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by: Maurice Bowers April 16, 2012 7:41 PM PDT

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Upon reset, Graphic Resolution Lower

by Maurice Bowers - 4/16/12 7:41 PM

Thanks for your time and courtesy in reading this. Upon a general reset of my computer using Windows 7 I was greeted with a Dos-like 'checking' stability of my harddrive. During this I didn't see any notable errors or alerts come up and thought it best to simply let it run. Upon completing it did another automatic reset and when Windows came up it was in a low 400 X 600 resolution when I normally had over 1900 on my high definition TV. I of course went to change the screen resolution but the maximum I could obtain was 1400 x 1050. While writing this an error popped up saying: "No AMD Graphics Driver is Installed, or the AMD Driver is not functioning properly. Please install the AMD Driver appropriate for your AMD hardware." Screenshot: http://i942.photobucket.com/albums/ad261/Chaos-Ronin/graphicserror.png

My system is "iBUYPOWER Gamer Supreme 956SDLC Desktop PC Intel Core i7 960(3.20GHz) 12GB DDR3 64GB + 1TB HDD Capacity AMD Radeon HD 6950 Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit"

I've tried resetting the computer but I can't back to my normal default resolution. Any advice? I'm still very confused why this happened at all as it's still a fairly new unit.


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Clarification request: Downloaded AMD drivers

by Maurice Bowers - 4/16/12 7:59 PM

In Reply to: Upon reset, Graphic Resolution Lower by Maurice Bowers

Still confused what caused my graphics card driver to go haywire but I did a google search for "AMD Radeon HD 6950" with "driver", went to AMD's site, downloaded a file that allowed them to identify the best, most updated driver for my card, and after a fresh installation and reboot the graphics seems to be back to normal.

The only problem is sound now. While my sound works fine through my headphones, I'm unable to get sound to play through my monitor as I did before. In this screenshot the headphones are on top and the monitor is the third down. While the monitor is selected as the 'default playback device' as you can see the audio is still coming from my headphones. Even removing the headphones use to force the sound to play through my TV automatically, but not anymore. Screenshot: http://i942.photobucket.com/albums/ad261/Chaos-Ronin/soundproblem.png

It's not a huge deal and I'm much happier that my graphics is at least restored. Still, just weird. I guess I could purchase some computer speakers.


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