Weird artifacts when enabling WHQL support

[RobinHtk]

Hi, I am posting this on LTT forum since no french relative has been able to tell me what is happening to my system!

 

Since i have enabled WHQL support in the bios of my b450m mortar titanium, I see artifacts for not even a half second between the post splash screen and the login screen of windows 10. After hours searching the source of this phenomenon, it appears to be linked to WHQL support, since it never happens when it is disabled.

I have no performance or heat issue, in the bios as well as in Windows 10. My monitor is plugged in DVI and allow only DVI or VGA and since my GPU doesn't have VGA (what a shock) i can't test with a different cable. I plugged in my TV and those strange lines appears on it too anyway.

 

Does someone knows why this is happening? 

 

My config is:

 

-Ryzen 5 2600X

-Artic Freezer 33

-Palit Stormx GTX1060 6Gb

-MSI B450M Mortar Titanium

-G.Skill TridentZ RGB DDR4 3200Mhz

-Kingston A400 240Go (Win10 boot drive)

-Toshiba HDWD110 1To

-Cooler Master Elite V3 500W (soon to be swapped for a MasterWatt 650, that is overkill but no more ketchup mustard cables )

-Monitor is an ASUS VS229

-Windows 10 Pro 64bits, cleanly installed a week ago

 

The system is 2 weeks old, except the video card who is 4 months old

 

Thanks for your time LTT people, hi from France

[Origami Cactus]

I have somewhat of the same thing, but my artifacts are only in the upper left corner, and they are on the screen for like 100ms?

I haven't worried about that for a few months, and nothing has happened. It is still a bit weird, but meh. It also only happens with WHQL enabled.

[Master Disaster]

I'm confused, could you please clarify exactly which setting you enabled in BIOS because WHQL has nothing to do with bios settings.

[Origami Cactus]

2 minutes ago, Master Disaster said:

I'm confused, could you please clarify exactly which setting you enabled in BIOS because WHQL has nothing to do with bios settings.

It is an BIOS option for MSI bios, basically while in the bios, it renders all the bios menus at higher res than default. It is nice for high res displays, because then im not looking at low res mess when changing bios settings. 

[Master Disaster]

1 minute ago, Origami Cactus said:

It is an BIOS option for MSI bios, basically it renders all the bios menus at higher res than default. It is nice for high res displays, because then im not looking at low res mess when changing bios settings. 

Ahhh I gotcha, yeah MSI call the CSM Windows WHQL support. I apologise, I should have known that as my last board was MSI.

 

In that case it's very likely a bug either in your UEFI or possibly in the GPUs UEFI GOP. It could possibly be fixed by updating your UEFI to the latest version or updating your GPU BIOS to the latest version but as above, it's not actually going to hurt anything.

 

What is the board and GPU?

[RobinHtk]

5 minutes ago, Origami Cactus said:

I have somewhat of the same thing, but my artifacts are only in the upper left corner, and they are on the screen for like 100ms?

I haven't worried about that for a few months, and nothing has happened. It is still a bit weird, but meh. It also only happens with WHQL enabled.

Well, I guess it will not be much of a problem, but I am pretty annoyed by this  At least I am not the only one in this situation, at first I was gonna turn off WHQL Support, but the bios and splash screen are so ugly when I do so...

 

 

[RobinHtk]

1 minute ago, Master Disaster said:

Ahhh I gotcha, yeah MSI call the CSM Windows WHQL support. I apologise, I should have known that as my last board was MSI.

 

In that case it's very likely a bug either in your UEFI or possibly in the GPUs UEFI GOP. It could possibly be fixed by updating your UEFI to the latest version or updating your GPU BIOS to the latest version but as above, it's not actually going to hurt anything.

 

What is the board and GPU?

The board is a B450M Mortar Titanium and the GPU is a GTX1060 6gb (The Palit StormX one to be precise).

I updated the bios to the last version thanks to MSI support, using the bios flashback button that the board has on the I/O. As for the GPU, i updated the driver to 417.35 wich is the most recent provided by nvidia. I do not know if does touch to the GPU BIOS, I am of very litlle experience in the matter of GPU BIOS 

[Origami Cactus]

10 hours ago, RobinHtk said:

Well, I guess it will not be much of a problem, but I am pretty annoyed by this  At least I am not the only one in this situation, at first I was gonna turn off WHQL Support, but the bios and splash screen are so ugly when I do so...

 

 

The more annoying part is that some of my bios settings have turned into chinese, even thought bios language is set to english

[RobinHtk]

Well, that's a strange thing xD I have seen a similar problem on Click Bios 5 when i was seeking answers to my "issue". I'm gonna find that thread, i think it was on msi forum... I see that you have the exact same board as mine, what is your BIOS version?

 

Anyway I hesitate to wait and see if there is people having things to say about this thread or if I should close it.

[Guest]

This is more likely a BIOS fault with that monitor resolution 

[RobinHtk]

52 minutes ago, Lukyp said:

This is more likely a BIOS fault with that monitor resolution 

Do you mean that 1920x1080 native is what is making the BIOS cringe?