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AMD Graphics Card Drivers Break Computer

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  • Graphics Cards
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February 27, 2014 2:19:30 PM

My AMD R7 2xx sieres graphics card is encountering problems with its drivers. The card works awsome but my problem is that the drivers cause windows to go to the starting windows screen and then goes to black, when I disable the drivers in safe mode it works fine but I need the drivers to play games and i have to reboot to reactive the drivers which starts the problem over again. I have tried using the AMD auto-detector but im not sure if its working right. I could really use some help :D .

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February 27, 2014 2:23:42 PM

Boot in Safe mode. Remove ALL video drivers, including any older ones. A program like CCleaner (free) may be used to remove any last vestiges of them. Reboot using standard VGA drivers. Download the latest Catalyst from AMD.COM and re-install.
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February 27, 2014 2:56:24 PM

I tried this and it was still broken any other advice because im considering trying another brand :/ .
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February 27, 2014 3:36:10 PM

In safe mode go to control panel, select and click device manager, look for the display, under display uninstall the gpu(display driver), reboot the PC. BTW what is the manufacturer of your GPU?(MSI, ASUS, XFX, Gigabyte etc)? If you have a laptop or another desktop PC, download and save the latest driver from the manufacturer's website using a USB drive and install it to your PC. I hope it will solve your problem.
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February 27, 2014 3:37:58 PM

Its a AMD Radon R7 2xx siries
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February 27, 2014 4:42:53 PM

Open your PC case clear the CMOS, it could be a jumper or button. Turn on your PC, Clean install windows, update the gpu driver to the latest.
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February 27, 2014 5:59:49 PM

That didnt help either I think it might be the driver :(  beucase the graphics card works fine
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February 27, 2014 6:15:31 PM

What model R7?
List the rest of your specs, including you power supply brand and model.
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February 27, 2014 7:00:51 PM

Power Supply: Corsair CX Series 500 Watt ATX/EPS Modular
Motherboard: MSI Computer Corp. Motherboard ATX DDR3 1333 LGA 1150 Motherboards Z87-G45 GAMING
Harddrive: Seagate Desktop 2 TB Solid State Hybrid Drive SATA 6 GB with NCQ 64 MB Cache 3.5 Inch
RAM: Crucial 16GB Kit (8GBx2) DDR3 1333 MT/s (PC3-10600)
Processor: Intel Core i5-4670 3.4GHz 6MB Cache Quad-Core Desktop Processor
Graphics Card: XFX RADEON R7 260X 1075MHz 2GB DDR5 DP HDMI 2 X DVI Graphics Card

It has just occured to me that it is a DDR5 will that mess up because I have a ddr3 motherboard :/ 
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February 27, 2014 7:02:56 PM

I have been giving some wrong information and I am very sorry I just relized.
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February 28, 2014 4:14:08 AM

The type of RAM on the graphics card is unrelated to what is on the motherboard. Any gaming graphics card should ALWAYS be made with GDDR5; DDR3 versions will be poorly-performing abominations.
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February 28, 2014 6:30:57 AM

12775933,0,1589156 said:
Power Supply: Corsair CX Series 500 Watt ATX/EPS Modular
Motherboard: MSI Computer Corp. Motherboard ATX DDR3 1333 LGA 1150 Motherboards Z87-G45 GAMING
Harddrive: Seagate Desktop 2 TB Solid State Hybrid Drive SATA 6 GB with NCQ 64 MB Cache 3.5 Inch
RAM: Crucial 16GB Kit (8GBx2) DDR3 1333 MT/s (PC3-10600)
Processor: Intel Core i5-4670 3.4GHz 6MB Cache Quad-Core Desktop Processor
Graphics Card: XFX RADEON R7 260X 1075MHz 2GB DDR5 DP HDMI 2 X DVI Graphics Card

It has just occured to me that it is a DDR5 will that mess up because I have a ddr3 motherboard :


Please read this forum about the issues of this GPU, you are not alone: http://www.tomshardware.com/answers/id-1855004/xfx-amd-....

You can still RMA that GPU and exchange it with different brand or model.

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