At wits end with 9070 XT hard resets in every game! Considering returning
Update March 18th wee hours:
- Wow! This blew up. Appreciate everyone dialing in to my TED talk.
- A bunch of you suggested the daisy chained PCI-E (1 cable to 2x8-pin connectors on the card) cable might have been an issue.
- I tried the above hypothesis but it didn't fix the issue :( The PC still hard resets (i.e. screen off, BIOS loads, Windows loads again etc.)
- Which makes no sense because the RTX 3080 worked in this config (1 cable to 2x8-pin connectors on the card). Also I don't have this card anymore to test. Sold it early before RTX 5 series announcement (for way cheaper than current inflated prices fml 🤦)
- So fk it! I listened to those of you in the "Blame the PSU" camp 😂. Ordered an overkill Tier A PSU off the PSU tier list — Thermaltake GF3 1200W which was on sale ($150).
- It'll arrive in 2 days. The PSU investigation continues then. Until then I'll try booting Bazzite off a live USB and doing a stress test.
March 17th OP below:
Coming from a perfectly functioning RTX 3080 and trying
- DDU at least 10 times in safe mode, installed drivers with internet disabled
- trying 3 different versions of Adrenalin (25.3.1, 25.2.1, 24.12.1)
- all types of Adrenalin installs (Full, Minimal, Driver only) as well
- Limiting slot to PCIE4
- Turning off HDR
- Updating motherboard BIOS to latest
- Turning off Freesync
- -500 MHz on Frequency
- -10% on Power
- Passing Adrenalin stress test
- Removing CPU & RAM overclock (5200 MHz on RAM, default JEDEC timings)
- BIOS in UEFI mode
- CSM disabled
- 2 sticks of RAM
- No PSU cable extension to GPU
- Windows fast boot disabled
- No riser cables
- Reseated GPU and power cables multiple times
- Chipset drivers updated to latest offered by Adrenalin
- and every other advice in the AMDHelp megathread (https://www.reddit.com/r/AMDHelp/comments/1j6ksd1/megathread\_rx\_9070\_xt\_black\_screen\_freezing\_issues/)
and still crashing in eFootball that shows GPU usage around 50% and 80-120W GPU power, I think it might be the drivers or the GPU guys! Looks like these drivers (25.3.1) are also crashing older GPUs (7800, 7900, 6800, 6900) :(
Crashes 1-2 mins into other games I've tested as well (Ghost Recon Wildlands, NFS Heat)
System specs:
GPU: ASRock Steel Legend 9070 XT
CPU: 7700X
Motherboard: Gigabyte B650M Aorus Elite AX
RAM: 2x 16GB DDR5 - (5200Mhz)
PSU: GIGABYTE GP-UD750GM 750 W ATX 12V v2.31 80 PLUS GOLD
Windows 11 24H2 (latest updates)