Newly bought GPU drivers not installing.

[Seelebob]

I recently bought Sapphire's Radeon R9-270 2Gb to replace my old Radeon HD 6570. I installed it into my desktop and I got the following message. "No AMD graphics driver is installed, or the AMD driver is not functioning properly. Please install the AMD driver appropriate for your amd hardware" So far, I reinstalled Catalyst Control Center with the drivers. Didn't work. I then used Display Driver Uninstaller to remove all traces of drivers from my system. Then reinstalled the drivers but the same problem persist. I don't know what else to do, did I get a bad card or is there something else I can try?

I'm currently Running Windows Vista
AMD Phenom II X4 925
8.00GB Dual-Channel DDR2 @ 335MHz
ASUSTeK Computer INC. M3A78-CM (AM2)
630 watt PSU

 

[daswilhelm]

new amd cards dont like vista, found that out when i tried upgrading my brother vista machine with a 270. you have to install the driver package, reboot, and then go into device manager, and force the driver. (click update driver, point to the location of the driver files, and pick radeon 200 series from the list given)

 

[Seelebob]

Nope. That causes the system not to boot up at all. Have to select load last configuration. I think I may have just got a dud vid card. But it works but only using the Standard VGA Graphics Adaptor.

 

[daswilhelm]

no boot when forcing the driver? how far does it get on boot? bios?

 

[Seelebob]

it restarts and goes to the "windows did not load correctly" screen.

 

[daswilhelm]

i would remove the driver, and any video drivers if present, reinstall and try to force it again. maybe run a registry clean with ccleaner before reinstall.

 

[Seelebob]

Turns out that it seems like it simply does not like Vista. I found a solution here that worked for me. http://forums.amd.com/game/messageview.cfm?catid=454&threadid=169548&enterthread=y I'm going to be upgrading to a newer version of windows this summer anyway so this is a temp solution at best for me.

 

[daswilhelm]

Turns out that it seems like it simply does not like Vista. I found a solution here that worked for me. http://forums.amd.com/game/messageview.cfm?catid=454&threadid=169548&enterthread=y I'm going to be upgrading to a newer version of windows this summer anyway so this is a temp solution at best for me.

thats what i recommended originally, you said that made your machine unable to boot?

 

[Seelebob]

I must have goofed somewhere in the instructions. Sorry, like I said, it's finally working for now. Tnx for the help though. Got me on the right path.

 

[daswilhelm]

ok good to hear everything is working for you.