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    Catalyst Control Center and Switchable Graphics

    Discussion in 'HP' started by Roxaos, May 7, 2011.

  1. Roxaos

    Roxaos Notebook Geek

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    Yesterday I was able to open CCC and switchable graphics, however, now when I click the icons the loading icon is visible but it disappears after a few seconds without loading the program. Any suggestions?

    Edit: The tray icon also disappeared.
     
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    YoungBoy_220 Notebook Enthusiast

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    It maybe that you switched to Intel HD 3000 GPU. When the Intel GPU is active, you can not see the CCC option on desktop right-click or tray icon. Now, right-click on desktop, the 1st option should be Configure Switchable Graphics, click it and switch to High-performance GPU. After the switching is complete, you can find the CCC option on desktop right-click menu and also the tray icon.
     
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    I can see both options, but I can't get either one to load any interactive window, and there's no option to switch to any gpu under Configure Switchable Graphics
     
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    Then, maybe it's a problem with the driver. Try uninstalling and reinstalling the GPU driver from HP's website. I hope it should solve your problem.
     
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    This has happened to me too. The only thing I could do was terminate the program with task manager ans re-run it. A restart should work too.
     
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    I tried restarting, that doesn't help either, and there is no program to terminate under task manager :(

    Also how would I go about doing a complete uninstallation of drivers and all software relating to ati/ radeon 6770m so I can reinstall fresh?
     
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    Do you see a program called CCC.exe? It should be running, but if restarting did not help then I don't think re-running CCC would help either.
     
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    It's not under processes, and I'm still unable to open it. I went inside system configuration and turned off autostart on CCC to open it manually when I reboot, that doesn't work either. I'm looking for a way to do a complete uninstallation of all software and drivers relating to ATI/Radeon 6770M so I can start fresh with the drivers.
     
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    If I were u I would open control panel, programs & features, find ur Radeon Drivers, uninstall. Then reboot.
    When u reboot hit f8, and enter Safe Mode Microsoft Corporation (its for windows xp but its the same for win 7 x32/x64 too)
    Run something like DriverSweeper(check anything to do with the Radeon Driver) to clean any left over registry entries etc and maybe CCleaner just to make sure.
    DriverSweeper Guru3D - Driver Sweeper (Setup) download from Guru3D.com

    Ccleaner CCleaner - Optimization and Cleaning - Free Download

    Then reboot back into Windows and reinstall the HP AMD Radeon Driver. That will get you back to factory spec drivers. If u have Windows Update on it may offer u a driver update, once u have rebooted again and are back into windows. Hopefully that helps
     
    lokiswarrior, May 7, 2011
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