AMD GPU Driver Problems Causing Crashing

[zachoooo]

Hello everyone,

 

I am mining cryptocurrency on a spare computer and I'm running into some issues with the driver. Whenever I try to start up the AMD Radeon Settings program, I get the error "No AMD Graphics driver is installed, or the AMD driver is not functioning properly. Please install the AMD driver appropriate for your AMD hardware." Now this is causing an issue because my GPU's keep overheating and shutting off to protect the computer. I tried to install a couple tweaking tools like MSI Afterburner so that I could set a lower power target and reduce the load and heat on the GPU, but none of these softwares will work since the AMD drivers appear to not be working correctly so I can't adjust any of the settings to prevent the computer from overheating.

 

This is my parts list:

 

Windows 7 SP1

AMD FX 8150 CPU

Asus M5A97 R2.0 Motherboard

2 x MSI Radeon HD 7970's connected using a 16x to 1x riser.

4Gb DDR3 RAM

Driver is Radeon Crimson 15.02, but I have tried latest. Neither work.

 

I have tried booting into safe mode and using DDU to uninstall the drivers and then reinstall them, but I keep running into the same error message. What other options do I have to get the drivers working so I can stop the system from crashing?

[cj09beira]

43 minutes ago, zachoooo said:

Hello everyone,

 

I am mining cryptocurrency on a spare computer and I'm running into some issues with the driver. Whenever I try to start up the AMD Radeon Settings program, I get the error "No AMD Graphics driver is installed, or the AMD driver is not functioning properly. Please install the AMD driver appropriate for your AMD hardware." Now this is causing an issue because my GPU's keep overheating and shutting off to protect the computer. I tried to install a couple tweaking tools like MSI Afterburner so that I could set a lower power target and reduce the load and heat on the GPU, but none of these softwares will work since the AMD drivers appear to not be working correctly so I can't adjust any of the settings to prevent the computer from overheating.

 

This is my parts list:

 

Windows 7 SP1

AMD FX 8150 CPU

Asus M5A97 R2.0 Motherboard

2 x MSI Radeon HD 7970's connected using a 16x to 1x riser.

4Gb DDR3 RAM

Driver is Radeon Crimson 15.02, but I have tried latest. Neither work.

 

I have tried booting into safe mode and using DDU to uninstall the drivers and then reinstall them, but I keep running into the same error message. What other options do I have to get the drivers working so I can stop the system from crashing?

try use the ati pixel patcher so that the drivers

[zachoooo]

15 minutes ago, cj09beira said:

try use the ati pixel patcher so that the drivers

I gave that a try, but it doesn't seem to be working. I tried a full DDU uninstall and then reinstall with the Pixel Clock Patcher and the drivers still won't load. That definitely is something I didn't consider though. I bought the cards off ebay and the previous owner could have used a custom bios of some kind. I sent them a message so hopefully they can get back to me on what needs to be done. Any other suggestions in the mean time?

[cj09beira]

Just now, zachoooo said:

I gave that a try, but it doesn't seem to be working. I tried a full DDU uninstall and then reinstall with the Pixel Clock Patcher and the drivers still won't load. That definitely is something I didn't consider though. I bought the cards off ebay and the previous owner could have used a custom bios of some kind. I sent them a message so hopefully they can get back to me on what needs to be done. Any other suggestions in the mean time?

you could try with one of the cards directly on the board, as it might have to do with the riser 

[zachoooo]

1 hour ago, cj09beira said:

you could try with one of the cards directly on the board, as it might have to do with the riser 

Still not working with just one card plugged in directly unfortunately. I am able to mine just fine for now, but the whole system seems to go down when the GPU inevitable starts overheating.