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New radeon hd4850 - windows 7 splash screen freezes
I have installed a Radeon HD 4850 in my Dell Inspiron 560, which has one pci-e slot.
When booting windows 7, the splash screen with the colored windows logo freezes after a few seconds.
I think the problem can be described as "The display adapter that is installed in your computer is not properly processing the video-mode switching that occurs when the Windows logo screen is displayed" (that is from a windows help article for windows 98).
I have searched for solutions; so far, I have disabled the onboard graphics and unistalled the drived for the onboard graphics. I have also tried to boot in safe mode abs install the driver, but the card is not recognized by device manager and the driver installation produces an error "Failed to load the detection driver".
When I take out the 4850, the computer boots fine
Also, I am using a Corsair 550w power supply, 8gb of ram, 2.93 intel core 2 duo processor.