- Joined
- Sep 23, 2001
- Location
- In your head (Ottawa.Canada)
Hi All,
I made a wee boo boo yesterday. I have been using integrated graphics for about a month as my 7970 pooped out on me. I got another 7970 yesterday and in my excitment, I swapped cards and booted up completly forgetting to uninstall the Intel graphics..I kinda assumed the new card would sit on top of the latested Catalyst drivers that were still installed. Result...BSOD when I boot into windows. I went back to the integrated graphics (shut off the pcie slot so only booting into the integrated graphics) hoping to uninstall the intel drivers, then turn on the pcie slot to try the amd card again. Still BSOD. I tried the repair option...no good. Best that would happen is I can get into windows for about a min or two before she crashes again. I tried repairing from the actual Win 7 install disk but it says the version is not compatible?!?! I tried safe mode but it would hang on the loading page for a very long time, over 5 minutes. I assumed the pc froze so I would reboot. I have a feeling that i'll need a clean install of win 7 the prob is....ahem...I have not backed up recently. I'd like to get into my my current OS to at least save as many files as I can before I do a reinstall. Suggestions, ideas?
Much thanks,
Puer
I made a wee boo boo yesterday. I have been using integrated graphics for about a month as my 7970 pooped out on me. I got another 7970 yesterday and in my excitment, I swapped cards and booted up completly forgetting to uninstall the Intel graphics..I kinda assumed the new card would sit on top of the latested Catalyst drivers that were still installed. Result...BSOD when I boot into windows. I went back to the integrated graphics (shut off the pcie slot so only booting into the integrated graphics) hoping to uninstall the intel drivers, then turn on the pcie slot to try the amd card again. Still BSOD. I tried the repair option...no good. Best that would happen is I can get into windows for about a min or two before she crashes again. I tried repairing from the actual Win 7 install disk but it says the version is not compatible?!?! I tried safe mode but it would hang on the loading page for a very long time, over 5 minutes. I assumed the pc froze so I would reboot. I have a feeling that i'll need a clean install of win 7 the prob is....ahem...I have not backed up recently. I'd like to get into my my current OS to at least save as many files as I can before I do a reinstall. Suggestions, ideas?
Much thanks,
Puer