6450 install + freezing

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bubblefreak

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I got my Asus Amd HD 6450 silent graphics card for my eMachines el1358g-51w today and I installed it and put in the drivers disk. I installed the drivers and my computer did a reboot and when I got back to my desktop everything froze. I shut it off and tried again but it did the same thing. I took out the card and looked at a few previous threads with this same problem but I never found a straight answer. I uninstalled the AMD catalyst thing because I read somewhere about doing so to get rid of the disk drivers but I don't know if that's all I needed to do. I downloaded an installer for the windows 7 x64 drivers from their support website and just need to make sure I'm doing this right before I install them, and the card again. So did I properly uninstall the drivers from the disk? It not then please tell me how, and will getting the online drivers from the website (instead from the disk like a mistakenly have done so) help my freezing problem? I works for a minute then just freezes.
 
Solution
Uninstall CCC again. It should ask to uninstall everything including the Installer app itself. Do that, then reboot. If all is well, shut down and put the card in. Boot to windows. It may find its own driver for the card. If it does, let it.
Then run CCleaner and do the Clean and Registry portions both. http://www.piriform.com/ccleaner
You may have other registry errors causing issues. Finally, download the latest driver for your card and your version of Windows and install it.
http://sites.amd.com/us/game/downloads/Pages/downloads.aspx

(the driver on your disk will work too, but might be older)


Sorry for the week late reply. I've been really busy since school started back up from winter break. (Freshman in highschool)
It seems that they are the same:
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General
Type: DDR3 Channel #: Dual
Size: 3 GBytes DC Mode: Unganged
NB Frequency: 1607.1 MHz

Timings
DRAM Frequency: 535.7 MHz
FSB: DRAM: 3:8
CAS# Latency (CL): 7.0 clocks
RAS# to CAS# Delay (tRCD): 7 clocks
RAS# Precharge (tRC): 7 clocks
Cycle Time (tRAS): 20 clocks
Bank Cycle Time (tRC): 27 clocks
Command Rate (CR): 1T
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Also do you know of anything I can use to replace CCC? I just need something to make sure minecraft and tf2 and stuff is using my Dedicated GPU. And possibly Portal 2. Think I can run Portal 2?
 
It's been awhile. I kind of forgot what the tread was about. (and don't feel like re-reading everything). But your memory specs look like you were on the "memory" tab of CPUZ. Go to the SPD tab and check each slot individually. You need both sticks in the Dual Channel slots to match exactly. And the other pair of dual channel slots (if you have a 4 slot MB) should match the first in everything except possible size.

If your monitor is plugged into the dedicated card, it HAS to be using the dedicated card.
 


Lol again sorry, I never got notified of your response so here is another response that is far too late. Anyways I checked the SPD tab and everything is the same except the amount of RAM. One stick is 2g and the other is 1g