Slightest graphics card causes crash.

[greeneman42]

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.

 

[ColinJK]

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

 

[greeneman42]

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.

 

[ColinJK]

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..

 

[greeneman42]

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.

 

[Solarstarshines]

why didn't you go back into the ccc and hit default clocks

 

[greeneman42]

It wouldn't let me open ccc without it crashing

 

[Solarstarshines]

uninstall it then use driver sweeper
http://majorgeeks.com/Driver_Sweeper_d6171.html
in safe mode then restart
then re install ccc

 

[greeneman42]

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?

 

[beret21]

Hit the solve
hit the solve

 

[greeneman42]

Lol I'm saying its not solved just yet