Issues with new laptop Strix Scar 17 2023 (R9 7945HX, 4080)

[hexaae]

MY ISSUES WITH THIS G733PZ Strix Scar 17 2023 (R9 7945HX, 4080)

Love it but it has many annoying little issues (fully updated with Win Update and MyASUS official app, BIOS 311):

1. [COMMON] Speaker sounds randomly muted 'till I reboot with no error in Device Manager, no icons with X and no crashes, but speakers simply do not play audio anymore (headphones still work). Only solution a reboot. Totally random in normal desktop usage.

2. [COMMON] Sometimes randomly after 2 days of sleep and resume, USB-C DisplaPort won't detect anymore the attached (but turned off) monitor when I turn it on. Have to reinsert DisplayPort cable (8K high quality). To be exact it happens after Windows Hibernation. (SOLVED with BIOS 315 ✔️)

3. [MY UNIT] Loud coil whine with the test from GPU_Caps_Viewer: 3D Demos/Vulkan 2 Tessellation. Tested in real games or other 3D Demos and coil whine is minimal and acceptable though...

4. [COMMON] Random internal screen (desktop usage) fast-flickerings (0.1sec, very fast almost unnoticeable, mostrly in the upper portion of the screen)... looks like AMD iGPU unstable frequency (?). This seems a well known AMD iGPU issue reported in many forums with previous AMD CPU models. Waiting for AMD Adrenalin driver/BIOS updates hoping for a fix... 🤞🏻

5. [COMMON] No S3 Standby state in the BIOS!! Forced S0 only (a sort of MS hybrid standby 2.0) with fans quietly active (???). You can check it with powercfg /a from admin Cmd prompt. Microsoft calls it "Modern Standby", which is good only for office workstations, maybe. We need S3 (classic Standby) instead.

6. [COMMON] Standby set as: after 10 min screen off and after 45 min standby; when I return to the laptop after 1-2 hours I find the keyboard leds on and system freezed including stuck white mouse pointer over a black screen (!?). I've found a workaround from admin prompt simply forcing hibernate after 30 min and setting screen off and standby both after 10 min. It didn't happen anymore.

   Power settings commands (admin):
   powercfg /x  hibernate-timeout-ac 0  (default 0, AC is for PSU mode)
   powercfg /x  hibernate-timeout-dc 60 (default 60 min = 3600 sec, DC is for battery mode)
   powercfg HIBERNATE ON (force-enable Hibernation if not present)
   and
   powercfg /q (to show current idle settings)
   Microsoft link on how to disable Modern Standby, if you want to: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/iot-core/learn-about-hardware/wakeontouch Remember to disable also Armoury Crate's Modern Standby Assistant completely (Off).
   
   Recommended: enable hibernate, something like 30mins AC and 20mins DC, you can keep Modern Standby set after 20 and 10mins. This will workaround unresponsive screen or keyboard after a long time if you rely solely on Modern Standby (probably drivers are still not good enough).
   
   
7. [COMMON] BSOD or other issues connecting an autopowered storage device to the rear USB-C ports. I tried 3 different external enclosures with different controller chipset (ViaLab USB\VID_2109&PID_0716, Realtek USB\VID_0BDA&PID_9210, ASMedia USB\VID_174C&PID_235C) with a 2TB disk inside. They all caused strange slowdowns just opening directories and random black screen or direct BSOD (ViaLab in particular). In other cases they just disconnect frequently (unstable). Same devices connected to the lateral USB-A ports or to another PC work perfectly. Probably BIOS issues still present with 315.
   NEWS: there's an (untested) hotfix for ASMedia USB ports on the official site in the download page!
   
   
8. [COMMON] RANDOM REBOOTS 🧨 MAJOR ISSUE, in particular while using the machine at desktop through APU/iGPU (especially watching simple YT videos), even after factory reset and no driver updates! Here was a video showing this severe issue: https://1drv.ms/v/s!ApMUGr0cuN39gsMCAwx9_wjnHscEXg?e=DJlN7i 
   👉🏻 NOTE: if you're using "NVidia GPU Only" mode (or Ultimate mode from Armoury Crate) you won't be using the APU at all, so this issue should not be reproducible... Some users reported random reboots also in Ultimate GPU mode (= not using iGPU/APU)!
   👉🏻 NOTE2: users reported that completely uninstalling Armoury Crate (good free replacements tools are Laptop ToolBox or G-Helper) + BIOS 327, solved all their random reboots. Please test and confirm!
   👉🏻 NOTE3: some users reported changing RAM modules fixed instability. Recommended: Kingston Fury KF556S40IBK2 running at 5200MT/s on this laptop.
   
   
   It's a powerful machine and many things are good but is also affected by a lot of bugs... hope they are just BIOS or driver issues and will be fixed one day 😞

✍🏻 IMPORTANT: to report issues with Armoury Crate to ASUS support, follow this post (create the log and fill out the form!): https://rog-forum.asus.com/t5/armoury-crate/armoury-crate-v5-7-6-0-amp-v5-7-9-0-aura-creator-v3-7-6-...

[hexaae]

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@Hyro  ha scritto:

Replied to your post about AMD Adrenalin 23.4.3.

So, this version freezes OS. After hard shutdown and reboot - system works fine until next reboot which will be freezed. Installed driver from ASUS website and this problem has gone. So, Adrenalin 23.4.3 - is unstable. At least, in my case

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Ok (this new forum is hard to follow). Please, remember to report AMD the bugs using its built-in bug-report form... Looks like APU Radeon 610M support is still in beta... 😣

[Hyro]

Hello!

Thank you for the leading this post. I have this model too. Coil whine noise is really noticeable and i heard it when there is no heavy load on CPU/GPU (just in Windows, surfing in the net, etc). But most annoying thing is not proper work with external display. It's connected to USB-C and sometimes, during the work in 2D, it just turns off (no signal) and in order to be recognised by the laptop - you must turn off the system and then turn on. Also, sometimes it happens when i launch some of the games (for example, MechWarrior Online). Tested Adrenalin 23.4.3 - didn't noticed any changes

[hexaae]

I had some issues of random blackouts on a Mi 34", but this monitor is known to have sync issues... Did you update the ASMedia usb C ports with latest fw? Latest BIOS?

[Hyro]

Yes, i'm running BIOS 315 and updated ASmedia USB-C software. The problem is definitely in the new laptop, because my monitor (ROG Swift PG279Q) worked flawlessly with previous ROG Strix SCAR III (G731GW). Tried to use different modes (MUX Switch in few options), cables and etc. But no effect

[ziomek]

Hi, found temporary solution to screen flicker issue: you have to disable Core Isolation / Memory Integrity and screen stops flickering.

Definitely problem with AMD iGPU Radeon driver cause Nvidia dGPU doesn't generate any problem.

[Hyro]

Hey man,

where i can found these settings?

[ziomek]

Open Windows Security.
Click on Device security.
Under the "Core isolation" section, click the "Core isolation details" option.

Turn off the Memory integrity toggle switch to disable the feature.

details: https://www.windowscentral.com/software-apps/windows-11/how-to-enable-core-isolations-memory-integri...

[Hyro]

Thank you! I'll try out this one

[Dinhhaitran]

It works 

[hexaae]

It would be a very good news. Please test this for some days and report back in case... Flickering is a really annoying yet minor issue. Also other AMD iGPUs seem affected: https://community.amd.com/t5/drivers-software/flickering-screen-in-desktop-mode-on-ryzen-9-7945hx-ap... 

If that workaround does really work is clearly a AMD video driver VS Microsoft issue... sigh...