[Help] Windows 10 Woes and issue (still)

I did that while the card was on RMA a while back. It had the same issue but was instead resolved in about 2 seconds instead of 10+
The period can last as long as a week to minutes from power on. It's unpredictable. I've used Win10 (non vanilla) and 7 (vanilla) for the system with the issue, and Win10 vanilla for the working (i5) system

RX480
-10+ seconds to get image back
-happens with both boards (ASUS and Gigabyte AM4 socket boards, Ryzen CPU)
-does NOT happen on ASRock/i5 system

750Ti
-2+ seconds to get image back
-happens with both boards (ASUS and Gigabyte AM4 socket boards, Ryzen CPU)
-does NOT happen on ASRock/i5 system (initially came from here)

I have a third card that I dont use because it's worse than the 750Ti. I cant tell what card it is, but it's for a fact worse (it has mini hdmi for whatever reason. Strange honestly).

 

He didn't clean install W10 I still believe this is the issue right from the start anyway.

 

I had 2 win10 installs at some point
my main one (im not touching it) and one taking up an ssd before i put win7 on that ssd. the second win10 i had installed had the same issue and same severity

 

Just a shot in the dark.. but: http://www.tomshardware.com/answers/id-3432626/ryzen-build-display-driver-crashing.html

Maybe try swapping your RAM around (or even replacing them with some other modules... borrowed or whatever). It's unlikely but if you have confidence in the GPU, mainboard, PSU, HDD and OS, we essentially only have the RAM and CPU remaining...

 

I'll give it a shot to break away from being rather mad about Asus support right now. Transferred 3 times and nothing productive has happened

 

It was untouched W10 though right?

 

Yes

 

But it's still an old install from a different machine?

Do fresh installs, as has been said quite a few times. This is going much slower as people are suggesting things, you say you have done it, but turns out it's only half done.

Also unplug all the extra drives.

Mobo, ram, cpu, gpu and 1 hdd. And do a fresh install.

 

No, brand new, fresh ISO from MS, fresh installation from that fresh ISO
It was as clean as I can feasibly do.

This is a problem with me. I am very very slow and not easily motivated and I've pretty much just decided to suck it up due to my own stubbornness. This carries over to virtually anything I do, not just this.
Make no mistake, it's fucking irritating beyond any reasonable degree, but it's also not something I want to spend more time on.

I'll give more things a shot once my GPU returns (again) which will be in like a week or week and a half, but until then I just cant ass myself to try anything.

Some good images (from a video) of one time in the first month of issues which I feel justifies something being wrong GPU wise

Spoiler

 

Gave memtest a shot. Ran it for 1 pass (which took about an hour), no errors.

 

Think of it this way: if you do fix it, you will be free to enjoy your games and work in peace. It should be a one-time thing too, if you hit the nail on its head.

According to that thread I linked to, the guy also ran Memtest86 and got 7 passes. But he solved the problem by using only one of his memory sticks and changing the DRAM settings. Not sure what it means, but it is pretty clear that he had some compatibility problem.

 

Might just have to kick my ram OC out the door then. At least the board I have in right now doesnt have too much of an issue going back to OC. That Asus one was just... No

 

Are you using display port to VGA/DVi/HDMI adaptors?

 

I have 3 monitors they are hooked up as follows (position, display connection, gpu connection)
Left, DVI, HDMI
Middle, DVI, DP
Right, DVI, DP

There are 2 DVI-DP cables and 1 DVI-HDMI cable.

 

I only ask because I ran Win10 for over 2 years with no problems at home (pro) and at work (enterprise) but started using display port adapters in the last 6 months and almost immediately noticed some odd behavior. Any monitor that used a display port adapter to DVI resulted in seemingly random events where only one screen blanks out (still has signal according to monitors) for a split second to maybe 5 seconds and less frequently will play the tone for USB eject/insertion. One of the three used (all startek BTW work PC has two, home PC has one) converts to VGA and while the screen never blanked out, sometimes the image gets blurry on some high contrast backgrounds (black text on white screen) as if something were dicking around with the pixel clock.

EDIT: The best way I can describe the blanking is that pause right before it goes to screen saver. Anyway, my thought is the adapters are causing it.

 

I would agree but even using just 1 hdmi display (with hdmi on both ends) was setup at one point (a long time back) and had this happening as well. Mind you I have a lot of HDMI cables, some cheap some high quality some long (like, really long. 15 feet long) and most gave the same results.

I would like to say sometimes when hooking up my xbox one for it's passthrough (yes im going up to 4 displays sometimes, xbox one for mirroring sometimes) it has some really obnoxious behavior in getting it to detect right. Sometimes it has a frozen image, sometimes it has a very choppy image, sometimes its perfectly smooth, sometimes it just keeps cycling through detection and signal loss, sometimes windows still thinks theres a connected display when there isnt anymore (detect display button solves it). Quite a mess honestly

 

Maybe your computer is cursed, or there's a ghost haunting it.

 

Boogeyman in my computer send help


In the end as long as 100% of my stuff is operational 99% of the time I may as well enjoy it. Might go back to intel (again) in the future if they have a ryzen comparable cpu (more cores) for a good price. Who knows.

 

Interesting news that showed up last night. Apparently there's some issue going around for AMD users where games using DX9 break, similar to the way I've been putting up with.

 

I thought you said your 750 Ti was doing the same thing.