Intel HD Graphics and AMD drivers don't want to be together
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Hi,
Windows 8.1
Samsung NP770Z7E-S01 PL Laptop
Intel Core i7-3635QM CPU @ 2.40GHz
Situation: after installing the latest AMD drivers I get a black screen when booting. The last thing I did was: uninstalled both drivers, then installed the AMD one first. Result: no black screen. I then installed the Intel HD Graphics driver. Results: black screen. So thinking of what to do now. Probably going to give AMD Catalyst drivers a try.
Any ideas? Thanks in advance.
Question, why are you trying to use AMD drivers when your display adapter is Intel? Honestly, that does not make much sense.
It's a laptop, so I'm guessing AMD's version of Optimus?
If you have a laptop with hybrid graphics from different GPU vendors (ie. Intel and AMD or Intel and Nvidia), then you'll need to use the drivers supplied by the laptop OEM, which is Samsung in this case.
There is no standard for hybrid graphics between vendors, the implementation is proprietary and varies from OEM to OEM and requires their proprietary drivers for the setup to work properly.
[QUOTE=INH;52162986]Question, why are you trying to use AMD drivers when your display adapter is Intel? Honestly, that does not make much sense.[/QUOTE]
Because the laptop has two GPUs in it. One is integrated on the CPU and the other is an AMD 8xxx series discrete GPU.
[QUOTE=GiGaBiTe;52163675]If you have a laptop with hybrid graphics from different GPU vendors (ie. Intel and AMD or Intel and Nvidia), then you'll need to use the drivers supplied by the laptop OEM, which is Samsung in this case.
There is no standard for hybrid graphics between vendors, the implementation is proprietary and varies from OEM to OEM and requires their proprietary drivers for the setup to work properly.
Because the laptop has two GPUs in it. One is integrated on the CPU and the other is an AMD 8xxx series discrete GPU.[/QUOTE]
I always downloaded the AMD drivers from AMDs website and everything worked fine. This should be something else.
I'm starting to think that my AMD GPU is dead.
[QUOTE=GiGaBiTe;52163675]If you have a laptop with hybrid graphics from different GPU vendors (ie. Intel and AMD or Intel and Nvidia), then you'll need to use the drivers supplied by the laptop OEM, which is Samsung in this case.
There is no standard for hybrid graphics between vendors, the implementation is proprietary and varies from OEM to OEM and requires their proprietary drivers for the setup to work properly.
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I install my 940M drivers straight from Nvidia and had no problems whatsoever
[QUOTE=Dedmytas;52163961]I always downloaded the AMD drivers from AMDs website and everything worked fine. This should be something else.[/QUOTE]
Pure luck. Install last working driver version combination and forget about driver updates if Samsung doesn't release driver updates for your laptop anymore. I have samsung laptop and making GPU and display brightness work correctly after upgrading or installing OS or drivers is a huge pain in the ass. This piece of shit didn't even had a working gpu switching panel for 6 months after release and there were no amd drivers for it on amd website because gpu was released only for OEM's at that time.
[QUOTE=Fox Powers;52164316]I install my 940M drivers straight from Nvidia and had no problems whatsoever[/QUOTE]
940M was introduced around a time when nVidia was bringing in a standard with how their switchable graphics works, plus they also had a lot of help from Intel on the subject, AMD got left to hack something together which they've only got working right around the R9 integrated series came out.
What I recommend doing is sadly trial and error, I've got a clevo p150em which has a similar situation when it comes to installing the GPU drivers because it does some rather funky shit to get the AMD GPU to render to the display (the display is directly hooked to the Intel chipset, it then does a passthrough to the AMD GPU and some newer AMD and Intel drivers do not like this as the modern method is to have two separate interfaces to the display now, and the drivers just switch off whichever GPU isn't being used).
Install the latest Intel driver first then reboot, then install the latest AMD driver and again reboot, if it hangs when installing the AMD driver, step back a version and try again, you will hit a driver that will work but it is an annoying process. You should really always be installing the Intel display driver first though because a lot of older laptop designs do use the passthrough method, without the Intel driver you will nearly always get a black screen unless Windows manages to initiate the generic driver which is pretty much playing with fire, I would also recommend turning off automatic driver installing, it'll fuck it up even more.
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