Get the Catalyst removal tool, run that, then reinstall (with restarts in between, obviously). Should fix it.
Are you referring to this? http://www.techspot.com/drivers/driver/file/information/16748/
If so, the utility ran for a bit in the background, then black screens requiring a hard reboot. upon turning back on my duel monitors are back to being mirrored., and Device manager thinking it's a Basic Display Adapter. Upon trying to install catalyst 13.9, I get another black screen, requiring another hard reboot. Upon boot, nothing has been changed.
I'm going to pull my bottom GPU and try again.
EDIT: bottom GPU pulled fine, everything uninstalled without black screening. However trying to install the drivers give me the same error. the driver is already preinstalled.
EDIT2: Constently tried reinstalling drivers, nothing worked. However I have it stable with no mirroring monitors so I'm going to wait a bit and see what happens.
EDIT3: Screamed Yolo to the sky, installed the APU driver, black screened, went and cried in a corner for a little bit, came back, did a hard reboot,and bam. fully working.
TL;DR 14.4 install crashed, no propper driver has been able to be installed since.
Long story: Woke up, Was alerted by CCC that there was a driver update, told it to grab it, Middle of install I got a black screen. I then left it for about an hour before coming back and it was still a black screen. So I did a hard shutdown. Ever since my driver has been screwed.
Trying to re-install brings up an error with "Driver Install:the driver package is already preinstalled" in the error log. I've tried uninstalling VIA Control panel, and even "DDU". I've tried various drivers, 14.4 and 13.12 being the main ones. Currently, AMD's 'Auto detect and install' program is mistaking my Crossfired 7870's for an A-series APU and wants me to install that software.
Knowing it'll take a little bit for a response, I'm going to try drivers from the disks that came with my cards, and then I'll try removing GPUs. Checking into this thread for help.
Full system specs can be found in my sig.
Also, on the off chance my hyper links don't work.
EDIT: tried installing disk drivers, black screen happened requireing multiple hard restarts to fix. Device manager now shows what was "Microsoft Basic Display Adapter" as Radeon 7800. But were disabled, After re-enabling them by second monitor now works correctly (was mirroring primary. now is it's own screen.). However auto-detect still claims it's an APU, and I cannot install modern drivers.
One thing to keep in mind is that if you make a home server NAS you can do more with it. If you have some old components laying around, turn it into a HTPC+NAS. Not only can you watch all your movies from your laptop anywhere in the house, but you can watch them from the server as well.
You need another video card if you are running three monitors...
I'm running CFX 7870s. my bottom card was able to run 4 displays. However due to the physical size of it in its current state, it is unable to be the top card.
So nice and quick, As some of you know I'm driving quad monitors. Two with DVI from my 7870, and two off Intel HD, a VGA and an HDMI. Recently I've wanted to move the HDMi from the intel HD to the 7870 so I can actually fix the overscan (Intel display management is awful). So I got myself a displayport to HDMI adapter. And that's where the headache begins. the adapter works fine, However when plugged into the GPU only 2 monitors will work. I'm well aware that you can't use both the DVI and the HDMI ports on a card featuring them, however I was under the impression you could use two of either, well using the displayport. What exactly am I doing wrong?
TL;DR Displayport-HDMI adapter still only allows two monitors at a time driven by a 7870. Adapter works.
OP can you take a picture, or link toy our current computer? you may be able to save ~$60 on a case.
Also, if you know how, pop off the side and take a picture of the side of the Power Supply unit. You may be able to TEMPORARILY use that.
However, if you can go $.11 over your $300-$500 budget, this would do nicely. Assuming you're cool with the slight online-buying risk.
Except i don't wanna pay $50 for something gaming oriented with a ton of features i don't need
Could i just use a basic external numpad?
yes, although keep in mind that an external number pad will still just transmit the same things as your normal numpad. It may help if you need it closer to the WASD keys, although finding something that adds completly new buttons will be both hard, and just a hassle.
What I mean with monitor cable is the one which ends are blue. I don't know the name of it. I'm just sure that the cable is giving the blue shade. So I kicked the CPU bexause I couldn't care more about going behind my CPU and fixate the cable.
I haven't opened the case of my CPU, so I couldn't tell about what really happened. But SMART is already telling me to backup and replace and because the noise is coming from the front side of the CPU where the disk is located, so I assume it really is the HDD that crashed. I also smelled something metallic right after the rattle.
If it doesn't rattle anymore, does it means no more data gets corrupted? I had seen the contents of my folders and apparently nothing is lost.
What word will you use to replace 'rattle'? I had no idea.
Your computer is dieing. Mechanical parts don't just fix themselves. if you care about your data you will backup all your files, or better yet bring it to a computer store and have them replace the hard drive for you. I would suggest the latter because it looks like you have no clue what you're doing.
Also, the tall box of your computer isn't a CPU.it is a desktop/tower/enclosure/case. Inside there are multiple pieces.
If you care about your data then turn the computer off until such time as you can get a drive to back stuff onto. When a HDD reports it's dieing it very, very rarely is wrong. I've seen this a lot of times in our small town where people get notices, ignore them, then get mad and sad that we cannot recover their data.
Wait, didn't we hate on Razer for doing exactly this on a desktop? Proprietary hardware that will probably only be sold through them? sure it's nifty, but it probably will just become a novelty.
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Are you referring to this?
http://www.techspot.com/drivers/driver/file/information/16748/
If so, the utility ran for a bit in the background, then black screens requiring a hard reboot. upon turning back on my duel monitors are back to being mirrored., and Device manager thinking it's a Basic Display Adapter. Upon trying to install catalyst 13.9, I get another black screen, requiring another hard reboot. Upon boot, nothing has been changed.
I'm going to pull my bottom GPU and try again.
EDIT: bottom GPU pulled fine, everything uninstalled without black screening. However trying to install the drivers give me the same error. the driver is already preinstalled.
EDIT2: Constently tried reinstalling drivers, nothing worked. However I have it stable with no mirroring monitors so I'm going to wait a bit and see what happens.
EDIT3: Screamed Yolo to the sky, installed the APU driver, black screened, went and cried in a corner for a little bit, came back, did a hard reboot,and bam. fully working.
And it only took me 8 hours.
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Long story: Woke up, Was alerted by CCC that there was a driver update, told it to grab it, Middle of install I got a black screen. I then left it for about an hour before coming back and it was still a black screen. So I did a hard shutdown. Ever since my driver has been screwed.
Trying to re-install brings up an error with "Driver Install:the driver package is already preinstalled" in the error log. I've tried uninstalling VIA Control panel, and even "DDU". I've tried various drivers, 14.4 and 13.12 being the main ones. Currently, AMD's 'Auto detect and install' program is mistaking my Crossfired 7870's for an A-series APU and wants me to install that software.
Knowing it'll take a little bit for a response, I'm going to try drivers from the disks that came with my cards, and then I'll try removing GPUs. Checking into this thread for help.
Full system specs can be found in my sig.
Also, on the off chance my hyper links don't work.
Image: https://i.imgur.com/1XqWeyo.png
DDU: http://www.guru3d.com/files-details/display-driver-uninstaller-download.html
EDIT: tried installing disk drivers, black screen happened requireing multiple hard restarts to fix. Device manager now shows what was "Microsoft Basic Display Adapter" as Radeon 7800. But were disabled, After re-enabling them by second monitor now works correctly (was mirroring primary. now is it's own screen.). However auto-detect still claims it's an APU, and I cannot install modern drivers.
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You could also bump up the PSU to around 500w and grab a 7850 for ~$10 less than that 750, while getting better performance.
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Why not get a windows computer that is twice as powerful, and the same price then?
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I'm running CFX 7870s. my bottom card was able to run 4 displays. However due to the physical size of it in its current state, it is unable to be the top card.
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TL;DR Displayport-HDMI adapter still only allows two monitors at a time driven by a 7870. Adapter works.
Link to PC build excluding monitors.
Link to the 7870 in question
seccondary 7870 link, manufacturers page.
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Why are we suggesting such overkill builds for no reason?
drop it down to an i5, drop the 290 to a 770/280x.
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Also, if you know how, pop off the side and take a picture of the side of the Power Supply unit. You may be able to TEMPORARILY use that.
However, if you can go $.11 over your $300-$500 budget, this would do nicely. Assuming you're cool with the slight online-buying risk.
PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant / Benchmarks
CPU: AMD Athlon X4 750K 3.4GHz Quad-Core Processor ($79.19 @ TigerDirect)
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-F2A55M-S1 Micro ATX FM2+ Motherboard ($49.99 @ Newegg)
Memory: GeIL EVO POTENZA 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory ($63.99 @ Newegg)
Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive ($49.99 @ Amazon)
Video Card: MSI Radeon R7 265 2GB Video Card ($149.99 @ Newegg)
Case: NZXT Source 210 (Black) ATX Mid Tower Case ($37.99 @ Micro Center)
Power Supply: Antec Basiq 430W 80+ Certified ATX Power Supply ($43.97 @ OutletPC)
Optical Drive: LG GH24NSB0 DVD/CD Writer ($15.00 @ Newegg)
Other: Windows ($10.00)
Total: $500.11
(Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available.)
(Generated by PCPartPicker 2014-04-17 20:52 EDT-0400)
EDIT: for the lazy, windows link.
http://www.reddit.com/r/softwareswap/comments/2391ac/h_windows_7_8_81_office_2013_2010_2011_mac_visio/
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how much are you spending?
FPS in what? you could probably max Half life, get decent gameplay on HL2/Gmod, but get 1FPS lowest on Crysis 3...
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yes, although keep in mind that an external number pad will still just transmit the same things as your normal numpad. It may help if you need it closer to the WASD keys, although finding something that adds completly new buttons will be both hard, and just a hassle.
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Your computer is dieing. Mechanical parts don't just fix themselves. if you care about your data you will backup all your files, or better yet bring it to a computer store and have them replace the hard drive for you. I would suggest the latter because it looks like you have no clue what you're doing.
Also, the tall box of your computer isn't a CPU.it is a desktop/tower/enclosure/case. Inside there are multiple pieces.
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