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AMD released Adrenalin Edition 26.11.1 to fix a driver flaw in its AMD External Events Client Module and Utility that caused excessive background writes to solid-state drives on Radeon RX 7000 series GPUs and newer. Reports from Neowin and Tom's Hardware found the affected processes, atieclxx.exe and atiesrxx.exe, writing as much as 432GB to disk in 24 hours even while systems were idle.
Asrock has released ASRVBFlash version 1.0.6 for its RX 7900 XTX cards, dated November 6, replacing the 1.0.5 update that reportedly bricked some RX 7900 XT and XTX graphics cards after installation. The company has not published a changelog or confirmed whether the new version actually fixes the issues that caused affected systems to fail POST with the card installed.
AMD has officially acknowledged a long-standing bug in its Radeon GPU drivers on Windows that triggers the External Events Utility's atieclxx.exe process to continuously write log data to the system drive, even when idle. Users have reported write speeds of 0.3 to 5 MB/s, potentially generating hundreds of gigabytes daily, and some claim measurable SSD wear over time. AMD says a permanent fix is being validated and will ship in its next driver update later this month.