AMD CCC/CIM won't run, forced underscan 13.12, reinstall no-go

Edgarhighmen

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Your site has been my #1 google result for most PC related questions, so I signed up to post here :) Much love for Tom's News and help.

Sys specs if needed: Windows 7 Ultimate 64 bit, Phenom II X4 965BE 3.6ghz, 16gb ddr3 1600, XFX R9 280X gpu; - Windows update claims everythings updated. All Visual and C++ stuff updated, .net framework, a mess?

I have an R9 280x I bought early December which ran fine on AMD driver 13.11 but the CCC menu wouldn't load, no biggie. I went to play BF4 and it said I needed to upgrade to 13.12, So I uninstalled CIM, then ran driver sweeper, then ran CCleaner registry a few times. Reboot, installed 13.12 CCC said it couldn't find INF file and forced my desktop to use NON-aero theme, so I followed the process again (as above) and now I'm in a forced underscan (1080p but w/ big black border around the picture on my screen)

Now says "could not load CLI.implementation" which I googled up multiple results as a net.framework error which requires complete .net reinstall... so OFC I was like w/e might as well. I ran a dotnetfx cleanup tool from windows which removed all windows 7 net framework, cclean'ed reg, reinstalled 1.0/1.1 and 4.5/4.5.1? Did not solve the problem... reboot. Tried manually changing reg values "BestViewOption_hdmi" to all 00's - no go; reboot. I no longer have my .net framework 2,3 etc. w/ their updates... I'm just stressed now and all solutions I try cause more problems lol. AMD y u screw me =/

Thanks for all good and bad replies, because help and humor are both cheerful. Just don't tell me to delete system 32. Thx guys.
 
Solution
Un-install the AMD driver, then re-install it again.
Try this tool to completely remove all of your AMD driver. Sometimes the AMD un-installer it will not remove everything. This tool (Display Driver Uninstaller) does remove it all. Before using this tool, first download the driver you want to install later and place it on your desktop.

Link for the tool:
http://www.guru3d.com/index.php?ct=files&action=download&

And the tutorial:
http://forums.guru3d.com/showthread.php?t=379505

RandomTox

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Un-install the AMD driver, then re-install it again.
Try this tool to completely remove all of your AMD driver. Sometimes the AMD un-installer it will not remove everything. This tool (Display Driver Uninstaller) does remove it all. Before using this tool, first download the driver you want to install later and place it on your desktop.

Link for the tool:
http://www.guru3d.com/index.php?ct=files&action=download&

And the tutorial:
http://forums.guru3d.com/showthread.php?t=379505
 
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Edgarhighmen

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thanks man, so far its worked. DDU showed I still had some 5700x2 (5770CF) driver information on there that Driver Sweeper kept missing.

Now its just the r9 200 (r9 280x) that shows up in DDU. Yay. I'll keep you updated if anything flakes out, but access to CCC let me set underscan to 0%. Phew.

I also now have net framework 1.1, 2.0, 3.0, 3.5, 4.0, 4.5, 4.5.1 and all service packs (for 1,2,3,3.5) hopefully installed correctly (all verified successful with app?)