AMD 16.12.1 drivers partially installed

[TheLuke]

The newest driver update 16.12.1 came and I tryed to install it but it always says partially installed drivers. I have AMD R7 200 series if that helps.

[Carclis]

Did you uninstall the old driver properly before installing the newest version? To properly clean the old ones out I'd recommend using DDU.

[TheLuke]

1 minute ago, Carclis said:

Did you uninstall the old driver properly before installing the newest version? To properly clean the old ones out I'd recommend using DDU.

No, I didn't will try that now, thanks!

 

[Carclis]

It's always good practice to clean old drivers out before installing the new ones. It might not always cause issues, but when it does it's extremely annoying. Let us know how it goes.

[JefferyD90]

8 minutes ago, Carclis said:

Did you uninstall the old driver properly before installing the newest version? To properly clean the old ones out I'd recommend using DDU.

 

12 minutes ago, TheLuke said:

The newest driver update 16.12.1 came and I tryed to install it but it always says partially installed drivers. I have AMD R7 200 series if that helps.

The new AMD driver Installer actually has a "clean install" option, which will shut your computer down remove all of your previous AMD software, then restart the computer and install the new versions.  No need for any third party tools.

[TheLuke]

17 minutes ago, JefferyD90 said:

 

The new AMD driver Installer actually has a "clean install" option, which will shut your computer down remove all of your previous AMD software, then restart the computer and install the new versions.  No need for any third party tools.

Ok will take a look at that later I'm not at my PC ATM, thanks for helping

[TheLuke]

Nothing worked, I even tried AMD cleanUp tool, but I get the same message.

[JefferyD90]

5 hours ago, TheLuke said:

Nothing worked, I even tried AMD cleanUp tool, but I get the same message.

Then you have some software that is conflicting with it and preventing it.  Either that or when the AMD tool is uninstalling the old version, before the new one can get installed, Windows is already freaking out and trying to pop another one on top of it.

 

Personally, if you're having this much issue with a driver install then something else is probably wrong with your system and I'd just do a clean install of the OS

[Feorhhyrde]

I'm having the same, I'm starting to always have it. I recently did a clean system install for a driver to install properly(16.7 I believe) about a month ago and I've tried to not install much BS on my computer but here it is. I don't have a whole lot of programs installed so I'll be uninstalling them one by one, trying to update, running DDU, and then repeating. Until it finally clicks, if I can find what it is I'll gladly respond and give what info I can because it has to be one of the few programs I always install. If it doesn't work I'm either just going to get a cheap Nvidia GPU or give up because I'm too tired to do this anymore.

 

Also, I don't know about you OP, but after attempting to open the settings after a failed "Partial Installation" I get this:

[xxxGODxxx]

Experiencing the same issue here. I have already done a fresh install but this problem still persists, and ddu doesn't seem to help either. There is also some artifacting on my screen and I can't seem to use afterburner to even increase my power limit without my computer crashing. Running a 390x tri x here

[Droid8Apple]

On 12/10/2016 at 5:11 AM, Carclis said:

Did you uninstall the old driver properly before installing the newest version? To properly clean the old ones out I'd recommend using DDU.

 

On 12/10/2016 at 8:40 AM, TheLuke said:

Nothing worked, I even tried AMD cleanUp tool, but I get the same message.

 

On 12/14/2016 at 9:24 PM, xxxGODxxx said:

Experiencing the same issue here. I have already done a fresh install but this problem still persists, and ddu doesn't seem to help either. There is also some artifacting on my screen and I can't seem to use afterburner to even increase my power limit without my computer crashing. Running a 390x tri x here

Thanks for suggesting DDU... never heard of it before and it worked for me.

 

No matter what I did, including deleting from device manager, seemed to work. DDU worked perfectly though.

What I did:

 

-Ran DDU, it suggested rebooting into safe mode.

-Once in safe mode I checked the boxes in the options menu for "removing Nvidia & AMD folders from C: drive" although they say (not recommended) but this was a sure fire way to remove everything from my previous Nvidia cards as well as the tainted AMD stuff

-I clicked clean and restart and as soon as I was back into windows I ran the full installer from AMD's site and accepted the install of ReLive opposed to skipping it and all went very smoothly.

 

Considering I tried everything before this I assume others have as well; that's why I was overly descriptive on what I did. Good Luck!