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cobaal   08-07-2009 at 06:53:58 PM

I have a XFX ATI Radeon HD 4870X2 (4-5 days old).

Today I installed Windows 7 and everything seemed to run perfectly. It seemed that it installed some driver for my GPU, but I wanted to install ATI Catalyst. The problem was/is it gets stuck at 20% overall progress during ATI Display Driver install and just runs to 100% in the current install over and over again. Windows then tells me new hardware is detected and once in a while the monitor unplugs and replugs. I have tried to install it 4 times now. Same thing over and over again. Before (3rd time) I was about to write this post, but then my monitor unplugged and did not replug so I had to start over again. When I came back to windows it seemed no GPU driver was installed. Resolution was very low and it did not detect names on my monitors.

So here I am, with 800x600 resolution, stuck with no driver.. Anyone have the slighest idea how to fix this? Don't say install XP or Vista ... I have already formatted 4 times the last 2 days ... :/

- cobaal

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Wolfshadw   08-07-2009 at 08:21:49 PM
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What does it say in Device Manager under Display Adapters (Start --> Control Panel --> Device Manager)?

If your graphics card is listed there, then uninstall the currently installed drivers. Then go to WindowsUpdate to install. Look specifically for ATI Drivers.

If your graphics card is not listed there, Run a scan for hardware changes. It should find the device and attempt to load drivers for it. Go ahead and let it. Then go to AMD's Driver page and download ONLY Catalyst Control Center.

btw, I'm running Windows 7 and an ATI Radeon 4650.

-Wolf sends

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mandyr0cks   10-25-2009 at 02:08:35 AM
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Hi i just got my windows 7 today & i have experianced probems with the dispaly setting jumping back & forth to low to high. what i did was hit ctrl,+alt+delete to go to main sign off area then clicked cancel to take me back to my desk top. then it showed back to normal.
it did ask me before i install windows 7 upgrade to uninstall the ATI CATALYST Install Manager. so i did except part of it i forgot. maybe its because u didint uninstall the ATI CATALYST Install Manager before u installed the windows 7. because it did say if u dont uninstall the ATI CATALYST Install Manager then it might not work properly. it should have told u during the windows 7 capabilty running the install.

I hope this works for you.. maybe what u will need to do is do a system recovery or some how make it back to your previous windows then make sure u uninstall what it ask you too before proceeding to install windows 7.

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beeblebrox   10-29-2009 at 07:34:03 PM
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Wolfshadw wrote :



If your graphics card is not listed there, Run a scan for hardware changes. It should find the device and attempt to load drivers for it. Go ahead and let it. Then go to AMD's Driver page and download ONLY Catalyst Control Center.

btw, I'm running Windows 7 and an ATI Radeon 4650.

-Wolf sends



I just installed 7 on a new/virgin HP desktop with an ATI 4650 and I can't see the card and Catalyst won't install. How do I get Windows to even see that the card is installed? How do I "run a scan" for hardware changes?

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Wolfshadw   10-30-2009 at 12:59:44 AM
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In device manager, right click your system name (very top of the listing) and select "Scan for Hardware Changes".

-Wolf sends

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Gigabyte EP43-UD3L Intel Core2Quad Q8400 8 Gig RAM
NVidia Geforce 8800GTS-640/Creative X-FI Extreme Music/Dual-Boot XP-64&Server2008
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