Very slow cold boot, driver loading problems

[gwynbleidd997]

Hi

So I used the "auto-update" tool from amd to update every amd related driver on my 5900HX laptop. I kept downloading the latest version of the Adrenaline drivers and it was telling me it wasn't compatible, I didn't realize at the time they dropped support for GCN/Vega already so I thought I'd try updating with this tool instead.

I updated everything using that tool, everything is fine except booting up from cold now takes almost 2 full minutes when it was maybe 20 seconds at most before (loading animation screen. I use autoruns64 so everything is optimized and only the necessary things are allowed to load at startup). I enabled boot logging and there seems to be loops where windows is trying to load the same drivers and failing over and over again (example in the screenshot. It looks like 70-80% of the log file is BOOTLOG_NOT_LOADED). I googled a bit and decided to try windows' own verifier tool to try and fix the problem. After selecting all drivers to be checked and restarting, verifier keeps causing "system_thread_exception_not_handled" BSODs every time. To get into windows again I had to do verifier /reset and cancel the driver verification.

How do I proceed here? I'd rather not go through a fresh windows installation if possible.
Any help is appreciated.

Thanks.

 

[SchumannFrequency]

I didn't realize at the time they dropped support for GCN/Vega already so I thought I'd try updating with this tool instead.

AMD will continue to support Polaris and Vega for some time to come but the support is being reduced to security updates and “functionality updates as available.”

I am not a windows expert but the easiest thing is probably indeed to reinstall windows. First backup the files that are on your SSD/HDD.

Since you are going to reinstall windows, you could also try Linux, which continues to support AMD GPUs better and longer with the Mesa driver.
The very old Radeon HD 6000 generation has recently received Vulkan support in Linux.

My operating system (Clear Linux) sometimes boots in less than 1.3 second on an EVO 850 500GB SSD drive:

Clear Linux, Alpine Linux, Devuan, Void Linux and Obarun are the Linux systems that boot the fastest.

You can also try mageia, GhostBSD, Mint and OpenMandriva which are more focused on user-friendliness.

 

[gwynbleidd997]

AMD will continue to support Polaris and Vega for some time to come but the support is being reduced to security updates and “functionality updates as available.”

I am not a windows expert but the easiest thing is probably indeed to reinstall windows. First backup the files that are on your SSD/HDD.

Since you are going to reinstall windows, you could also try Linux, which continues to support AMD GPUs better and longer with the Mesa driver.
The very old Radeon HD 6000 generation has recently received Vulkan support in Linux.

My operating system (Clear Linux) sometimes boots in less than 1.3 second on an EVO 850 500GB SSD drive:

Clear Linux, Alpine Linux, Devuan, Void Linux and Obarun are the Linux systems that boot the fastest.

You can also try mageia, GhostBSD, Mint and OpenMandriva which are more focused on user-friendliness.

I used an amd tool to completely remove everything amd except the chipset drivers and I just installed OEM drivers from the asus support page for my laptop and it's gone back to normal. Not even 10 seconds on the windows boot animation (as it should be).

I tested it using aida64's GPGPU benchmark and it seems like the march 2023 OEM drivers perform the same as the latest ones that fully support vega/polaris (september?) so I didn't bother with anything else.
Reinstalling windows would've been a huge pain in the ass and I wanted to avoid it.

Thanks for your input though. Linux is great but it doesn't have support for half the programs I use, one of them being the myAsus app which allows me to limit the battery to 60% when plugged in all the time, among other useful features.