How do I correctly install/uninstall AMD video card drivers?

So I have this radeon 6850 and its great and all (its my first ATI/AMD card) but it constantly crashes or freezes or the screen just goes black and sometimes comes back but other times I have to restart the desktop. The most common thing to happen is it to say "Display driver stopped responding and has recovered". "Display driver AMD driver stopped responding and has successfully recovered."



It has to do with the video cards drivers. What I want to know is how do I correctly install and uninstall AMD drivers and where do I download the newest ones, links would be greatly appreciated.



I am running Windows 7 64 Bit and the card is a Powercolor Radeon 6850.



Thanks in advance.|||"What I want to know is how do I correctly install and uninstall AMD drivers" - right click on "computer" and select properties, then click on device manager. click on display adapters, double click on your video card, click on driver tab and click on uninstall. Then reboot the computer.

But, before doing the above, download the latest drivers from AMD here: http://support.amd.com/us/gpudownload/Pa… aand save the driver for installation after removing your older driver(s).|||you can try the Driver Navigator，it is such a software which automatically detect and download the drivers you need for your computer. immediately detects your system’s hardware, locates out-of-date or missing drivers and replaces them with the latest versions. here is the free trial version for you: http://www.discount-coupon-codes.net/uti…

hope it helps.|||One of the biggest problems with AMD is that when you uninstall the driver and CCC it tends to leave remanant files and registry entries that dont get overwritten when you install new driver and CCC resulting in you having the same issue you had previously but with the newer driver.

The method I'm about to describe removes everything from your computer(Hopefully)

Control panel/add remove programs/ATI install manager(double click)/select uninstall manager/custom/select everything for uninstall except chipset drivers(these are for your motherboard,RAID etc)then uninstall.

After uninstall go to Program files and delete all files pertaining to ATI,reboot and let windows load generic driver then it will probably ask for reboot again.after reboot use this program http://www.piriform.com/ccleaner and clean your registry of AMD/ATI entries.You can even go as far as using this program as well http://www.guru3d.com/category/driverswe… just make sure to read instructions carefully.

Your computer should now be completely clear of all files pertaining to AMD/ATI.Now its just a matter of installing the new driver and CCC which is available here http://support.amd.com/us/gpudownload/Pa…

I take no responsibilty for this,its a pretty hardcore way of clearing driver and control software from your system.