A couple of days ago I came home to find my fah client on a 7 year old C2D E8500 PCIE-2 machine in an error state. It's 7 years old but is a good gpu folder. I rebooted and the AMD Catalyst Contol Center would fail on startup. device Manager showed the only video device was the MS basic video adaptor. Scanning for new hardware came up with nothing. I proceeded to clean out all the drivers, purge any remnants from the registry (something I've done numerous times), reboot while disconnected from the internet and attempted a re-install of Catalyst 14.9 drivers. The install started as usual, went through the usual eula acceptance, started to install and then just abruptly terminated and vanished. I quit for the evening assuming the Sapphire R9 280X gpu had died.
Yesterday I came home and tried again. First I re-seated the card and the 2 power connections. The install got a little further this time but again just vanished ~ halfway through.
The computer is a dual boot Win7 Pro/Win 8.1 Pro machine so I decided to boot into the W7 partition just for grins. I hadn't booted W7 on that machine in over a year so I had 111 updates to install, anti-virus new version to install and update with several consequent reboot/configure cycles. I cleaned all the driver and other remnants from that partition and installed CCC 14.9 without a problem. Installed and configured the fah client and was back up and running.
Weird. I might explore fixing the W8.1 partition this weekend only because these kind of things bug me. Fah is running though so I'm in no hurry. The machine in question was at one time my primary gaming machine but now folding is its only purpose.
I guess the morale of the story is that if you think your gpu may have died under Win 8.1 it may not have. I've never seen this kind of thing in any other version of Windows and I've done a fair amount of weird Windows troubleshooting.
Yesterday I came home and tried again. First I re-seated the card and the 2 power connections. The install got a little further this time but again just vanished ~ halfway through.
The computer is a dual boot Win7 Pro/Win 8.1 Pro machine so I decided to boot into the W7 partition just for grins. I hadn't booted W7 on that machine in over a year so I had 111 updates to install, anti-virus new version to install and update with several consequent reboot/configure cycles. I cleaned all the driver and other remnants from that partition and installed CCC 14.9 without a problem. Installed and configured the fah client and was back up and running.
Weird. I might explore fixing the W8.1 partition this weekend only because these kind of things bug me. Fah is running though so I'm in no hurry. The machine in question was at one time my primary gaming machine but now folding is its only purpose.
I guess the morale of the story is that if you think your gpu may have died under Win 8.1 it may not have. I've never seen this kind of thing in any other version of Windows and I've done a fair amount of weird Windows troubleshooting.
