I've never had any problems with my computer but today I went I to the amd catalyst control center and used the overdrive feature to slightly turn up the graphics card's max clock speed and max memory. Not sure why I did this but now it crashes under the slightest strain. It boots up fine but opening any programs other then maybe the file explorer causes a shutdown. So I can't go into the control center to turn it down. Kinda stumped.
Tap F8 throughout the start-up procedure (from when you turn it on until you get a menu) and boot into Safemode, change the settings from here
I should have stated before that I did try that, but the catalyst control center won't open in safemode because it doesn't detect the drivers for the graphics card.
1. Go into safe mode
2. Go to C:\Users\<your name>\AppData\Local\ATI\
3.a.You should see a file called Profiles.xml
3.b rename or delete this
4.boot into normal windows
source of information: Overclocking too much in Catalyst Control Center..
Okay I tried deleting profiles.xml but it didn't work. I was still able to fix it by uninstalling the graphics cards drivers without it crashing and then going into the control center and restoring default settings. Then I just reinstalled drivers and it seems fine now. Thank you all for your information and quick responses.
It wouldn't let me open ccc without it crashing
uninstall it then use driver sweeper
http://majorgeeks.com/Driver_Sweeper_d6171.html
in safe mode then restart
then re install ccc
Yeah, I spoke too soon. It didn't crash as easily but when I got to messing around with different windows it crashed the same as before. I uninstalled and reinstalled the driver and ccc. I also reset all the ccc's settings to the factory default. Maybe I should just uninstall ccc?
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