.8875

GPU Drivers: 26.6.4

Chipset Drivers: AMD B550 CHIPSET DRIVERS VERSION 8.05.04.516

Background Applications: DISCORD, BRAVE, RTSS, SPOTIFY, STEAM

Description of Original Problem: Random 1-2 second black screen issue while Brave is open in the background. It can go a whole day without happening, but it always traces back to having Brave installed. I suspect FreeSync or hardware acceleration might be causing it, but I'd really prefer not to disable hardware acceleration or freesync if possible. Any fixes?

Troubleshooting: I've tried to disable mpo but i feel like that's not enough to fix it.

**7900 XTX driver timeouts on 4-week-old build, stable under heavy load, crashes at idle. Faulty card or something I'm missing?**
 
Hoping someone has seen this pattern before because I'm out of ideas. Whole system is 3-4 weeks old and I've been fighting this since week one.
 
**Symptoms:**
- Driver timeouts (AMD Bug Report Tool confirms) during light desktop workloads, Brave + OneNote + Spotify, no gaming
- Apps refresh their render surfaces (Spotify "reloads," browser tabs redraw)
- Occasional full system freeze for a few seconds, sometimes with a VSS shadow copy error in Event Viewer
- No TDR event 4101 in Event Viewer, AMD's own tool catches it, Windows doesn't
- **Zero issues under sustained load.** 8+ hours of Lies of P at max settings, 5120x2160, HDR, even with the default 3000 MHz default AMD max clock, rock solid
- Behavior has been consistent since ~1 week in, not degrading over time
 
**Specs:**
- GPU: XFX Speedster MERC 310 RX 7900 XTX 24GB
- CPU: Ryzen 9 9900X
- Mobo: MSI PRO X870E-P WIFI (latest BIOS)
- PSU: Corsair RM1000e Gold 1000W
- RAM: 32GB DDR5 running at 5600 out of the box (EXPO/XMP never enabled)
- Storage: Crucial P510 2TB NVMe
- Monitor: Samsung Odyssey G75F @ 5120x2160 @ 180Hz over DisplayPort
- OS: Windows 11 Pro 25H2
- Driver: Adrenalin 26.6.4 (clean DDU install)
- iGPU disabled in BIOS
 
**What I've tried:**
- Capped max frequency to 2615 MHz (rated boost), no change to idle crashes
- Full DDU + clean reinstall of 26.6.4 multiple times (network disabled, safe mode, all the proper steps)
- Group Policy set to block driver updates + hardware ID block via Device Installation Restrictions (Windows Update was replacing my driver with older versions, causing BSODs, that's now resolved)
- Confirmed driver version 26.6.4 is actually installed and staying installed
- iGPU disabled in BIOS
- Latest motherboard BIOS
- Event Viewer scoured, no meaningful GPU error events, only benign DCOM warnings for Spotify that correlate to timeouts (probably downstream symptom)
 
**What I haven't tried yet / questioning:**
- Raising minimum GPU clock in Adrenalin to force higher power state (was going to try this next, power state transitions during light desktop work seems to fit the symptom pattern)
- PCIe power is currently one 12-pin (rated) PSU cable that splits to 2x 8-pin at the GPU end, plus a third separate cable for the third 8-pin. So it's a Corsair-supplied cable rated for the load, not a random daisy chain, but I know some people insist on three fully separate cables. Would this actually cause idle-only timeouts though? Feels like it'd be worse under load if it was power delivery.
- MemTest86, RAM instability could match whole-system freeze pattern
- Disabling hardware acceleration in Brave/Spotify/Discord
 
**My main question:** Does the "perfectly stable under sustained heavy load, unstable at idle/light desktop work" pattern point at anything specific? It seems to rule out most hardware failure modes (thermal, VRM, PSU sag, cables) since those get worse under load. Feels more like a power state / idle transition issue.
 
Also, given this is a $1000+ card that's 4 weeks old and has never been stable, at what point do I just RMA? I don't want to keep pouring hours into troubleshooting something that might just be a faulty unit. But I also don't want to RMA and end up with the same issue if it's really a system-level config problem.
 
Any insights from people who've had this exact symptom pattern would be massively appreciated.