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random PC-restarts when folding on Radeon RX 6700 XT
Posted: Tue Mar 12, 2024 11:11 am
by FritzV
Hi out there,
randomly my PC restarts when I am folding using my Radeon 6700XT, identified as gfx1031.
Sometimes its going through, sometimes 20% or more, sometimes only 1% or even immediatly the PC stops working and restarts.
Without enabling my 6700XT everything works fine.
I checked temperature, clocking and much more I could think of - no clues.
I changed the board - no changes.
I'm running on an ASUS TUF Gaming X670E-Plus (latest BIOS) a Ryzen 7 7800X3D, 32GB RAM, XFX Radeon 6700XT (latest Adrenalin 24.2.1) with Windows 11 (also latest update).
Any hints? Appreciated. Thx.
Fritz
Re: random PC-restarts when folding on Radeon RX 6700 XT
Posted: Thu Mar 14, 2024 10:40 pm
by toTOW
The PSU maybe ? You didn't mention it ...
Re: random PC-restarts when folding on Radeon RX 6700 XT
Posted: Thu Mar 14, 2024 10:57 pm
by FritzV
PSU should do: 1.000 W - be quiet! straight power 12 ...
Re: random PC-restarts when folding on Radeon RX 6700 XT
Posted: Sun Mar 17, 2024 10:51 pm
by FritzV
Possible solution for me at the moment:
-- pause folding with ending (!) all (!) projects (many restarts required ...)
-- re-install of folding exe, using (old) data-drectory as the new one
Now it's running for a few days without restarts - well, I didn't use the PC in the meantime ...
I will tell what's happening in daily work ...
Fritz
Re: random PC-restarts when folding on Radeon RX 6700 XT
Posted: Mon Mar 18, 2024 6:39 pm
by toTOW
If it starts failing when using the system, you might have to disable adaptive power management on the GPU. I don't know how to do it on AMD, but on nVidia control panel, it's called "Prefer maximum performance" in power management setting.
Re: random PC-restarts when folding on Radeon RX 6700 XT
Posted: Wed Mar 27, 2024 11:19 am
by FritzV
Hi,
Thx for the suggestion. I will try in the AMD control to find an equivalent.
Meanwhile folding works fine even with hard working (on music and video).
Fritz
Re: random PC-restarts when folding on Radeon RX 6700 XT
Posted: Mon Jul 22, 2024 2:01 pm
by muziqaz
I understand this comment is a bit late, but. There is no power management switch in AMD Adrenalin, AMD does it on the fly. You can lock the clocks and voltage though, but still those things are dynamic.
What AMD drivers don't like is multiple workloads on same GPU. So let's say you are folding on a GPU and then decide to play a game. Game will run crap, however drivers might decide to reset at some point. While annoying, it sometimes is inevitable. And it is extremely hard to trouble shoot these things. In the past (several years back) it was impossible to fold and game at the same time on AMD GPU. System and drivers would reset immediately. Now things have improved, but still not fully worked out.
Suggestion: pau GPU folding, if you are doing something else serious on your GPU (anything compute intensive, or even media transcoding intensive). Will save you a lot of headache.
And also try updating GPU drivers once in a while. You wouldn't believe the lengths AMD goes to, to improve their GPU drivers and fix bugs
