I'm having a problem that never happened before. When I try to install (or uninstall) the catalyst suite I get a blue screen of death. I tried it in safe mode and it told me that it failed to load the detection driver. This only happens with my Win7 x64 because everything still works perfectly with XP Pro. I'll give my system information:
CPU: AMD Phenom II X4 940 3.0GHz
Motherboard: MSI K9A2 Platinum (AMD 790FX Northbridge, ATi SB600 Southbridge)
Video Cards: 2 x XFX Radeon HD 4870 1GB
RAM: 8GB OCZ Reaper HPC PC6400 DDR2-800
PSU: OCZ Z-Series 1000W 80-Plus Gold Certified
I tried installing Microsoft Visual C++ 2010 x86 and x64 but they had no effect. I did manage to manually install the video driver in safe mode but without the Catalyst suite I cannot enable CrossfireX which to me, defeats the purpose of having 2 cards. I tried downloading the drivers from the XFX website but the exact same thing happened. I'm currently at a total loss and I'm about ready to call ATi directly with the problem. Does anyone have any ideas before I have to resort to being on hold? Please note that I am trying to install the latest (11-2) drivers but this has been going on since January. It doesn't matter what version I try to install, they all behave EXACTLY the same way. For some reason they didn't do this before.
Again, I am trying to install the NEWEST driver and I have NO ISSUES at all with Windows XP so it's not a hardware problem.
CPU: AMD Phenom II X4 940 3.0GHz
Motherboard: MSI K9A2 Platinum (AMD 790FX Northbridge, ATi SB600 Southbridge)
Video Cards: 2 x XFX Radeon HD 4870 1GB
RAM: 8GB OCZ Reaper HPC PC6400 DDR2-800
PSU: OCZ Z-Series 1000W 80-Plus Gold Certified
I tried installing Microsoft Visual C++ 2010 x86 and x64 but they had no effect. I did manage to manually install the video driver in safe mode but without the Catalyst suite I cannot enable CrossfireX which to me, defeats the purpose of having 2 cards. I tried downloading the drivers from the XFX website but the exact same thing happened. I'm currently at a total loss and I'm about ready to call ATi directly with the problem. Does anyone have any ideas before I have to resort to being on hold? Please note that I am trying to install the latest (11-2) drivers but this has been going on since January. It doesn't matter what version I try to install, they all behave EXACTLY the same way. For some reason they didn't do this before.
Again, I am trying to install the NEWEST driver and I have NO ISSUES at all with Windows XP so it's not a hardware problem.