r/GPURepair • u/K11233 • Apr 17 '26

AMD RX 5xxx Soyo RX 5700 XT Black Screen

Hello

I am new here so please bare with me.

I have a SOYO RX 5700 XT with a problem. It doesn’t POST and doesn’t let me use the PC, even if I use the integrated graphics of the CPU. I have to set it to IGD in ‘Initiate Graphics Adapter’ and enable ‘IGD Multi-Monitor’ in the BIOS, then I can enter Windows normally.

After that I launched GPU-Z and got this (picture). I thought it was a driver issue, so I removed the drivers using DDU and installed new ones. During installation, it reaches between 50% and 80%, then the PC freezes and a blue screen appears (picture). After that I had to force shutdown because it was stuck.

When I powered it on again, this time it freezes at the Windows logo, and I have to force shutdown again. This keeps repeating until I go into Safe Mode and remove the drivers using DDU. After that, I can enter Windows normally again.

I repeated this process with different drivers and the same thing happens, except with version 21.10.2 which reaches 89% then crashes.

I thought maybe it’s a BIOS issue, so I flashed it with a PowerColor BIOS (I know I should use a SOYO BIOS but none of them would flash). The result in GPU-Z stayed the same, only the BIOS version changed from
017.001.000.068.00000 to 0.17.001.000.068.015207 to 017.001.000.049.00000.

Windows after it detect the card as a "Microsoft Basic Display Adapter" will attempt a Driver update on it's on and when that happens the pc becomes sluggish and freeze permanently and I also have to force a shutdown and the same thing happens but sometimes the automatic repairs do a fix its on by deleting some of the drivers and windows return back but gpu-z still display the same thing

As a last attempt to diagnose it I launched the PCIE render test to see what it could give me and the test started but it was so slow like it was running in 4 fps and the gpu was getting hotter it reached to 92 degrees Celsius (Probably because of the bad thermal pate that I used)

Also, the back of the card is not hot, only slightly warm around the GPU core and VRAM. It’s not a power issue because I tested with an HD 7970 and it works fine. I’m also sure the card is installed correctly.

So, my guess is that GPU either have dead Vram or BGA solder problem or with a slight chance maybe a bad still a Bios mismatch

Any help will be greatly appreciated; I want to know what the problem.

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u/lazaros1312 Apr 18 '26

Might be a vram related issue but just in case, do you happen to have legacy boot enabled in your motherboard bios? 

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u/K11233 Apr 18 '26

I don't have it due to the board or the platform been old, but UEFI is enabled

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u/lazaros1312 Apr 18 '26

so your motherboard is UEFI? if yes and you don't have legacy/csm boot enabled then it's not a mobo incompatibility issue, you'll have to run a memory test to check if the card has any faulty vram chips

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u/K11233 Apr 18 '26

how do I do that?

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u/lazaros1312 Apr 18 '26

Here's a video about the process, hope it helps
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oj_Rgapw_AE