- Nov 5, 2014
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I was playing a game and then my screen turned into some kind of a white-ish corrupted image pattern. I was using voice chat and I could still talk to my friends, but the screen was frozen. I then restarted my computer, Windows booted normally, but after inputting my user account password, just before getting into the desktop, the screen turns black and I can't see to get any response from the OS.
I managed to start Windows in Safe Mode and it got to the desktop normally. I played around with some settings, stopped some services and what not, but it still wouldn't get into the desktop under normal mode. After a bit of research I finally found out what was causing the issue: the graphics driver. I uninstalled it through the Device Manager, restarted Windows and then I got into the desktop normally.
After performing a full uninstall of all the AMD Catalyst suite (drivers, control center and everything else), I restarted again and then downloaded the latest stable version (14.9) and installed it. When I restarted Windows, the same problem happened again: black screen before I got to the desktop.
Ok, so I decided to perform a clean Windows installation to root out any other possible problems that would take forever to figure out. Installed fresh drivers and the same issue happened.
Any thoughts? Is it a problem with my GPU? It's weird, cause it was working perfectly. I didn't change anything in my system recently, no new hardware, nothing. It just happened out of a sudden. It works fine using the default Windows drivers (Standard VGA Graphics Adapter).
My system specs:
Windows 7 64-bit
Intel Core i5 3750k
AMD Radeon HD 6850 1GB
16GB DDR3 RAM
Gigabyte Z77X-UD5H
750W Corsair PSU
I bought this GPU back in 2011 and I never had any issues. I never power my computer off, so it's been running all this time.
Update 1:
Ok guys, I took my GPU out and switched to the iGPU, installed Intel Graphics Drivers and it worked just fine.
I'll have a friend coming over to my place tonight and he'll bring an old HD 4870 to check if it'll work.
It's probably a defect in my GPU right?
I managed to start Windows in Safe Mode and it got to the desktop normally. I played around with some settings, stopped some services and what not, but it still wouldn't get into the desktop under normal mode. After a bit of research I finally found out what was causing the issue: the graphics driver. I uninstalled it through the Device Manager, restarted Windows and then I got into the desktop normally.
After performing a full uninstall of all the AMD Catalyst suite (drivers, control center and everything else), I restarted again and then downloaded the latest stable version (14.9) and installed it. When I restarted Windows, the same problem happened again: black screen before I got to the desktop.
Ok, so I decided to perform a clean Windows installation to root out any other possible problems that would take forever to figure out. Installed fresh drivers and the same issue happened.
Any thoughts? Is it a problem with my GPU? It's weird, cause it was working perfectly. I didn't change anything in my system recently, no new hardware, nothing. It just happened out of a sudden. It works fine using the default Windows drivers (Standard VGA Graphics Adapter).
My system specs:
Windows 7 64-bit
Intel Core i5 3750k
AMD Radeon HD 6850 1GB
16GB DDR3 RAM
Gigabyte Z77X-UD5H
750W Corsair PSU
I bought this GPU back in 2011 and I never had any issues. I never power my computer off, so it's been running all this time.
Update 1:
Ok guys, I took my GPU out and switched to the iGPU, installed Intel Graphics Drivers and it worked just fine.
I'll have a friend coming over to my place tonight and he'll bring an old HD 4870 to check if it'll work.
It's probably a defect in my GPU right?
You'll then know if it's the graphics card or something else.
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