Windows 10: SOLVED! Build 10122, AMD HD6970 issues with drivers or broken card? :(

WU offers me nothing for AMD - go figure *Wink

BTW I have installed 15-4 with no ill affects. Your machine is different though ... hope it helps.

 

ran 3Dmark Vantage through, no problems and no crashes, but might be cause it forces DX10 in use. updating 15-4 now.

 

upgraded to 15-4, for some odd reason the computer stopped using USB-devices and i had to re-plug keyboard + mouse in order to continue with the installation. ran 15minutes again diablo3 and i got light-navy-green -screen this time, weird color and not the earlier black screen. same effects however, computer went unresponsible and had to force boot.

im getting mad at this. this starts to look clearly a directx issue, now i just have to find out how to roll down the dx12 to dx11 or something to test my thoughts.

 

If your hardware doesn't support DirectX 12 it will just run at what ever DirectX version it does support. It's backwards compatible as far as I know.

 

The old rule of thumb for installing OSes might apply.

Disconnect everything except the bare bones. Use a wired mouse and KB if you have them and a VGA monitor. No extra cards inside, no USB adapters outside.

Once you have a base install, start adding things, one at a time.
Shouldn't be that way, but.... it beats denting the wall with your head. Then you have to fix the wall too. *Wink

Since you had more success with 14-12, I'd go with that driver package. Your call on everything in this post.

I'm not sure I have anything else, but I'll look in every once in a while.

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actually these problems started back in the 99xx build already and after that, ive unplugged and tested these hardwares as you mentioned. im really out of options (now the rig ran more than 16hours straight forward on desktop mode, no crashes).

so this has to do something with the gaming-modes lik directx, anti-aliasing or something similar.

 

or ..... Win10 125 122 & AMD *Wink
Perhaps the Win10 next drop will clear things up. That might be mid June though.

edit: corrected version batlhilz is running *Redface

 

im stil at 10125 as i said! anyway, i went this through the sand and concrete, geez.

i clean-installed today _4_ times, after third, i had _4_ different versions on the boot menu... so you guess what. formatted and deleted or partions and now the 4th run is totally clean - this time i managed to get a AMD update from WU and im running clean install now with 15.4 betas and just installing first game to test the rig.

its been pain in the ass but i noted few other thingies in this build:
- loading bars 0 to 100% arent working basically at all
- installing 15.4 AMD drivers causes USB devices to hang up (discounting logitech G930 for some reason?) and you need to replug them in the middle of the installation
- boot time is piss fast with my crap old setup and the installation is only taking 14.4gb
- install time was less than 6 minutes FROM the USB stick *Redface

 

first run, 4 minutes -> crash
second run, 10 minutes -> crash
rolled back to 14-4 ->crashes

the update for AMD cards through WU just disables the CCC from the bootup??? what fix is that...
im done with this and waiting for better times.

 

It's why I'm back to running 8.1 on my laptop. I didn't get any crashes or BSOD, just constant ccc has stopped working messages. Also couldn't get my USB monitor to work, that was a separate issue not related to the AMD driver issue though.

 

updated today 15.5 drivers, still no help. GPU-z peaks up to 81c on gpu#2 before the computer crashes, but shouldnt be issue. first pull it peaked up to 79,5c when i had 60% fan speed vs second run 25% so not overheating issue.

could this be still on the hardware side? GPU broken when playing games but can run desktop like no tomorrow?

 

Possible. one way to find out is to install something other than Windows 10 and see if the issue goes away.

 

well i ofc had 8.1 and problems started after i installed something else *Smile (9xxx / 10074 / 10122 / 10125)

 

All I can tell you is, if it is a hardware issue like your video card dying under heavy load, it will do it in Windows 8.1 too. If its a Windows 10 issue, it should go away when you go back to Windows 8.1. If it is a hardware issue, nothing you do in Windows 10 is going to fix it. Other than not stressing the card.

 

yeah and i noted windows 10 eats even less wattage than windows 8 or 8.1 or 7. its not that major issue when its like 1-2%. yeah im going with this hardware issue here too, might be just heavy coincidence that my PSU starts to die. gonna check that last part today after work in hour or two and fix the problem.

now i know why the game crashes (wattage load from GPU) and the even more weird part where i installed new drivers, after the first few blackouts my USB devices (mouse+keyb) stopped working and i had to replug them in order to make them work - smells like a psu/wattage stuff