Ok, I bought this card a month or two ago and it was running perfectly.. A couple weeks ago I changed my watercooling setup around (the card is not being watercooled though) and had to take the card out for a few days and used an old nvidia 6200.
When I had everything I needed again, I put the ATI card back and the system would reboot when it got into windows. Funny, but I remembered I hadn't uninstalled nvidia's drivers so it could be doing that.. Booted into safe mode, uninstalled nvidia's driver and tried installing ATI's, but the installer wouldn't recognize the card. I thought it was safe mode being funny, so booted back to normal mode, which should be alright now that nvidia's driver was gone. But it still kept rebooting..
Went back to safe mode and manually installed ati's 7.4 driver. It now worked well in normal mode and I was happy!
Until today I tried playing a few games and started having problems again.. Both R6 Vegas and Stalker (which worked fine before I switched cards around..) now display black screens while the game is still supposedly on in the background. The menus work fine, it only turns black after it finishes loading everything. Stalker even shows the game for a second or two and then goes black.
I've tried reinstalling the drivers (both drivers only and drivers + catalyst) and it's still happening..
The temperatures look fine on ATI Tool, the card was never overclocked either. I had the cpu overclocked to 3GHz but have tried bringing it down to stock with the same results.
edit: thought I should add: it doesn't crash the system at all, I can still alt+tab out of the game and close it.. the controls don't seem to be responding, as I can't hear any firing, but I can hear the music. Also, just tried uninstalling the drivers again and using Driver Cleaner, but it will still crash after the desktop is fully loaded (in normal mode without drivers..) and after installing the driver in safe mode the problem still remains..
Any ideas?
Thanks in advance