PC Drivers & Software

[cheetah_hunter]

Hello there, 

Last night i just turned off my pc and went to sleep. Today in the morning i wake up, turn on my pc, takes more than normal time to boot up and after logging into windows i encounter this notification- "default wattman settings have been restored". But problem is, I never touched the wattman settings and my pc did not show any signs of trouble last night so I can't figure out why this happened. Would really appreciate if someone would help me in this matter.

My PC config:

Intel G4560 @ 3.5GHz

Gigabyte RX560 4GB GDDR5

RAM 8 GB corsair vengeance

Antec psu @ 500 Watts

Toshiba 1tb HDD

[goodplay]

It's generic message, usually means a problem happened.

Maybe if you shut down with a prog/app running that was using it ?

Some basic places to look for errors/warnings,

[cheetah_hunter]

No programs were running, I usually turn off every program since windows 10 1803 has this utterly stupid sense of keeping apps open so that u get them on after a pc restart. I just want to know if it is a problem with the card or the software? at idle my gpu is @ 40 degrees and rises to max 70 while gaming, so i wouldn't expect it to be damaged. sould i give u a snap of my diagnostic report? i don't really understand these stuff too well.

[goodplay]

Can't hurt to have a look at dxdiag. Attach the saved file.

[cheetah_hunter]

I have attached the whole stuff. Just a note: Today i updated the driver to 19.3.3 from 19.1.1(the error showed on this version).

Thanks a lot for giving your time to cooperate.

[goodplay · Accepted solution]

No graphics errors, a few windows updates/defender errors.

https://www.tenforums.com/ can help with those if you want. 

[cheetah_hunter]

omg, thats right, i can't believe how stupid I was. I don't want my windows to update but somehow my pc manages to make a fuss with those silly updates, and I guess thats what must have caused the trouble. Thnx SOOOOOOO much man. And sorry for bothering ur time. But its a good thing I learnt that the dxdiag is a handy thing now. But could you kindly explain how you figured out it was the windows update issue?

[goodplay]

Open the saved dxdiag file with notepad, scroll down near the bottom. There's a list of error descriptions/codes.

You can also usually see errors/warnings in windows reliability monitor, and system info.

Am not saying they were the cause of wattman message.

[kingfish]

I have had the same thing happen at random times with most of the newer drivers. I have Win7 and a different graphics card tho What it seems to reset are the Global setting..setting them back to default. The game profiles do not seem to be affected. I reboot and the programs open / work correctly. It happens very infrequently and at initial boot. I can live with it.

[cheetah_hunter]

hmm. I thought for a second it was my win 10 1803 version causing it. But if your facing that on windows 7, then I'm confused. I played sekiro last night and shut down my pc. Idk if thats causing the issue. However, today i installed the 19.3.3 version of the driver since it had the support for sekiro, so let me see how it goes and if I ever face trouble, I'll let you know. Thanks for the reply