HDD wiped/fresh install/10.8ATI drivers - rant

[BTRY B 529th FA BN]

I installed the 10.8 drivers about an hour ago and when the screen went to flicker from the driver install it hasn't come out of it yet.

 

[BD231]

Restart your computer

 

[BTRY B 529th FA BN]

yeah, but why would it do this?

I just manually did a 'hard' shutdown the first time; for curiosity i installed the drivers a second time and it did it again

 

[dust]

Are you running win7 32?

I recently swapped from Win7 32 to 64 and the issues I previously had with the 10.8 (especially starcraft) have disappeared. Been running for the past three weeks with no problems so far.

Something didn't install properly for you it seems. Did you try a rollback?

 

[BTRY B 529th FA BN]

after the install, win7 64 started to update it-self and the ati windows driver didn't install properly (twice) so i went ahead with the official ATI/AMD 10.8 driver and the OP happened.

 

[JAG87]

Next time try nvidia drivers. They will probably work better with your card than AMD's own drivers.

 

[Xarick]

you didn't let windows completely update itself before installing the ati drivers?

 

[BTRY B 529th FA BN]

Next time try nvidia drivers. They will probably work better with your card than AMD's own drivers.

yeah, no kidding, heh

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[BTRY B 529th FA BN]

you didn't let windows completely update itself before installing the ati drivers?

the windows ati driver kept failing to install

 

[YBS1]

Disable any anti-virus and/or internet security programs you have running and then give it a whirl. I've had similar issues bite me more than once because of this.