With the help of this website, I built my first desktop roughly two weeks ago. Everything seemed to work together fine and I had decided to wait for a bit to purchase my GPU. So this last two weeks, I was running on Integrated Graphics 4600 and I had no complaints.
Today, my 290X arrived, and I put it into my system, plugged in the 8 pin and 6 pin connector and tried booting the system with the HDMI cable attached to the new graphics card. The Monitor read "No signal" so I realised that it was probably because I hadn't installed the drivers yet.
So I placed the HDMI cable back into the Motherboard slot and have been trying to install the drivers from a) the provided CD, b) the Radeon website and c) the Sapphire website (it is a sapphire built-290x). However, in all three circumstances I keep receiving the message "Application Install: install package failure!"
I've tried uninstalling the Intel display drivers and AMD drivers and trying again, but still to no avail, sometimes showing the message Failed to load detection driver.
I've been at it for a couple of hours and I've pretty much given up and I seem to have exhausted most of the advice on internet forums. Is there anything wrong that I'm doing? Anything that is really simple that I've overlooked?
Thanks in advance.
P.S. I'm running Windows 8.1
I have even gone through this thread: http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/answers/id-1875663/amd-catalyst-drivers-installing-application-install-install-package-failure.html which seemed to have step-by-step instructions, but still to no avail.
Today, my 290X arrived, and I put it into my system, plugged in the 8 pin and 6 pin connector and tried booting the system with the HDMI cable attached to the new graphics card. The Monitor read "No signal" so I realised that it was probably because I hadn't installed the drivers yet.
So I placed the HDMI cable back into the Motherboard slot and have been trying to install the drivers from a) the provided CD, b) the Radeon website and c) the Sapphire website (it is a sapphire built-290x). However, in all three circumstances I keep receiving the message "Application Install: install package failure!"
I've tried uninstalling the Intel display drivers and AMD drivers and trying again, but still to no avail, sometimes showing the message Failed to load detection driver.
I've been at it for a couple of hours and I've pretty much given up and I seem to have exhausted most of the advice on internet forums. Is there anything wrong that I'm doing? Anything that is really simple that I've overlooked?
Thanks in advance.
P.S. I'm running Windows 8.1
I have even gone through this thread: http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/answers/id-1875663/amd-catalyst-drivers-installing-application-install-install-package-failure.html which seemed to have step-by-step instructions, but still to no avail.
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