RX480 causes BSODs

Clown243

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Jul 25, 2016
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This is my second thread on this issue, the first one went on too long and went quiet but the issue has now gotten worse.

I recently purchased an RX480 and at first all was fine, but slowly my PC started to blue screen more and more and now it has gotten to the point where they are so frequent it is unusable.

What I know so far:
- It's not an issue with the graphics card drivers, I have update them, reverted and updated them again.
- The new "compatibility mode" that AMD have introduced to reduce an apparent power issue with the card does not help
- Booting in safe mode seems to prevent the BSODs
- The BSODs have gotten more frequent over time, at first it only occurred while playing games.
- I am not overclocking
- Specs in short: Windows 10, Rx 480, i7 3770k, 16GB of ram

Whocrashed analysis: Crash dump from whocrashed:
On Sat 23/7/2016 4:48:22 PM GMT your computer crashed
crash dump file: C:\WINDOWS\Minidump\072316-5984-01.dmp
This was probably caused by the following module: hal.dll (hal+0x3594F)
Bugcheck code: 0x124 (0x0, 0xFFFFE000290C8028, 0xBE200000, 0x21136)
Error: WHEA_UNCORRECTABLE_ERROR
file path: C:\WINDOWS\system32\hal.dll
product: Microsoft® Windows® Operating System
company: Microsoft Corporation
description: Hardware Abstraction Layer DLL
Bug check description: This bug check indicates that a fatal hardware error has occurred. This bug check uses the error data that is provided by the Windows Hardware Error Architecture (WHEA).
This is likely to be caused by a hardware problem problem. This problem might also be caused because of overheating (thermal issue).
The crash took place in a standard Microsoft module. Your system configuration may be incorrect. Possibly this problem is caused by another driver on your system that cannot be identified at this time.

DxDiag pasted in next post.

Any help is most appreciated, I really need this fixed and I am completely stumped.






 
Solution
That is a horrible unit, quality wise. I would recommend replacing it with a quality unit, like one of these.

http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/products/compare/j7PzK8,9q4NnQ,9G7wrH,brK7YJ/