Black Screen after installing ATI Catalyst Drivers

Hi, the first time I installed Windows 7 Professional (clean install, not upgrade) and installed the catalyst drivers for my HD5750 video card (http://game.amd.com/us-en/drivers_catalyst.aspx?p=win7/windows-7-64bit), everything worked fine. I ended up formatting my hard drive and doing a reinstall though (had a major compatibility issue with Anti-Virus software and Microsoft Office, so decided to format the hard drive and did a reinstall). After doing that, and installing the Catalyst driver, I'm having the following problem:


The install goes fine, the computer restarts, but when it boots up and windows starts, I have a black screen and nothing displays. My monitors' indicators also change from blue to amber (as if there is no computer turned on or connected to them). I've started the computer in safe mode, and the monitors work. I can then uninstall the driver, but then I can't extend my desktop using the standard VGA driver, or get the full resolution of my monitors (1400x900). It's pissing me off!


Somebody please help!! Below is my computer set up:



Case: Thermaltake M9 ATX VI1450BWS
Motherboard: EVGA X58 SLI LE ATX (model 141-BL-E757-TR)
CPU: Intel i7-920 (BX80601920)
Video Card: Sapphire Vapor-X Radeon HD5750 1gb GDDR5 (PCIE 2.0x16)
Memory: Corsair TR3X6G1600C8D (3x2gb - 1600mhz DDR3 - Triple Channel)
Power Supply: BFG 550-Watt ATX (BFGR550WGXPSU)
Operating System: Windows 7 64-bit
Monitor: Dell 19" LCD (SE198WFP) x2
TV Card: Hauppauge WinTV-HVR-1600 TV Tuner (PCI)
Primary SATA HDD: Western Digital WCAV53007608 Caviar Green 500 GB
Secondary SATA HDD: Western Digital WD10000LSRTL Caviar Black 1 TB


Primary SATA DVD: LG-GH22LS40 Internal Double-Layer DVD +-RW/CD-RW Drive
Secondary SATA DVD: LG-WH08LS20K Internal Blu-Ray DVD (BD-R, BD-RE, DVD+R, DVD-RAM)

Well, its not your monitor or your card, so is software - the drivers. Can you try a different set of Catalyst drivers?

skunksmash said:

do not use ''driver sweeper'' it corrupts GFX driver installs

Blasphemy! How dare you speak against the great snake oil fix!







Sorry, I just couldn't help myself here as I totally agree :)

You can't convince the die harders of that. But this isn't the thread for that argument. :)

skunksmash said:

LMAO.... i know what you mean, its like they developed the app themselves

LOL

OP - good luck in solving your issue.

Later.

I just did a clean install and then installed catalyst 12.4 with the same result.

Solution: boot safe mode, roll back drivers, reboot, install Catalyst SDK along with the new Catalyst drivers, because the SDK includes OpenCL.dll file installations that are necessary.

I had the same issue. The problem was a missing motherboard pci system managment driver. I used Driver Easy to find and install this driver becasue it is free and I did not have a motherboard disk but any driver detection software will work.