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XFX 6950 driver hell! Which version works?
I just completed my new build and everything went great. W7 started up and I began the mobo driver updates and extras that come on the Crosshair 4F disk. I put in the AMD Radeon graphics driver disk and it told me the version on the disk was old and to download the new one, I chose the version for W7 64, I believe it was 11.1 or .2, downloaded and installed, reboot and the black screen of death. I could tell windows was there, I even typed in my password and hit enter but then the windows logo just sat there and stayed, nothing else. I had to go into safe mode and "roll back" the drivers, after I tried to update them in device manager which failed, then it loaded up and displayed fine after the roll back but told me the proper drivers are not found and I should install the latest ones which I had just done. I then just decided to install the ones straight from the dvd, installed, reboot and same black screen. Did the safe mode thing again just so I could get online to search for the cure, I cannot find one. I tried the last three versions of drivers going back by date, no go. I said F-it and with no security logged into here to post this. My specs are in my profile, but I know all my parts are compatible with each other. What version of drivers should I try? All installs on the crosshair disk went fine, many reboots with the display and W7 starting up fine. It was not until I installed the AMD drivers for my video card that the black screen started. Hardware build went great, software build no going so well. Any advice appreciated.
Current version video card drivers are 8.801.0.0 I can longer "roll back" so I'm stuck in safe mode.