GPU drivers stopping Windows 7 from booting, Please help.

[Chicken Hunter]

I just installed my new ASUS radeon r9 290 direct cu ii OC into my pc, It's all plugged in properly. I turned on my pc and everything worked fine, Then I installed the drivers for my GPU and restarted my pc as it said I had to, Then it wouldn't boot to windows 7 login screen, I went into safe mode to un-install the GPU driver, And my pc boots up as normal. Anyone know how I can install the driver without my pc stopping me from booting up?

 

[junkeymonkey]

are these the drivers from the cards support disk or drivers from amd ???

win7 - 64 driver

http://support.amd.com/en-us/download/desktop?os=Windows%207%20-%2064

◾How-To Uninstall AMD Catalyst™ Drivers from a Windows® Based System
◾How-To Install AMD Catalyst™ Drivers for a Windows® Based System

http://support.amd.com/en-us/kb-articles/Pages/AMDCatalystOmegaWINReleaseNotes.aspx

whats your builds specs ??

 

[JasonL265]

Just wondering which connection are you using? the one on the motherboard or the one on your graphics card?

 

[Chicken Hunter]

I believe those are the drivers I am using, The GPU came with a disk for installing drivers, And it opened AMD catalyst when installing.
Specs for my pc:
GPU (If I can get it to work) Asus radeon r9 290 direct cu II OC
CPU: AMD Athlon (tm) x4 750k Quad Core Processor (4CPUs), ~3.4ghz
Ram: Can't remember the name of the model, But it's 8gb.
Power Supply Unit: Corsair VS650 (650 watts)
I believe that' all you need to know? This is my first time actually making changes to the hardware in my pc.

 

[junkeymonkey]

I anit too hip on using driver disk drivers .. i'll assume this is a custom built computer or a prebuilt like hp ??

 

[Chicken Hunter]

Urr, I got the original pc off a website, Built for me. It came with a Amd radeon hd 6670 GPU. But since then I've changed the PSU, And now trying to put in a new GPU

 

[junkeymonkey]

well some boards may need a bios update to support certain cards some times there not offered and your out of luck some prebuilts will just reject upgrades due to there propriety bios ..

some times with custom boards may not accept new cards as like here with these guys

http://www.tomshardware.com/answers/id-2596672/asus-p8z68-pro-gen3-load-graphics-cards.html

but seeing it displays in safe mode I would try the downloaded driver from AMD -- download it to a file on the desktop and run the installer from there --

be sure you read the release notes for the driver to see if you may be missing something out side of the driver [like all your dot net stuff]

also when your back on desktop in safe mode try to use disk clean up and select clean system files there been some bad windows updates that may affect the amd driver and it should clean unnecessary updates

as the guy said above I assume you got the monitor plugged into the card ?? and not the onboard ??

 

[Chicken Hunter]

I shall try your suggestion of downloading from AMD's site, and yes, It's plugged into my GPU. If this fails, I guess it's game over 🙁

 

[junkeymonkey]

well you not told what motherboard you got ?? so I can look at that

well you said the card works default in safe mode so that is a good thing look .. when you install the driver after you download it do a custom install and and just install the ccc and the driver don't install all that extra stuff like gaming evolves and hi-def audio-- you can allways go back and add them later if you feel its needed and then one at a time and test

 

[Chicken Hunter]

Just before I try what you said earlier.
My motherboard is a Gigabyte F2A55M-HD2

 

[junkeymonkey]

well I assume in the boards bios do you need to switch from onboard to pcie graphics ?? to disable the onboard and enable the slot for the card ??

 

[Chicken Hunter]

Done what you said with the Drivers ect, Made sure the bios is set to pci-e, Still doesn't get past windows login. 🙁

 

[junkeymonkey]

try this and see uninstall the driver from add -remove programd as normal and it should uninstall and come to a remove all amd software then yes reboot back to desktop and reinstall

or try a custom uninstall and remove all but the driver and see if it takes that alone it maybe the ccc that's at issue ???

after that all I know is to uninstall the driver reboot back to bios and resset tit to default [clear cmos] and see ..

to me when it goed past windows log in it that windows has a issue with something cause that is when it loads all the start up programs and hardware drivers that you add over windows default

I use windows 7 64 with a amd card with out issues

also you may try a older driver to see like 13.12 [that's what im running now ]

I did see at newegg reviews of your board about using a card and failed but like you said it will display on windows driver [???]

look in windows update under installed updates and see if this update is still on your computer if so uninstall it

that clean up should of removed it but no telling ???

http://www.pcworld.com/article/2859120/windows-7-users-urged-to-uninstall-broken-update-that-wreaks-havoc-on-software.html

 

[junkeymonkey]

dang -- one thing I forgot to bring up is after you do all that and shut dowm to start over to discharge the board and remove the card and re seat it back in the slot then reboot and try to install the driver --- sorry