Crossfire RX480 problem

[Mnemosyune]

Hi all,

I have a crossfire rx480 setup.

Everytime when I boot my PC the second gpu's fan goes to max for around 2~3 seconds when reached the login screen (windows 10) and the LED lights turns off for a while. Then the lights turns back on in a minute or so.

I have the latest drivers for everything (I think)

Anyone could explain?

Many thanks

 

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New discovery!

I find that each time I boot my pc the AMD WattMan has a failure. Also, each time I go to the wattman setting the light on the second card turns back up. Anyone familiar with WattMan?

Edited January 5, 2017 by Mnemosyune
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[Mrchooow]

rx480 are bugged the hell out in my opinon, check with the vendor and see if its a known problem, otherwise pray for that someone in here have had the same problem and the sorted it out

 

BTW you should change to Nvidia, i was AMD for a loooong time, but after changing to nvidia on my latest rig im set in my way now. Its green all the way

[EPPHO]

I don't see the problem if it's performing as it should in games.

[iRileyx]

Its normal for them to spin the fans on startup then stop, its just part of the POST process, they stop again because theres no need for them to be on as the card isnt under load on running hot. not sure about the led's though.

Chances are theyre both doing it but you just cant see the fans for the first card, cause the 2nd is blocking them lol.

[ivan134]

20 minutes ago, Mrchooow said:

rx480 are bugged the hell out in my opinon, check with the vendor and see if its a known problem, otherwise pray for that someone in here have had the same problem and the sorted it out

 

BTW you should change to Nvidia, i was AMD for a loooong time, but after changing to nvidia on my latest rig im set in my way now. Its green all the way

New day. New moron on the forum.

[Superspeed07]

I had sli 780's and the fan on one of them would do the same thing and then run fine, you could try playing with fan curves on your cards and see if that will help, otherwise if you are getting normal performance / usage then I wouldn't worry too much.

[Mrchooow]

1 minute ago, ivan134 said:

New day. New moron on the forum.

Says the guy with a RX480, you clearly dosnt use your computer for much then watching netflix and updating your facebook statuses.

Waited for the aftermarket RX480 cards and out the box i had problems, i decided to never run PCI Express 3.0 only 2.0 and i 4 x mode, checked the card with my friends computer same issue, problems with tv connected to card, generally bad drivers, and for all that bragging the game performance arent that good, so check yourself before writing like that again, MORON!

[ivan134]

5 minutes ago, Mrchooow said:

Says the guy with a RX480, you clearly dosnt use your computer for much then watching netflix and updating your facebook statuses.

Waited for the aftermarket RX480 cards and out the box i had problems, i decided to never run PCI Express 3.0 only 2.0 and i 4 x mode, checked the card with my friends computer same issue, problems with tv connected to card, generally bad drivers, and for all that bragging the game performance arent that good, so check yourself before writing like that again, MORON!

Lmfao what? Where do they keep plucking dummies like this from?

[Mrchooow]

dont know, since you come from the same place i thought you would know, but when your to dumb to know where your from its mostly sad..

[Masada02]

40 minutes ago, Mnemosyune said:

Hi all,

I have a crossfire rx480 setup.

Everytime when I boot my PC the second gpu's fan goes to max for around 2~3 seconds when reached the login screen (windows 10) and the LED lights turns off for a while. Then the lights turns back on in a minute or so.

I have the latest drivers for everything (I think)

Anyone could explain?

Many thanks

As long as both cards are running fine in games you shouldn't worry. It's most likely the cards just booting up normally then being configured for crossfire when you log in. 

 

BTW, the RX 480 is a quality card. I've owned a 480 crossfire setup as well and it performed flawlessly. Not everyone on here knows what they are doing (though this community is better than most places)...

[Mnemosyune]

3 hours ago, Masada02 said:

As long as both cards are running fine in games you shouldn't worry. It's most likely the cards just booting up normally then being configured for crossfire when you log in. 

 

BTW, the RX 480 is a quality card. I've owned a 480 crossfire setup as well and it performed flawlessly. Not everyone on here knows what they are doing (though this community is better than most places)...

Hmmm, that's interesting. I never knew crossfire is enabled at that stage since this is my first multi-gpu setup. Thanks for the information, it's really just an annoying little thing I would love to find a way to solve.

[Shura]

4 hours ago, Mrchooow said:

Says the guy with a RX480, you clearly dosnt use your computer for much then watching netflix and updating your facebook statuses.

Waited for the aftermarket RX480 cards and out the box i had problems, i decided to never run PCI Express 3.0 only 2.0 and i 4 x mode, checked the card with my friends computer same issue, problems with tv connected to card, generally bad drivers, and for all that bragging the game performance arent that good, so check yourself before writing like that again, MORON!

Just because you had a defective card doesn't mean the entire line is bad and even among aftermarket cards, there are different quality of cards; this is the same for Nvidia cards too. If anything, over the last few months, the Nvidia cards have had more driver issues and hardware issues; every time I hear someone say "amd bad drivers" it's clear they have no idea how the driver situation has been between both sides recently.

 

No one is bragging about game performance, at this point it's clear that the RX480 does as well as GTX 1060 in most games and better in DX12 games. It sucks you got a bad card but that has nothing to do with the line, it's like saying all the GTX 1070s are bad because some of them overheat.

[Shura]

1 hour ago, Mnemosyune said:

Hmmm, that's interesting. I never knew crossfire is enabled at that stage since this is my first multi-gpu setup. Thanks for the information, it's really just an annoying little thing I would love to find a way to solve.

Do you have MSI afterburner running? I would use DDU to remove the driver completely in safe mode, uninstall Afterburner if you already have it installed and then reinstall the driver. Don't let windows update install the gpu driver first, think DDU has a feature to turn that off; get the latest version from the AMD site. Once the driver is installed, restart and now install afterburner and set a custom profile and turn on the "start at startup" options. Also put a shortcut to afterburner in the windows startup folder because for some reason (for me) the startup option in afterburner doesn't work on windows 10.

[Mrchooow]

1 hour ago, Shura said:

Just because you had a defective card doesn't mean the entire line is bad and even among aftermarket cards, there are different quality of cards; this is the same for Nvidia cards too. If anything, over the last few months, the Nvidia cards have had more driver issues and hardware issues; every time I hear someone say "amd bad drivers" it's clear they have no idea how the driver situation has been between both sides recently.

 

No one is bragging about game performance, at this point it's clear that the RX480 does as well as GTX 1060 in most games and better in DX12 games. It sucks you got a bad card but that has nothing to do with the line, it's like saying all the GTX 1070s are bad because some of them overheat.

after 280, 380, 390 and rx 480, i feel good enought o say that they lack things compared to Nvidia, and to be true there area lot of issues with the RX480 line, no one major, but enough for me to change. This small errors have always followed me with my AMD cards so i choose to believe im better of with green.

 

And if you read my first post you would have seen that im not bashing on RX480 because its a AMD rather that i feel they prelaunched the RX 480 prior too when it should have been released to compete with Nvidia who just had dropped their Big dog 1080, they wanted a share of budget market and launched the 480. For its purposes their tatics worked, but customer are left with a product that could have been awsome instead of just great, had they waited and fixed small bugs like this....

[Morgan MLGman]

3 minutes ago, Mrchooow said:

after 280, 380, 390 and rx 480, i feel good enought o say that they lack things compared to Nvidia, and to be true there area lot of issues with the RX480 line, no one major, but enough for me to change. This small errors have always followed me with my AMD cards so i choose to believe im better of with green.

 

And if you read my first post you would have seen that im not bashing on RX480 because its a AMD rather that i feel they prelaunched the RX 480 prior too when it should have been released to compete with Nvidia who just had dropped their Big dog 1080, they wanted a share of budget market and launched the 480. For its purposes their tatics worked, but customer are left with a product that could have been awsome instead of just great, had they waited and fixed small bugs like this....

Oh, I've got quite the contrary. I had a GTX 260, GTX 660, GTX 970, R9 290X and now an R9 Fury (note that the 290X was my first AMD card), and those Nvidia cards gave me more driver issues and headaches than the AMD ones, hence why I went with the R9 Fury after the 290X instead a GTX 1060 or a 1070.

 

You know... It's more that people don't know how to use and configure their PC's properly than actual driver issues.

[Mrchooow]

1 minute ago, Morgan MLGman said:

Oh, I've got quite the contrary. I had a GTX 260, GTX 660, GTX 970, R9 290X and now an R9 Fury (note that the 290X was my first AMD card), and those Nvidia cards gave me more driver issues and headaches than the AMD ones, hence why I went with the R9 Fury after the 290X instead a GTX 1060 or a 1070.

 

You know... It's more that people don't know how to use and configure their PC's properly than actual driver issues.

Always been AMD until lately, was stuck with AMD cpu for a long time before i finally had to swap it out for Intel, AMD ideas & concepts are great, but they somehow seem to miss a little bit with their end product. 

Do see what you mean about people dont know how to install driver and set up their computer properly, but when the problem consists thru 3 clean wondoes install, and a backroll to 7,all of them without any overclock software installed/enabled im left with the conclusion that it had to be a driver issue.

 

 

[Morgan MLGman]

4 minutes ago, Mrchooow said:

Always been AMD until lately, was stuck with AMD cpu for a long time before i finally had to swap it out for Intel, AMD ideas & concepts are great, but they somehow seem to miss a little bit with their end product. 

Do see what you mean about people dont know how to install driver and set up their computer properly, but when the problem consists thru 3 clean wondoes install, and a backroll to 7,all of them without any overclock software installed/enabled im left with the conclusion that it had to be a driver issue.

It always made me laugh how people boasted about "Nvidia's superior software", while GeForce Experience was a complete piece of shit, (at least before the latest redesign cause I haven't used it afterwards), which crashed, had issues finding games and ran like garbage.

Also, Nvidia's Control Panel? I have it installed on an SSD (HyperX Savage 240GB) on my second rig with an i7-5820K @4,5GHz and a GTX 970 and it STILL lags, loads longer than almost any other program and crashes randomly... Really, latest Crimson ReLive update added almost everything that AMD's software side lacked so far and it's been really great and easy-to-use. From an objective point of view, using relatively recent GPUs from both sides I can tell you that current drivers and software is better with AMD.

[Shura]

10 minutes ago, Mrchooow said:

after 280, 380, 390 and rx 480, i feel good enought o say that they lack things compared to Nvidia, and to be true there area lot of issues with the RX480 line, no one major, but enough for me to change. This small errors have always followed me with my AMD cards so i choose to believe im better of with green.

 

And if you read my first post you would have seen that im not bashing on RX480 because its a AMD rather that i feel they prelaunched the RX 480 prior too when it should have been released to compete with Nvidia who just had dropped their Big dog 1080, they wanted a share of budget market and launched the 480. For its purposes their tatics worked, but customer are left with a product that could have been awsome instead of just great, had they waited and fixed small bugs like this....

You say "there are a lot of issues" but what exactly is an issue? in many cases driver issues result from people upgrading the GPU without removing the previous drivers. There have been more severe game breaking driver issues on the Nvidia side in the last few months than there have been on the AMD side.

 

The only major issue the 480 had at launch was with it's power draw and that was fixed within a week. Other issues that result from custom PCB of aftermarket doesn't fall on AMD or the 480 line(Gigabyte cards or the Powercolor custom PCB); that would be the same as saying just because evga had overheating cards, all 1070s are bad. If anything the drivers on the AMD side have shown great improvements; at launch the RX480 was behind the GTX 1060 by 5-9% in DX11 games. With recent driver optimizations, the RX480 is trading blows with the GTX 1060 or even coming out on top in DX11 games and still the stronger card in DX12.

 

I get that you had a bad experience but you need to stop generalizing, in your second post you claimed generally bad drivers and not great performance but reality is the opposite. Right now AMD drivers have less issues and AMD cards are showing greater performance.