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Xt
Adept I
‎01-15-2023 11:13 AM

AC Failure "Wattman settings restored to default" why?

Hi,

We had a power failure in our area and after power had been restored, all the settings made had been changed to its default. I was under this impression that this wouldn't happened after it has been saved. 

Lately moved from nvidia card to amd 6000 series.

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gala-actual
Adept I
‎01-15-2023 01:30 PM

I get this randomly after every few days, bit of a pain and is not result of any errors. I only notice my wattage has gone back up, so I go undervolt it again (or load in the saved profile) - 7900xt

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xlox
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Forerunner
‎01-16-2023 07:57 AM

if you have power failure every few days , then you should contact some electrician .. and if it's only your computer that is crashing, maybe check components like psu , cables , eventuel OC etc

marinesquirel
Adept III
‎01-15-2023 01:36 PM

Its a feature of the card if it senses that it's being over or under watts. To save the card it will automatically shut down your computer and reset your settings. This also means you may want to get a new surge protector because your component sensed a wattage shift before your protective device. 

eebiii
Forerunner
‎01-16-2023 07:28 AM

or your overclock is not holding anymore

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xlox
Forerunner
‎01-16-2023 07:53 AM

after a power failure , if no inverter , this can be expected ... could be worse lol

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MADZyren
Paragon
‎01-16-2023 08:05 AM

If you have saved the setting, it means you can load them from profile, from the same place where you saved it.

If Radeon software does this often, try disabling Windows fast boot feature, but when you get a power failure, that is normal behaviour. Also Radeon software does that pretty much every time anything crashes, no matter what caused it. 

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Matt_AMD
Community Manager
Community Manager
‎01-19-2023 06:40 AM

The Performance Tuning menu settings are lost in the following siutations:

  1. The system restarts or shuts down unexpectadly. This includes pressing the restart button, losing power, system restarts due to instability, be it software or hardware related. 
  2. There is a GPU driver crash

Default settings are restore to try and restore stability, even if the graphics card/driver is not the cause of instability. 

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Xt
Adept I
‎01-19-2023 01:16 PM

I was under the impression that it stay saved after the AC power shutdown unexpectedly not the overclock related.  Thanks for all the comments tho guys.