Requesting your help to test the AMD Public Graphics Driver on Framework Laptop 13

Lol. A request for feedback from Framework, where 4 out of the 7 reports are “this is causing my device to reboot” and the response is roughly “it doesn’t matter, we’re pushing ahead anyway”. I don’t understand this company at all sometimes. Why even bother asking for feedback then?

Oh well. Guess I should make sure to have a local copy of the 2.06 bundle if Framework is going to move forward with the version that is broken here. And I can say with certainty based on literally two years of poor software (including BIOS/firmware) support that my next laptop is not going to be a Framework.

Whenever I installed Windows on my Framework, I immediately installed the AMD public drivers after running the framework bundle exe. I don’t have any issues.

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I’ve always had Windows on my Laptop 13 (AMD 7840U).
I quickly decided to always use the AMD public drivers.
I’ve had no problems, but I don’t make much deliberate use of sleep.
But I think my laptop does sometimes go into the sleep mode if I leave it on and don’t use it for a while, and it always comes out of it cleanly.

It is worth saying that those public drivers are available, on the linked page, for: Windows 10; Windows 11; Ubuntu.

It is worth asking (and so would have been worth saying): what are these ‘public’ drivers anyway? Also, just what is the ‘Ryzen 7040’ series? I have a 7640U processor. But, ah, good old ‘fastfetch’, on Linux, reports: Host: Laptop 13 (AMD Ryzen 7040Series) (complete with missing space).

I also experience hard reboots of my Laptop 13 7040 when it resumes from sleep and i attend a Microsoft Teams meeting right after. No bluescreen, no minidump, nothing to analyse.

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Adding my 7840u to the chorus of people experiencing hard reboots when resuming from sleep. Based on this thread, I updated the drivers a few days ago, and it seems to be happening with overnight sleep. I can let it sleep for a few hours during the day fine, but when I close the lid at night and resume the next day, it reboots.

Win11, 32GB 5600Mhz. I used the AMD install manager to update the graphics drivers. I didn’t intend to also upgrade the chipset drivers, but the manager did it for me after a day.

What’s the prescribed way to rollback? Should I rerun the latest Framework driver bundle?

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I just uninstalled everything AMD from control panel, and then re-ran the 2.06 driver bundle.

For what it’s worth 25.10.2 released on 10/29 seems promising in very limited testing so far, been running it for roughly 3 hours and put the FW13 to sleep probably 4 or 5 times with no issues yet. Fingers crossed.

Edit: Now been like 9 days, no more issues coming out of sleep with 25.10.2. Seems fixed for me.

Same here. But I’m not doing anything at all complicated or unusual with it.