AMD Crimson Software Bug can fry your GPU!

justmark81

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Has anyone with the new Crimson software noticed how silent your fans are? Well it seems there is somekind of bug in the new Crimson software that locks your fans to 20% or even to 0% in a case on reddit.

I also had this problem when i was playing the witcher 3! The temp went up to 98c!

You can repair the fan speed by setting the crimson software to factory reset, but you have to do that everytime because the program puts it back to 0 or 20% fan speed.

So watch out everyone!

( not sure if this is in the right forum, just wanted to send out a warning signal )
 

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I was using speedfan to cool my GPU back to normal temps, and then rebooted my PC. It turned out the fans keep on spinning on my speedfan settings ( even when speedfan was closed ). After a factory reset in the Crimson software the fans started working normally again, also when my PC went in sleep mode and woke up the problem was back.
 


192.75 & 320.18 WHQL are the ones I can remember off the top of my head..
 


Two is not "several" and I used both of those drivers without issue. The 192 driver caused an issue with some fan controllers but the 320 driver just seem to cause crashes, either way where are your "several" i.e more than two?
 


I was running SLi'd 8800GT's at the time but they had Zalman HSF's that were running off Molex adapters so I (and many others) were not affected.