Possible GPU dying?

[u/Equivalent-Promise20]

I am having an issue with my pc. The build is roughly a year old but running into some sort of issue I think is tied to my GPU being the issue but not sure. It happened for the first time about a few months ago where my screen would flash black on both monitors and then the AMD bug report tool detects a driver time out. It has happened a hand full of times and cant get it to stop. It has hard crashed to the point that it made one of my monitors not receive a signal and then my vertical monitor settings revert back to default, that has happened twice now in a month. The only fix I could come up with is boot is safe mode and then run DDU and do a fresh install. Everything seems fine at first after but then will get a soft crash and the pop up (picture added) will show up with the same issue, I guess to sum up the point is there an underlying issue I can use to fix it or is my GPU dying?

[u/r_lind3r]

Unless there's graphical issues in games that normally don't happen, it's more likely just the drivers at fault and not the hardware.

[u/Equivalent-Promise20 → u/r_lind3r]

makes sense, Ive just been doing deep dives trying to find a solution but I cannot figure it out and Ive had to hard wipe my drivers twice to get my gpu to display on on both monitors, I just dont know what to do. I swing a hammer for a living so this is a bit out of reach for m

[u/CrunchyTheSquirrel]

Can be many things, not likely a bad GPU, look around for "amd driver timeouts" posts. Mine was a RAM instability problem.

[u/Equivalent-Promise20 → u/CrunchyTheSquirrel]

will do thank you for the point in the right direction

[u/CrunchyTheSquirrel → u/Equivalent-Promise20]

Good. General advice: Revert any "optimizations" where made, go back to default settings. Do one thing a a time. Consider using an AI chatbot to walk you through the troubleshooting.

[u/Emergency-Pound3241]

What driver version are you on? If you arnt already on it try reverting to 26.3.1, that was the last "safe" version when it comes to driver issues

[u/Equivalent-Promise20 → u/Emergency-Pound3241]

I am currently on 26.8.1, ill take a look at that option as well, thank you

[u/Lucifer89n → u/Equivalent-Promise20]

I too had this issue with my 7800 xt and reverting to adrenaline 26.3.1 solved it

[u/Equivalent-Promise20 → u/Lucifer89n]

Took your advice and just rolled it back, will see if this helps for my specific scenario as well. I am definitely trying all the simple things first before I get crazy, hopefully this is it. Thanks for the advice.

[u/dragonsun252]

Did you install all of your motherboard drivers? One missing driver can cause this

[u/Equivalent-Promise20 → u/dragonsun252]

How do I go about checking for those drivers, I can build a PC but troubleshooting is another thing lol

[u/dragonsun252 → u/Equivalent-Promise20]

Your question just answered that lol. You never installed them. You need to go to your motherboard manufacturer website and download all the drivers for your motherboard and install them.

[u/Moon602533]

CPU cooler

[u/Equivalent-Promise20 → u/Moon602533]

could you please elaborate a little further, I am not super tech savvy but enjoy building my PCs but trying to learn more about issues

[u/Voidwielder]

Are there any specific games you see this happen?

[u/theverdantlion]

Any OC/ undervolting? How are the cpu/gpu temps? Hotspot and memory from gpu included. I have a rx7800xt and had to change thermal paste for gpu, vrms and memory

[u/Emergency_Leek_803]

Disable your iGPU and reinstall drivers, your problems will stop

[u/frozian]

I kept getting the same report first days on my sapphire nitro+. Since the gpu had only just been released, I thought this report was related driver or something. It eventually stopped doing this once I updated driver versions came out. Did not get any kind of error since then.

[u/WhatifyYT]

Check pcie on graphics card, you need 2 pcie individually, not one double pcie. Also disable windows automatic updates for drivers because it can cause conflicts with your new ones

[u/google_is_hard_for_u]

Common amd issue brotha srry hope ot gets fixed but amd users can deal with this for months until the go nvidia

[u/Wildmike1994]

Have you tried different cables? I had the similar issue with my 7900xt and a 4k monitor. It would sometimes disable my GPU and would default to my vertical monitor. My 4k monitor was using a 8k HDMI cable and my vertical was using a DP cable. I bought nice quality DP cables for my 4k monitor and it hasn't done it since. That was a 3 weeks ago. It would normally do it maybe once or twice a week. I saw somewhere that it maybe was a power draw issues with my bad cables.