Startup issues with ATI 4870

[TheFlyingPope]

I went to play Left 4 Dead on the 1.1 prerelease drivers and it crashed and locked up my system when loading a level. Since then, when ever i restart the computer my screen goes black at the login screen, i can log in but the screen stays black. The display works fine in safe mode. I deleted the video driver and then i can get back into windows, but when ever i reload the old 1.1 driver from windows update or the the latest driver from the ati website it goes back to a black screen when windows gets to the login screen.

Any help would be helpful.

 

[Captain Zero]

Try the WDM Catalyst 9.4 drivers. Make you get either the x32 or x64 versions for your OS.

Drivers & Tools | GAME.AMD.COM

 

[TheFlyingPope]

i did, same thing.

 

[Captain Zero]

Post your specs, maybe it's a PSU problem?

 

[TheFlyingPope]

e8400
4gb mushkin ram
ati 8750
Corsair 750watt psu
cant remember the mobo atm but i know it was a mid range asus

 

[Captain Zero]

The 750w should be more than enough. Did you do an upgrade or fresh install?

 

[TheFlyingPope]

fresh install
it was working fine since i installed it until left 4 dead crashed

 

[Captain Zero]

Hmm, odd. Try clearing out any temp/tmp files. Also, L4D may have left a crashlog, see if it has any clues. . .

 

[djbb]

L4d has issue with ieframe.dll in windows 7
i need to ctrl-alt-del to open task manager, open IE, close task manager, close IE, click L4D on the taskbar.

 

[mickey megabyte]

bizarre!

luckily my l4d doesn't have such problems.

quick tip, you can get to task manager quicker by using Ctrl-shift-Esc