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AMD CATALYST RADEON DISPLAY DRIVER 3.9 (WINDOWS 98/ME) TURNED MY SCREEN BLACK MID-GAME. IS THIS A TDR?

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Accepted solution by Ada — been there man also turn off any GPU overclock or undervolt porfile, including factory "OC mode" in the vendor app. A new driver can…
  1. Malik Park
    @malik_proxy

    long time lurker first post lol okay, this is driving me nuts.. 😅 black screen, fans ramp up, and about five seconds later Windows comes back like nothing happneed, then this pops up:

    USB Audio Device Properties

    USB Audio Device Properties
Device status:
This device cannot start. (Code 10)

{Operation Failed}
The requested operation was unsuccessful.

    its always while running a 3D benchmark lol my small form factor PC is not overclocked and temps look normal in the vendor overlay. the only change i can point to is teh Catalyst Radeon Display Driver 3.9 (Windows 98/ME) update from AMD. ive already restarted a dozen times, obviously. is there a log somewhere that tells me what actually timed out, or am i stuck guessing? thx in advance!!

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  2. Haruto Varga
    @hvarga-1oo

    oh ive been there lol since it started right after teh update, roll back first. Device Manager > Display adapters > right-click your GPU > Properties > Driver > Roll Back Driver. If the button is greyed out, download the previous package from the AMD support page and install that instead. good luck man!

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  4. Diego Arslan
    @kernelbuilder

    That pattern (black screen, then "display driver stopped responding and has recovered") is Windows TDR: the GPU didnt answer within the timeout sooo Windows reset the driver 😅 Open Event Viewer > Windows Logs > System and look for Event ID 4101 from Display or nvlddmkm/amdkmdag/igfx. The timestamps tell you if it lines up with your symptom.

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  5. Ada
    @adaa116
    Accepted solution

    been there man also turn off any GPU overclock or undervolt porfile, including factory "OC mode" in the vendor app. A new driver can expose an unedrvolt that was only barely stable before.

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  7. Aiden P.
    @aiden_lambda

    hmmmm not sure about that idk man that sounds like bad advice tbh

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  8. Malik Park
    @malik_proxy
    in reply to @adaa116

    @adaa116 omg finally clean install with DDU on the previous AMD driver and the black screens are gone, two days of running a 3D benchmark and not a single 4101. thank you! seriously made my day 😭🙏

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