6700xt weird issue

[Norman]

So this is going to be long winded.

I finally broke down to buy a 6700xt most I have ever spent this amount on a GPU before

Got first card in middle of Aug. First thing I did was uninstalled old drivers and installed new card installed all updated drivers. Everything went perfect, worked great until windows updated and card would lock after 30 seconds in windows. I figured out I could get it to work if I installed my old 6500xt removed all drivers downloaded new drivers again install them. Then installed 6700xt worked great again. Worked great until driver update then same thing again. Had to do it a few days again so contacted GPU manufacturer and they said it was GPU so I exchanged it and got a new card

 

New card I had to uninstall drivers and whole process again. Worked for over a month then did drivers update windows updates was good until today. Today it did it again. I had to install old card scrub drivers. Tried to install 6700xt to install drivers but it would lock up about 30 seconds after windows started. So installed my 6500xt installed drivers then I installed 6700xt and it worked perfect. 

 

Thinking maybe a fresh install of windows would help. What is everyone's opinion.  

[ET_Explorer]

52 minutes ago, Norman said:

So this is going to be long winded.

I finally broke down to buy a 6700xt most I have ever spent this amount on a GPU before

Got first card in middle of Aug. First thing I did was uninstalled old drivers and installed new card installed all updated drivers. Everything went perfect, worked great until windows updated and card would lock after 30 seconds in windows. I figured out I could get it to work if I installed my old 6500xt removed all drivers downloaded new drivers again install them. Then installed 6700xt worked great again. Worked great until driver update then same thing again. Had to do it a few days again so contacted GPU manufacturer and they said it was GPU so I exchanged it and got a new card

 

New card I had to uninstall drivers and whole process again. Worked for over a month then did drivers update windows updates was good until today. Today it did it again. I had to install old card scrub drivers. Tried to install 6700xt to install drivers but it would lock up about 30 seconds after windows started. So installed my 6500xt installed drivers then I installed 6700xt and it worked perfect. 

 

Thinking maybe a fresh install of windows would help. What is everyone's opinion.  

You shouldn't allow microsoft to update your GPU drivers. You should update GPU drivers separately from the manufacturer.

[Snail Jerky]

2 hours ago, Norman said:

Thinking maybe a fresh install of windows would help. What is everyone's opinion.  

It won't fix your specific problem. Unless you have other issues, or a lot of free time you can skip the hassle of doing it for now. 

 

 

From what you posted, it looks like the common issue of Windows updating your GPU drivers. And Adrenalin Software breaking because it is not updated and the driver is a mismatch.

 

So unless you have a good reason not to, you should stop Windows from updating your drivers automatically.

 

 

I don't know what Win version you are using, but I tried to find one for Win 10 as I use it and I'm more familiar with it.

 

The 4-5 videos that came up were Windows 11. First time watching this channel and the video seems fine, it has 3 different ways of disabling Windows Driver Updates.

 

 

Fixed! Windows Update Replaced AMD Graphics Driver (Adrenalin Warning) - YouTube

 

 

METHOD 1

Watch the first 3:15 seconds and you should be okay. You go through some Windows menus to disable it.

 

METHOD 2

His second method with the Windows registry, I will put a warning that modifying the registry "can do bad things to your operating system" If you make a mistake, etc.. Don't do it if you aren't familiar/comfortable.

(nothing against anyone, but I wouldn't bother downloading from someone's website) 

 

METHOD 3

I have never tried this, but seen several discussions online about Windows sometimes still able to update your drivers even with METHOD 1. Some believe this is a more solid way of fixing this issue.