ATI/AMD BSOD (Blue Screen) During Driver Initial Installation

[Kaiser]

This happens more often than not. Run the newest ATI/AMD Radeon Catalyst driver instllation program and no matter what you do it Blue Screens right at the "Detecting Hardware" stage. No way to install or uninstall because you cant get past it.

A workaround is to go to AMD's site, and on the top right you will see "Find A Driver". Do the first drop down and select "Desktop Graphics". On the next select "Auto Detect and Install". Third, "N/A", fourth "N/A". click "View Results". The next page will be a small installation program that will detect and download your driver and install it. Yes, it will be the same exact name as the driver you already downloaded. Yes, the installation will look the same. the difference is that it will finally make it through the Detecting Hardware stage and finally allow for installation. I am guessing that the pre-installation program sends necessary command line switches to the setup program to tell it to detect the hardware differently. either way, as always ATI/AMD serves a very sub-par installation program.

 

[JuiceRoad.com]

If you are getting blue screen of death it is because of Bad Hard drive.

 

[Kaiser]

If you are getting blue screen of death it is because of Bad Hard drive.

Please do not post to threads that you are not qualified to answer. What you stated above is just plain wrong.

 

[Nssca]

No offense intended Kaiser but 98% of your posts in this forum (computers) are way over most of our heads...LOL

 

[Kaiser]

No offense intended Kaiser but 98% of your posts in this forum (computers) are way over most of our heads...LOL

Understood, but this is the technology forum of the site and there are a bunch of technology people on here now. Of course some of the things are going to be above people's heads who are not in the business, but I'm guessing that even the level of bodybuilding was above 95% of the user's heads here too, until they spent the time to read the threads and learn. If a new person comes in and says something that is just plain wrong, they are going to get called on it and corrected. Then as, as usual if they are intelligent, they sit back and finally start to learn. A year later, post some credible threads/post. This is the formula we are using in this forum as well. On top of that, it's growing pretty rapidly with knowledgeable guys such as BilletO, michelin, and a few others, compared to the other forums, as it is still young, so we must be doing something right. Thanks for your feedback though, buddy, I hope you understand now.

 

[Kaiser]

Follow Up

Seems the Auto Detect makes changes to the config file prior to executing installation. Follow these steps if you want to do it manual:

1. Uninstall any ATI drivers on your system.

2. Run the CCC installer but I suggest canceling after it extracts the files.

3. Navigate to: C:\ATI\Support\11-x_vista64_wi n7_64_dd_ccc_enu\Config OR where you extracted the setup files

4. EDIT InstallManager.cfg with notepad.

5. Change WorkaroundInstall=false to WorkaroundInstall=true

6. Run Setup.exe and the CCC should install without a problem

NOTE: You will also get an installation error with the newer drivers if you have the wrong version of C++ 2010 Redistributable. If you do, Uninstall the version that you have, making a note of the version you are uninstalling, and run the install over again. I say to make a note of the version you are uninstalling because if you have an application that depends upon that version, you can simply download the version from Microsoft. Once your card is installed you can update C++ with no problem to the newest revision, it's just the installation will fail if there is a wrong version already installed.

 

[J4CKT]

Just thought I would say I very much enjoy a lot of the things you mention and discuss in here.

Thanks for taking the time Kaiser.