Does anyone still get the AMD 7xxx bug where your monitor doesn't wake up from sleep?

[coffeejunkee]

Hi Richie, thanks for the suggestion - my monitor is VGA into the card through a DVI adapter...I've actually tried unplugging and plugging it back in and it doesn't help for me, I still have to hard reset

I have no overclocking of any type on my machine, all stock speeds for everything (well, excepting AMD's own 'Overdrive' feature in the Catalyst Control Panel.)

Plug it back into the other dvi output, worked for me.

I used to have this issue but now it's much better. I haven't had this issue in a while. It seems to happen only about twice a month or so.

What I did was, go to Windows search bar, type "Edit power" and then click on the edit power plan. After that, where it asks you when to turn off the display, choose "Never."

This hasn't completely solved the problem but the regularity of the problem occurring has been reduced.

Some else may have a better solution.

If that didn't completely solved the problem something else is wrong because Zerocore only works when Windows turns off the monitor. It's more of a workaround really and obviously you miss the benefits of your gpu turning itself off.

 

[tweakboy]

This thread helped me ts my friends rig. No problems yet. ALl mobo latest drivers.

 

[richiegore]

Zerocore is a really great feature in theory, however, I often wonder if is related to the monitor sleep/wake issue....

 

[vincedea]

Hmmm interesting. I currently have this issue on my gf's computer.

First I had the asus 7950 card didn't have any issues at all. I then switched to a power color 7950 card and installed a ssd to her pc, after that I have been getting the pc not waking up.

Not sure what is causing my issue or if my issue is the same as this thread. :/

 

[Mushkins]

Something definitely brought this back recently. I had it back on the old 12.4 drivers with my 7970 and have been fine ever since 12.6. My roommate just upgraded from a 5850 to a 7850 maybe two months ago, everything was fine until this last week or so. There's probably a 50/50 shot if the monitor turns off it's not coming back up. Upgraded from 13 something to the latest, no difference. All on Win7 Pro x64.

Of course, this system also has an aging OCZ Vertex 3 as its boot drive, so i'm not sure if it's the SSD or not either

 

[CrimsonWolf]

Just installed Windows 8.1 and now I have this issue with my 7970. The monitor will power down like usual but occasionally not wake up again. Never came up before with Windows 7. But given all these complaints, doubt it is just the new version of Windows...

These are with the 13.12 drivers. I might try the new betas at some point.

 

[kingwaffle]

Hey guys, found this thread via a google search. Thought I'd share my experiences.

I have a 7870XT (Sapphire) and I am just now running into this issue.

I noticed the issue arose when I went from 2x 24" monitors (via Displayport -> HDMI cable) to a 27" 1440p monitor (via dual-link DVI cable).

Link state power management seems to make no difference, and I am about 90% sure I tried the Ctrl-Alt-Del trick and it didn't work.

The only way I can recover mine is to hard reboot my entire machine. I updated to the latest beta driver (14.2, released late March) and the problem still remains.

I'm thinking this is entirely driver related. It can't be a coincidence that a bunch of us have the same card and similar results. I didn't experience the issue at all on my 2x 24" monitors, so maybe it struggles waking higher resolution monitors?

I'd really prefer to NOT set my power options to never sleep, because I plan to reintroduce those 2x 24" monitors into my setup sooner or later, and don't really want 3 monitors powered on all of the time.

 

[Adampa1006]

I still get this sometimes with my 290x

 

[kingwaffle]

I'm testing disabling ULPS right now to see if it works. I usually see it act up after a few days, so I'll bump this thread in a couple days with my findings.

 

[PPB]

I stopped trying to find a workaround this and just plugged it to HDMI, DVI is the one that has trouble with sleep mode.

 

[birthdaymonkey]

It's pretty ridiculous that this bug still exists. I'm a long-time AMD loyalist, but I can't live with a computer that locks up a few times per week. It'll be nvidia for me until this is fixed.

 

[mindbomb]

I used ToastyX's Custom Resolution Utility, and created a resolution with the "Automatic - LCD Reduced" timing mode, and I think it actually solved this issue. Disabling ulps didn't work, and I could always ctrl+alt+delete out of it for some reason.

 

[kingwaffle]

I used ToastyX's Custom Resolution Utility, and created a resolution with the "Automatic - LCD Reduced" timing mode, and I think it actually solved this issue. Disabling ulps didn't work, and I could always ctrl+alt+delete out of it for some reason.

are you by any chance also using a Korean 1440p monitor?

 

[mindbomb]

No. Also, now that I think of it, I also stopped using overdrive in CCC around the same time (I just edited the vga bios with vbe7 instead). So maybe overdrive is causing it.

 

[kingwaffle]

No. Also, now that I think of it, I also stopped using overdrive in CCC around the same time (I just edited the vga bios with vbe7 instead). So maybe overdrive is causing it.

I don't think so. I don't use Overdrive.

Also, ULPS doesn't make a difference. I came home today and was stuck in standby.

 

[bononos]

Zerocore is a really great feature in theory, however, I often wonder if is related to the monitor sleep/wake issue....

The old 5xxx series are also affected by the monitor not waking up from sleep bug. But newer drivers from 12.x (can't remember which one exactly) solved the problem completely (5 series) for me and I didn't have to disable monitor sleep or anything.

I posted before about using the win key-right-right-up-enter(win7) to restart the pc without needing to have the monitor on.

 

[kingwaffle]

Woke up this morning to forever sleeping monitors. I tried the RDP trick and while it let me connect to my computer on my phone, I had a black screen and still couldn't do anything. Had to manually reboot my machine.

This is pretty stupid.

 

[VulgarDisplay]

I notice that when I get this bug hwinfo on my keyboard LCD shows my GPU clocks as 0mhz core and 0mhz memory.

 

[mindbomb]

hey, it happened to me again. So I guess pixel clock or overdrive had nothing to do with it. I'm gonna try disabling ulps via afterburner now. I already had to disable powerplay cause I was getting this weird screen tear on power state change.

 

[Mark R]

Yup still get this problem. Had it on 12.10 and later drivers, including 14.whatever

Had it on Windows 8 and Windows 8.1 and on a 7850, 7950 and R9 280X.

As I have a dual monitor set-up, it ONLY affects monitor 1. Monitor 2 will come up. And simply changing the res on mon1 will cause it to restart.

Very annoying, but not as common as it was with the older drivers.

 

[Peter Nixeus]

Have AMD 7850, 6750, 6450 and 2 x 5450 (Total 5 AMD cards on 5 different PCs)... no wake from sleep issues with Dual Link DVI and DisplayPort connections.

Maybe its the monitor or cable with handshake issues?

 

[Daxwax]

Disabled monitor sleep. Problem solved as far as I'm concerned

 

[kingwaffle]

I ran Atiman's uninstaller utility and installed the 13.12 drivers.

so far it's been fine for over 24 hours.

 

[Makaveli]

Disabled monitor sleep. Problem solved as far as I'm concerned

That is not an option for some.

 

[nicuwork]

the issue in this thread is pretty common and is one of the many

i got this issue too, using hd7790
it happens rare...but it happens

It not so good to see AMD don't imporove anything for older graphic cards (hd7xxx is not even old) with the new drivers. ..... low support
I think amd is so cheap not because of price/performance but because they actually worth this money overall.

A good company doesn't launch a product and then forget about it...you have to support it at least a while. nvidia still supports gtx4xx
I think i will switch to nvidia first chance i get.