Diamond Radeon HD 5550 Win 7 Issue

[ak1977]

I just installed a Diamond Radeon HD 5550 on Dell Dimension 9150, on which I had a 60GB SSD Running win 7 32 bit. First install the card worked and performed like a dream. After a shut down and 40 minutes later restarted it and the display goes crazy in about min of start. I have re-installed the HD 5550 catalyst and and changed to another HD 5550 but the problem remains. Any ideas if it is the 32 bit version of win 7 causing the problem or the mother board not good enough. Thank you for your help...

 

[Timop]

You can rule out power, as the 5550 sips barely any at all.

How does it go "crazy"? Try using Driversweeper under safe mode and reinstalling CCC. It could be a PCIe 2.1 problem, though there really isnt much details, which 5550 are you using exactly?

 

[ak1977]

I read a lil more on the forms & found ppl having Catalyst 10.8 issues, so I uninstalled it and wola the problem is gone. I will install 10.7 tomorrow to see if 10.8 was the culprit or not... Thank You for your reply...

 

[wa1]

Yes, sometime the older driver can be more stable than the latest one...