Problems regarding black screen after clean windows install

[CraZeeY]

Bear with me, it's a long story.

I have, for quite some time, been wanting to make a clean install of my OS and stuff because one should do that from time to time so I decided, today, to go for it. I downloaded all drivers etc I needed and formatted both my HDD and SSD then installed the OS on the SSD. Everything was fine, I installed the chipset driver for the mobo and when I installed the driver for my GPU (7970, AMD 14.4) it seemed to go all well, until I restarted the comp.

When I restarted the computer after installing the GPU drivers and come to the welcome screen in windows everything is black and monitor goes to sleep mode. I restarted the computer, went into safe mode and uninstalled the drivers then restarted again but this time I tried a different display driver. I downloaded the latest beta driver, 14.7 iirc, and tried with that, same ****. I uninstalled it and **** once more then I tried the drivers I had before I reinstalled windows, 13.12 and that didn't work either. I got fed up so I started to browse the web trying to find answers and someone recommended that one should update it's BIOS and I thought "what the hell, let's give it a shot". I downloaded the latest BIOS from ASUS website, 2101, put it on a flash drive, restarted the computer, went into BIOS, started EZ FLASH (I've used it before) and tried to update the BIOS but it said the BIOS file I had (.cap) was not a EFI BIOS and **** didn't work.

Now, what should I do? Should I try to update the BIOS with the Flashback thingy where you use ROG connect etc or wth. I'm quite ****ing mad at the moment because I've never encoutered this problem before.

Specs:
CVFZ BIOS 1302
8350
Sapphire 7970 Dual-X
8 gig Corsair 1600mhz LP
Intel 240 SSD
Some Western Digital 1tb HDD
1200w Silverstone Strider

Lmk if there's any other information you guys need, I might have forgotten something.

Note that everything is stock, nothing was overclocked prior to the reinstall and I have not overcloked anything after either.

[Chino]

Can you still get into your BIOS?

[CraZeeY]

Chino wrote:
Can you still get into your BIOS?

Yup, everything except for my display driver is working as it should, as far as I know anyways.

[Chino]

1. Please redownload the BIOS file.
2. Format a USB pendrive to FAT32.
3. Copy the BIOS file to the pendrive.
4. Try to update your BIOS again.

If it still fails, rename the BIOS file to something short.

[CraZeeY]

Chino wrote:
1. Please redownload the BIOS file.
2. Format a USB pendrive to FAT32.
3. Copy the BIOS file to the pendrive.
4. Try to update your BIOS again.

If it still fails, rename the BIOS file to something short.

I just tried a different USB-stick and it worked, however, after this update, when I try to install AMD 14.4 I get an error saying:

Application Install: install source package not found

I did not get this error prior to the BIOS update but now we at least know there's something wrong.

I'm sure I could upload the Report.xlm if you guys think that would help us.

[Chino]

Download Driver Sweeper and run it in Safe Mode to remove all the remaining AMD drivers. Reboot back into Windows and run CCleaner. Download latest AMD drivers and install with administrator priviledges.

[CraZeeY]

Chino wrote:
Download Driver Sweeper and run it in Safe Mode to remove all the remaining AMD drivers. Reboot back into Windows and run CCleaner. Download latest AMD drivers and install with administrator priviledges.

I tried all that but it didn't work. I got fed up so I reformated/reinstalled windows and now it works fine.

Thank you for your help.

[Arne_Saknussemm]

Heh! Sometimes that ends up being the quickest way sometimes a new install will scramble somewhere along the line...

run sfc /scannow as administrator in command prompt just to check OS install is clean this time arround

🙂