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Windows is affecting your graphics driver and causing long boot and shutdown periods.

Windows is affecting your graphics driver and causing long boot and shutdown periods.

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Will_Nei
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05-15-2020, 06:11 AM
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It was a serious crash a few days back. The first one in a long time since the New World beta. After that, I rebooted my computer and it took about three minutes to start up. It seemed like it was running an integrity check or downloading something. Last night the BIOS took 54 seconds, and when I went to sleep, the PC took a while to shut down. All programs were closed before it powered off. This morning I got very little rest, turned on my PC and there was no screen. The keyboard and mouse worked properly, I put on my headset, entered the login sequence, and it connected to Windows. That’s when the bad sleep caused some major mistakes. I got a bit worried that my Gigabyte 6800xt was damaged (Gigabyte RMA nightmare). I unplugged one monitor, swapped the cables, and panicked again. Then I connected the onboard HDMI graphics and managed to get a display working. Another issue popped up in Device Manager—my GPU wasn’t listed in the display adapters, and the compatibility check failed. I uninstalled the AMD Adrenaline software and restarted. After rebooting, there was no display from the HDMI graphics, so I thought my system was bricked and considered reinstalling the old 610 GPU. I made coffee, figured I might take my PC to a shop, but decided to test the GPU first. They confirmed it worked. Now I have a display using the 6800xt without any Adrenaline software installed, and I’m worried about reinstalling it. Normally I handle PC troubleshooting, but I have exams soon. I’ve backed up all my university work in two other locations and have a separate PC. The question is: was this just corrupted drivers from the crash? Were the slow BIOS times due to a failing motherboard? Z390, by the way. As I type this, I realize I might have uninstalled the sound driver (Need for Lecture), so I’m going to reinstall Adrenaline now.
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05-15-2020, 06:11 AM #1

It was a serious crash a few days back. The first one in a long time since the New World beta. After that, I rebooted my computer and it took about three minutes to start up. It seemed like it was running an integrity check or downloading something. Last night the BIOS took 54 seconds, and when I went to sleep, the PC took a while to shut down. All programs were closed before it powered off. This morning I got very little rest, turned on my PC and there was no screen. The keyboard and mouse worked properly, I put on my headset, entered the login sequence, and it connected to Windows. That’s when the bad sleep caused some major mistakes. I got a bit worried that my Gigabyte 6800xt was damaged (Gigabyte RMA nightmare). I unplugged one monitor, swapped the cables, and panicked again. Then I connected the onboard HDMI graphics and managed to get a display working. Another issue popped up in Device Manager—my GPU wasn’t listed in the display adapters, and the compatibility check failed. I uninstalled the AMD Adrenaline software and restarted. After rebooting, there was no display from the HDMI graphics, so I thought my system was bricked and considered reinstalling the old 610 GPU. I made coffee, figured I might take my PC to a shop, but decided to test the GPU first. They confirmed it worked. Now I have a display using the 6800xt without any Adrenaline software installed, and I’m worried about reinstalling it. Normally I handle PC troubleshooting, but I have exams soon. I’ve backed up all my university work in two other locations and have a separate PC. The question is: was this just corrupted drivers from the crash? Were the slow BIOS times due to a failing motherboard? Z390, by the way. As I type this, I realize I might have uninstalled the sound driver (Need for Lecture), so I’m going to reinstall Adrenaline now.

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