groveb
Newbie Boot Camper
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Post by groveb on Oct 3, 2020 20:12:26 GMT
I’ve really done it now. I installed last year’s November driver for the 27 inch iMac and though it more or less worked it divided my single screen into two versions of itself. that is, split the screen. Opening the AMD tools by right clicking on the desktop, I looked around a bit then found something about turning off a clone. Thinking that might be it I clicked it and now I have a completely black screen. I’ve tried everything to boot into Win 10 safe mode, thinking that would load the basic driver but am not sure if it’s working or not since the screen remains completely black. On boot up, I can see the spinning indicator wheel followed by the Win 10 logo, then it just boots into the abyss. I tried also to restore from a bootable USB drive but again I can’t see whether that’s working or not. My next step will be to boot into the Mac side and delete the boot camp partition and start all over. Before such a drastic measure, any suggestions?
27-inch iMac with Retina 5K display with the following configuration:
PROCESSOR 065-C7GN 3.1GHZ 6-CORE INTEL CORE I5
MEMORY 065-C6WK 8GB 2666MHZ DDR4 MEMORY
STORAGE 065-C6WQ 2TB FUSION DRIVE (128GB SSD)
GRAPHICS 065-C7H0 RADEON PRO 575X W/ 4GB GDDR5
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Post by Mat HD on Oct 4, 2020 8:36:55 GMT
I’ve really done it now. I installed last year’s November driver for the 27 inch iMac and though it more or less worked it divided my single screen into two versions of itself. that is, split the screen. Opening the AMD tools by right clicking on the desktop, I looked around a bit then found something about turning off a clone. Thinking that might be it I clicked it and now I have a completely black screen. I’ve tried everything to boot into Win 10 safe mode, thinking that would load the basic driver but am not sure if it’s working or not since the screen remains completely black. On boot up, I can see the spinning indicator wheel followed by the Win 10 logo, then it just boots into the abyss. I tried also to restore from a bootable USB drive but again I can’t see whether that’s working or not. My next step will be to boot into the Mac side and delete the boot camp partition and start all over. Before such a drastic measure, any suggestions?
27-inch iMac with Retina 5K display with the following configuration:
PROCESSOR 065-C7GN 3.1GHZ 6-CORE INTEL CORE I5
MEMORY 065-C6WK 8GB 2666MHZ DDR4 MEMORY
STORAGE 065-C6WQ 2TB FUSION DRIVE (128GB SSD)
GRAPHICS 065-C7H0 RADEON PRO 575X W/ 4GB GDDR5
Force restart three times when you see the window scroll wheel and then on the fourth attempt it will load windows recovery. There you can boot into safe mode and uninstall the driver |
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groveb
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Post by groveb on Oct 4, 2020 18:16:07 GMT
Phew! Got it back using Windows Key + Control + Shift + B. It still had a split screen but after fiddling around a bit I managed to convince the computer that it was only a one display system. I'm gonna keep this driver for a while as it at least offers a variety of resolutions, critical when using old software or games. The Windows Basic Driver only offers a single resolution. That's idiotic in the extreme imho.
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groveb
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Post by groveb on Oct 4, 2020 18:23:07 GMT
Force restart three times when you see the window scroll wheel and then on the fourth attempt it will load windows recovery. There you can boot into safe mode and uninstall the driver I tried that but of course I couldn't see anything so I had no idea if it worked. I suspect what was going on was, when I clicked "Disable Clone" in the AMD control panel, the system sent everything to my second monitor, which, of course I don't have, hence a Black SOD. And an SOB! I'm convinced it was windows, not AMD, that was insisting I have two monitors. I'd like two, perhaps Microsoft is planning to send me one. |
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Post by ricardofelixb on Dec 13, 2020 9:40:23 GMT
So Windows Key + Control + Shift + B is a fix for Windows does not boot? I have problems with that using an eGPU
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