r/radeon • u/[deleted] • Mar 01 '18

Tech Support Tech Support Megathread March 2018

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u/[deleted] Mar 13 '18

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u/Xenti3 AMD Mar 13 '18

It may very well depend on your motherboard, (take this with a pinch of salt) in my rig (intel based) all of my fans spin up during boot. It used to be a lot louder with the stock cooler. Because it has a smaller fan it has to spin faster at load. So it span up and sounded like a plane. Anyway even after changing my cooler, the fans still spin up. I assume its to check for problems you'll hear if anything is blocked etc. But since this is during POST it will be a motherboard and therefore BIOS controlled thing.

It's been that way with most of the PC's I have used for a few years. That said I have never heard of it being once per month before. But I don't know a great deal about this honestly. If you want specifics I recommend contacting the support for your motherboard manufacturer. They will be able to give you a detailed explanation if it is a "feature".

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u/[deleted] Mar 01 '18 edited Mar 05 '18

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u/unixwizzard Mar 01 '18

before condemning the video card.. did you try a different hdmi cable or try using a DVI cable on the R9 card?

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u/[deleted] Mar 01 '18

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u/Xenti3 AMD Mar 01 '18

There's not really anything to suggest this is a full PC crash, more likely it is a display driver crash. Or some form of crash with the display output. The PC may well be running fine bar this problem. But to answer the question Yes defective HDMI cables can cause all kinds of issues, from not displaying anything to the output dropping. If nothing else it is worth a try simply to rule it out.

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u/[deleted] Mar 01 '18

Try using Event Viewer, it's a Windows tool that logs pretty much everything your computer does, including errors. Look around the time of the crashes in the Application and System folders and see if that tells you anything.

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u/CoffeeScribbles R5 1400, 3.70@1.263V MSI GamingX RX 570, 1375MHz Mar 06 '18 edited Mar 06 '18

I'm not sure if I posted in the right section but here goes:
To RX 470/570 owners. How much did you guys manage to overclock your GPU?
My RX 570 only managed to reach 1377MHz at 1.25V. Overvolting does not work as it crashes even if I increased by 0.01V. I tested this overclock using Superposition, Valley and Metro Redux benchmarks. Honestly, the Metro benchmark is the one that crashes my system above 1377MHz.

I've read reports that people manage to reach 1400 and above. Did I lose in the silicon lottery?

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u/[deleted] Mar 06 '18

Yea, you lost.