Latest AMD Radeon Graphics Drivers Reportedly Causing PC Boot Issues & Corrupting Windows

Latest AMD Radeon Graphics Drivers Are Making PCs Unable To Boot 1

AMD Adrenalin 23.2.1 drivers were released yesterday, offering updates for both the Radeon RX 7000 & Radeon RX 6000 GPU families. Now, the most current update appears to be crashing PCs, sending users error messages that exclaim that the system has an "inaccessible boot drive" error, reports several users from the ComputerBase forums.

AMD's 23.1.2 Radeon driver introduced support for the newly released game Forspoken and created additional support for aspects of the Vulkan API and extensions. But, when the newest version was released, the company continued to lack support for Radeon RX 6000 series graphics cards and older with more recent driver updates.

Be careful when you install the latest Adrenalin 23.2.1. Backup your data!#AMD #Driver https://t.co/dOVZSth7OQ

— CapFrameX (@CapFrameX) February 15, 2023

With the new AMD Adrenalin 23.2.1 graphics drivers, it appears they have introduced updates to older GPUs including the Radeon RX 6000 series, the newly released Dead Space remake, and further optimizations. On the current website, they have not added any information about the current issue, so it will be a matter of time before we hear from AMD.

In any situation such as this, it is always best to create a backup of your data before installing updates that could potentially crash your system, making it inaccessible. Users are contacting AMD Radeon's Twitter account to thank the company for destroying their systems. However, all is not lost, as CapFrameX has updated users on what happened to consumers' PCs. Following is a thread of some of the people who have reported issues with the latest drivers at Computerbase Forums:

The new AMD Adrenalin 23.2.1 driver reportedly alters the BIOS settings and changes the boot options to make the system crash. As a cautionary measure, users should not be so quick to reinstall the operating system on their computer but to check the boot settings and change the option back to the previous settings. We would also advise users to use DDU or Display Driver Uninstaller and do a clean install of the new graphics drivers.

News Sources: resetera, CapFrameX on Twitter, ComputerBase Forums