Remove Drivers First?

[SoAdCrAzY]

I have sent my AMD Radeon HD 7950 3GB back to be replaced as it blew up.

I am using the on board graphics and so downloaded the latest driver for the chipset. When the replacement card comes, should I remove all the graphics drivers and start again before I put it in or should I just get rid of the on board graphics driver? I already have the latest AMD graphics driver.

Thanks.

 

[OracIe]

You should be fine, just plug in the ATi card and let the system do the rest.
(Might need a couple of reboots)

 

[Krisali]

Yeah you should be fine. I changed from Xfire 4870 to 6950 to 7950 without touching the drivers. Plug and play

What happened for the card to blow up? Sounds a bit dramatic

 

[oldestgregg]

You might want to disable on-board gpu through the bios when you get the card installed.

 

[SoAdCrAzY]

Yeah you should be fine. I changed from Xfire 4870 to 6950 to 7950 without touching the drivers. Plug and play

What happened for the card to blow up? Sounds a bit dramatic

I was watching BBC iPlayer when the PC restarted itself. I then smelt burning so unplugged everything.

I called OCuk and they told me to take out the GPU and try booting with the DVI cable plugged into the mobo. It worked fine from then on. The man said it was most likely a blown X capacitor or something. I have sent it off to be replaced.

I hope the problem was just the GPU. The fans do get noisy when playing demanding games such as Bioshock Infinite.

I will look at disabling the onboard graphics card too thank you.

 

[Something Else]

I swapped my 7970 for a 7850 to check the 7850 worked and all I needed to do was restart the pc once. Then the 7850 replaced the 7750 in my brothers pc and it just needed a single restart