maddangerous

What's happening when you're trying to access the bios?

Also, how are you trying to access the bios (what method)?

The built in (since windows 10) function to reboot to the bios has worked fine for me for a long time.

14 hours ago, Supercrumpet said:

 

Black screen but I still have audio, sometimes the audio will loop after 20 seconds of continuing to play normally and then it'll restart automatically.

 

I'll try Ctrl + Win + Shift + B though. Never heard of that before, interesting to see that function bound to a keyboard shortcut. I'll try that if the issue persists when I'm next on my sim.

 

 

I don't think I had any Windows or driver updates around that time. Are Windows update logs or some sort of update history in Event Viewer to double check that? I remember it's a thing but it's been years since I've looked. I don't think I get auto updating drivers, but I'm not 100% sure. My Windows settings aren't super consistent across my PCs.

 

I'll try disabling fast startup right off the bat though, can't hurt. I did see that mentioned once when Googling, but I didn't think it was relevant. Perhaps it is, haha.

hmm ok. I'll look around and see how MS has changed their update stuff. Generally, I think if you check Settings -> Updates & Security -> Windows update, and look for the "View update history" button that would tell us what we want to know.

As far as configuring windows update to not update certain drivers, I'd have to look into that. I set that option on a custom windows install and haven't had to manually disable it for quite some time. Don't recall where it is.

RE fast startup... You'd be really surprised at how many things disabling it fixes. I stopped keeping a list 3 years ago.

3 hours ago, Supercrumpet said:

 

 

Phoenix V3, so 2080 Ti.

 

I should have mentioned that I did check event viewer and it mentioned the 'ol nvlddmkm, which I interpret to be video drivers. I uninstalled with DDU and installed newest drivers; behavior didn't change at all.

ok so, if this started mid-week last week, what happened before this? Any major changes?

Windows update?

Driver update?

Do you know if windows update is configured to allow updating your drivers automatically?

As a long shot, you could do yourself a favor and disable fast startup.. I've seen this fix far, far too many issues.

Control Panel -> Power options -> Choose what the power buttons do

Click the link that says "Change settings that are currently unavailable"

Under the "Shutdown settings" area, untick the box that says "Turn on fast startup (Recommended)"

Don't believe the text that says restart isn't affected.

Fast startup especially doesn't matter for you, because you're on an SSD.

Reboot so that disabling it takes effect, and then try DDU and reinstall again.

When you DDU, and reinstall, are you booting into safe mode and installing the driver?

3 hours ago, The Pook said:

what does "appears to crash" mean? does the screen go/stay black or does it revert to the default MS driver with the tray notification?

 

next time it happens try pressing Win + Shift + B and give it a second. if it stays black then unplug/replug the display cable from the GPU and then try it. 

 

the rando black screen issue is fairly common with the 3000 series (happened to me a few times) and that's how I get it to come back. never heard of it happening with the 2000 series though. 

I was never aware of that issue, thanks for the heads up. I know a few people on 3000 series lol.

Which rig in your sig is the sim rig?

I would start by checking the event viewer for entries around the time of the crash, and see if anything else other than the graphics driver crashing is happening.

Other than that, DDU remove and reinstall driver would be a good idea.

I've got symmetrical gig from Verizon. Rarely see those speeds anymore, steam no longer saturates it.

I'd post a speedtest but I'm on WiFi and it's sucking.

I'm interested to see how this platform does (haven't fired up my sig rig yet).

I'm also interested to see what happens with the x3d parts, given the extra cache is only on one CCD. Hoping there isn't an issue similar to the scheduler problems on intel 12th gen.

Anyone here running Zen 4 on linux yet? How is that?

Also, nice S2K! I'll have to start a build thread for my car as well ha.

9 minutes ago, ENTERPRISE said:

Welcome to EHW! 

 

Glad to see another old skool OCN member here

Thanks, and thank you for starting ExtremeHW! I'm really happy to be here.

I came back to OCN after a while and... wondered what the heck happened. ExtremeHW feels more like what I remember.

33 minutes ago, neurotix said:

I've had it for years and mastered it. Running 3733MHz RAM/1866 fclk. Use PBO and get all core boost of 4750MHz and gaming, 5150MHz boost on a single thread. Check my cpu benches under submissions on hwbot.

 

I am looking to upgrade to X670 myself, and bought a Crosshair X670E Hero, only to find out that it had a huge like more than an inch tall top VRM heatsink that wouldn't clear my radiator fans because I have a midtower with a very thick AIO so it wouldn't fit. Had to return it. It Seems like the X670E Strix Gaming also has too tall of a heatsink on the top VRMs as well. I am after a 7900x3d when it launches, and have some G.skill Flare X DDR5-6000 CAS36. I will probably have to switch to a H150i since its thinner, and then I'll be going with the Strix Gaming model.

 

Here are pictures, such a beautiful board but the heatsinks on the vrms and m.2 drives are way too tall

 

Nice numbers! I actually have not OC'd anything Ryzen, my last OC was on a 4790K that I had like... 4.8Ghz stable. How was the RAM OC? seemed like a tricky thing on that platform.

You're running an Arctic AIO, from the pics? I also had one of those, but my previous case didn't have top mount (InWIn 805). I still would've had clearance issues though.

I was contemplating waiting on the x3d parts but didn't like how the extra cache was only on one CCD. I figure I'll wait for another CPU cycle to pass and see what comes to the AM5 socket later on. Hoping to avoid scheduler issues, like what intel had with 12th gen and windows.

Yeah, those heatsinks are a problem for sure.

Why I ended up staying away from that specific board, and went with the GODLIKE, was due to the PCI-E lane assignment... makes absolutely no sense imo.

But, I am running like 5 NVMe drives as well, going for no sata devices, so I'm definitely a no-so-common use case, probably. All speed, less cables to deal with? that's a win lol.

The Crosshair X670E drops the primary X16 slot down to x8 if you populate m.2_2... there's more than enough lanes on X670E to avoid crap like that, imo.

Edit - I was thinking Crosshair X670E Extreme, but it wouldn't surprise me if the Hero did the same thing with PCI-E lane assignment.

Title says it - anyone here playing dwarf fortress?

I've snagged the steam version, but I'm still on the regular version from bay12games for now.

The new graphics update doesn't want to see to work on this pc (laptop, not my sig rig)

ASCII works fine.

Anyone else encounter this?

32 minutes ago, Ruckus said:

Hi,here's what i got in my new build

M-AudioBX8a external

Senn 598 and  HIfaman Ananda planers Fosi Q4

What im trying to create is same experience or >ive got using the asus xonar stx card but

cant since its drivers are not win 11 campatable

plus the sound cards pcie slot is literally

under one inch under the GPU card slot.

What im looking at is the Shitt Magni/Modi Affordable No-Excuses stack

Its the newest version of the Magni/Modi 3+ stack

Whats in the same price range $300-400

for headphone amps and dac that would work = or better?

Is the Shiit stack = > even if the Asus sound card blocks ventilation to the GPU?

save the $300 for better headphones ie?

 

 

 

 

I would think the magni/modi stack would push those headphones better than most soundcards we have today.

Are the drivers really actually incompatible? I can't tell you how many windows 7/8 drivers  I've used that are just fine on W10.

What motherboard are you running?

7 minutes ago, damric said:

Welcome aboard

Thank you!

4 minutes ago, neurotix said:

Welcome!

Thanks! How do like the ROG Crosshair VIII Hero? I was debating moving to that w/ a 5900X (had a 5800x/ASUS b550xe-gaming WIFi) and went X670E instead.

Hey all!

I came over from OCN, where I've been a member since 2014.

I'm hoping to start a new OC journey here, and it feels like what I remember OCN being like, so I'm pretty excited!