AMD drivers are bricking Windows 11 systems

AMD drivers are bricking Windows 11 systems.

AMD drivers have a complicated reputation, but they usually don't brick your entire operating system. Unfortunately for some users, AMD's latest Adrenalin 23.2.1 driver for Radeon RX 6000- and RX 7000-series GPUs appears to be doing just that.

In response to a Twitter announcement from AMD about the newly released driver update, a few users jumped into the replies to complain that the updates kept them from booting into Windows.

While it's not unusual for a driver update to cause system issues, it is rare for a driver to actually corrupt an operating system. We haven't confirmed the driver issue ourselves yet, but the official Twitter account for frame capture tool CapFrameX tweeted out a possible cause for the issue, indicating that the driver might be making changes to the system BIOS.

CapFrameX also points to a forum post on German tech site ComputerBase about the issue, which other users on the site appear to confirm as well. TechRadar has reached out to AMD about the reports and will update this post if and when we hear back from the company.