Update your video-drivers, or installing a WHQL-qualified release should help, IMHO.-Ath (September 04, 2016, 02:54 AM)
There are beta drivers for the HD6000 series (I'm running a 6850):-4wd (September 04, 2016, 08:25 PM)
Honestly it's probably about time to upgrade to a newer GPU anyway (the fan is starting to make a lot of noise) but it's not in the budget at the moment.-Deozaan (September 04, 2016, 04:33 PM)
Again, from experience, the noisy fan thing may also be irrelevant. The word to use here is "maintenance". Try dismantling and cleaning the fan and heat exchanger, and especially cleaning/lubricating the fan spindle with CRC, or something that doesn't offend electrics - that can make a world of difference. Make it just like a new fan.-IainB (September 04, 2016, 11:25 PM)
There are beta drivers for the HD6000 series (I'm running a 6850):-4wd (September 04, 2016, 08:25 PM)
I didn't think I wanted the beta because:
- It's a beta (implies unstable) and won't be updated further.
- The download link says it is non-WHQL.
But I guess I'll give it a try and see what happens.-Deozaan (September 04, 2016, 10:06 PM)
Failing fans on GPUs is quite common where I live. Subtropical ambient temperatures and often humid...that doesn't help with longevity of fans. That is to say, GPU fans. Case fans are much "sturdier" in my experience and if you don't care much about the looks of the GPU inside your case, then try to fit a case fan onto the heatsink of the GPU.I just had a thought about that - overworked PC fans.
Fugly, but your GPU is getting lots of cooling and depending on the model case fan, it can be a very quiet solution. Even if you cannot mount a case fan directly, putting an extra case fan as close as possible to the GPU also works quite well. Especially if you can make some sort of funnel to pull the heat from the GPU. Case fans are much easier to replace or maintain and usually cost much less than a new GPU.
___________________________-Shades (September 05, 2016, 12:44 AM)
I'm about go put my machine to sleep for the night. We'll see if it goes back to having problems waking up the display after sleep. Wish me luck!-Deozaan (September 07, 2016, 02:25 AM)
Warning Event ID 4101
Hi TenForumers.
Few days ago I found some strange warnings concerning the display driver (event ID 4101):
"Display driver amdkmdap stopped responding and has successfully recovered".
After trying this and that with no avail, I noticed these warning were raised when I was using my Internet browser (Firefox):
sometimes my browsing experience suffered of occasional "blocks" of 1-2 secs (with a Warning 4101 coming out in my event viewer).
I turned off hardware acceleration on my browser's settings page and I eventually got rid of those warnings.
I'm writing this post hoping it could be useful to someone with the same problem.
BTW, one thing I also noticed with the Anniversary Update, Windows Defender would no longer do scans in the background, ie. you couldn't close the window as it would say it would cancel the scan ... there's a backward step.-4wd (October 06, 2016, 04:43 PM)
Mine won't update definitions anymore automatically. I have to download it and install the definitions. Definitely annoying.-wraith808 (October 07, 2016, 08:46 AM)
Shortly after I updated to the Anniversary Edition of Windows 10 Pro x64 I noticed that my primary display no longer gets any video signal after waking my PC from sleep.-Deozaan (September 03, 2016, 03:16 PM)
Did you ever manage to find out what was the reason or did it come good in a later update, Deo?-4wd (January 30, 2017, 08:54 PM)
Salvaged plenty of things just by replacing the capacitors in the equipment, spending <$20 and an hour or so has always been preferable to spending a lot more to replace the equipment-4wd (January 31, 2017, 07:00 AM)
Can be replaced easily enough if you're competent with a soldering iron but there are some lethal voltages lurking in the PSU, especially the discharge from the main capacitor.-4wd (January 31, 2017, 07:00 AM)
Wasn't this high voltage thing a thing from the past? CRT monitors/TVs needed 10.000Volts to get the system started, but I thought that such high voltages aren't required for LCD-/LED-based monitors or TVs.-Shades (January 31, 2017, 07:24 PM)
But as of about mid-December, my other monitor has started having issues when I turn on my PC, though I'm fairly confident it's unrelated. My screen is a pale grey, then looks like "clouds" form on it, then there are either some bright or dark lines of pixels that show up at the top, soon replaced by several lines of glitchy pixels at the top of the screen which gradually expand down toward the bottom until finally the picture comes back, but the colors are messed up. Once it reaches that point, I can shut the monitor off and turn it on again and the colors are all good. But if I try to restart the monitor earlier in the process, it continues about from where it left off. It's like it needs to "warm up" a bit first. It has happened both when resuming from sleep and also when powering on from an off state.
I took a video of it using my tablet. It seems to be worse and last longer since I took this video:-Deozaan (January 31, 2017, 02:53 AM)
This problem went away once the weather warmed up. And suddenly this past week when it finally cooled down again the problem has returned. So it does seem to be related to the monitor's temperature.-Deozaan (September 19, 2017, 02:46 PM)