amd wattman system failure

Wing-Man · 22 Apr 2022 at 09:04

I'm getting fed up of seeing a message telling my AMD wattman reset defaults due to unexpected amd failure.

ive had no system failure and it resets ever day or 2. is there anything that can be done about this

JediFragger · 22 Apr 2022 at 09:06

Wing-Man said:
is there anything that can be done about this

Yes @LtMatt suggested it to me a while back and works great. Just set up a Wattman profile for each game you use and it'll switch to those settings when launched. Not had an issue with mine since (Global used to do it all the time, it's a right pita).

Wing-Man · 22 Apr 2022 at 09:17

its not a game profile i want i just the fan off function turning off.
im not even overclocking i just dont like my gpu to sit at 55c all day when it can sit at 30c

JediFragger · 22 Apr 2022 at 10:57

Wing-Man said:
its not a game profile i want i just the fan off function turning off.
im not even overclocking i just dont like my gpu to sit at 55c all day when it can sit at 30c

Ok man I have no answer to that lol. Although you can try using the Afterburner fan profile setup and see if that works for you.

Wing-Man · 22 Apr 2022 at 11:23

I tried after burner, but if won’t control the fan unless you turn off fan stop in wattman first lol

and then AB as a minimum of 40% on the fan but wattman dose 30%

Tetras · 22 Apr 2022 at 13:17

Are you using other programs at the same time? They can interfere with the driver controls, I think.

JediFragger · 22 Apr 2022 at 13:51

It's Wattman, it's generally a buggy piece of ****. Had my own issues with it since it 'launched'.

SonicSW20 · 22 Apr 2022 at 13:54

Wing-Man said:
its not a game profile i want i just the fan off function turning off.
im not even overclocking i just dont like my gpu to sit at 55c all day when it can sit at 30c

Why though. If anything its extending your GPU's life doing this because the fans aren't running all the time. Fans fail much more often than anything else on a GPU.

mof · 22 Apr 2022 at 14:36

Does your card have a different bios where there is no fan stop?
I'm also getting that message all the time too.

Steampunk · 22 Apr 2022 at 15:05

Wing-Man said:
I'm getting fed up of seeing a message telling my AMD wattman reset defaults due to unexpected amd failure.

ive had no system failure and it resets ever day or 2. is there anything that can be done about this

Have you tried turning off fastboot?

If that doesn't work try disabling any over/underclock and run at stock settings to test.

If that try removing (not just disabling) and other overclocking software such as Afterburner.

Wing-Man · 22 Apr 2022 at 16:28

Tetras said:
Are you using other programs at the same time? They can interfere with the driver controls, I think.

None at all.

JediFragger said:
It's Wattman, it's generally a buggy piece of ****. Had my own issues with it since it 'launched'.

There should be an option to not install it, amd know it’s crap

SonicSW20 said:
Why though. If anything its extending your GPU's life doing this because the fans aren't running all the time. Fans fail much more often than anything else on a GPU.

That’s what a 5 year warranty is for, and heat is the number killer if hardware. If you gpu sits at 50c for 12hr a day it’s not good compared to 30c

mof said:
Does your card have a different bios where there is no fan stop?
I'm also getting that message all the time too.

Sadly not.

Steampunk said:
Have you tried turning off fastboot?

If that doesn't work try disabling any over/underclock and run at stock settings to test.

If that try removing (not just disabling) and other overclocking software such as Afterburner.

Tbf I haven’t no. I will save my bios and reset then test for a few days.

Tired9 · 22 Apr 2022 at 16:54

Welcome to AMD GPU drivers.
Only fix in my experience is going with an Nvidia GPU.
I mean you could move to another Radeon but the likely hood of this replicating is big.

Everyone will comment all kinds of crazy changes to your system avoiding the real issue, the AMD drivers being craptastic.

Wing-Man · 22 Apr 2022 at 18:18

Tired9 said:
Welcome to AMD GPU drivers.
Only fix in my experience is going with an Nvidia GPU.
I mean you could move to another Radeon but the likely hood of this replicating is big.

Everyone will comment all kinds of crazy changes to your system avoiding the real issue, the AMD drivers being craptastic.

the drivers are fine, all games work fine, FPS are fine. No crash’s or anything.

out of interest how easy is it to disable fan off on your gpu. On a 1060 6g I had years ago your couldn’t. The gpu wiild hit 55c and the fan would kick in at 60% scream like your mum and then go off… that was a much better solution

I had to bios mod the card

mof · 22 Apr 2022 at 18:25

Wing-Man said:
the drivers are fine, all games work fine, FPS are fine. No crash’s or anything.

out of interest how easy is it to disable fan off on your gpu. On a 1060 6g I had years ago your couldn’t. The gpu wiild hit 55c and the fan would kick in at 60% scream like your mum and then go off… that was a much better solution

I had to bios mod the card

You might be able to use more power tools to change the fan profile permanently. Someone else probably knows here.

JediFragger · 22 Apr 2022 at 18:40

Wing-Man said:
the drivers are fine, all games work fine, FPS are fine. No crash’s or anything.

Same, all fine here. When people have problems it's usually PEBCAK

Wing-Man · 22 Apr 2022 at 23:06

mof said:
You might be able to use more power tools to change the fan profile permanently. Someone else probably knows here.

i have had a google to see if it can be bios modded, because i did mod my 5600xt(same problem different vender) but i just cant find anything and i dont want to just poke about and hope for the best

JediFragger said:
Same, all fine here. When people have problems it's usually PEBCAK

lol, dose sound about right TBF

Tired9 · 22 Apr 2022 at 23:11

Wing-Man said:
i have had a google to see if it can be bios modded, because i did mod my 5600xt(same problem different vender) but i just cant find anything and i dont want to just poke about and hope for the best

lol, dose sound about right TBF

It is you with the driver issue lol.

"I'm getting fed up of seeing a message telling my AMD wattman reset defaults due to unexpected amd failure.

ive had no system failure and it resets ever day or 2. is there anything that can be done about this"

Is it the dust doing it? They must be out to get you! Let AMD know they need to dust proof their drivers which don't exist physically.

You are right about PEBCAK.

I also hope you hope whilst hoping some more, that fixes everything, just like Jesus.

Wing-Man · 22 Apr 2022 at 23:35

Tired9 said:
"I'm getting fed up of seeing a message telling my AMD wattman reset defaults due to unexpected amd failure.

AMD Wattman is not the driver. its a bolt on and it poo but the driver works fine

the "hope for the best" was about not wanting to mod a bios not knoing what "I" was doing or is that also the fault of AMD, i see you missed the part where i have to mod an GTX BIOS to fix the same problem or did that not fit the point you was making.

ALSO the GTX was worse as the fan kicked in at 60% not 30% like the AMD

Tired9 · 22 Apr 2022 at 23:39

Wing-Man said:
AMD Wattman is not the driver. its a bolt on and it poo but the driver works fine

the "hope for the best" was about not wanting to mod a bios not knoing what "I" was doing or is that also the fault of AMD

What do we call it then since it is software that interacts directly with the driver...

Anyway, besides the point, it won't fix, AMD issues rarely do from experience, you either have them or don't.

Wing-Man · 22 Apr 2022 at 23:40

Tired9 said:
interacts directly with the driver

how can it interacts directly with the driver and also be the driver, MSI afterburner dose that is that also the amd driver