Catalyst CCC and Chipset Drivers Collision

Question

Hello All,
My CCC (catalyst control centre) wont load and I think its the chipset drivers and i cannot find the chipset drivers (amd 970 chipset and SB950).
The sequence of events unfolded as follows....
1) I downloaded ati chipset drivers (http://eu.msi.com/service/download/driver-2592.html) and installed them...
    *This is the cause of everything?
*Because the drivers are NOT not 900 series chipset or mainboard?
As a consequence of this it kicked the Realtek LAN drivers out...
(something to do with hdmi audio drivers for the hdmi on the graphic card)
2) I reinstalled the realtek drivers
    *As a consequence of this it kicked the catalyst ccc drivers out
3) I have tried 12 gazillion times to re-install the catalyst drivers and all attempts fail
I have removed the graphic drivers and reinstalled them again but the driver fails to install
I have tried the amd detection utility and that fails
I have tried the sapphire website ccc utility (12.2 and 12.1 and 11.2) and that fails
The reason for this I suspect is....
Because the chipset drivers are screwed up?
My system is :
mainboard-
MSI 970A-G45
graphic card-
ATI Radeon Sapphire HD6450 1Gb DDR3 (1xvga, 1xhdmi, 1xdvi)
memory-
Mushkin 8Gb Blackline
processor-
AMD FX4100
bios-
1.5
os-
windows vista 32bit sp2
I would assume that the correct route is to use an uninstall.inf to remove the chipset drivers?
if so...
where do i get the uninstall.inf?
if not...
where do i get the ORIGINAL or GENERIC AMD Chipset drivers for the 970a and sb950 chipset?
I dont want to re-install windows,
nor do i want to roll the system back.
Help anyone please?

Answer 1

Quote from: Panther57 on 27-March-12, 11:35:50
For some reason you link directed to 'Europe' MSI website? Unless you are in Europe.. visiting the USA North America site.. the link Wonkanoby listed is the US MSI download page for your board.
You didn't list the model number to your Mushkin memory.. are they compatible? The sound you are having trouble with... through your GPU or on-board plug in? If on the VideoCard through the HDMI.. dod you go into Control Panel/Sound, and make the selection for the correct 'Default'? 
Hiya Panther57,
The Mushkin memory is BLACKLINE model 4x2gb
The graphic card is is in the first pcie slot (nearest cpu)
the audio is onboard Realtek 7.1
I have tried the AMD Autodetect and it takes about 20-30 minutes to install the ctalyst control centre which has FAILED on the last 12 or attempts,
I've benn having this problem for about thelast 10 days and try to address it towards the middle of the day most days by downlloading one or another driver....
I tried to reinstall from the cd but it fails and inside the CCC install package some options (the ones which matter in this case) are not selectable they are already checked and read as follows...
Your xxxxxxxxxxxx driver files re update/latest version and do not need updating.
Which I assume means it wont install those files.
Just a thought...
Wonder if its worth writing to the CCC team directly?
Thanks for any and all help.