AMD Drivers conflicting with intel

[Demiqas]

So I've had something interesting happen to me that I've never seen before. I was using AMD's latest properly installable crimson driver (16.3.2) for my R9 290x. I dug out an older monitor of mine and due to this card not having a VGA slot, I wanted to attach it to my 4460's iGPU. I went ahead and enabled multi-monitor support and then installed the intel drivers. However, what happened after installing the Intel drivers is that my screen went black. I booted back in safe mode and it turned out that my AMD drivers completely glitched out. I did a driversweep on both, this time I installed the iGPU drivers first and then the AMD drivers, the same thing happened.

 

Now I'm quite sad because I was able to do dual monitor with the iGPU and a dedicated AMD card a year ago, without any issues at all, and now I have this happening to me. On top of this, no matter how cleanly I reinstall the drivers, my control panel's all bugged and I'm going to have to reinstall my windows.

 

I believe the issue to be either a conflict with both drivers or just the intel drivers messing up. I tried only installing the intel drivers and leaving AMD uninstalled, but connecting my HDMI main monitor to the iGPU also gave me a black screen.

 

Does anybody have any experiences with this or any ideas as to what could be the cause and how I can get my second monitor to run properly?

[samcool55]

Do you run windows 10?

[don_svetlio]

Why are you using an old driver? 16.6 is out

[don_svetlio]

Also - using onboard iGPU with a dGPU together always results in severe latency or flat out doesn't work. Get a VGA to DVI adapter

[Demiqas]

I am running on windows 7

 

I do not run 16.6 because it won't install at all. It gives me some error regarding driver detection and a quick google search shows I'm not the only one.

 

I did actually run a iGPU with a dGPU in the past, it was an r9 280x and an i5 and it worked perfectly. I understand this is a different card but I'd assume it'd work the same way.

[don_svetlio]

2 minutes ago, Demiqas said:

I am running on windows 7

 

I do not run 16.6 because it won't install at all. It gives me some error regarding driver detection and a quick google search shows I'm not the only one.

Try 16.6.1?

[Demiqas]

1 minute ago, don_svetlio said:

Try 16.6.1?

Is that the hotfix one? because that's the one that didn't work.

[samcool55]

1 minute ago, don_svetlio said:

Also - using onboard iGPU with a dGPU together always results in severe latency or flat out doesn't work. Get a VGA to DVI adapter

That's only sometimes the case when you run something intensive on both.

I'm running a 4570k iGPU with a 6950 for almost 3 years now and i haven't got any issues, apart from W10 hating it.

[don_svetlio]

1 minute ago, Demiqas said:

Is that the hotfix one? because that's the one that didn't work.

16.5.1? 16.5?

There are lots of drivers to choose from past 16.3.2

Anyhow, a simple adapter would sovle this issue. Either that or the GPU is dying

[don_svetlio]

1 minute ago, samcool55 said:

That's only sometimes the case when you run something intensive on both.

I'm running a 4570k iGPU with a 6950 for almost 3 years now and i haven't got any issues, apart from W10 hating it.

I've never had success with the iGPU - always latency.

[Demiqas]

2 minutes ago, don_svetlio said:

16.5.1? 16.5?

There are lots of drivers to choose from past 16.3.2

Anyhow, a simple adapter would sovle this issue. Either that or the GPU is dying

I could try those drivers. The GPU itself is fine, the issues only start when I bring intel into the mix. I'm not sure if the iGPU could be broken, but this CPU is a couple weeks old so I doubt that.

 

I can't use an adapter because there are no vga to dvi-d adapters.

[don_svetlio]

1 minute ago, Demiqas said:

I could try those drivers. The GPU itself is fine, the issues only start when I bring intel into the mix. I'm not sure if the iGPU could be broken, but this CPU is a couple weeks old so I doubt that.

 

I can't use an adapter because there are no vga to dvi-d adapters.

Yes there are - am using one as we speak.

[Demiqas]

Aha.. I can only find vga to dva-i cables here but I guess I should look around a little. I'd like to keep that as a last resort though, if I can absolutely not solve this issue without spending money.

[MoonlightSylv]

3 minutes ago, Demiqas said:

I could try those drivers. The GPU itself is fine, the issues only start when I bring intel into the mix. I'm not sure if the iGPU could be broken, but this CPU is a couple weeks old so I doubt that.

 

I can't use an adapter because there are no vga to dvi-d adapters.

It needs to be an active adapter but they exist.

[MoonlightSylv]

https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B01FL7H7HA?psc=1

[Demiqas]

2 minutes ago, ShadowTechXTS said:

It needs to be an active adapter but they exist.

yeah thats what I was afraid for, but the cheapest over here in yurop is 40 euros, I could spend that money on getting a semi decent proper hdmi monitor so that's not gonna happen.

[MoonlightSylv]

2 minutes ago, Demiqas said:

yeah thats what I was afraid for, but the cheapest over here in yurop is 40 euros, I could spend that money on getting a semi decent proper hdmi monitor so that's not gonna happen.

The one I linked is 13USD.

[TheRandomness]

3 minutes ago, ShadowTechXTS said:

The one I linked is 13USD.

european prices please*

[afyeung]

why can't you run both monitors through the 290x

[thekeemo]

19 minutes ago, don_svetlio said:

Also - using onboard iGPU with a dGPU together always results in severe latency or flat out doesn't work. Get a VGA to DVI adapter

I disagree

It works amazingly for me

[Demiqas]

15 minutes ago, afyeung said:

why can't you run both monitors through the 290x

Like I mentioned, the 290x doesn't have a vga slot and this monitor is an older one, so it only supports vga.

[Demiqas]

Okay, so I just did a complete fresh install of windows, only installed the intel graphics drivers, shut PC down, connected both monitors to my motherboard and when I boot my PC I just got a black screen. It also didn't boot to windows at all, because I didn't hear the windows loading sound. Also, when I pressed the power button it shut down instantly.

 

Could this mean my iGPU is broken? I'm afraid to set my iGPU to primary adapter, it may cause me to get no screen at all with no way to reverse it.

[Demiqas]

Alright, turns out it was all just intels fuckery with their newest drivers. Downloaded an older one from 2014 and everything's fine now.