Black screen after trying to install MSI R9 270X graphic driver

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gotl

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So after getting a defective card, I asked for a replacement from Newegg, and this is what I get.
My computer stat:
Processor: 3.4 GHz Core i7-3770
RAM: 8 GB DDR3 (originally 12gb)
GPU i'm trying to install: MSI R9 270X Gaming Twin Frozr 2GB OC Edition
Mobo: Pegatron IPMMB-FM (Formosa)
PSU: Internal 600 Watt (100V-240V)
Win 8 64-bit

I installed the card, got it working under the UEFI compatible button. I installed the driver using the prepared disc and nothing was wrong. Until I ran Crysis 3 then suddenly the screen goes all black and every time I tried to boot, it resulted in a total pink screen or a black-and-white vertical stripe screen after the window logo. I safe-booted, uninstall and wipe the driver clean and tried to install these driver:
13.11 beta 9.5
13.11 beta 9.2
13.101 (the one MSI site provided)
tried to use the disc's driver again...

After download/extract, every time it reached installing AMD display driver, the screen flickered, went all black and just be like that for a long, long time. I rebooted several times and nothing works. My graphic BIOS is the newest one.

Any solutions?
 
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Is it possible to forcibly switch off the integrated graphics solution in your MB BIOS?
I don't have much experience in Windows PC's in last few years, but usually AMD driver by default is configured to try to switch to the integrated graphics solution when not under load /for energy preservation reasons maybe/. As much as I know you can't explicitly change that by the driver, you may only force it to always work in high performance mode - and that's only after you access the Control Center.
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Is it possible to forcibly switch off the integrated graphics solution in your MB BIOS?
I don't have much experience in Windows PC's in last few years, but usually AMD driver by default is configured to try to switch to the integrated graphics solution when not under load /for energy preservation reasons maybe/. As much as I know you can't explicitly change that by the driver, you may only force it to always work in high performance mode - and that's only after you access the Control Center.
 
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gotl

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Sorry, I chose your answer to be the best by mistake, since the email I have I clicked "choose to be the best answer" instead of "reply to the topic".
urgh, there are no way to undo that.
Anyway, I uninstalled the driver for the iGPU before, and I never touch it since. I have no experience with AMD driver, but I might check if after I install the AMD graphic driver, is the computer using iGPU or not.
If I'm not wrong, the computer always automatically switched to PCI gpu and not iGPU, not sure if that's the case with my comp though.
 
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I know something about that case only by laptops, not sure if it's exactly the same for desktop graphics solutions but at least in laptop configs essentially - no - the opposite is the case - AMD driver by default is trying to switch to the integrated graphics solution unless under load, so if you uninstalled the driver for the Intel IGP that may essentially be what is causing your problem - the system is trying to go to low energy consumption mode by switching to integrated graphics, but there's no driver for it. To make the computer to work with the discrete GPU you should switch off the integrated one by the BIOS /making it completely invisible - like non existing - for Windows/, or set by the AMD Control Center every program to work in High Performance Mode /probably even then you may need a driver for the integrated graphics installed - just in case/. This quite odd behavior of the AMD drivers made quite famous problem for their graphics solution for laptops forcing many firms /Dell-Alienware with which I have some experience among them/ to switch completely to nVidia.
I really am not sure how it works with PC desktops, but hope eventually what I say may help you.
 
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Catalyst drivers are garbage at the moment. They've release two this month both with bugs and shutting things down. I would just recommend using the Beta driver 9.2 if you can locate it. It seems to be the less troublesome one for 270x.
You must manually uninstall all current display drivers first, remove AMD folder in program files,
then install the replacement driver
 
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