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RX 480 Crashing/ Radeon Wattman

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 My display has been freezing for a second, going black for 2 seconds and then recovering about once a week since early January. this just happened again for the fourth time I think and it gives me the same notification every time. I don't remember it word for word but it was something like: Radeon Wattman settings have been restored after an unexpected system failure. Whats Radeon Wattman, why is my system crashing and recovering, how can I fix it?

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8 minutes ago, Nickmallow said:

 My display has been freezing for a second, going black for 2 seconds and then recovering about once a week since early January. this just happened again for the fourth time I think and it gives me the same notification every time. I don't remember it word for word but it was something like: Radeon Wattman settings have been restored after an unexpected system failure. Whats Radeon Wattman, why is my system crashing and recovering, how can I fix it?

Mine too! Having the exact same problems! What 480 do you have? I have the MSI twin Frozr

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That's AMD's overclocking tool built into the drivers. Are you getting black screens during gaming?

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1 hour ago, CFstorm said:

Mine too! Having the exact same problems! What 480 do you have? I have the MSI twin Frozr

I have a reference XFX model

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53 minutes ago, ivan134 said:

That's AMD's overclocking tool built into the drivers. Are you getting black screens during gaming?

yes and heaven benchmark

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58 minutes ago, Nickmallow said:

yes and heaven benchmark

What are your temps like?

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4 hours ago, Nickmallow said:

 My display has been freezing for a second, going black for 2 seconds and then recovering about once a week since early January. this just happened again for the fourth time I think and it gives me the same notification every time. I don't remember it word for word but it was something like: Radeon Wattman settings have been restored after an unexpected system failure. Whats Radeon Wattman, why is my system crashing and recovering, how can I fix it?

My system will do the same thing, display freezes and then goes black, but for mine, I have to restart my hole system, I couldn't find another way out of it.

wattman is a amd program that allowes you to change graphics card setting, I don't know much about it, so I leave mine at default. Someone help us out please.

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On 1/22/2017 at 10:57 AM, ivan134 said:

What are your temps like?

around 65c

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Did anyone ever find a solution to this problem? I'm experiencing the same issue and started an RMA request at the store. Still i'd rather just fix the problem.

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Have any of you tried to rollback the driver to a previous version?

 

These things pop up from time to time.

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Just now, Terryv said:

Have any of you tried to rollback the driver to a previous version?

 

These things pop up from time to time.

I use two in crossfire in one of my rigs - Haven't used it in a while, but I seem to remember a driver causing this.  I remember doing a fresh install of a driver, completely removed via DDU and reinstalling. 

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Dude, it might be a bit early to say but great advice.

I just used DDU and now heroes of the storm actually loaded. Before this it would always just quit at the loading screen.

Thank you very much!

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How'd you get on, did a fresh install work?

 

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I built a new system with the rx480 and all my problems have vanished into thin air. I guess the problem had something to do with my old motherboard which was very old.

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Might have to DDU my RX460 drivers n see if it helps. Since my Windows 10 Insider Preview updated 2 days ago Ive been getting the same issue especially when I overclock. I used to be able to my GPU to 1350mhz/2000mhz while benching & 1330mhz/2000mhz while actually gaming (core/memory respectively) without artifacts or black screens/crashes. Now I can't hold 1320mhz/1900mhz without these problems.

Gonna try the DDU n see what happens

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