AMDGPU: RX 6500 XT: System reset when loading module

Christian König christian.koenig at amd.com
Thu Feb 24 07:08:57 UTC 2022


Am 23.02.22 um 23:59 schrieb Cal Peake:
> On Fri, 18 Feb 2022, Christian König wrote:
>
>> That's a really strong evidence that you have a hardware problem here.
>>
>> BTW: Where do you got that hardware from? Is it used or a new one? Was it
>> maybe used for mining?
>>
> Nah, this was a brand new card I bought on launch day from a reputable
> brick-and-mortar.
>
> Since I was getting to the end of my 30-day return window, I decided to
> just take the card back and exchange it for an RX 560 -- the only other
> card comparable in price that was also in stock (thanks miners/scalpers!).
>
> When I got that card home and tried it out, it had the same problem. From
> there, I decided to take a break and try a different approach. First thing
> I wanted to try was stepping through the different BIOS revisions
> available for my motherboard to see if that made any difference.
>
> That's when I saw ASRock had a beta for the next BIOS release available
> for testing. Flashed it, configured the BIOS to my liking, and incredibly,
> no resets or crashes.
>
> I've been under the weather for several days so I'm just now getting back
> to testing things again, but so far, everything seems to be good.
>
> I do wish I could have gotten to this point a little sooner. Exchanging my
> overpriced brand new GPU for an overpriced 5 year old GPU is a little
> stomach turning :-/

Well really sorry for that, but there isn't much I can help here.

Interesting to know that it turned out to be the motherboard, going to 
keep that in mind if somebody else is having similar problems.

Regards,
Christian.


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