So I went on vacation for a month and a half, my machine was working fine both in Windows 11 and macOS, I was gaming like HELL in Windows prior to my trip. I turned my machine off completely right as I left.
Come back and now I am having some really odd behavior only in Windows.... Basically suffering from a BSOD (Black Screen Of Death).
I can't tell if it's my GPU that's dying (remember, this is only happening in Windows, which tells me my GPU is fine?), Windows itself (most likely the culprit?), GTAV (literally the only game that started causing this), or if there is indeed some issue with my AMD drivers.
I've tried various AMD drivers, different cables, and even Windows repair (for some reason keep getting an error that Windows can't repair itself, pointing to some log), and yesterday even tried restoring to a save point that I had made when the machine was working absolutely beautifully. Today I started experiencing the issues again. I am not really sure what the hell gives, but will likely just end up reinstalling Windows again.
Worst part is -- I tried to trace it with Even Viewer, but none of the errors point to anything video related, so I'm thinking it might indeed be Windows itself that's self immolating.... for whatever reason.
TL;DR -- Just wanted to check if anyone has encountered anything similar on their 7,1?
Symptoms range from the following:
Specs are in my sig, but I'm currently running the 23.5.2 AMD Adrenalin driver -- previously was running the latest PRO version, which I think is from October 2022. That one was running pretty damn good until I got the BSOD in GTAV yesterday, and then started getting it frequently thereafter, which caused me to perform the system restore to see if that would fix things, unfortunately that restore also rolled me back to 23.5.2 (which was working fine before I left for my vacation).
Come back and now I am having some really odd behavior only in Windows.... Basically suffering from a BSOD (Black Screen Of Death).
I can't tell if it's my GPU that's dying (remember, this is only happening in Windows, which tells me my GPU is fine?), Windows itself (most likely the culprit?), GTAV (literally the only game that started causing this), or if there is indeed some issue with my AMD drivers.
I've tried various AMD drivers, different cables, and even Windows repair (for some reason keep getting an error that Windows can't repair itself, pointing to some log), and yesterday even tried restoring to a save point that I had made when the machine was working absolutely beautifully. Today I started experiencing the issues again. I am not really sure what the hell gives, but will likely just end up reinstalling Windows again.
Worst part is -- I tried to trace it with Even Viewer, but none of the errors point to anything video related, so I'm thinking it might indeed be Windows itself that's self immolating.... for whatever reason.
TL;DR -- Just wanted to check if anyone has encountered anything similar on their 7,1?
Symptoms range from the following:
- Random BSOD (Black Screen Of Death) while hanging out on the Desktop (this is pretty rare tho)
- BSOD when playing GTAV (the most common cause) -- Game still works (can hear audio through speakers), however my monitors power off and display "no signal, monitor going to sleep" in which case I have to hard reboot. The issue persists though -->
- Reboot to no chime and total black screen (no signal is sent to the monitors upon reboot or even boot), but I can still hear the Windows welcome sound -- this has been happening even when I reset the SMC. Latest fix has been to perform a PRAM reset, followed by option and then choosing to boot into macOS, but i've had it once where it still booted without chime to a total black/no signal monitor. In this case I have had to hard reboot until I can see the apple logo, and then immediately Option and choose my macOS drive. My previous fix was to open the machine, disconnect my Windows drive, so the machine would automatically boot into macOS, but constantly opening this machine up is a PITA (shame on you for such a stupid design mistake, apple. 5,1 takes the cake in this scenario, because all you had to do was remove the side door and pull a drive out easily.).
- I also from time to time frequently get it where when I reboot, I get stuck on the apple logo and nothing changes -- this too requires a hard reboot and makes me wonder if maybe even my macOS or hardware is somehow affected?
Specs are in my sig, but I'm currently running the 23.5.2 AMD Adrenalin driver -- previously was running the latest PRO version, which I think is from October 2022. That one was running pretty damn good until I got the BSOD in GTAV yesterday, and then started getting it frequently thereafter, which caused me to perform the system restore to see if that would fix things, unfortunately that restore also rolled me back to 23.5.2 (which was working fine before I left for my vacation).
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