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Swiftwella
Adept II

7800XT - System crashing first time I load a game each day

Hi everyone. I'm one of the victims of 7800XT deciding to crash my system.

 

I have a Ryzen 5700X in an ROG B550-F Gaming Wi-Fi II with G.SKILL TridentZ NEO 2x16GB 3600MHZ CL16.

Everything was fine while I was still using my old RX 580 Nitro+ but since changing it to a 7800XT Nitro+ I've started having WHEA-Logger (Event ID 18) errors.

Example:

A fatal hardware error has occurred.

Reported by component: Processor Core
Error Source: Machine Check Exception
Error Type: Cache Hierarchy Error
Processor APIC ID: 9

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The processor APIC ID keeps changing, so it's not related to any one core exactly. The funny thing is, it only happens once per day, with the first game that I open. After the first crash, it runs stable until the next day (might be a coincidence, but that's the behaviour I'm observing the last 5/6 days).

I've tried a myriad of things:
1) First I thought it was because of two monitors (DP+HDMI), but it happens with just one monitor (DP). Two monitors (DP+DP) is still crashing.
2) Disabled MPO.
3) High Performance power plan still crashes.
4) DDU + Just drivers (No Adrenalin). Still crashes on the first game loaded before 5 minutes have passed. Fine afterwards.
5) Undervolting, Overvolting, Overclocking, Underclocking, all combinations under the sun. Still the same type of crashes.

It's always the same WHEA-Logger error in a random core, instant reboot and then it's fine. This CPU was totally okay and stable with the other GPU. Nothing was changed.

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Swiftwella
Adept II

Hello everyone,

After many cold boots and playing the most varied games, I haven't had any crashes with the new drivers.

It seems 23.12.1 fixed my WHEA errors.

SAM and FreeSync is turned on.

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crspears
Adept II

I believe the issue is related to SAM (resize bar / 4g decoding) and freesync. disable SAM or freesync and see if it still happens

I have been dealing with this for 2 years on my xfx 6900xt. the entire time everyone has gaslit me about the issue even existing

Interesting, I haven't tried that. I will try and report back.

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I've disabled 4G Decoding in BIOS and still crashed. I will now disable FreeSync (in addition to keeping 4G Decoding disabled) and report back.

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try disabling SAM in radeon but keep 4g/resize bar enabled

Swiftwella
Adept II

Preliminary results:

Installing the new driver 23.12.1 with Full Install after DDU with slight underclock (2475 MHz Max Frequency) and +5% Power Limit seems to be stable.

SAM is activated. FreeSync is deactivated.

I will keep trying to turn things one at a time and see how stable it is.

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Swiftwella
Adept II

Hello everyone,

After many cold boots and playing the most varied games, I haven't had any crashes with the new drivers.

It seems 23.12.1 fixed my WHEA errors.

SAM and FreeSync is turned on.

I am gonna be completely honest. 

I was very skeptical on believing that the 23.12.1 drivers fixed my crashes, but they actually did. 

I have been playing for 4+ days now with no crash at all, however, i was actively monitoring the Windows Event logger for WHEA ID 18 and only after 4 whole days, I have a report today, but i had no crashes.

I bumped the power limit to +15%, lets see what happens, so far so good, was about time. 

Good to hear!

I have since upped my Max Frequency to 2500mhz (still with +5% Power Limit) and it's still stable!

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I think you might need some help.

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