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I just got a used pc and all the other drivers are fine such as chipset and bios but whenever I try to install my Radeon Gpu drivers the computer will go to a black screen and the only way I can get it to boot windows again is by going into safe mode and uninstalling the AMD driver manually. So how am I meant to install my gpu drivers? The bios doesn't seem to detect the gpu but the fans are spinning. I've tried taking it out and making sure all the power cables were connected properly, the psu is well above the recommended wattage for the gpu and I've tried a different slot but still no luck, the bios version is pretty old and there is an updated version but when I tried to install it, it said because it wasn't a uefi bios it couldn't install it, even though its current bios is uefi. So I'm thinking it could be the gpu that's just failed which I really don't want to be the case and I unfortunately haven't got another system to test it on right now, my computer also tries to autoinstall drivers for it but the screen just randomly backstreets cause the drivers aren't actually working for the card so I have to go into safe mode and uninstall them. I managed to fix the random blackscreen issues by just not making windows automatically install drivers but it's still running in awful resolution because of Microsoft basic display adapter and any drivers I try and install just put it into a black screen. The only other thing I could think of is that the bios is outdated but the pc worked just fine with the current bios version so I can't really see that being an issue. What I don't get is that upon a new windows install on a new hard drive it tries to install the exact drivers automatically so I'm thinking the pc actually does pick it up, the problem is that whenever it does autoinstall these drivers the pc just goes into a black screen and im back to square one.
[21:16]
If any of you know any troubleshooting techniques to see if my gpu is dead then I'd love to hear them, also any question you have just ask and I should probably point out the r9 200 series drivers are being installed instead of the HD 7900 series but apparently they're the exact same thing so I'm not sure about that situation, on the list of available drivers that comes up on the device manager menu when you try to update them BOTH the r9 200 series AND the HD 7900 series graphics drivers come up so it seems like it's installing the r9 200 series instead of the HD 7900 series, if they aren't the same thing that is, so I'm not sure why it isn't being picked up anywhere or why the drivers are just plunging it into a black screen but after 4 days of non stop googling I'm getting really tired of this so any insight would be brilliant, thanks everyone. Specs: I5 3470 AMD HD 7950 P8Z77-V LX2 (motherboard) Corsair CX600M
[21:16]
If any of you know any troubleshooting techniques to see if my gpu is dead then I'd love to hear them, also any question you have just ask and I should probably point out the r9 200 series drivers are being installed instead of the HD 7900 series but apparently they're the exact same thing so I'm not sure about that situation, on the list of available drivers that comes up on the device manager menu when you try to update them BOTH the r9 200 series AND the HD 7900 series graphics drivers come up so it seems like it's installing the r9 200 series instead of the HD 7900 series, if they aren't the same thing that is, so I'm not sure why it isn't being picked up anywhere or why the drivers are just plunging it into a black screen but after 4 days of non stop googling I'm getting really tired of this so any insight would be brilliant, thanks everyone. Specs: I5 3470 AMD HD 7950 P8Z77-V LX2 (motherboard) Corsair CX600M