P150EM 7970M

Hi! I know I am a bit late with this laptop but I just bought it from a second hand and I am having a headach with this laptop.

I have Windows 10 and it install fine but every time I am installing video driver for 7970m it freeze. And I have to force shutdown and it just keep freeze at login screen after that. I have tried everything that I can come up with. I don't know what to do.

Is there a way to make 7970M work on Windows 10 on this laptop? Or is there no support for it, reason it freeze? I did try Windows 7 and I got black screen but I still hear that Windows is on background and I somehow manage to restart it and than when Windows started I could see it have installed 7970M driver and I tested on games and it works fine.

But I would rather have Windows 10, I have tried to search in this forum but can't seems to find any answer. Please help.

 

If you make it back to Win10 do the following steps:

- uninstall Intel iGPU and AMD Drivers via DDU
(if there was a Nvidia card installed before, remove the remnants of this Driver via DDU as well)

- download the latest Intel iGPU Driver as well as latest AMD Driver

- install the iGPU Driver first, afterwards try the AMD Driver.
If it doesn't work, uninstall AMD Driver via DDU again and let Win10 install the AMD Driver automatically.

Normally this should do the trick.

Just give it a try and let us know!

 

I used a P150EM with 7970M up until a few days ago when I encountered similar problems. The news for me wasn't good, it had a bad AMD card. I recently made a post about it if you want to read the details.

http://forum.notebookreview.com/threads/does-my-p150em-have-a-dead-7970m.797427/

The fact that you got it to function in Windows 7 one time and play games is interesting and something I never tried.

 

I have the same laptop and also having the same issue.This is how i fixed it
1. download windows update especially 1607 update(or it doesnt work)
2. use ddu for unistall amd
3. download 16.6.1 or older drivers and install it(it shouldnt be froze or this will not work)
4 install 16.10.++ upgrade to your driver (over 16.6.1)
5 restart
Thats it it should work now.

 

Win 10 support is spotty on the EM series. Hopefully that's all it is in your case, and not a failing GPU.

I'm interested to know if @marshy61's advice works for you, @Taftus (and for you, if you try it, @balane)

 

sry to tell you this but this exact behavior is what was happening to my 7970m. In my case it was gpu failure.
i fixed it for a few weeks by taking my 7970m out and throwing it in the oven. after i reinstalled it it worked fine for like 3 weeks then started doing the same thing.(classic case of oven trick temp fix)

if it turns out that your gpu is dead like mine at least you can upgrade to a 970m or 980m. a single 980m upgrade has better performance then two 7970m in crossfire.

 

Sounds a lot like your 7970M is dying, especially since I have seen practically tens or hundreds of posts of dead 7970Ms on this forum because of how hot it runs and how long peopel have had it for.

 

I don't think it's the hundreds even on here where people with issues tend to come

 

Hey guys! Sorry I havent check this thread but I think I might know what cause the issue with freezing.
Like I said I got it function in Windows 7 by downloading gpu driver from Sager website. What I did was install all driver and gpu driver BUT! Only install Catalyst first and than reboot after that, install gpu driver.

Like most people I want Windos 10 and have been playing around 15 - 35 hours before I knew what was wrong.
First, I tried to use Windows update but it seems that Windows update will install driver for 7970M which cause the freezing. I could use laptop all day with Intel HD but when I make install of new AMD driver it just freeze.

I than disable Windows update and begin to download all driver I could find for Windows 10 on P150EM.
First thing I installed was Intel HD, I know that if I get freezing I can just boot to safe mode and uninstall 7970M and reboot, it will than boot to Windows fine but using Intel HD.

My problem was that old driver seems to work (not all of them) I experiment with some older driver and found out this one seems to work for me without freezing during installation radeon-crimson-16.7.3-win10-64bit. If i download newest it will cause freezing same goes with update it from control panel. Not sure why, maybe some driver is not support on P150EM. Guess I will have to wait for next release and try than.

Now when I have found working driver, I have been playing games for hours and hours. Works like a charm! This laptop perform pretty good considering how old it is. And no gpu was/is not dying like I though it was.

EDIT: Yes I did tried suggestion but it didn't work because newest driver dont want to work for me just radeon-crimson-16.7.3-win10-64bit. And yes you have to install iGPU first before installing AMD's.