Quite a complicated set of issues,
let's start with the specs,
i7-5850hq (igpu disabled)
RX 580 8gb
28gb 1866mhz ddr3
It's a weird setup, and while I know the sketchy idea of having a laptop chip frankenstein by some unknown internet merchant is frowned upon, it works, for me, great, until it doesn't. The low power and 128mb of L4 cache makes it all worth it.
I used to flash my cards myself with a hex editor, so, regedit, DDU, etc. all these things I've tried. However this card was never flashed and rarely used for any intensive workloads.
When I first installed faceswap, whenever I would attempt to extract it would hard crash and reboot my computer. OK, I've seen this before a while back while playing a game, specifically when loading assets, going from lobby to in-game or vice versa (each and every time), and still don't know for certain why it happened. but eventually it worked itself out after rolling back every driver and smashing my head on my keyboard.
So, I figured I can get this thing to run, and after loading up DDU "Eureka!" I had intelHD drivers still there, must have been that, so I uninstalled it along with my current Radeon driver and re-installed 19.2.2, (known to be stable) and I was able to load up faceswap no issues, ran my extractions, ran the training all night, and ran a conversion, everything worked fine. As well, I extracted using cpu only when my PC was in this failing state and it worked fine, so whatever it was, it's got to be on the GPU side of things.
Worse still, when I gave up for the day and figured I'd play a round or two to clear my head and test for driver/hardware issues, the crashes returned. So, I ran DDU, reinstalled my latest drivers, ran CCleaner, and all of a sudden my game was playable again but the faceswap still wasn't. Even when setting the trainer to lightweight, batchsize 4, 10k iterations, power limit 50% to soften the possibility of some power spike issue, it still crashes my computer and cycles a reboot.
And, this only occurs when the GPU enters any sort of "significant" load, never happens when browsing or watching videos.
Power spike on a dying power supply? I've RMA'ed it, 1200W 80+Gold, less than a year old never used for mining, checked all my connections. And I've tested and validated the CPU with various benchmarks and stress tests, its super sketchy nature has never been an issue. I would say this whole crashing stuff only really started around the new year, give or take a month or two. I think it's windows 20-04? or the last major update before it possibly?
Where do I go from here?