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Tribalbob   09-04-2008 at 11:07:31 AM

Alright, so turns out the problem with my old card was yes, the memory overheated. So, I went out and picked up a 4870X2, got it home, plugged it; installed the 8.8 catalyst (I had uninstalled them previously while trying to troubleshoot the 2900 before I realised it had died), and restarted the computer.

Once the computer came back up; there were several issues.

First of all, CCC would not load when I clicked on it from the desktop. It told me it needed to be reinstalled.

Secondly, if I went into display properties; it said the current display device was the default monitor.

Thirdly, in device manager - I had the little ! symbol on the device and it said it had been disabled (Code 43) as it was not working.

So I did a full uninstall and re-install. Same thing. I uninstalled, went into safe mode, used driver sweep to remove all ATI drivers - deleted every last ATI folder, rebooted into windows again and installed. Still nothing.

I even tried installing the drivers from the CD, and was met with the same issue.

I'm starting to get annoyed that I just bought a $600 paperweight, can anyone shed any light on what's going on?


Specs:

P5W DH Deluxe Motherboard

Core 2 Duo 6700 @ 2.67Ghz

5MBs DDR2 RAM

1Terabyte Seagate Barracude drive

Windows Vista Home Premium 64bit

550W PSU powering the card (and only the card, I have a second PSU running the other systems).

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curryj02   09-04-2008 at 12:33:41 PM
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i had the same problem, the way i fixed it was by only installing the 8.8 driver by itself. Because when i was having the problem was with the combination install of CC and the 8.8 driver. uninstall everything, do the driver sweep, then download the 8.8 driver install, install just the driver, then install CC. worked for me... don't ask me why

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Tribalbob   09-04-2008 at 06:40:26 PM
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Tried that, no go.

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jtt283   09-04-2008 at 06:51:06 PM
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If I had to guess, I'd say you got a Diamond card.

Seriously, which 4870X2 did you get?

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Tribalbob   09-04-2008 at 07:08:42 PM
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Oh, sorry, it was a Sapphire.

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pinaplex   09-04-2008 at 07:47:59 PM
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you need to properly clean out the drivers from your computer, download "Driver Cleaner Pro" it will remove the driver entirely from your computer, including your registry, then try reinstalling the drivers

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Tribalbob   09-04-2008 at 08:47:22 PM
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Yes, that's what I've been trying - both in and out of safe mode, but it hasn't seemed to mattered yet.

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fleakiller   09-04-2008 at 09:34:09 PM
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.netframework 2.0 ?? i had some of the same problems with 3870x2

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Tribalbob   09-04-2008 at 09:45:24 PM
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I have 3.5, I think it's all cumulative, right?

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fleakiller   09-04-2008 at 09:53:46 PM
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I do belive so but i did have to uninstall/clean and reinstall a repair did not work for me ?

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