Trouble Updating GPU Drivers

[lucasssan]

Hello,

I'm really beating my head against the wall on this one.

I have an AMD Radeon 7870 and I recently tried to update the drivers for Windows 7 64-bit. I did a real clean uninstall of my previous drivers, but no matter what I try the driver install fails and I get this message: Driver Install: user must be a member of the Administrators group.

Now I'm stuck with no drivers at all for my gpu. And I've tried installing so many times that my restore points are all from within the last few hours, after the unsuccessful driver update.

Please, any help. Please.

 

[JackNaylorPE]

LOL. "Here's what to do after you fix the problem you came here asking about."

Anyway, got fed up and reinstalled Windows. Drivers installed no problem. Guess we'll never know what was going on.

Exactly. My thought was that you weren't experiencing a driver issue. You had a Windows issue that I was thinking could be more appropriately addressed in a thread entitled perhaps "Windows Not Recognizing User as Administrator".

Possible causes I can think of would be virus, permissions, damaged system files and others but wanted to do some research before advising further. Was going to suggest enabling the built in administrator account but couldn't do right away cause hadda get back to work. In the meantime, wanted to give you ....and those lurking ..... the correct procedure for troublesome driver installs.