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ATI Catalyst 13.4 Drivers Installation Problem
Hi all,
First post here. I'll summarise:
I was a long time Windows user but decided to give Ubuntu a go at the start of this year. After some teething problems (caused, I think, by having an SSD and a UEFI motherboard rather than standard BIOS) After some messing about re-formating and creating the necessary partitions with a gParted LiveDisk I managed to get Windows 7 installed along side Ubuntu on my 120GB SSD. At the time, I simply installed Windows, went back and installed Ubuntu and then never felt the need to go back to Windows as I had no need for anything it offered.
Cut to now - I wanted to go back in to Windows to play some games that won't run on Ubuntu (at least not without faffing about with WINE for a very long time) so hopped back in to my other partition.
Once that had been done I went in to Windows to install updates/drivers/anti-virus etc before I could game on it.
I have an ATI HD7970 card so went to download the proprietary drivers, which is where I encountered a problem. When I installed the drivers, I'd load in to Windows and be presented with just my desktop background present, explorer.exe did not seem to have loaded and I couldn't even Control-Alt-Del to open up the task manager and start explorer afresh.
After a bit of googling I found the driver release notes (http://support.amd.com/us/kbarticles...easeNotes.aspx) which say I need to install SP1 and .Net SP1 before installing the drivers.
So, I restored Windows to pre-driver installation and fully updated everything with Windows Update and made sure the MB chip set drivers were installed, too. I then re-installed the drivers and encountered the same problem.
So now. I can get in to and use perfectly my Ubuntu installation (12.04) just fine (which is where I'm writing this from!) but Windows seems to be screwed. Could this be anything to do with also having Ubuntu installed at the same time? I'm guessing not as Windows essentially doesn't see Ubuntu and just sees its own 60GB partition, but I thought I'd check.
I think I'm essentially missing some crucial step in installing the drivers on to my system, and would appreciate any advice you guys can give me in getting this installed properly. Maybe try running the driver install as administrator would help? Look forward to hearing from you
J.