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[Patched]AMD drivers locking fan speed to 20% and killing GPUS. WATCH YOUR CARDS

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I can confirm some Hawaii cards are affected. One of my 290's, even though water cooled, still uses the stock blower fan to cool the VRMs etc. and is plugged into the fan header on the card. Twice (just after installing crimson the first and 2nd time), I had the blower fan on this card randomly ramp up to 100% for no reason. Was able to override it by setting it to 30% constant in MSI AB.

 

It just struck me now, after reading that some people had this happen after installing crimson, that this was a result of this bug. 

 

I hope (and assume) the fix will just be an update to the driver and not require reinstalling. Took me a while to set up the custom overdrive profiles for a bunch of games. Don't want to have to redo all that again so soon. :/

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I hope (and assume) the fix will just be an update to the driver and not require reinstalling. Took me a while to set up the custom overdrive profiles for a bunch of games. Don't want to have to redo all that again so soon. :/

AMD said that it'll be a hotfix.

Source: http://www.anandtech.com/show/9823/amd-releasing-new-crimson-drivers-for-gpu-fan-issue

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Yesterday i got a big crash where my screen went totally distorted and i got a feeling it could have very well have been the Crimson drivers. i might just go back to 15.7 since that was perfectly stable for me.

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Ouch, luckily I'm under water.

 

And yeah the biggest surprise is that a number of cards actually died... Maybe the VRMs cooked, but they have temp probes and the vBIOS should probably switch the card off if a component overheats...

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I think today's update is the most appropriate use for the term "Hotfix"

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Anyone think they will step up and offer to replace toasted cards?
No?

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Is this a problem for my HD5670?

I need a better GPU

I have a 5670 near me...unplugged..still alive..and I uh...at some point ripped off the fan's wires...I did not notice it. I proceeded playing some LoL...at some point in the game I opened HW monitor to check temps. 87 degrees on the GPU...that was an instant "kill the power" button press. It's still alive so I don't think you'd have an issue with it.

 

Play some games and monitor temps and fan speeds, see if they go wild.

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I have a 5670 near me...unplugged..still alive..and I uh...at some point ripped off the fan's wires...I did not notice it. I proceeded playing some LoL...at some point in the game I opened HW monitor to check temps. 87 degrees on the GPU...that was an instant "kill the power" button press. It's still alive so I don't think you'd have an issue with it.

 

Play some games and monitor temps and fan speeds, see if they go wild.

87 is not all that hot danger wise and league is not all that taxing especially if you aren't playing that one map and you are locked at 60, which if I'm not mistaken is default. 

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Yeah, but it's me we're talking about :) Max settings and no FPS cap..since it's pretty horrible when it drops during fights.

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Ouch....

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I have a 5670 near me...unplugged..still alive..and I uh...at some point ripped off the fan's wires...I did not notice it. I proceeded playing some LoL...at some point in the game I opened HW monitor to check temps. 87 degrees on the GPU...that was an instant "kill the power" button press. It's still alive so I don't think you'd have an issue with it.

 

Play some games and monitor temps and fan speeds, see if they go wild.

It sits about 50c at 28% fan which is as low as I can set it. I think I will be fine.


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I'm calling bull on some of these reports, the 200 series is able to deal with 95C, and silicon can at an absolute maximum operate at 115C though the card's life may be effected.

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to late for me 2 before i noticed. My 290x is just laggina lot after new drivers update and i get this weird screen tears -.-

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The bugfix version of Crimson is available as a beta driver download from the AMD website. This is the press release for it.

 

https://community.amd.com/community/gaming/blog/2015/11/30/radeon-software-crimson-edition-the-incredible-first-7-days?hootPostID=72bd6db61138565786c1ede4e066996a

 

 

Radeon Software Crimson Edition was released on Nov 24 – and the community response has been remarkable. Here are some mind-blowing stats:

  • Crimson Edition drivers have been downloaded an astonishing 2.5 million times.
  • AMD videos on YouTube announcing Crimson Edition have been viewed almost 250,000 times.

 

You're clearly as excited about our new software as we are, and we want to say thank you for your support and enthusiasm.

 

As part of the Radeon Software Crimson Edition rollout, we promised to actively solicit user feedback, rapidly respond to software issues, and execute quick-turnaround software updates. We have been proactively monitoring the forums and online activities and our dedicated software team has been working on reproducing, debugging and fixing these issues since the driver release. We are pleased to report that a mere six days after the Radeon Software Crimson Edition launch we are releasing our first rapid-response software update that adds a number of stability improvements, fixes for software issues reported by our user community, and day-one support for issues reported on Just Cause 3.

 

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  • [82536] The Radeon Settings dropbox does not close when it is clicked on a second time
  • [82603] The AMD OverDrive™ fan settings is always set to ON after first edit on reboot
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By the way, if I manually set the fan speed in Afterburner that seems to fix the issue. Was playing Fallout 4 the other day and my card was cruising at 80 degrees Celsius, because the fan speed was at 20. Upped the speed to 70 and it cooled the card down to around 55 degrees Celsius.

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lets not get ahead of ourselves.... when u compare nvidia and amd drivers in 2015.... 95% of the time amds drivers were much better, more stable, had less issues than nvidia ones. Yes nvidia released more drivers than amd. but they were generaly worse quality then the ones from amd. Just went through nvidia reddit page and nvidia forums and u wouldnt believe how many issues nvidia users are having with their cards and drivers. Amd users have issues aswell but not ass many. The way i see it crimson is an exeption. Every good driver engineer will have bad day someday. (my opinion)

 

Lolzors nope.  NV outnumbers AMD by something like 2:1 users so that might be why you see more "issues" coming from the NV side than AMD.  NV drivers are far more polished than AMD ones which is why Quadro is universally what professionals use over FirePro and same applies to the enthusiast side.  I'll cite AMD's  years of frame metering issues that SLI had no issues with.

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Seems the hotfix fixed the issue for me....for now. My temps weren't too crazy but they were quite a bit higher than usual. I was getting about 45c AT IDLE before.  Very odd. cepxWml.png

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Well if RMA's or replacements don't occur AMD's sales over the short term will skyrocket due everyone with now dead cards (and not knowing the difference why it died) will be buying new cards.

AMD will be like "Hey our sales are up we wont have to shut down now"   (Disclaimer: no hate was intended or implied, just throwing out some humor here) 

 

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I know most are sick of these video's now.... but not everyone has seen this variant, so I'm posting it.

Embedded is blocked, click to watch on YT

Bit late to the party, but I'm happy for everyone that the fixed driver is out, I'd be very unhappy if I was affected by that issue.

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I know most are sick of these video's now.... but not everyone has seen this variant, so I'm posting it.

Embedded is blocked, click to watch on YT

Bit late to the party, but I'm happy for everyone that the fixed driver is out, I'd be very unhappy if I was affected by that issue.

No can watch. It is blocked.  :(  *crawls into corner to curl up and cry*

 

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Found the video on YouTube.

LMAO - I haven't laughed so hard in quite a while.

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No can watch. It is blocked.  :(  *crawls into corner to curl up and cry*

Works fine for me.  :P

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Works fine for me.  :P

Must be a work thing (stupid work internet filters, teases me so I can read the threads but cant see pics or watch videos **cries softly, alone at desk**)

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