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Black screen when installing AMD video drivers
I have a new i5 system with a fresh install of Windows 10x64 and a good old AMD 7870 graphics card. I have been using AMD Crimson drivers 16.3.2 for Win10x64. No overclocking. The system has worked flawlessly the last six weeks. A couple of days ago I had my first crash, when the PC locked up loading a game.
I rebooted the PC and the BIOS came up fine. It started loading Windows, then came a black screen just before login, no cursor, no light, like there was no signal to the monitor.
Same problem upon successive reboots.
But the PC would reboot into safe mode fine. After some Googling, I began suspecting the AMD video drivers.
So I used Display Driver Uninstaller (DDU) in safe mode to remove all the AMD video drivers. Windows 10 then booted to the desktop and works great, but only with basic Microsoft video drivers.
Whenever I try installing the AMD video card drivers, I get the same black screen lockup (no signal?), just at the point the new driver is taking over. Normally the screen would come back on and driver installation would complete. But instead I can only reboot without AMD video drivers.
I have tried installing Crimson 16.3.2, 16.4.1, 15.12 and Catalyst 15.7.1 drivers for Win10x64, all with the black screen at the later stage of the attempted install.
Does anyone have an idea of what I could try next?
Last edited by Fritz Fraghof; 15 Apr 2016 at 10:30.