Curious crashes in games

tarilen wrote: I'm having a similar problem though I've noticed it occurs almost always after returning from sleep mode. For this reason I no longer put it in sleep and instead shut it down. When it does go to sleep I restart my pc to avoid problems. From what I can recall avoiding sleep mode has almost completely eliminated the issues I was having. My specs Ryzen 3700X Sapphire Pulse 5700XT GSkill Ripjaws V F4-3600C16D-16GVKC x2 (8GBx4 @ 3600, default XMP Profile) AsRock X570 Steel Legend WiFi (Do not recall BIOS) The RAM isn't in the configurator, but if it is the issue I'd be extremely disappointed. I'm using the most current chipset drivers from AMD and one of the more recent releases of the display drivers. I make it a happen to always DDU before installing drivers. Any thoughts or suggestions?

I have a minor annoyance with my Steel Legend (non wifi) with waking up from sleep mode and I have to restart Windows Explorer because the background goes goofy and icons get messed up, and start button won't work ..open task manager and restart Windows Explorer process and all is good ..

I'll probably start my own thread on this issue at some point

Solved!

It was the APU from the Ryzen 2200g!
I replaced the 2200g with a Ryzen 5 3600 and now is everything working.
In the BIOS, under PCI-E mode the option 1x16 / 2x8 / auto was set to auto before. Now is 1x16 automatically set and the graphics card fans turn to 100% when booting.

Thank you for your help!

Thank you for your answers.

I have always installed the latest chipset drivers.
After I installed the new graphics card (GTX 1660S), I did a clean windows 10 (1909) installation, therefore no conflicts between AMD and Nvidia drivers may occur.

I run Burning Test and MemTest again. No errors.

I will be getting in touch with my contacts at ASRock and asking them to remove
the warning about 2000 and older series CPUs as it is no longer relevant to currant
BIOS versions. This was the case with BIOS versions released shortly after and
during the Ryzen 3000 launch. It also was largely due to the fact that there were
no performance or compatibility benefits to be had on previous gen CPUs. In other
words, there was no point risking an update when there was no benefit to be had.

Things have changed now however as fixes and compatibility has been added across
all CPU generations in more recent AGESA releases for games etc.

As for the crashes, make sure you install the latest Chipset drivers from AMD.
Go to the AMD website and search "B350 Chipset Driver" then make sure you select
"Chipset" from the driver download menu and then select your chipset.

ASRock website states that it doesn't recommend BIOS 3.30 or 3.70 for the 2000 series or older CPU's. .. maybe, if your mobo will let you .. try BIOS 2.10. Maybe it will communicate better with the onboard memory controller in your Ryzen 2200g as your issues do sound like they could be memory related.

I've ran a couple 2200g's on my wife and daughters setup. On my wife, I'd get oddball issues when I ran 4 sticks no matter what the timings were. Upgraded to a 3400g and no more issues with running 4 sticks. Not your issue as you can only run 2 sticks.

On my 3 Ryzen setups, I don't run QVL memory on any of them and though I had issues with 2000 series running memory at rated speeds.. upgrading same setups with 3000 series CPU's (and updating BIOS for said chips), all my memory can run at rated speeds now without issue.

On my daughters ASRock Fatal1ty B350 Gaming ITX/ac .. I switched from a 3GB GTX 1060 to an RX 570 4GB.. and on one game, Strange Brigade.. when playing in DX12 mode I get that error "Event ID 13 " ..even though I completely uninstalled the nvidia card using DDU .. I switch the game to use the Vulkan API and it plays just fine.. other DX12 games play just fine .. reinstalled S.B. and same error in DX12 mode. So that error has me stumped on yours and my daughters setup. She was running a 2200g and now runs a 3600x.

So try the older BIOS and see what happens .. or sell/return the 2200g and get a 3000 series CPU