Hi all,
I'm hoping someone can pitch in with suggestions. I'm currently running video from onboard HDMI (which works fine) because Windows updates banjaxed my video card.
Here's a quick system overview:
i5 2500k
Gigabyte GA-Z68AP-D3 mobo
8Gb RAM
ATI Radeon R9 Fury X
Win 10 Pro - 64, build 1709
And here's the problem:
if I boot with the Fury driving the monitor, I get the standard BIOS messages about detecting drives, so the card works fine in text mode. As soon as Windows starts to load, black screen. No cursor, no way to summon Task Mangler, Alt-tab doesn't work - all I can do is power off.
If I boot connected to onboard HDMI, I get my standard desktop and can poke around and see what's what. I don't get error messages on the desktop, or exclamations in Device Manger. DM does see and correctly identify the card. It also occasionally thinks I've got two monitors, even though I keep deleting the spurious one.
Here's what I've tried to fix it, none of which worked:
Use the other DVI port on the card, and the card's HDMI port
Tried another DVI cable
Monitor select (even though I only have one monitor) with Win+P, down arrow, Enter
Done a thorough uninstall of all ATI software, including manual checks for AMD folders and using CCleaner to clean dead registry entries
Installed latest ATI drivers
Installed older (v16) ATI drivers (after a cleanout)
Installed latest chipset drivers
Checked for Windows updates
Run sfc /scannow (no errors found)
Run dxdiag (no errors found)
Uninstall the card in Device Manager
And a bunch of other stuff I can't remember off the top of my head
I think it's the graphics card drivers not playing nicely with the updated Windows, because it works in text mode (BIOS messages at startup) but not in graphics mode. Doesn't seem hardware-ish to me.
I'd be grateful for suggestions, folks.
I'm hoping someone can pitch in with suggestions. I'm currently running video from onboard HDMI (which works fine) because Windows updates banjaxed my video card.
Here's a quick system overview:
i5 2500k
Gigabyte GA-Z68AP-D3 mobo
8Gb RAM
ATI Radeon R9 Fury X
Win 10 Pro - 64, build 1709
And here's the problem:
if I boot with the Fury driving the monitor, I get the standard BIOS messages about detecting drives, so the card works fine in text mode. As soon as Windows starts to load, black screen. No cursor, no way to summon Task Mangler, Alt-tab doesn't work - all I can do is power off.
If I boot connected to onboard HDMI, I get my standard desktop and can poke around and see what's what. I don't get error messages on the desktop, or exclamations in Device Manger. DM does see and correctly identify the card. It also occasionally thinks I've got two monitors, even though I keep deleting the spurious one.
Here's what I've tried to fix it, none of which worked:
Use the other DVI port on the card, and the card's HDMI port
Tried another DVI cable
Monitor select (even though I only have one monitor) with Win+P, down arrow, Enter
Done a thorough uninstall of all ATI software, including manual checks for AMD folders and using CCleaner to clean dead registry entries
Installed latest ATI drivers
Installed older (v16) ATI drivers (after a cleanout)
Installed latest chipset drivers
Checked for Windows updates
Run sfc /scannow (no errors found)
Run dxdiag (no errors found)
Uninstall the card in Device Manager
And a bunch of other stuff I can't remember off the top of my head
I think it's the graphics card drivers not playing nicely with the updated Windows, because it works in text mode (BIOS messages at startup) but not in graphics mode. Doesn't seem hardware-ish to me.
I'd be grateful for suggestions, folks.
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Looks like I might be doing a fresh install of Windows. Oh joy....