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New Catalyst 14.6 Driver Black Screen After Re-boot

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May 27, 2014 1:54:44 PM

So i installed the newest AMD Catalyst Driver (14.6 beta V1) and the installation goes smooth, however after i click the "finish" button and it tells me to restart my PC to finalize the installation - everything goes fine, the "loading windows icon" shows up and i can even enter the BIOS - however, after the loading windows the screen just goes black (blank) and doesn't change. So i have to hard reset my PC and go into safe mode and install a previous driver. I've never had this issue before.
My rig - R9 290, 3570K, ASRock Extreme4

Is there any solution? Or is it early days, the driver only came out today and is in beta - so should i just wait a couple of days for newer versions?

Cheers.

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May 27, 2014 2:01:46 PM

Might try going into the Advanced tab in the Installer and unchecking AHCI driver,that sounds like the problem they had in 14.3 and 14.4 Betas which was fixed in the 14.4WHQL after an update.

...btw,what happened to 14.5? lol
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May 27, 2014 2:04:35 PM

CrispyChips said:
Might try going into the Advanced tab in the Installer and unchecking AHCI driver,that sounds like the problem they had in 14.3 and 14.4 Betas which was fixed in the 14.4WHQL after an update.

...btw,what happened to 14.5? lol


Dunno, AMD usually skips some numbers in between, but what is a AHCL driver?
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May 28, 2014 4:33:48 AM

Bump, any more solutions?
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May 28, 2014 6:26:42 AM

Same problem here hope to find solution
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May 28, 2014 6:56:03 AM

Well now my monitor goes past the black screen and onto the log in screen and it simply just freezez? Before this I went in to the CCC and changed some settings in the Video settings and now it goes past the black screen and freezes instead
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May 28, 2014 6:57:38 AM

As the 14.6 driver is still in beta, do you think the AMD will solve this in the WHQL or full release of the driver?
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May 31, 2014 4:17:23 PM

hi,

theres is a workaround for the balck screeen problem. the AHCI driver is causing the black screen (boot problem). after installation there are 2 amd sata drivers in you windows driver directory. path for win 7: "windows/system32/drivers",

1. step: -reboot you machine, go into the BIOS and disable AHCI for your storage devices and choose IDE instead.
2. step: -now windows shoud boot, after login you go to the driver directory mentioned above.
3. step: -delete the file "amdsata.sys" and "amdxata.sys" those are the old AHCI drivers.
4. step: -check the "drivers" directory for "amd_sata.sys" and "amd_xata.sys those are the new AHCI drivers.
5. step: -reboot your machine, go to BIOS and change IDE to AHCI. save changes, exit setup and windows should boot just fine.

i dont know why the old drivers where left in the directory after installation, but they are causing the driver conflict that creates the boot problem.

atm1986
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June 4, 2014 1:44:27 AM

atm1986 said:
hi,

theres is a workaround for the balck screeen problem. the AHCI driver is causing the black screen (boot problem). after installation there are 2 amd sata drivers in you windows driver directory. path for win 7: "windows/system32/drivers",

1. step: -reboot you machine, go into the BIOS and disable AHCI for your storage devices and choose IDE instead.
2. step: -now windows shoud boot, after login you go to the driver directory mentioned above.
3. step: -delete the file "amdsata.sys" and "amdxata.sys" those are the old AHCI drivers.
4. step: -check the "drivers" directory for "amd_sata.sys" and "amd_xata.sys those are the new AHCI drivers.
5. step: -reboot your machine, go to BIOS and change IDE to AHCI. save changes, exit setup and windows should boot just fine.

i dont know why the old drivers where left in the directory after installation, but they are causing the driver conflict that creates the boot problem.

atm1986


hi atm, can you explain on point 4 again. i still little bit confuse. after deleting amdsata.sys and amdxata.sys then check the new of 2 driver ? is this mean that file automatic appears again or i should instal ?
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June 8, 2014 5:58:18 PM

A9M4D said:
CrispyChips said:
Might try going into the Advanced tab in the Installer and unchecking AHCI driver,that sounds like the problem they had in 14.3 and 14.4 Betas which was fixed in the 14.4WHQL after an update.

...btw,what happened to 14.5? lol


Dunno, AMD usually skips some numbers in between, but what is a AHCL driver?


This is bad. same problem but I can't even get into safe mode. I saw the achi tab too and left it selected, didn't realize this would happen. Can't get into windows- what now? From the System Recovery Options I can access the cmd prompt and in the drivers folder only the amdsata/xata.sys is there not the underscored ones. Still can't boot
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