AMD 14.4 drivers from AMD website causing windows boot failure.

Vinroyo

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I just recently built a new computer. Specs are as follow
windows 7 64 bit
amd fx 8320 3.5ghz
8 gigs of ram
2gb power color r7 260x

I started by installing the latest drivers for my video card from the AMD website. These drivers worked fine and I had no problem. Recently the 14.4 drivers came out (I think on Friday.) I went to install the drivers and everything goes great I clean all the old drivers out with driver sweeper and install the new drivers. I then go to restart my system after the install prompts me to and my computer boots up as normal until it hits the 4 color windows logo startup screen. This is when it hangs up and will not boot any further. The windows logo is still moving so my computer is not locked up however I have left it on this screen for hours and it just stays the same with the windows logo colors moving and never continues to the login screen. I checked my bios it is up to date. I know its not a hardware issue because when I roll my drivers back to the old ones everything works just fine again. Any suggestions on what my problem could be here?
 
Ya, the 260x and AMD drivers suck. I just wasted 6 hours of my life on a new build for a buddy with a 260x and it works fine with the default windows drivers (tried win 7 and win 8.1) and it starts to boot, then black screen, but only when I restart. If I shutdown, then reboot, it turns on fine. If I restart from within Windows, it black screens and won't boot, or rather seems to boot but get no video or sound through the hdmi. I'm taking it back and getting a 750ti today. Can't be bothered messing with stuff. A brand new card should work with the drivers, period.
 

LoXodonte

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EXACT same problem. Originally I thought the system was just in need of a format so, on a fresh freaking build I drop on the crappy 14.4 and reboot only to find I can't get back in. Safe mode doesn't work, last known config doesn't work. Manually deleting ATI related sys files doesn't seem to work. THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR WASTING MY WEEKEND AMD. Oh, and unchecking AHCI doesn't really help someone who's already installed these horrible drivers.
 

CrispyChips

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THANK YOU! I've had this exact problem since 14.3 and nothing i tried worked,but unchecking the AHCI installation option did the trick
 

Protostat

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This worked for me, thank you. Can anyone tell me what unchecking the AHCI drivers did? Will I need to update or change anything later, or reinstall CCC when AMD gets the problem fixed with this version?
 

Saphire282

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Hi! I had the exact same problem with this version of driver. And maybe my computer specs are different from other peoples because I wasn't able to use the AHCI fix. Due to the fact that I carefully looked over the custom installation list three times over and didn't find anything in the list that said AHCI on it.

However, luckily, before I gave this installation a go I decided to look up what exactly AHCI is. And on wikipedia it gave me "The Advanced Host Controller Interface (AHCI) is a technical standard defined by Intel that specifies the operation of Serial ATA (SATA) host bus adapters in a non-implementation-specific manner. The specification describes a system memory structure for computer hardware vendors to exchange data between host system memory and attached storage devices. AHCI gives software developers and hardware designers a standard method for detecting, configuring, and programming SATA/AHCI adapters. AHCI is separate from the SATA 3 Gbit/s standard, although it exposes SATA's advanced capabilities (such as hot swapping and native command queuing) such that host systems can utilize them"

Now I've read it four times and I can't make heads or tails out of what on earth it's actually telling me, but going back to the custom list on this update I did notice the "SATA device controller" which I assume is closely related to this AHCI driver that people are unchecking. So I just unchecked the SATA thing figuring it can't mess up my computer anymore than the normal installation. Well I restarted after that, got to the glowy windows screen, waited for a few seconds, and was about to give up and restart it again to bring up launch repair manager, when suddenly "dingDing-DingDing" oh beautiful login screen. So my biggest suggestion is if you try the same thing I do, please give the screen you freeze at an extra minute before you give up hope.
 

asukaj

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Hey guys,
I have ati 5750 with asrock mbo and i recently bought a ssd drive (kingston hyperx 3k) and cannot install ati catalyst 14.4 without getting stuck on blue win7 screen...so i have connected ssd on sata,old hd (storage ) on sata and a optical disk on sata,i tried ahci and ide options in bios but both get the same.i can get to safe mode and delete drivers and than can get to windows but withoud gpu deivers?
What to do guys need help please.
Thanks in advance
 

bardhi13

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Hi, new to forums. I've been having this problem since 17th of June.

I cant find the option to uncheck the AMD SATA ACHI DRIVERS or the ACHI drivers. Where are they? And yes im on 14.4. Thank you.
 

Pcbuilder123

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Click on the advanced options tab, and click next. It will detect your hardware and like halfway down the list it will say AMD SATA ACHI DRIVERS. Uncheck that.
 

bardhi13

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err, i dont see the advanced options tab? Heres what i did, i downloaded the driver 14.4 from AMD website, double clicked, it opened the AMD catalyst install manager, i clicked custom instead of express, i scroll down and i cant seem to find the ACHI, SATA ACHI or any advanced tab?

Could it be that im using the Windows7 x64 installer and it does not feature that as an option?

Here is the list it provided me.

AMD Catalyst Manager - 20mb
AMD Display Driver - 90 mb
HDMI audio driver - 1mb
Microsoft Visual C++2012 red - 9mb
AMD Accelerated Video Transcoding - 3mb
AMD drag and drop transcoding - 1mb
AMD catalyst control center - 150mb
AMD Gaming evovled app - 49mb
 

bardhi13

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Ya i did what you asked. The Onboard Sata mode was already enable to AHCI and the Onboard Sata controller was enabled as well.

I dont know. Can you give me more precise instructions because im a bit of a knob with these things :p

Thanks. Much appreciated.
 

bardhi13

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I dont have an ssd. My motherboard is a Gateway DX4840 x64-based pc, and i dont need to save anything since the onboard sata controller is already enabled and the onboard sata model is already set to AHCI.