I will try to sum this up best I can. I've been in a hell for 4 days now.
I have a Dell E6540
i7-4800MQ 2.7ghz
8gb Ram
500 HDD
Gpu:
Intel 4600 Integrated + AMD Radeon HD 8790M
Bios updated to latest
+ Things were working fine before the following happened
4 days ago, after I booted it up, the battery indicator flashed red and once I was in Windows. It shut down completely. I removed the battery and left the power cable.
It did the same thing (Shut down completely) Twice more. Then it started fine but It was slow beyond description. Video player was stuttering. Audio was scratching with noise attached to it
I open the back cover, cleaned dust from fan, re-applied thermal paste. Put everything back together carefully. and went to install windows 10 pro. After installation, it's till running slow. I start to install the drivers I got from Dell's website. All was well except for the audio. Once it was install, it was give a crackling noise with each system sound or audio file i open. Then comes the WORST. I installed AMD driver from here and the second it says "Installation complete" The whole thing Freezes. Nothing works. and Ctrl+Alt+Delete doesn't work either. I shut down from the power button then restart. After windows logo, I get a black screen. And that's it "I installed windows over 10 times I lost count" not kidding. Each time a black screen and each time I try something new.
Summed up:
After each Windows 10 pro install
Things i tried:
-Fresh Windows install (over 10 times)
-Use another build of Windows
-Switch from Legacy to Uefi
-Format and delete entire disk completely and convert to GPT
-Use ddu in safe mode to remove AMD driver + stop windows from doing driver installation.
-Use "Edit group policy" to stop windows from installing AMD drivers
-Install AMD driver manually from Device manager with latest driver
-Install previous AMD drivers
I'm installing windows right now AGAIN. If by some miracle things arent slow and audio works fine then all I got is this AMD issue. I look online for days literally and found a lot of videos and threads with SAME issue. But it doesn't work for me.
I have a Dell E6540
i7-4800MQ 2.7ghz
8gb Ram
500 HDD
Gpu:
Intel 4600 Integrated + AMD Radeon HD 8790M
Bios updated to latest
+ Things were working fine before the following happened
4 days ago, after I booted it up, the battery indicator flashed red and once I was in Windows. It shut down completely. I removed the battery and left the power cable.
It did the same thing (Shut down completely) Twice more. Then it started fine but It was slow beyond description. Video player was stuttering. Audio was scratching with noise attached to it
I open the back cover, cleaned dust from fan, re-applied thermal paste. Put everything back together carefully. and went to install windows 10 pro. After installation, it's till running slow. I start to install the drivers I got from Dell's website. All was well except for the audio. Once it was install, it was give a crackling noise with each system sound or audio file i open. Then comes the WORST. I installed AMD driver from here and the second it says "Installation complete" The whole thing Freezes. Nothing works. and Ctrl+Alt+Delete doesn't work either. I shut down from the power button then restart. After windows logo, I get a black screen. And that's it "I installed windows over 10 times I lost count" not kidding. Each time a black screen and each time I try something new.
Summed up:
After each Windows 10 pro install
- It's very slow and laggy
- AMD drivers cause freeze then black screen after restart
- Audio sounds accompanied by scratch and crackles (NOT after every install, sometimes fine"
Things i tried:
-Fresh Windows install (over 10 times)
-Use another build of Windows
-Switch from Legacy to Uefi
-Format and delete entire disk completely and convert to GPT
-Use ddu in safe mode to remove AMD driver + stop windows from doing driver installation.
-Use "Edit group policy" to stop windows from installing AMD drivers
-Install AMD driver manually from Device manager with latest driver
-Install previous AMD drivers
I'm installing windows right now AGAIN. If by some miracle things arent slow and audio works fine then all I got is this AMD issue. I look online for days literally and found a lot of videos and threads with SAME issue. But it doesn't work for me.