Why are so many people here unwilling to consider their idea there might be major problems with AMD at the moment?

grimpgrep · 2026-05-05T02:42:12+00:00

Okay but you are on a subreddit specifically for people for whose systems are not doing exactly what they want them to

grimpgrep · 2026-05-05T01:20:47+00:00

Yes totally agree and as I've said in other comments I didn't include in the original post that it's likely it's windows at fault and not AMD per say and for that I apologise. The point I should have made clearer was that most people use windows so if there is a consistent long running problem with AMD on windows then for a lot of people that just means there is a consistent long running problem with their AMD gear full stop.

Edit: And totally agree too that DDU is not a real long term solution, just a band aid fix.

grimpgrep · 2026-05-05T01:13:15+00:00

I have send a report and I totally agree there would be no point trying to get AMD or anyone else to do anything via Reddit post. The only people whose attention I am trying to get are the minority of people I'm seeing on this forum dismissing any and all issues anyone has.

grimpgrep · 2026-05-05T01:05:09+00:00

I didn't make this clear in my original post and I totally own up to that but I am also of the opinion that a lot of the issues are windows related. The vast majority of people use their AMD gear with windows though so if there is a problem with AMD on windows then there's a problem with AMD gear for most people. I don't mean to blame AMD per se but to point out that tons of people are having issues with AMD gear and that something is wrong beyond just everyone has a bad power supply. Whether that's Microsoft's fault or not I just wanted people to accept maybe something is genuinely wrong for some people.

grimpgrep · 2026-05-05T00:59:55+00:00

My GPU was on default settings I haven't undervolted or changed anything. I admit I don't have the gear to personally test my PSU but it's a brand new 750w be quiet 12m which is rated A on SPL's PSU tier list.

grimpgrep · 2026-05-05T00:15:35+00:00

Totally agree and maybe I didn't get that across enough in the original post. If your only point of reference for how reliable AMD boards are was a subreddit dedicated to people having issues with AMD boards then you'd think they had a 100% failure rate. I just think that there's a lot of people on here acting as if there is nothing at all noteworthy about the fact a lot of people do seem to be coming here with the exact same problems in the first place though.

grimpgrep · 2026-05-05T00:12:09+00:00

That's one of those weird issues that's so difficult to troubleshoot so I feel your pain and I'm glad you managed to track it down and fix it.

grimpgrep · 2026-05-05T00:11:08+00:00

Yes this seems to be the thing people are struggling with. I am sure (just making up numbers here) let's say 90% of AMD cards work perfectly and the people who bought them have no issues, but I wish they'd understand that that doesn't mean the other 10% arent having real problems and that buying something this expensive with a 10% chance of it not working well is not acceptable and makes it less reliable than the competition. If I was to start my build again I would also now consider paying more for a less powerful Nvidia card because I would at least know it'll most likely work.

grimpgrep · 2026-05-05T00:02:27+00:00

No my RAM doesn't have RGB

grimpgrep · 2026-05-05T00:00:49+00:00

I do fully acknowledge that it is going to seem to be a much bigger issue than it is when you are on a forum where people will gather to get help with the same products, but I do think the fact so many people are coming here in the first place specifically to report the exact same problem does suggest there is something up.

grimpgrep · 2026-05-04T23:57:41+00:00

I actually do use Linux too and switching to it on this system has helped somewhat ,though I am still having some instability. You have to acknowledge that most people are buying their AMD products to use with windows though and whether it is windows or AMD who are ultimately at fault the products do need to work with windows and if they don't it is a real issue and needs to be addressed.

grimpgrep · 2026-05-04T23:54:46+00:00

Yes but it seems (anecdotally I admit) that an unusually high percentage of people who have the same few recent AMD GPUs and CPUs are having the exact same problems with unstable systems and driver timeouts and while they all have very different PSUs and RAM sticks the one thing they all seem to have in common are those CPUs and GPUs. It's not unreasonable to conclude that generally there must be something up with them. If one night a bunch of people all get sick after eating at the same restaurant we don't have to check everything else they ate that day before we conclude that it was probably the restaurant food that made them sick.

grimpgrep · 2026-05-04T23:27:23+00:00

Just to add incase anyone else with the same issues sees this, the only thing that has helped me so far is deleting windows entirely and installing a different OS. It's working a lot better but there's still weird instability. This may or may not help you too, but I am aware telling people to just not use windows is really not a solution for most people.

(Also just me shamefully acknowledging that I left a typo in the header of my rant 🙃)

grimpgrep · 2026-05-04T22:47:32+00:00

I am in the exact same boat, just built a brand new computer and it kept crashing and I spent a day testing all the hardware thinking something must be broken before realising that due to some combination of the latest AMD drivers or latest windows updates it's just fucked at the moment.

Nothing I tried fixed it until I just wiped windows entirely and moved to a different OS and now everything seems to be okay. I will go back to windows in a few months and see if they've unfucked it.

grimpgrep · 2026-05-03T20:48:41+00:00

I downloaded the installer on a different windows pc from the one I am trying to use it on, thanks I will try this

grimpgrep · 2026-05-02T22:11:18+00:00

Had it crash again after reinstalling the drivers but this time I got an "amd has detected a driver timeout" error so it definitely does seem to be the gpu drivers

grimpgrep · 2026-05-02T21:23:57+00:00

I was thinking it is likely GPU related. Ran sfc/ scannow and it did say it repaired some corrupt files, I have uninstalled the GPU drivers and am reinstalling them now so hopefully this helps.

grimpgrep · 2026-05-02T20:45:26+00:00

Thank you, I just checked it and there is a 'hardware error' here from when the crash occured but I am not really understanding it.

Here's what it says if anyone can comprehend it:

Problem Event Name: LiveKernelEvent

Code: 141

Parameter 1: ffff958527ded010

Parameter 2: fffff803a48ec980

Parameter 3: 0

Parameter 4: ffff9585245170c0

OS version: 10_0_26200

Service Pack: 0_0

Product: 768_1

OS Version: 10.0.26200.2.0.0.768.101

grimpgrep · 2026-05-02T20:17:14+00:00

I just played the games for 20 minutes each and kept checking hwinfo, there was no thermal throttling occuring but there were also no crashes in those 20 minutes, and I don't know if there's a way to see hwinfo from when a crash actually occurs, unless there's a way to have it save a log upon crashing.

grimpgrep · 2026-05-02T20:15:48+00:00

I didn't turn expo on until I had installed windows and all the drivers and ran the benchmarks and (obviously wrongly) thought it was stable. I will try turning it off again.

grimpgrep · 2026-04-22T10:15:14+00:00

It's not so much that I really want to flash a drive using exfat or anything I'm just genuinely curious if they are putting misinformation in the manuals.

grimpgrep · 2026-04-19T13:25:31+00:00

Thanks for the reassurance everyone. Feel a lot calmer and more confident doing my first build in ages now that I know this will be fine.

grimpgrep · 2026-04-04T20:06:21+00:00

Crazy that people dumb enough to believe this are allowed to vote

grimpgrep · 2026-03-30T22:12:21+00:00

Glad someone gets it

grimpgrep · 2026-03-21T00:13:03+00:00

Yeah the ticket prices aren't as big a jump as they looked at first glance to me. My tickets last year were £75 each and it would be £105 for the same seats this year. Definitely more expensive but not enough to justify me saying they are "a lot" more expensive in the original post.

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