Interesting Situation with my rig.

[Hilux22RE]

As my title says. its an interesting situation with my rig.. It was running right since my last issue (PSU Replacement) Now i'm getting a blue screen with the message "System_Service_Exception atikmpag.sys". With a bit of research I Narrowed it down to the AMD Drivers for my RX570 and RX580, tried to uninstall them and the problems got worse! My system was running HORRIBLY... Not responsive, Freezing, couldn't open Task Manager.

 

When I finally got task manager open I noticed "System Interrupt" was pegged at 100% CPU Usage causing my system to be completely unusable... I could not get my system running properly until i switched it to Safe Mode running off the motherboard graphics. Tried uninstalling AMD Drivers and got them uninstalled successfully,

 

I thought my  problem was over and i could Reinstall the Drivers and software again from the AMD website only to get an Error again stating "Partial Install Complete" and the issue came up again... CPU at 100% Again along with the Unresponsiveness.. Not Sure if i am doing something wrong.. something i overlooked or broke.. 

 

I'm in a corner and not sure what to do.. any help would be greatly appreciated.

 

My computer is running an Intel i5-7600k, 32 gigs of ram, AIO Cooler for the CPU.

if any other info is needed i will answer right away..

[samcool55]

Get DDU and use that to uninstall the AMD drivers. Then download drivers from the AMD website and install them.

[Princess Luna]

22 minutes ago, Hilux22RE said:

Intel i5-7600k, 32 gigs of ram,

Why?

 

12 minutes ago, samcool55 said:

Get DDU and use that to uninstall the AMD drivers. Then download drivers from the AMD website and install them.

Yup DDU in safe mode will fix it likely, funny though when nVidia drivers are broken it just harms the card's performance, when it is AMD it breaks the system

[Hilux22RE]

23 minutes ago, Princess Cadence said:

Why?

 

Yup DDU in safe mode will fix it likely, funny though when nVidia drivers are broken it just harms the card's performance, when it is AMD it breaks the system

On a Mistake from Best Buy I was able to get 2 16 Gig kits for the price of one, so I said, "Okay!!"

[Hilux22RE]

3 hours ago, samcool55 said:

Get DDU and use that to uninstall the AMD drivers. Then download drivers from the AMD website and install them.

Thank you for the Information! Worked like a Charm! What would cause an issue like that to arise out of nowhere? is there anything i can do to prevent this from happening?

[Daniel644]

4 hours ago, Princess Cadence said:

Why?

 

Yup DDU in safe mode will fix it likely, funny though when nVidia drivers are broken it just harms the card's performance, when it is AMD it breaks the system

Chrome? my Firefox alone regularly breaks 5GB of ram usage.

 

4 hours ago, Hilux22RE said:

On a Mistake from Best Buy I was able to get 2 16 Gig kits for the price of one, so I said, "Okay!!"

 

That happened to me once with some shocks for 1 of my cars, kept the second fronts and ended up using them on the next car I got.

[samcool55]

15 hours ago, Hilux22RE said:

Thank you for the Information! Worked like a Charm! What would cause an issue like that to arise out of nowhere? is there anything i can do to prevent this from happening?

First of all, broken drivers can cause a lot of weird issues. Basically if there's a weird issue where games behave weird or whatever usually uninstalling with DDU and reinstalling the latest drivers is a very common thing to do because it's really easy and fixes quite often the issue. The symptoms can vary a LOT so broken drivers don't always cause the same issue as you had.

 

So, what causes broken drivers? Could be a lot of things.

What i think happened is that W10 decided to "help" and update the graphics driver for you, but in a microsoft way, basically wrong and bad.

But there are other possible causes. There's always the chance a gpu driver crash messes up the driver permanently, chances these days are really small but it can happen.

Drivers can also just derp sometimes for no reason, sometimes sh*t just happens.

 

You can't really do much to prevent this. Basically if you have the feeling that something is clearly very wrong it never hurts to do the DDU + new drivers.