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The AMD Driver Thread
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Bios was on latest and then chipset updated as part of the driver install..
Think I may try 25.9.1 tonight, some are reporting this seems to be the more stable
Checked your system over for any stability issues? CPU and Memory. Or if running non stock, maybes put back to default temporarily . Just in case it's a red herring. As an example I updated my bios the other month. Agesa added a new ram setting that caused my Expo not to work on my memory. Turned out the timings were too aggressive until I amended the new setting. So just by doing a bios update it made my system unstable until I tracked the issue down. I thought my RAM was fubar.
Within a two weeks period of buying a 9070xt I ended up refunding it, mainly due to driver timeouts. There were other issues.
In particular, Fallout 4 and Anno 117. But not only those.
IIRC what I did not try is to limit the boost clocks when using the card.
Someone suggested, after I refunded, that with certain games that are not properly supported the card would boost beyond stability and cause the game to exit, then I would get the AMD window warning me of a timeout. I had not tried to limit the clocks.
I do remember seeing around 410 plus watt power draw in Anno 117, as a max.
I did try a small undervolt and power limiting.
Good luck and hope that you sort it, sadly I could not within a two weeks window of an easy refund.
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Yeah bios was already up-to-date and the 7900xtx running without any issues
Are all your power cables inserted correctly. Things can get knocked when swapping cards.
First thing I checked!
How's the CPU and Memory. They stress test OK? Any OS issues with SFC and DISM checks too? if running any over clocks does the issue occur when back to system defaults?
Ah the classic AMD driver timeout BS I'd reset the bios and reinstall Windows at the most and if that does not resolve it I'd sent it back. When it comes to AMD issues there's no point in jumping through all these hoops and messing around with settings or to get something to work that should work out of the box as you had a 7900xtx that ran fine.
Two/Three AMD cards and one IGPU on a AM5 7600 I've owned over the years have had this issue one and the best advice I and I've learned about AMD issues is dont keep the card outside the return window as its not worth the the time/hassle wasted trying to fix so one card was a 6600XT that went back within a few days and about 4 weeks later I got a 6600 non XT and that ran absolutely fine without a problem. The 6600 would be up there with the 290 Tri-X and be proberly be the best cards I've owned over the years, I later upgraded to a 3060ti and now currently a 4070 and have had no issues with them at all.
Two/Three AMD cards and one IGPU on a AM5 7600 I've owned over the years have had this issue one and the best advice I and I've learned about AMD issues is dont keep the card outside the return window as its not worth the the time/hassle wasted trying to fix so one card was a 6600XT that went back within a few days and about 4 weeks later I got a 6600 non XT and that ran absolutely fine without a problem. The 6600 would be up there with the 290 Tri-X and be proberly be the best cards I've owned over the years, I later upgraded to a 3060ti and now currently a 4070 and have had no issues with them at all.
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How's the CPU and Memory. They stress test OK? Any OS issues with SFC and DISM checks too? if running any over clocks does the issue occur when back to system defaults?
Absolutely fine, just random timeouts. Last night it timed out after boot up and then got an error 207.
Didn't even know it was a thing as my 7900xtx ran flawlessly. Ill try the bios but I really cba with a fresh windows install - think that will be my breaking point.
Gonna try the 25.9.1 drivers first and see how that goes but your the second person now to have suggested sending it back
weird never have any but that is not helpful
what are you playing / running when the timeouts happen ?
As @Game asks, when do you get the timeouts? When I first built my matx (2023 I think) box I was faffing around with it since it was expendable (I replaced both my desktop and "portable" box at the same time) and started getting driver timeouts but only on the desktop, never in games. Anyway, to save reinstalling windows immediately, I took an image of the machine as it was and then restored onto the bare metal since I'd just started using a new backup application and this seemed like as good a time as any to test it out. After the restore there were no more driver timeouts. I have no reason to expect that this was anything other than an edge case / fluke but might avoid the dreaded fresh windows install headache.
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Could also just be something else causing it. 3rd party apps and drivers are notorious for conflicts. Ripping those off is always a good place to start! I don't use any now (apart from fan control). No corsair, no razer, no logitech.
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Just steam and discord tbf, gaming time is too limited to be going through trial and error
I'm now in the process of returning. Shame really as the performance was great and can understand why it sells so well given the price point. Just bad luck for me
One thing I didn't try but as above cutting my losses for now. Thanks everyone
Looks like you have just been unlucky.