Problems with Windows 8 and 7970 amd drivers?

Hey all, lurked for a while, first post.
I have the np9170 (clevo 170em) with the 7970 installed, and windows 8. Windows 8 previous to installing AMD drivers (and in safe mode and when the drivers are not installed) loads extremely quickly. (sidenote: i have ssd drives). Upon installing an up to date amd driver (currently on 13.2 beta7 (was having problems with 13.3)) the boot time for my OS plummets. It sits on the windows screen for a solid 30 seconds or so before it goes to the login screen, up from an uninstalled state of around 7 seconds. Any thoughts or suggestions are appreciated!
Thanks

 

how exactly did u update ur amd drivers? uninstalled the old ones? used any driver sweeper? installed over the old ones?

 

sorry should have included that, I usually uninstall, drive sweep, reboot, install new drivers

 

Thats the best way to give yourself headaches. Install the original drivers from the disk then put the latest over the top.

 

Occasionally this yields driver conflicts. Driver Sweeper though is not entirely necessary either. Update over existing, and if you run into a problem, then uninstall the driver altogether and reload the latest available/compatible.

 

You use this application to removal CCC and then install the new drivers CCC. Hopefully this will solve your problem.
AMD Catalyst Un-install Utility

 

thank you for the responses, I will uninstall then re-install from sager website then try upgrading!

 

after uninstalling drivers and drive-sweeping, rebooting, then installing drivers from sager, still getting unusually slow boot times. Any other ideas?

 

Are you using the same driver you have previously tried when this problem first arose? You can narrow down whether it's more specifically the software or the hardware by trying different drivers from AMD.

But the drivers from Sager of all places should work, sooo... Have you tried contacting Sager regarding this?

 

Dont driver sweep, install the originals and then put the latest directly on top. It's a bad habbit you have got into.

 

I have seemingly tried every variation of this driver installation, but windows 8 still slows upon installation of any AMD video driver it looks like. I guess I will contact Sager and see what they have to say. Thanks again for the replies. Am also contemplating a clean install of windows 8. Only reason I like it over 7 is it's faster boot, so I might revert.

 

Which "originals"? Those on the Clevo website / downloads section? Older whql?

 

I have been installing from the website, I took the cd drive out and replaced with a hdd. If necessary I could rip the cd iso then install from that though

 

The original set on your disk

 

So whenever one installs new drivers one actually installs over (what's left of) all previous installations?

And if one uninstalls first - for whatever reason - one should always install the originals first and then the new drivers?

And BTW, in my case the originals don't work...

 

So long as you don't use driver cleaner and just traditional uninstalls you should be fine.

 

At the very least, any 'driver cleaner' is an unnecessary utility, which may or may not prevent a future install of SP1. Agreed with Meaker - traditional uninstall when necessary works fine.

 

It's only needed to fix very specific issues and is not a general tool to be used all the time.