Win7 refusing to acknowledge AMD Radeon Driver?

[yesthatnagia]

Hey all! I did a clean install of Win7 and I've been trying for about a day to install the driver for my Radeon HD 3200. I've run all the official software AMD (the auto-detector, plus the actual driver installer) provides five or six times by now, and while the installer tells me in the logs that everything was a success, when I restart, the computer persists in using the defaults, pops up a CMD window saying that AMD Video Transcoder failed to initialize, pops up a window saying that no AMD graphics driver installed (or it's not functioning properly) and then says that I have the wrong driver installed or not enabled when I try to open the Vision ENGINE control center.

I've done everything I can think of, up to running Driver Sweeper in safe mode and then reinstalling the driver.

I'm about to tear my hair out. Any suggestions?

 

[AddRAM]

Why not just run windows update ?

Make sure you have it set to install other software and drivers.

 

[maxie]

Hi Welcome to Seven Forums ... Your problem could be related to the Chipset Driver ...

What is your Computers Model Number ? ...

 

[AddRAM]

Re install windows, then just run all rounds of windows updates until there is nothing left.

Post back the results, we`ll continue from there.

Also post a fully expanded device manager showing any issues.

 

[yesthatnagia]

Re-installed, ran the updates, and when the update tool restarted, there was no OS. I booted from the install disk, ran bootrec, saw no windows installations, and start-up repair found no installations, either.

So now I've re-re-re-installed, completely clean, and I'm not sure where to go from here.

 

[gregrocker]

Follow these steps to get and keep a perfect Clean Reinstall Windows 7.

The steps for drivers are in red.

If you didn't delete all partitions during install to clear the partition table I would do it over correctly.

 

[AddRAM]

Is windows installed and running fine ?