I reposted this from the graphics forum becuase I wasn't sure which forum to use.
http://forums.anandtech.com/me...7302&enterthread=y
I just built my computer and it worked fine. But then a day later I decided to install 4.12 drivers on my Sapphire X800 Pro PCIe. So, when I tried to install it after uninstalling everything, my system hangs. I tried to reinstall 4.8 from my original CD and the system hangs. I can't even do system restore for some reason cause they say there was critical driver changes (duh).
So, I formated everything and my system still hangs when it even touches anything video driver related. Hanging never stops, I have to restart. I tried everything I can think of. Purged the computer of any trace of old ati stuff. Tried to use Omega drivers. Reinstalled OS. Formated harddrive. Everything else works fine because I can install all my other programs and drivers with no problems. Just the second I click the driver install it hangs. Has anyone seen these symptoms? When I used ATI tool, it detected the vid card, but when I clicked the see 3d button, it said it couldn't generated it.
My main concern is that the vid card works cause I can see windows and stuff. Is this because without the driver, my mobo cpu and ram are handling the graphics? Could it be that I corrupted the bios and is there anyway to safely restore my original gpu bios? I just want to be sure that this is a GPU problem, even though it seems pretty obvious to me. Perhaps I should just try to RMA it.
Help would be appreciated.
I unoverclocked everything so that shouldn't be an issue I don't think.
http://forums.anandtech.com/me...7302&enterthread=y
I just built my computer and it worked fine. But then a day later I decided to install 4.12 drivers on my Sapphire X800 Pro PCIe. So, when I tried to install it after uninstalling everything, my system hangs. I tried to reinstall 4.8 from my original CD and the system hangs. I can't even do system restore for some reason cause they say there was critical driver changes (duh).
So, I formated everything and my system still hangs when it even touches anything video driver related. Hanging never stops, I have to restart. I tried everything I can think of. Purged the computer of any trace of old ati stuff. Tried to use Omega drivers. Reinstalled OS. Formated harddrive. Everything else works fine because I can install all my other programs and drivers with no problems. Just the second I click the driver install it hangs. Has anyone seen these symptoms? When I used ATI tool, it detected the vid card, but when I clicked the see 3d button, it said it couldn't generated it.
My main concern is that the vid card works cause I can see windows and stuff. Is this because without the driver, my mobo cpu and ram are handling the graphics? Could it be that I corrupted the bios and is there anyway to safely restore my original gpu bios? I just want to be sure that this is a GPU problem, even though it seems pretty obvious to me. Perhaps I should just try to RMA it.
Help would be appreciated.
I unoverclocked everything so that shouldn't be an issue I don't think.
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