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AMD driver time out error from cold boot

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I have been getting the time out error since I upgraded to 7900xtx and drivers. It only happens when I boot from cold. It stuck on a white screen until the driver timed out. it is doesn't happen when I restart or during any application. Anyone else have this problem?

The rest of my system is 5950x, Asus strix x570-e, 64gb ram (4*16) at 3200 14-14-14-31, and be quiet 1000w psu 80plus titanium
 
I don't get that problem but possibly something similar. Every other boot from cold my amd adrenalin software starts with a notification about driver crashed and reloaded etc. It doesn't affect anything so I haven't looked too hard for a fix.
 
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Many had same issues so somebody may found a solution to fix driver timeout errors is to set GPU max clock frequency to 95%.

Re: Keep getting Amd driver timeout error in my new rx7600.

I can confirm that, as borisgl wrote, the solution is to underclock the GPU. I have a SAPPHIRE PULSE AMD Radeon RX 7600 which used to crash and cause driver timeout in multiple games, including Red Dead Redemption 2, Starfield, Medieval Dynasty, etc. The GPU runs around 2950 MHz with the...
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Make sure your bios is up to date and your chipset drivers. I would also make sure Any Nvidia drivers are uninstalled and check windows update to make that is fully up to date aswell. Remove any programs from start up that are not standard. Turn off windows fast boot. Report back with your findings.
 
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vian_siu said:
I have been getting the time out error since I upgraded to 7900xtx and drivers. It only happens when I boot from cold. It stuck on a white screen until the driver timed out. it is doesn't happen when I restart or during any application. Anyone else have this problem?

The rest of my system is 5950x, Asus strix x570-e, 64gb ram (4*16) at 3200 14-14-14-31, and be quiet 1000w psu 80plus titanium
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1. What card have you upgraded from?
2. Is Windows up-to-date?
3. Check Windows integrity with SFC /scannow and DISM /Online /Cleanup-Image /RestoreHealth
4. Is your BIOS up-to-date along with your chipset drivers? (As mentioned by @eeii)
5. Disable Fast Startup (As mentioned by @eeii)
6. Clear GPU Shader Cache
7. Perform DDU and re-install latest AMD GPU drivers
8. Stress test CPU and RAM. Any failures? Any failures if you run x2 DIMMs and not x4 DIMMs?
9. Is any part of your system overclocked, undervolted or all stock?

A driver time-out is usually an underlying OS issue, faulty/corrupted drivers or hardware failure.

Hope this helps.
 
If your still within the 14/30 day no hassle return window save yourself a whole lot of trouble and just return the card, try another or get an Nvidia card.

Outside of setting the bios defaults and reinstalling Windows jumping through all these hoops is pointless, been there and done that with a 6600XT that on a cold boot on the desktop would display the driver had timed out and some sort of recovery had taken place. Reinstalling the driver would kinda fix it though the driver control panel was flaky with it resetting settings, driver panel not loading etc so I went back multiple driver versions and one old crimson driver was somewhat stable then it was causing issues in games as the driver was so old.

I spent ages doing multiple installs of Windows 7, Windows 10 and 11, resetting the bios defaults, changing PCIE slots, all the Windows crap people tell one to do that 9/10 times does nothing or makes the issue worse, spent ages reading forum posts where most of the time gets wasted having to sift through my card is fine its your system AMD fanboy gaslighting. I returned the card within the 14 day period and went back to my Intel IGPU.

I ended up with a rx6600 months later, no problems and it ended up being one of my most favorite cards I owned.
 
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It does sound like it's the card. I haven't had a single issue with 3 pcs in our house running 3 different RDNA 2 cards and then I upgraded to a 7900 gre RDNA 3. All have been perfect virtually no issues at all. I would be tempted to try a windows reinstall but honestly maybe try a different brand.

What model and make is the card in question ?
 
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If your still within the 14/30 day no hassle return window save yourself a whole lot of trouble and just return the card, try another or get an Nvidia card.
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I had a reference 7900XT that often gave BSOD's and it turns out after some testing by me that it was literally boosting too hard for the silicon quality it had (either at 0% PL increase but especially at +15, happened within minutes). Fortunately was able to RMA and OcUK must have found the fault as was refunded.
 
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I’ve been experiencing timeout issues on cold boot along with the driving crashing in games with the last 2 driver revisions, tried OC/undervolt, clocking the mem etc but I ended up rolling back to the driver from June and all been fine since. Not sure what it causing it but happens with official releases and preview drivers. Got 2 year warranty in the card and tempted to send it back, but technically the card works so don’t think I’ll get anywhere with that.
 
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1. What card have you upgraded from?
2. Is Windows up-to-date?
3. Check Windows integrity with SFC /scannow and DISM /Online /Cleanup-Image /RestoreHealth
4. Is your BIOS up-to-date along with your chipset drivers? (As mentioned by @eeii)
5. Disable Fast Startup (As mentioned by @eeii)
6. Clear GPU Shader Cache
7. Perform DDU and re-install latest AMD GPU drivers
8. Stress test CPU and RAM. Any failures? Any failures if you run x2 DIMMs and not x4 DIMMs?
9. Is any part of your system overclocked, undervolted or all stock?

A driver time-out is usually an underlying OS issue, faulty/corrupted drivers or hardware failure.

Hope this helps.
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1. 6600xt
2. yes
3. all passed
4. latest bios and chip set drivers
5. done that
6. not sure how to do it
7. the driver is installed fresh after ddu removal
8. no failures. i use 4 sticks
9. cpu oc with pbo but its stress tested and stable

The issue seems to have gone away recently. i use windows 11 pro and the amd pro drivers if that helps
 
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I was better on 24.6.1 only thing I would get is a message now and again on boot saying default settings applied due to technical error. On 24.7.1 and 24.8.1 I get driver timeouts and black screens again, everything at stock, up to date, no issues stress testing with firmark etc, will stress test my ram just incase but otherwise I’m stumped.
 
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