problem installing gpu drivers

SLIPPYFI5T · 4 Oct 2014 at 20:51

Hi guys, I'm at my wits end here. I recently installed an ssd in my pc for my c:/ drive. Everything was working perfectly fine until it came to installing my gpu drivers. They would install fine, yet when it came to rebooting the pc, it would reboot and get to my wallpaper, yet no icons, mouse or anything would display except the wallpaper. If I ctrl, alt, delete it brings up a black screen yet the pc still allows me to select options even tho I cannot see them. I'm really at a lose here. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks

Threepwood · 4 Oct 2014 at 21:15

is the monitor lead plugged into the GPU?

SLIPPYFI5T · 4 Oct 2014 at 21:20

Yer it's all displaying through the gpu. I've figured out that it is the display driver, however I don't understand why as it worked perfectly fine before

SLIPPYFI5T · 4 Oct 2014 at 21:24

I think it maybe catalyst drivers 14.9 as this is what it is recommending to download but seems like an odd issue to have

Threepwood · 4 Oct 2014 at 21:35

does it do it in safe mode?

SLIPPYFI5T · 4 Oct 2014 at 21:47

Na it doesn't safe mode is fine

stulid · 4 Oct 2014 at 22:08

Try an older driver.

SLIPPYFI5T · 4 Oct 2014 at 23:20

Just tried 14.7 didn't even get the wallpaper got the splash screen then blackness :s

stulid · 4 Oct 2014 at 23:37

Remove any overclock.

Try BIOS update of the board.

SLIPPYFI5T · 5 Oct 2014 at 08:08

Ok i updated board and took off overclock, still no joy

SLIPPYFI5T · 5 Oct 2014 at 08:47

Right I finally fixed it and it was ridiculously simple and I dunno why I didn't think of it. For whatever reason, it was trying to output the display as an extended desktop from another display port. Was just a case of finding which one and switching it off. Don't why it was doing that :s anyway cheers for the help