ATI Driver Woes

[Sampsy]

Just finished building my new system, with an XFX 5830 and while I was finishing off installing drivers for various things, the GPU drivers from the CD crashed and restarted (according to windows), a while later they failed again and I had to restart myself.

So I went onto the XFX site, downloaded the latest drivers and during installation, the system BSOD'd. On restarting the system I attempted to install them again, but I now receive an error every time I finish installation:

Now right clicking on the desktop no longer has a Catalyst Control Center option, when I do open it from the start menu I only have Pinned, Presets and Hydravision tabs and my max resolution I can choose for my 1900x1080 monitor is 1400 x 1050.

How am I supposed to fix this?

 

[dk345]

Have you tried downloading the latest drivers from AMD themselves, rather than using the old drivers on the CD and probably old ones from XFX?

http://support.amd.com/us/gpudownload/Pages/index.aspx

 

[Sampsy]

Yes, exactly the same issues. Infact, I just uninstalled everything using the ati launcher program itself, and now upon reinstalling everything I get the same issues, but CCC will no longer open at all.

 

[arc@css]

Have you thought about letting windows find the latest AMD driver? It helped me on more than one occasion. Also, do you have the most recent microsoft .net windows updates?

 

[Sampsy]

Well i'd at least rather be running the correct resolution.

Edit: Well I tried to install the drivers from the CD again, however now it is "unable to detect an XFX product" and refuses to install anything. Honestly, I am considering wiping the O/S and starting again.

 

[arc@css]

Do you have all the windows updates which include the .net framework?

 

[Sampsy]

Yeah I do. I really don't understand this. It is actually now allowing me to change the resolution correctly now, but I didn't do anything differently. I quite dislike ATI drivers, they always seem to be problematic for me.