Radeon VII Sometimes Crashing Shortly After Boot

[Maplez]

My Radeon VII has just started crashing (sometimes) after booting into windows 11 and I'm struggling to figure out why.

 

I recently switched this GPU out of my main PC (X299) because the room it was in was under renovations and the PC itself weighed too much to be easily moved. The GPU sat unused for about a month before I took it out and moved it to my test bench PC (X79) since it was light enough to easily move out of the under renovation room.

 

The start of the problem.

The third time I booted to windows the GPU crashed after I started a game, the driver detected the crash and reset the display adapter but the GPU crashed again shortly afterwards. I restarted the PC and was able to play the game without issue and the GPU didn't crash, I assumed AMD drivers were being funny again. The next day when I booted the PC the GPU crashed again this time while rendering the game's 2D launcher, display adapter reset and the problem went away and I was able to play the game. Later that day I turned the PC on again and the GPU crashed again, this time while loading Google Chrome, it continued to crash until windows gave error code 43. I used DDU, Uninstaller the GPU's driver (also uninstalled a Matrox display driver I forgot about) restarted the PC and reinstalled the driver, and restarted again. When it booted to windows I put it through a 5 hour stress test with Kombustor (Furmark MSI Vulkan), the GPU did not crash and did not artifact, I decided to play some games afterwards which worked without issue. Now this is yesterday December 2nd, turned the PC on and the GPU crashed again, windows gave error 43, I restarted the PC and windows had disabled my GPU, after enabling it windows said error 34 (maybe it was 32?). I uninstalled the driver and installed an older driver I knew worked fine, the GPU once again worked fine without problems, decided to restart the pc and see if the problem would come back and it did. Restarted the PC again and the problem disappeared, later in the day I had to turn my pc off again and when I turned it on and got a driver timeout message from the amd crash detector.

 

Eventually I got tired if this and installed a GTX 980 TI which was working fine, did some vBios modding so I could increase the tdp by up to 40%. Suddenly while playing a game the GPU hard crashed, at the time I had the gpu set to its normal tdp and I had only momentarily ran a stress test earlier to see how much power the GPU would actually pull. The GPU still overclocks very well compared to other 980 TIs at launch so I'm pretty sure it isn't failing.

 

If anyone has any ideas as to what the problem with my Radeon Vii could be that would be nice. I'm kind of wondering if maybe the motherboard has a problem with it, it is an X79 dual socket motherboard from China

[OddOod]

35 minutes ago, Maplez said:

windows gave error 43

Dying GPU or dying mobo. I'd lean mobo given the card is 5 years old and the mobo is 13 years old. It could be a PSU thing, but that's unlikely given the Kombuster run, and it could be the OS install, but that's more a shot in the dark

[Maplez]

1 hour ago, OddOod said:

It could be a PSU thing, but that's unlikely given the Kombuster run

I never even thought of that, the PSU is over 10 years old.

1 hour ago, OddOod said:

the mobo is 13 years old.

I actually don't think the motherboard is old, from what I can tell the chipset is old but the motherboard itself is custom made. Always did give me some weird problems tho