AMD OverDrive is not meant for the Ryzen series of CPUs, and for whatever reason AMD did not have the foresight to either prevent its installation or safely fail on systems running Ryzen. If you happen to have made the mistake of installing AMD’s OverDrive software while using Windows 10 and a Ryzen CPU, you’ll want to quickly undo that mistake before you reboot, else you’ll be stuck on the Blue Screen of Death with a report that something went wrong with AODDriver2.sys.

I happened to have made this mistake, and to make matters worse Windows wanted to update every time it attempted to boot, only to crash moments later. Normally when a driver isn’t playing nice the solution is to boot into safe mode in order to remove the offending driver, but I wasn’t so lucky. I had a custom bootloader installed which wasn’t allowing Windows to boot into safemode.

So, how does one go about solving this problem? Linux! The solution was actually quite simple: live boot USB, mount the filesystem, do a search for AODDriver2.sys, and then rename the folder which contained the bad driver. In my case, the path was C:\Program Files (x86)\AMD\OverDrive\. Afterward, Windows 10 booted up just fine and all was well.

If you wanted to overclock using software, Ryzen Master is what should be used rather than AMD OverDrive.