New AMD driver causing monitor to lose signal

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whiippy

Sep 30, 2018
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Hi,

Then AMD Drivers above 17.12.2 are causing my monitor to continuously lose signal then reappear.
The driver I am currently using is 17.12.1 and is around a year old and has been causing problems when playing games such as causing the PC to lag and my games FPS drops to almost 0 however if I update my drivers, my PC is almost unusable as my monitor will stay on for a few seconds, lose signal, then reappear then loses signal, so forth.

I am fairly confident it is a driver problem as when I use older drivers or uninstall the new ones with DDU the flickering problem goes away.

PC:

GPU: AMD Radeon RX 480 8GB
CPU: Intel i5 7500 3.4GHz
RAM: Kingston HyperX Fury 8Gb 2400Mhz
HDD: 1TB WD Blue
OS: Windows 10 64bit
 
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smorizio
try updating the bios on your mb. in the bios make sure the priamry display not set to auto but peg/pci. if the error still there use a test power supply see if your power supply not holding. if a friend has a volt meter check the 12v lines see if there holding.
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whiippy

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Okay, however if I do update my drivers to the latest ones (18.5.1 or 18.9.3) my monitor repeatedly loses signal for a few seconds then comes back on, basically making my PC ususable.
 
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inf.onurhassan

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I've literally been having this exact same issue with both my RX 570 and RX 470. I had to send both cards back as I couldn't find a solution. Which is a shame as I have a freesync monitor and now i'm stuck with the R9 380x, which is a lot less powerful with a much higher tdp.

Through my observation this only happens with RX series cards and I have no idea why. Both my R9 390 and R9 380x work just fine on the latest drivers. Which gives even more evidence that it is all driver related, but my question then is, why isn't everyone having this issue? Surely AMD would have at least addressed it.

Btw, a temporary solution would be to use the HDMI port (As with both cards the HDMI port worked almost perfectly, even on the latest drivers).

Good luck with the problem. Let me know if you find a solution.
 
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try updating the bios on your mb. in the bios make sure the priamry display not set to auto but peg/pci. if the error still there use a test power supply see if your power supply not holding. if a friend has a volt meter check the 12v lines see if there holding.
 
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