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Radeon/Vista Issue
UnreadableHulk
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I just got a new computer about three weeks ago. AMD X2 5600, 2 GB of ram, Radeon X1950 GT, Vista Ultimate. Was running great for about two weeks. I installed Adobe CS Production Studio (This was the last major change I remember making before this occurred, although uninstalling all Adobe products hasn't fixed my issue.) and still ran fine for about two or three hours.
Then, after a restart, I came back into Windows to be greeted by a black screen. I could see everything display properly while the system was starting up, but then once it actually boots into Vista, the screen goes black and displays a "No Signal Input" message.
It seems to be an issue with the Ati Radeon Vista drivers, as I can disable the drivers and boot into Vista just fine. Once I enable the drivers again, I get the black screen. (In addition, there are two entries for the video card under "Display Adapters" in the Device Manager. One says "ATI Radeon X1950 GT" and the other "ATI Radeon X1950 GT Secondary".)
I've gone as far as to reformat and reinstall Vista, but the same issue still appears on a brand new install of Vista. I've installed older copies of the driver but that hasn't helped either.
Any ideas?
Then, after a restart, I came back into Windows to be greeted by a black screen. I could see everything display properly while the system was starting up, but then once it actually boots into Vista, the screen goes black and displays a "No Signal Input" message.
It seems to be an issue with the Ati Radeon Vista drivers, as I can disable the drivers and boot into Vista just fine. Once I enable the drivers again, I get the black screen. (In addition, there are two entries for the video card under "Display Adapters" in the Device Manager. One says "ATI Radeon X1950 GT" and the other "ATI Radeon X1950 GT Secondary".)
I've gone as far as to reformat and reinstall Vista, but the same issue still appears on a brand new install of Vista. I've installed older copies of the driver but that hasn't helped either.
Any ideas?
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http://www.omegadrivers.net/
Not hot-linked cause I suck. But learn to love those drivers. Awesome.
Seriously, I've had so many problems with the Catalyst drivers and almost 0 with the Omega Drivers. They're a 3rd party group and have drivers for pretty much every card (including the elusive laptop Radeon Mobility cards, from which I post currently).
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If that's the case, booting in last known good also works
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In addition, I did find the option for running in "Last known good configuration", but still got the black screen, as if Windows doesn't recognize it as a problem.
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Ignore that.
It won't let me use the drivers. When I reboot, Windows has removed them again, and has a message about how the "program" was unstable.
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This has intrigued me, I must have the answer!
*dashes off into the darkness*
Yeah, it's also odd that an entire reformat of the drive and reinstall of Windows didn't fix it. It's almost as if it's a problem with my hardware, but it only appeared recently.
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No, it's connected. I took the card out and reseated it just to be sure, but no change.
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No, but I don't have an onboard video card, and my previous system has an AGP card in it.
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