u/Suavecore_

I occasionally get random push notifications that a transaction was declined from something that's clearly fraudulent, but it only shows in the push notification and not in the app notifications, not in the app transactions, and the help center doesn't find it either. I've replaced my cards numerous times and I've changed my password numerous times with 15 randomly generated characters. How does this keep happening? Why is there no information about the thing they're sending me a push notification for?

Edit: after contacting support through the support chatbot, then forwarded to the specialist team, they found these transactions that were found nowhere else and that the support chat agent nor the support chat bot could find. They were declined as the fraudsters who obtained my previously-compromised card we're trying to use it again, but it obviously declined as the card was cancelled and a new one was issued.

9070xt

9800x3d

Lian li 1000w edge PSU

MSI X870 Gaming Plus

2x16gb Corsair DDR5 6000

4 Samsung SSDs from 870 to 990

Windows 11, using HDMI or Display Port (I've used both, both are high quality and the most recent versions), with a Samsung Odyssey G9.

All purchased around one year ago. Nothing has ever had unusual performance issues, nothing has ever run hot with plenty of headroom. All performance monitors never show any strange utilizetion/spikes of any kind.

In the last couple weeks, my screen has frozen and gone black, no signal to monitor. Initially it was happening in games but in cutscenes or other lower utilization times, never during high intensity moments. Now it's happening on the desktop way too often while I just have multiple browser windows and Word documents open. Initially, I would have to hold the power button and then I would have to reinstall Adrenalin. Then I realized I can hit the windows key in-game and it'll stop the freezing and I can go back to what I was doing right away as if nothing happened. On the desktop, that doesn't work, I have to hold the power button. However, now I shut it off quickly enough where I don't need to reinstall Adrenalin for whatever reason I had to do that before (i would try to open Adrenalin and it would go into an infinite loop telling me to download an update that would error out after a while).

I've tried:

Multiple previous AMD drivers, using DDU numerous times

Turning HDR off

Checking Event Viewer only to find nothing that seemed related

Undervolting GPU

Turning off EXPO in BIOS

Reseating EVERYTHING in the PC except the CPU

Starting and using the PC with only the mouse and keyboard plugged in

Running multiple stress tests/benchmarks/utility tests on RAM, CPU, and GPU

Stopped all task tray programs that weren't necessary from running

At first, I thought my computer was crashing entirely. However, I took the HDMI out of the GPU when it froze and plugged it into integrated and it was just fine. AMD Crash Defender just says it's a display driver issue with no further information. So my PC is NOT crashing, but the 9070xt by itself. When I look at Device Manager after this, 9070xt says Windows cannot load load drivers required for this device.

I've looked all over the internet and read many many things, most of which never had a solution that worked for anyone. I haven't tried updating BIOS and I haven't reinstalled Windows. I figure at least some of the people posting about their AMD-related issues are experiencing this, and hopefully it's not just my card, so I wanted to leave my in-progress situation here whether or not anyone can suggest any more solutions.

Update 1: I attempted to upgrade in-place to reinstall windows. I got through the process, and then during the first or second restart, I got stuck on a black screen with a white underscore on the top left corner, not blinking. After about 15 minutes, I just held the power button down as there was nothing happening. I turned it back on, got to the desktop, then windows installer told me the installation failed.

After that, I swapped HDMI from integrated to 9070xt. There was no signal. I swapped back to integrated and noticed in device manager that 9070xt had an issue with the display driver with a ! icon. I decided I will launch Adrenalin. It went into the infinite loop of needing to update and then failing. I opened up trusty ol DDU, began the process, got hit on the restart by the black screen with white underscore. I've tried restarting it a few times now to no avail. There is no chance to even get to the BIOS. Another update will come later

Update 2: After power cycling again, I swapped HDMI to 9070xt from integrated and the display came on to my desktop at a very low resolution. We'll see what happens after reinstalling Adrenalin as I won't have time for another Windows reinstallation adventure for a bit.

I recently plugged in my old 2060 to transcode and take some of the load off of the brutalized Intel 8600k CPU on my server machine. I say brutalized because it had been running overclocked and hot for years as a gaming pc CPU, so the PC repurposed into a Plex server is its retirement. I figure it is much closer to death than the 2060, and I also believe transcoding on a 2060 will be better than the integrated. I have the HDMI plugged into the integrated though, as I remote into the server PC and want the 2060 to remain relatively low power draw.

I set the settings correctly to use the 2060 for transcoding, and I'm watching someone transcode right now with the (HW) marker, but task manager shows no activity on the GPU and the Nvidia app shows N/A across the board for utilization (possibly because it's not the main display?)

Anyone have suggestions or am I simply trying to do something that isn't actually helping or possible?