So my son has bought himself a new graphics card and "donated" his old one to me as mine is crap apparently, the replacement is a Dual-X R9 270x 2G D5 and my current is Radeon R7 200 (which works fine after all Company of Heroes isn`t exactly demanding).
The issue is that I cannot run them together in order to install the drivers for the new one but if I remove the R7 and install the other the screen is black and therefore no way to muck about with anything without a display. I have checked on partpicker and all the other hardware is compatible so am at a bit of a loss. They are connected via HDMI to the monitor.
Anyone have any ideas?
For what it`s worth the new card has been sat on my window cill for a month now and I haven't given him the £80 he wants for it....yet so need to either install of list on Ebay
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1. Put the original card back in
2. Boot to Windows (I assume)
3. Uninstall graphics driver for original card (Google if you need instructions)
4. Switch pc off
5. Install new card
6. Boot PC
7. Install new drivers
Given up (for) now...............
Uninstalling the previous gpu drivers was a nightmare but got there using DDU, removed the old GPU, new one in booted to a blank screen, asked son for driver disk, ended up arguing as hes lost it, booted with old GPU in for a google search, discover its a pain in the arse card etc etc, MB wont detect the new GPU and doesn't have an on-board GPU so cant boot to a screen.
Unless I can sort out crossfire then I`ll leave it as is as need to do invoicing and accounting this morning, may resume the battle later.
Cheers for the replies anyway.
FWIW I've never had to uninstall old drivers or anything when swapping graphics cards - although admittedly with Nvidia it's a single driver for every card.