Problem with my mates 7970 :-(

[Martini1991]

You can't go expecting a company to spend thousands of pounds on printing CDs every time Nvidia and AMD decide to update the drivers though can you?

Be real, man.

Completly missing the point, why am I not surprised?
At least give WORKING drivers with the card.

 

[The Running Man]

Completly missing the point, why am I not surprised?
At least give WORKING drivers with the card.

Definitely. They should work out of the box with the provided materials. Maybe not as optal as a freshly downloaded set - but if they are provided with the card you should at least be able to get it working.

 

[ALXAndy]

Completly missing the point, why am I not surprised?
At least give WORKING drivers with the card.

They may well have.

Have you ever seen a GPU ship with a CD that has an incompatible driver on?

It might even be a damaged CD for crying out loud. Seen plenty of those in my time.

 

[Meaker]

They may well have.

Have you ever seen a GPU ship with a CD that has an incompatible driver on?

It might even be a damaged CD for crying out loud. Seen plenty of those in my time.

It's happened a surprising amount of times on both sides of the fence :/

 

[Final8y]

The driver on the CD should be compatible with the card.

 

[FloppyPoppy]

Surely the ones they provided must at least work?

lol always get the latest drivers offline, even when its a brand new card! infact, especialy when its a brand new card and updates are released practicaly daily for them

 

[Martini1991]

lol always get the latest drivers offline, even when its a brand new card! infact, especialy when its a brand new card and updates are released practicaly daily for them

Wut?

 

[straxusii]

And especially a brand new card on a brand new architecture

 

[subbytna]

Surely the ones they provided must at least work?

Never use the drivers you get with a card, they are always out of date

Go download the new drivers

 

[Dervious]

Once upon a time, a long while ago......

I purchased a PCI modem card for a customer's PC. I needed it quickly, so got it from a large, national PC outlet. Spent a frustrating hour or two trying to get it to work. The supplied driver installed, but the modem would not work correctly. I suspected that the card may be faulty until I found the manufacturer's website.

"Please note that the driver CD, v1.5, should not be used with this product. Please download v1.6."

So. PC Planet sell a modem card that contains a faulty driver disc. It's going to be a bit awkward for a customer to download a working driver, when their new modem doesn't work !

 

[insejn]

nevermind

 

[OCPete]

FYI everyone the CD does not look damaged. It autoplays correctly and offers a range of drivers.

The install program runs and "looks" OK. Its progress bars appear to waft through installing as you would expect, BUT it just finishes (I ran it more than once after i had issues) and does not actually load the drivers into memory. It puts drivers on the PC (i checked the directory), but they do not load. I tried to manually load them as well.

I'm guessing they put the wrong CD in the box. That's the CD for 6900's. But its not labelled to tell you that and it does not have anything specific to 69XX series listed in the install program.

Simple mistake, but still poor.

 

[ALXAndy]

It doesn't need to look broken man. I had an Asrock motherboard disc last year that was corrupt and the drivers all half installed and wrecked my Windows install.

 

[Ur round next]

Never use the drivers you get with a card, they are always out of date

Go download the new drivers

Yeah i never use CD,s for drivers