Trouble Updating GPU Drivers
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lucasssan
July 1, 2014 7:21:40 AM
Hello,
I'm really beating my head against the wall on this one.
I have an AMD Radeon 7870 and I recently tried to update the drivers for Windows 7 64-bit. I did a real clean uninstall of my previous drivers, but no matter what I try the driver install fails and I get this message: Driver Install: user must be a member of the Administrators group.
Now I'm stuck with no drivers at all for my gpu. And I've tried installing so many times that my restore points are all from within the last few hours, after the unsuccessful driver update.
Please, any help. Please.
I'm really beating my head against the wall on this one.
I have an AMD Radeon 7870 and I recently tried to update the drivers for Windows 7 64-bit. I did a real clean uninstall of my previous drivers, but no matter what I try the driver install fails and I get this message: Driver Install: user must be a member of the Administrators group.
Now I'm stuck with no drivers at all for my gpu. And I've tried installing so many times that my restore points are all from within the last few hours, after the unsuccessful driver update.
Please, any help. Please.
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lucasssan said:
Hello,I'm really beating my head against the wall on this one.
I have an AMD Radeon 7870 and I recently tried to update the drivers for Windows 7 64-bit. I did a real clean uninstall of my previous drivers, but no matter what I try the driver install fails and I get this message: Driver Install: user must be a member of the Administrators group.
Now I'm stuck with no drivers at all for my gpu. And I've tried installing so many times that my restore points are all from within the last few hours, after the unsuccessful driver update.
Please, any help. Please.
You are not an Administrator. http://www.eightforums.com/tutorials/9650-built-adminis...
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lucasssan
July 1, 2014 7:28:06 AM
lucasssan
July 1, 2014 7:28:47 AM
lucasssan
July 1, 2014 7:28:47 AM
lucasssan
July 1, 2014 7:30:02 AM
lucasssan
July 1, 2014 7:30:32 AM
lucasssan
July 1, 2014 7:39:50 AM
lucasssan said:
Andrew Buck said:
lucasssan said:
Andrew Buck said:
Hmm... That is odd. Try making another Admin account and try it there.Ok I'll give that a shot right now.
Alright, good luck
No luck. I really am stumped here.
Try doing this here: http://www2.ati.com/drivers/14-4-win7-win8-win8.1-64-dd...
And if that doesn't work, this: http://www2.ati.com/drivers/beta/amd-catalyst-14.6-rc2-...
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lucasssan
July 1, 2014 8:04:48 AM
JackNaylorPE said:
What does "not work" mean ? If the account you are logged in as is not an administrator account, it should ask for a admin name and password. If that is not happening, then your problems are bigger than not being able to load drivers.I'm logged into an administrator account. When I "Run as Administrator", the AMD Catalyst Control Center goes through the install, but once it's finished I view the report and I see the AMD Display Driver and the HDMI Audio Driver both failed, and the reason given for those is "Driver Install: user must be a member of the Administrators group. "
What it comes down to is that I'm on an administrator account, I run the install as an administrator, but the install fails and tells me I'm not an administrator. Can't figure this out.
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lucasssan
July 1, 2014 8:06:38 AM
Andrew Buck said:
lucasssan said:
Andrew Buck said:
lucasssan said:
Andrew Buck said:
Hmm... That is odd. Try making another Admin account and try it there.Ok I'll give that a shot right now.
Alright, good luck
No luck. I really am stumped here.
Try doing this here: http://www2.ati.com/drivers/14-4-win7-win8-win8.1-64-dd...
And if that doesn't work, this: http://www2.ati.com/drivers/beta/amd-catalyst-14.6-rc2-...
Yeah that first one is what I've been using this whole time. I tried the second link and am having the same issue. I just tried doing this in safe mode and that's giving me a new error, "failed to load detection driver"
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lucasssan said:
Andrew Buck said:
lucasssan said:
Andrew Buck said:
lucasssan said:
Andrew Buck said:
Hmm... That is odd. Try making another Admin account and try it there.Ok I'll give that a shot right now.
Alright, good luck
No luck. I really am stumped here.
Try doing this here: http://www2.ati.com/drivers/14-4-win7-win8-win8.1-64-dd...
And if that doesn't work, this: http://www2.ati.com/drivers/beta/amd-catalyst-14.6-rc2-...
Yeah that first one is what I've been using this whole time. I tried the second link and am having the same issue. I just tried doing this in safe mode and that's giving me a new error, "failed to load detection driver"
Weird. Try uninstalling any drivers for it and any software.
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lucasssan said:
Yeah that first one is what I've been using this whole time. I tried the second link and am having the same issue. I just tried doing this in safe mode and that's giving me a new error, "failed to load detection driver"
Understandable.... in safe mode, the old driver was not loaded and i suspect the detection routine doesn't see it loaded.
Seems like a Windows rather than a driver issue ..... I assume all AV, firewall software was off when you started experiencing problems ?
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lucasssan
July 1, 2014 9:09:18 AM
JackNaylorPE said:
lucasssan said:
Yeah that first one is what I've been using this whole time. I tried the second link and am having the same issue. I just tried doing this in safe mode and that's giving me a new error, "failed to load detection driver"
Understandable.... in safe mode, the old driver was not loaded and i suspect the detection routine doesn't see it loaded.
Seems like a Windows rather than a driver issue ..... I assume all AV, firewall software was off when you started experiencing problems ?
No, they weren't off when I started. But I've turned them off since and tried the whole process of uninstalling and installing, running as administrator, running as a different user with administrator settings, etc etc. Even when I try updating through Windows Device Manager it says that Windows "found driver software for the device" but couldn't install because "Access is Denied"
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lucasssan
July 1, 2014 9:31:34 AM
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lucasssan
July 1, 2014 6:42:45 PM
lucasssan said:
JackNaylorPE said:
Once solved:
LOL. "Here's what to do after you fix the problem you came here asking about."
Anyway, got fed up and reinstalled Windows. Drivers installed no problem. Guess we'll never know what was going on.
Lol nice one. Not sure what it could have been. Never seen that issue before.
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lucasssan said:
LOL. "Here's what to do after you fix the problem you came here asking about."
Anyway, got fed up and reinstalled Windows. Drivers installed no problem. Guess we'll never know what was going on.
Exactly. My thought was that you weren't experiencing a driver issue. You had a Windows issue that I was thinking could be more appropriately addressed in a thread entitled perhaps "Windows Not Recognizing User as Administrator".
Possible causes I can think of would be virus, permissions, damaged system files and others but wanted to do some research before advising further. Was going to suggest enabling the built in administrator account but couldn't do right away cause hadda get back to work. In the meantime, wanted to give you ....and those lurking ..... the correct procedure for troublesome driver installs.
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