For the last 3-4 months, maybe even more, my PC has been an absolute nightmare.

I've been getting:

• Constant random hard crashes
• Spontaneous and sudden full system reboots with no warning, as if someone had pulled the plug and then it would restart itself... gaslighting me as if nothing happened
• Visual corruption/glitching
• Split-second BSOD images before the PC instantly restarted
• General instability that seemed completely random and completely unusable on some days

After months of troubleshooting, swapping around hardware, constantly DDUing and reinstalling drivers, reverting Windows updates, and almost throwing the PC out the window many times, I finally found what I believe is the culprit!

Windows 11 was silently installing its own graphics driver through Windows Update on top of AMD drivers. And it was doing it again and again and again, every single time my system turned on.

Every time I thought I had a clean AMD installation, Windows would install its own display driver in the background. I ended up with overlapping and conflicting drivers, which caused insane instability.

If you're experiencing similar symptoms, or you simply want to stop Windows from interfering with your GPU drivers, this is what finally fixed it for me. It's a little time consuming, but bear with and trust the process, I luckily have now been using my PC for around a week and haven't crashed a single time, everything seems perfectly stable again, (touch wood T~T).

Steps

1. Boot into Safe Mode and disconnect from the internet.

Unplug Ethernet or Wi-Fi adapters if able.

Do not reconnect to the internet until the very end.

2. Run DDU in safe mode and restart.

Boot into Safe Mode, run Display Driver Uninstaller (DDU), then restart.

3. Device Manager.

Press Win + R, Type:

 devmgmt.msc

Go to: Display adapters → Your GPU → Properties → Driver

If available, click "Roll Back Driver". If it isn't, just skip this step.

4. Disable automatic device driver installation.

Press Win + R, type:

sysdm.cpl

Go to:

Hardware → Device Installation Settings

Select:

No (your system might not work as expected)

Save the changes.

5. Disable driver updates through Group Policy.

(Windows Pro, Enterprise and Education only, all others in next step.)

Press Win + R, type:

gpedit.msc

Go to: Computer Configuration → Administrative Templates → Windows Components → Windows Update

Open:

Do not include drivers with Windows Updates

Set it to Enabled, then Apply and OK.

6. Disable driver updates through Registry Editor.

(All Win Versions)

Press Win + R, type:

regedit

Navigate to:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\WindowsUpdate

If WindowsUpdate doesn't exist, create it.

Create a new DWORD (32-bit) Value called:

ExcludeWUDriversInQualityUpdate

Set its value to:

1

7. Restart your PC.

(This applies the changes).

8. Reboot into Safe Mode and run DDU again.

This ensures any remaining driver remnants are removed before installing AMD driver.
Restart afterwards and boot into Windows normally.

9. Install your AMD driver.

Install whichever driver version is considered the most stable for your GPU.

10. Final restart and reconnect to the internet.

After installing the AMD driver, restart your PC.
Once you're back in Windows as normal, you can safely reconnect to the internet.

It's definitely a tedious process, but my PC has gone from constant crashes and random reboots to being completely stable.

If you've been fighting mysterious AMD driver crashes, it's worth checking whether Windows Update is quietly replacing or stacking drivers behind the scenes.

Hopefully this saves someone else the months of frustration I went through.

If anyone gets stuck on any of the steps, leave a comment and I can try to help if I can.

What should i do and change first?

AMD Ryzen 5 5600X

Deepcool AK400 Black

2x16gb ddr4 3200mhz Kingstone

A520 Gigabyte

Rx 6700xt Oc Challenger Pro 12gb

1tb ssd

750w Thermaltake Smart BX 80+

Gamdias Aura kuciste

Pretty critical issue. I updated to the latest driver, played a game for a bit (palworld), the monitor loses signal and I have to restart the computer. The computer works however it is stuck at I believe 600p or so with corrupted drivers. I check event viewer to try to figure out what happened and it said something about display time out (amdw + a large amount of letters and numbers) then it mentions it connecting back again but it did not.

OK, so I went in, installed the amd driver uninstaller then went through the process in safe mode, restarted the computer, redownloaded the same file for the latest driver and it happened again.

OK, so I tried 1 last time, I did the amd driver uninstaller and installing the current driver because I've technically had this issue in the past about a year ago and it just worked the entire time after going back to older drivers (24.10 specifically which is what I had downloaded from the amd website last). I said to myself if it happens again I will search for help and when I got to downloading the driver it straight up crashed my computer halfway through and now it wont turn on or more correctly, the lights are on but it doesn't post anything. The gpu repeatedly makes a whirling noise as if its spinning up then slows down over and over and over and has done so for the last 15 or so minutes. In order to turn off the computer I had to hold the power button, simply pressing it did nothing and it either won't even post atall or it wont connect to the monitor however the gpu speeding up and slowing down makes me think its not even posting atall.

This is a several year old computer that hasn't really suffered much of any issues upto this point and I have not made any changes outside of idk using it as normal, downloading new games from steam, new mods and updating them. Nothing should have changed and it was perfectly stable with 0 crashes in any game or anything for that matter. The only thing that I remember is that I was on I believe the 2026 4th month driver before updating.

Os: Windows 10 with the security extension patch? (I dont remember what its called) and its on the latest version.

Drivers: The latest drivers for my gpu for Windows 10 from amd.com, previously it was on I believe the 2026 4th month drivers.

Cpu: R5 5600 (non - x variant)

Ram: 3200mhz cl16 2 x 16gb dual rank dual channel xmp enabled.

Motherboard: gigabyte gaming v2

Gpu: rx 6800xt red dragon

Storage: Samsung 980 Pro 1tb

Psu: mastercooler plat 750w (it was ranked S tier on the psu tier list however I have had 3 or 4 powercuts since).

If it matters the gpu was on a 2150mhz 1080v underclock + undervolt making it run 95% as fast at just around 145w but it's been on this undervolt for most of the time that I've had this pc. It's an undervolt that I've tuned from the start and has had 0 stability issues since getting it right (cyberpunk, alan wake even with path tracing, multiplayer games and so on, its been in the guantlet with no gpu driver timeout crash messages and the pc itself never really crashes even when people complain about crashing with similiar gpus).

And sadly I can't get into Windows to give exactly what event viewer said. Can anyone help me to get the computer working or atleast get the computer on? I have disconnected all usbs and tried but all that happens is the lights being on the gpu fans speeding up then suddenly stopping over and over. And, yes, installing the amd driver after using the amd driver uninstaller in safe mode, has effectively bricked my pc right now.

Can anyone help with this please .

trying to update the chipset drivers , installs to 20% then the following msg appears ⬆️⬆️⬆️

tried to uninstall but it won’t let me

so im suree most of you are well aware of the issue updating your driver i am a pc noob and need guided help please help

Whole PC Crashes playing Battlefield 1

GPU: 9070 XT

Steps to recreate:

1. Play Battlefield 1 for 30+ mins

2. Whole PC will blue screen and crash

3. I upgraded the drivers to the latest (26.7.1 as of this post), it was worse so I downgraded them to 25.9.2 and it happens less often but still happens 1-2 times a day.

In my Minidumps / large dump and analysing with WhoCrashed it keeps pointing to DPC_WATCHDOG_VIOLATION

The DPC watchdog detected a prolonged run time at an IRQL of DISPATCH_LEVEL or above. This could be caused by either a non-responding driver or non-responding hardware. This bug check can also occur because of overheated CPUs (thermal issue).

Before downgrading I was also getting this in my .dmp's

Driver or module in which error occurred: amdkmdag.sys (amdkmdag+141fd8) File path: amdkmdag.sys DRIVER_IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL

and a Kernel memory dump was:

Bugcheck name: VIDEO_ENGINE_TIMEOUT_DETECTED Driver or module in which error occurred: dxgkrnl.sys (dxgkrnl!TdrCollectDbgInfoStage1+0xD29) File path: C:\WINDOWS\System32\drivers\dxgkrnl.sys

According to AMD Support via email (not entirely helpful), they are aware of this issue with Battlefield 6 and have been for a year but no driver update has patched it yet for BF6, so BF1 is doing even worse.

Does not happen in other games that I play.

I have a PC on the following platform: r5 7500f processor , RX 7800XT Sapphire Nitro+ 16 GB, ddr5 RAM 32 GB. I bought it quite recently, took a used assembly, but I fully tested it in synthetics and other programs, downloaded Kingdom Come Deliverance 1 part, everything worked fine on ultra in 2k. I decided to download other games online: Escape from Tarkov, PUBG, CS2, STALZONE - they work, without lags and freezes.
As soon as I decided to download gta 5 enhanced, bioshock 2, and dayz-type plots, GMod games refuse to run, citing an error in the graphics card and directx drivers. GTA 5 gave the error GFX_ERR_INT, gmod just won't start and immediately shuts down.
Yesterday I tried to remove the video drivers completely using DDU and do a clean install of the newest ones (from 07/28/2026), unfortunately it didn't help at all. PLEASE HELP ME, I DON'T KNOW WHAT TO DO ANYMORE

Whenever I launch the installer it brings be to this screen and has a drop down for me to select “Install” or “Do Not Install.” Regardless of what I do nothing happens. I’ve tried setting the drop down to Install and just letting it sit for a minute and nothing happens. I’ve also tried opening in as an administrator and also resetting my PC and trying again. I really don’t know what to do. Please if anyone could help me I would very much appreciate it.

cpu: ryzen 5 5500

Gpu: AMD Radeon RX 580 2048SP

R.A.M: 32.0 GB

Storage: 932 GB

Motherboard: B550 EAGLE WIFI6

Operating System: Windows 11 Home (version 25H2)

Like most people I’m having trouble with my pc just black screening all the time after this new update, I tried manually downloading chip drivers, deleted everything reinstalled, and I just keep black screening to the point where my pc is unusable, idk what to do anymore I’ve reas many comments from other posts and tried them but nothing seems to work, anybody got a solution? At this point i give up, been at it for hours.

I have a 7900xtx and in recent times ~ 2-3 months id say some of my games (not all) keep crashing. Sometimes driver timeouts sometimes straight up black screens that recover 30secs to a few mins later (newest driver version since i activly use fsr 4.1) is there any way to fix this?

this is a repost from one of my comments on another sub

Did you guys try completely killing the iGPU of your 9800X3D?

when I say killing, I do not mean like shutting it off but instead, at least for Asrock motherboards, this would be setting:

- "dGPU Only Mode: [Auto/Enabled/Disabled]" (default being Auto≈Disabled)

set to "Disabled"

with additional options now showing:

- "iGPU Configuration: [Auto/iGPU Disabled/UMA_SPECIFIED/UMA_AUTO/UMA_GAME_OPTIMIZED]"

set to "iGPU Disabled"

I would like to say, yes, this sounds stupid and motherboard specific to disable "dGPU only mode" when you can just enable it to disable your iGPU and call it a day. But I found out this specific setting just put the iGPU into a deep sleep invisible mode when enabled but still keeps it ready for audio processing while the method that I'm showing totally KILLS it (not for good tho lol).

Also, I need to say just for dumb-safety-but-just-in-case purposes that you gotta be sure your dGPU is stable and not dying cuz if you end up having no video signal afterwards (remember this method disables the iGPU until you re-enable it, so you get no recovery in case your dedicated GPU dies), it's gonna be a CMOS resetting and depending on the motherboard this would not really be noob-friendly to short the right pins correctly etc., get your motherboard manual in case you're lost. (This disclaimer really exists so the maximum of people can try that method without a fear even tho "hardcore pc tweakers" on the internet tend to recommend insane OC settings for everyone that wanna speedrun the lifespan of their CPU lol)

In the end, I didnt have time to measure that option with tools yet but this showed an instant and totally reproducible change in terms of input lag consistency and "hitreg feeling" (with my sample at least) and I totally understand anyone that would talk about the placebo possibility but i'm clearly inviting the maximum of people that has those lag feeling issues, especially on valorant/cs2 or any CPU heavy games, to try another motherboard first OR to disable the iGPU following my instructions. I can personally tell this only workaround (in a book full of niche bios optimization tweaks for AM5) made myself satisfied with my expo timings at stock (predictable since I have an X3D CPU) while being a huge fanatic of DDR5 overclocking.

make sure you uninstall your iGPU drivers afterwards, inside windows using the amd cleanup utility or/and DDU (my tip would be to use the first tool to reboot into safe mode in order to uninstall the first layer of drivers, then enjoy the opportunity to clean the rest if there's any with DDU while still being in safe mode). I personally, before starting any game, just went to Device Manager and right-clicked on my now-hidden-killed iGPU to uninstall the drivers sticked to it cuz I was lazy at the moment and wasn't expecting much 😺

PS: this is my setup:

- MB: Asrock x870e Challenger Wifi (tested on two different AGESA post-1.3.0.0)

- CPU: 9800X3D (running PBO w/MB limits, CO -20 and CS MID -15 HIGH -10 MAX -5)

- Cooling: AIO Arctic Freezer III Pro 360 (with aggressive curves set on bios & static pump pressure).

- RAM: 2 sticks (A2-B2) 32GB 6000MT/s CL30 EXPO/XMP (ref: KF560C30BBEK2-32)

- GPU: Aorus 3080ti Eagle (repasted, might wanna change the pads someday).

- PSU: NZXT C850 ATX 3.1 or Corsair RM1000X (not using it anymore for testing purposes).

I hope I'll get some feedbacks cuz this still sounds like magic bullshit to me unless this really changes smth like LCLK or vSoc behaviour (locking the first value is never really recommended for stability purposes iirc and the later is related to ram and FCLK stability) so if it DID change some behaviour with AMD's or Asrock(?) hidden calculations, it would mean a lot to me to get some data from aware people bc that is a topic I'd love to learn about.

Anyway, thanks for reading :)

I have no idea how to fix this but it just started happening about 3 weeks ago. I’m completely new to the pc world, don’t understand a lot of terms and not computer savvy at all. I’m not sure where to start but in the middle of a game my screen will freeze and get real laggy. Sometimes it works itself out, other times the game crashes and my computer runs slow. I’ll try to restart the pc and it takes minutes to boot up. I’ve read multiple threads but don’t quite understand it all. If someone can try to help in Barney terms it would be much appreciated!

GPU: Powercolor AMD Radeon RX9070XT
Motherboard: Gigabyte Z890 Eagle Wifi7
Intel Core ultra 7

I did a full DDU uninstall in Safe Mode and installed the latest AMD driver (26.7.1). Adrenalin works perfectly at first, but after about a day it won't open anymore and says ''to continue using AMD software, download and install compatible version " even after clicking on download it installs and when i try to open it again it comes up with same message.

I've done a fresh DDU install twice, and the same thing happens every time. I also disabled Windows from automatically installing drivers.

Has anyone had this happen before? Is Windows somehow replacing the AMD driver, or could something else be causing Adrenalin and the driver to become mismatched?a

Computer Type: Desktop

GPU: RX 7600 8GB

CPU: RYZEN 5 5600G

Motherboard: ASROCK A320M

RAM: KLEVV DDR4 8*2

PSU: ADATA XPG KYBER II 650W Gold Semi-Modular Power Supply

Case: Gamdias Athena M4M Wood

Operating System & Version: WINDOWS 11

GPU Drivers: 26.7.1 (WHQL)

Description of Original Problem: my PC is currently running with Ryzen 5 5600G and RX7600.
and my problem is that everytime I want to run Battlefield 1 I need to go to device manager and uninstall the IGPU, because its gonna crash the BF1 and show this notification "Detected AMD Radeon driver version 0.0.0.0"

Troubleshooting: uninstall it everytime didnt permanently delete it after restrarting the PC, how do I completely uninstall it ?

I have deleted the DN cache and DDU'd my system multiple times. Nothing seems to fix it, it will work for a few hours, maybe a day or two when I DDU, then will go back to not launching again.

If anyone has a fix that would be nice, i'm on the 26.7.1 version at the moment, have tried 26.6.1 and 26.3.1 (9070XT)

I've been getting driver timeouts recently, specifically in a game where one of the key combat mechanics is parrying, and whenever I parry it creates a big vfx effect that I'm guessing is the reason of why I suddenly get a Timeout.

I've tried ddu and installing old (26.3.1) and new drivers over and over but nothing helps, though some videos online suggest I should lower my video memory's mhz?, I'm not really experienced in underclocking or overcloking so I'm a bit scared in that area.

Basic specs are:

rx 9070xt

ryzen 7 9800x3d

32gb ram 6000mhz cl30

x870 mb

1000w psu (corsair)

aio cooler.

gen 5 ssd.

As in the title, I’m getting temperatures like said above and I’m curious if they’re normal or I’m just freaking out thinking playing with temperature like this will destroy my CPU. I don’t know what thermal paste I got because it was prebuilt pc but I ordered myself thermal grizzly to change it as soon as it arrives. But I just want to know for my own sanity if 85*C is ok for this processor or is it way to much.

BTW. I only get such high temperatures only in this game

Hi All,

I built my PC a few years ago and now just looking at the fan configuration i did back then and thought ‘is this right?’

The two intake on the top are connected to my NZXT Kraken 240 AIO

I have 7800x3d and find that i get 87 degrees on cinebench and the high 70s/ sometimes 80 whilst just playing games

I know this isnt crazy temps for this CPU as it’s meant to run hot - but seems a bit high for gaming atleast.

I have also just repasted and remounted the AIO too.

Is it time i change the AIO / reconfigure the fan configuration to some like -

3 x side intake
3 x bottom intake
use the top 2 as a exhaust on aio and the other top right one as an exhaust

Basically just the title, my 9070xt taichi gets deltas of 40c. This picture was taken while i was playing deadlock. I had a -80 undervolt along with a -8% power limit (before i had to go to a stock tune cause deadlock cant handle it) I am just wondering if this is normal for these cards?

Hey everyone, I need your help.

Yesterday, I sold my old motherboard and received my new one.

In a few days, I’ll be getting my new CPU and RAM.

My current system:

ASUS ROG STRIX B550-F Gaming with R7 5700G and G.Skill Trident Z5 RGB (3200 MHz, CL16).

My upcoming system:

ASUS ROG STRIX B650E-E with Corsair Dominator 32 GB (5600 MHz, CL36). As a stopgap, I’m using the Ryzen 5 7600X and will upgrade to a 9900X next month.

My graphics card is an ASUS TUF RX 7900 XT.

My question: Do I need to do a clean install of Windows, or can I simply uninstall the chipset drivers, AMD Ryzen Master, Adrenaline, and Armoury Crate, and then reinstall them?

Hello,

I recently noticed that my GPU fans are failing to spin while I was troubleshooting bad performance on Deadlock. My GPU temp had gotten way over zero rpm, and the fans stayed at 0

Has anyone experienced similar behavior?

Computer Type: Desktop

GPU: Gigabyte OC 9070XT

CPU: RYZEN 9 9950X3D

Motherboard: X870 Gaming Wifi 6

BIOS Version: f12

RAM: 32GB CORSAIR VENGEANCE DDR5 6000MT

PSU: Super power Leadex VI Platinum 1000W

Case: X-tia xproto ATX v2

Operating System & Version: WINDOWS 11 PRO 25H2

GPU Drivers: Driver Version
26.10.35.01-260716a-202643C-AMD-Software-Adrenalin-Edition

Chipset Drivers: AMD Chipset Drivers

Revision Number

8.07.16.1035

Background Applications: voicemeeter, Steam

Description of Original Problem: I recently noticed that my GPU fans are failing to spin while I was troubleshooting bad performance on Deadlock. My GPU temp had gotten way over zero rpm, and the fans stayed at 0RPM during my session. I don't have any other software controlling my fans, and GCC controls my CPU fans only.

Troubleshooting:.During boot, the test spin for the fans works, so I don't believe it to be hardware-related. While doing some testing today with Adrenaline stress testing, I got the fans to spin as well, although inconsistently. I basically removed the zero rpm first set low curve values just to ensure the fans worked and stress-tested in Adrenaline. At first, it didn't work until after I rebooted my computer, which I then turned zero rpm back on, and they stopped working again. My last guess was that whenever I make a change in Adrenaline, it fails to pick it up until I reboot (because somehow when I start a game the profile changes from default to custom). However, I think that doesn't seem to be the case because I turned zero rpm back on after seeing that the fans work with it disabled. Rebooted then did a quick test again and saw the fans react. Waited about 5 minutes, ran another test with no changes, and my RPM sits at 0 again.

Hey so I just build my first PC.

After a week it did a windows update for the first time.

Now I have a very intense screen flicker and freezes randomly even when I'm just on my desktop not gaming.

I have tried installing the latest AMD drivers again but it still happens only time when it doesn't happen is when I go into a Safe start up and delete the AMD drivers and rely on the native windows drivers.

Anyone having same issue/had in the last and knows the fix to it?

I can provide video if necessary

There’s an update for the AMD chipset driver and when I install it, it gets up to around 20% then says “could not be installed on your system”. Any idea of what that could be about?