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    Windows won't go past welcome screen after installing AMD drivers

    Okay, yesterday, I got a HIS 7950 - had an issue with the fan (which I RMA'd it for) it wouldn't drop below 100%, but that's got nothing to to with anything, short story for that card, it had the same issue that my RMA replacement has (FYI - an ASUS Direct CU II Top 7950). So I'm guessing it isn't the fault of the GPU (unless both had the exact same issue but that's unlikely...)


    So - first of all, I reinstalled Windows, totally fresh Windows 7 Professional install; the PC loaded fine with the default windows drivers, I can use the PC as normal - but obviously with with windows driver, games aren't really playable.
    I installed the AMD driver and it asked to restart (as you normally would do). After this, it just freezes on the Windows welcome screen, nothing I do at this point helps, no matter how many times I try restarting, it always freezes there - The only fix is to load safe mode and do a system restore to before the AMD Catalyst driver was installed.

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    Everything was working fine last week - with the above specs but with a reference HD5770 1GB. Both 7950s I've tried do the same thing. I can't think of anything at all that it can be, I've tried everything I can think of and have been googling all day to find a way to get it to work, it's utterly depressing and I really want a solution I just want to play with my new 7950....

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    Re: Windows won't go past welcome screen after installing AMD drivers

    Try the latest drivers 12.8 this may help http://www.techpowerup.com/downloads/2162/mirrors.php here are those newest drivers

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    Re: Windows won't go past welcome screen after installing AMD drivers

    Check for BIOS updates and motherboard chipset drivers. Could be a problem from your motherboard and PCIe power saving modes or something - the new AMD cards have quite advanced power saving features.

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    Re: Windows won't go past welcome screen after installing AMD drivers

    Would second the comment about getting drivers from the site as drivers on disk can date very quickly and can cause issues with some configs.
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