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Catalyst driver = windows won't boot

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lord_emperor

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Summary:

On a completely fresh install of Windows 7 Ultimate on a new hard drive, after installing the Catalyst Control Centre and drivers, windows will not boot. It stops just before the welcome screen with the windows logo.

More detail:

Hardware:
Phenom X4 940 Black
XFX HD4890 1GB
2x2GB DDR2
MSI K9A2-CF
Antec EarthWatts 650W
Antec Three Hundred
Seagate 1TB (new boot drive)
WD Green 1TB
Seagate 160GB (old boot drive)

Just bought my GF a completely new computer, used the same install media (USB key) to install Win7 Ultimate and everything went without a hitch including CCC install.

Got myself a new 1TB Seagate also to replace my old 160GB OS drive. Installed Win7 using the same USB key which is also the media I used to setup my computer ~1 year ago.

Installed Win7 with no problem, downloaded and installed Catalyst 10.12, got aforementioned no-boot problem.

Chalked it up to cosmic rays and re-installed windows, let windows update run until it was done, then installed CCC 10.12 again, same result. Booted into safe mode (worked), system restored to before driver install, downloaded and installed CCC 10.11 (with old version of CCC), again same result.

Gave up for the night and switched boot drive back to the Seagate 160GB, booted into existing Win7 install just fine, played some WoW this morning.

My system is ~one year old, passed memtest, prime95 and furmark at the time of building, but I'll be testing again today after work.

Truly confused by this problem, especially since I have read a few similar issues on the [H] as well as AMD's forum, no solutions offered.
 
Ive only had my 6850 installed for a couple days
I had some similar issues installing the driver. I was getting mouse freeze ups after windows booted. I suspect that the 10.12 with the new CCC preview had something to do with it.
You may not need to get this drastic but I had to pull the card out and put my old Nvidia card back in the first PCIe slot. Then I un-installed the driver in safe mode and then installed the 72.6mb 10.12 suite that is the second download link on AMDs download page instead of the 110mb package that is the first download link.

Start with seeing if you can boot into safe mode (F8 during bootup for most machines) to take some of the driver variable out of the diagnostic mix.
 
lord_emperor said:
Summary:

On a completely fresh install of Windows 7 Ultimate on a new hard drive, after installing the Catalyst Control Centre and drivers, windows will not boot. It stops just before the welcome screen with the windows logo.

More detail:

Hardware:
Phenom X4 940 Black
XFX HD4890 1GB
2x2GB DDR2
MSI K9A2-CF
Antec EarthWatts 650W
Antec Three Hundred
Seagate 1TB (new boot drive)
WD Green 1TB
Seagate 160GB (old boot drive)

Just bought my GF a completely new computer, used the same install media (USB key) to install Win7 Ultimate and everything went without a hitch including CCC install.

Got myself a new 1TB Seagate also to replace my old 160GB OS drive. Installed Win7 using the same USB key which is also the media I used to setup my computer ~1 year ago.

Installed Win7 with no problem, downloaded and installed Catalyst 10.12, got aforementioned no-boot problem.

Chalked it up to cosmic rays and re-installed windows, let windows update run until it was done, then installed CCC 10.12 again, same result. Booted into safe mode (worked), system restored to before driver install, downloaded and installed CCC 10.11 (with old version of CCC), again same result.

Gave up for the night and switched boot drive back to the Seagate 160GB, booted into existing Win7 install just fine, played some WoW this morning.

My system is ~one year old, passed memtest, prime95 and furmark at the time of building, but I'll be testing again today after work.

Truly confused by this problem, especially since I have read a few similar issues on the [H] as well as AMD's forum, no solutions offered.
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I had this problem also,I went into safe mode and scrolled down to start with low resolution,I cant remember the resolution tho,something like 640X something you cant miss it,do that and once you get into windows reset your resolution..worked for me,I think its some sort of bug..FWIW I had the same problem when I switched to my 580..

EDIT: I should have said hit F8 till the screen comes up then scroll down to the low rez option,don't go into safe mode..
 
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