AMD gpu drivers constantly crashing after irreversible BIOS update

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skOsH♥ 12 hours ago

Yeah....self explanatory in the title. Updated my bios, everything was working fine yesterday, I start working on a project on my computer today and it can't even do video playback without crashing.

AMD Adrenaline says all drivers are up to date...

So what do I do here? Wait for them to update their drivers again so things can work properly?

7700x running @ 5.1ghz, idles at 39C
32gb cl30 ddr5 ram @ expo
7900xtx, idles at 33C
nVME SSDs

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Originally posted by Bad 💀 Motha:

Wipe out the entirety of the AMD Chipset and GPU Drivers in safe mode; reboot and install latest.

Both the latest Ryzen Chipset Driver and Adrenaline AMD GPU driver + software are not that old.

DDU:
https://www.guru3d.com/download/display-driver-uninstaller-download

AMD Ryzen Chipset Driver Package
https://www.guru3d.com/download/amd-chipset-drivers-download

AMD Radeon GPU Driver + Adrenalin AMD GPU Software
https://www.guru3d.com/download/amd-radeon-software-adrenalin-2563-driver-download

If using Win10 then it should be on 22H2 and updated until at least April 2025

If using Win11 then it should be on 24H2 and updated fully; which would be later today as today is "Update Tuesday" (2nd Tues of every month as far as updates for WinOS goes). You can always pause Windows Updates to hold off on this months updates if you wish also.

Be sure to bring up the Microsoft Store app and update whatever is installed there as well. As some things need to be done that way and kept up to date if you use them such as the various media plugins for your OS as well as things related to Xbox, Xbox Accessories, Xbox Gamebar.

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Bad 💀 Motha 12 hours ago

Check the BIOS settings some or all might have been reset back to factory defaults.

Once back in WinOS, Download very latest version of Ryzen Chipset Driver and Adrenaline for Radeon GPUs from AMD official website.

Download, extract and run the DDU app and use it to reboot into safe mode. Then clean out all 3 GPUs brands. Reboot when all done.

Then run installer for Ryzen Chipset. Reboot when done. Run installer for GPU. Reboot when done.

Then test your overall stability. Might need to adjust some BIOS settings to better achieve that

skOsH♥ 11 hours ago

Originally posted by Bad 💀 Motha:
Check the BIOS settings some or all might have been reset back to factory defaults.

Once back in WinOS, Download very latest version of Ryzen Chipset Driver and Adrenaline for Radeon GPUs from AMD official website.

Download, extract and run the DDU app and use it to reboot into safe mode. Then clean out all 3 GPUs brands. Reboot when all done.

Then run installer for Ryzen Chipset. Reboot when done. Run installer for GPU. Reboot when done.

Then test your overall stability. Might need to adjust some BIOS settings to better achieve that

Thank you for the reply, I will try that out :)

GOD RAYS ON ULTRA™ 11 hours ago

The Radeon rx6700 in my PC approves these drivers

skOsH♥ 11 hours ago

Originally posted by GOD RAYS ON ULTRA™:
The Radeon rx6700 in my PC approves these drivers

Well if you can help it, the latest BIOS for AM5 mobos seems to be complete garbo...and on my mobo it is irreversible according to the manufacturer website...lol. yay

So I would hold off on updating it. My older BIOS version was actually stable. Idk what kind of changes they made to it to make it worse...but o well

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Bad 💀 Motha 11 hours ago

Have you folks with these issues even tried re-flashing a slightly older bios?

GOD RAYS ON ULTRA™ 8 hours ago

I was under the impression that gpu drivers are crashing not bios? Or are we concluding that the bios update is making the gpu drivers crash?

And did you perform comment #1 suggestions? That's a very strange issue indeed. I've never had a bios update crash my gpu. Usually a faulty bios update literally bricks the pc from posting, or fails to install.

skOsH♥ 6 hours ago

Originally posted by GOD RAYS ON ULTRA™:
I was under the impression that gpu drivers are crashing not bios? Or are we concluding that the bios update is making the gpu drivers crash?

And did you perform comment #1 suggestions? That's a very strange issue indeed. I've never had a bios update crash my gpu. Usually a faulty bios update literally bricks the pc from posting, or fails to install.

For myself, it was the BIOS update making my GPU drivers crash....so I had to tinker around in the BIOS. It seems like I regained most of the system stability back. I'll finish tweaking it later.

But I think there probably needs to be new GPU drivers....I'm on the current one and it's from over a month ago.

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Bad 💀 Motha 5 hours ago

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_I_ 5 hours ago

or windows may have tried to update drivers if it saw a hardware change

reinstall all the mobo and gpu drivers

Bad 💀 Motha 5 hours ago

Good idea to enforce a rule in your OS that blocks OS ability to handle any Drivers through Windows Updates. Especially on any PC that's using Win10/11 and has anything AMD based in it as MS will attempt to auto push Drivers for AMD related products through the WU service without your input.

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skOsH♥ 1 hour ago

Originally posted by Bad 💀 Motha:
Wipe out the entirety of the AMD Chipset and GPU Drivers in safe mode; reboot and install latest.

Both the latest Ryzen Chipset Driver and Adrenaline AMD GPU driver + software are not that old.

DDU:
https://www.guru3d.com/download/display-driver-uninstaller-download

AMD Ryzen Chipset Driver Package
https://www.guru3d.com/download/amd-chipset-drivers-download

AMD Radeon GPU Driver + Adrenalin AMD GPU Software
https://www.guru3d.com/download/amd-radeon-software-adrenalin-2563-driver-download

If using Win10 then it should be on 22H2 and updated until at least April 2025

If using Win11 then it should be on 24H2 and updated fully; which would be later today as today is "Update Tuesday" (2nd Tues of every month as far as updates for WinOS goes). You can always pause Windows Updates to hold off on this months updates if you wish also.

Be sure to bring up the Microsoft Store app and update whatever is installed there as well. As some things need to be done that way and kept up to date if you use them such as the various media plugins for your OS as well as things related to Xbox, Xbox Accessories, Xbox Gamebar.

I am all caught up on w11 updates but I will push through the update today as it might address any residual instability

But not before I do those other steps first.

Much appreciated for the help--marked as topic answer

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