Was it my GPU crashing?

[Goodman2265]

Hey guys, some of you might of seen I have been having problems with booting into Windows 10 and crashing afterwards

 

I took out my GPU (ASUS AMD R9 270) and I booted my PC. I'm still in Win 10 Pro and haven't crashed. My PC seems to be stable now and my problem fixed.

I am now running on my APU instead of GPU and I got a question? Was this most likely driver related? I reinstalled Windows 7 Ultimate and used my GPU and I never crashed, But I did not have any GPU drivers installed. I was running on Windows Generic Driver stuff for Graphics. If I installed Crimson right now (Since I am using old iGPU from A8-5600K Win 10 Pro installed CCC and not Crimson) and then installed my GPU would I crash again? Also could it be my power supply? I have a CX430 and I have been using it fine with my GPU since I built this PC. This Problem with crashing occurred 3 days ago.

 

So basically is it driver related? PSU related or time to upgrade my GPU?

 

 

[Cracklingice]

There are beta drivers and stable drivers on the amd website.  Are you using the stable version or the beta version?  Have you tried disabling the integrated graphics?  I know if I try to boot with my integrated HD3200 chipset video, my computer has a heart attack since the HD6870 driver is not compatible with the chipset video.

[Goodman2265]

1 minute ago, Cracklingice said:

There are beta drivers and stable drivers on the amd website.  Are you using the stable version or the beta version?  Have you tried disabling the integrated graphics?  I know if I try to boot with my integrated HD3200 chipset video, my computer has a heart attack since the HD6870 driver is not compatible with the chipset video.

I had my GPU in and no drivers and I was crashing.

I'm using my APU and I remove my GPU physically from my PC.

Since my APU is old its using Catalyst Control Center.

I went on AMD's website and Crimson is not compatible with my iGPU so I don't know if I should risk installing it and end up crashing

[Cracklingice]

****If your GPU driver does not support the iGPU, disabling it in the bios and installing the most current stable driver for your GPU should work just fine for using only the GPU.  That is what I had to do with my setup since the chipset video is so much older than the discrete graphics.  When I had my HD 4650 I could run both the discrete and on board graphics since they used the same driver version.  Default windows drivers are rarely optimal.

 

****After trying to find a source to site to show you exactly how to disable the on iGPU in the BIOS, it appears it may not be possible - but still worth a check.  I find it very difficult to believe that AMD would make it impossible to install the newest graphics cards in an older generation APU system by way of incompatible drivers.  The setting may be baked into the 'default video' option as something like - integrated first / discrete first / discrete only.

Another potential option that might bring about stability is to open the device manager and disable the iGPU by right clicking on it *before* installing drivers - then install the current driver for the discrete graphics.

[Joshuabishop4]

Make sure it is plugged in properly and that power is correctly installed, also try installing the latest stable driver and maybe try disabling iGPU in the BIOS. Hope this helps!

[Goodman2265]

5 hours ago, Joshuabishop4 said:

Make sure it is plugged in properly and that power is correctly installed, also try installing the latest stable driver and maybe try disabling iGPU in the BIOS. Hope this helps!

My GPU has a lock on its power connector so not that, My mobo auto disables iGPU when a GPU is installed in a PCIE lane. I always install stable drivers.

 

Anyways prob gonna get a 480 and also try to RMA this. Had this GPU for 3 years now