[SOLVED] Having trouble w/ new HD 6970

[ATC777]

Hey guys,

Just unboxed my HD 6970, got it installed and its working (graphics-wise). But when I try to run GUIMiner or any other mining app it doesn't detect the GPU and only gives me the option of CPU-mining.  

I tried using the installation DVD that came with the hardware first to install the drivers, and it had some sort of inexplicable error (didn't give an error code or message). Fired up different mining apps and wouldn't detect the card... so then I went to the AMD website and downloaded the latest drivers and installed them manually. This time installation completed with no errors, but still no mining... And finally, I got the AMD driver download+installer tool that automatically detects the necessary drivers and installs them for you. That also completed the installation successfully, but still cannot mine...

WTH is going on here? I remember having essentially the same problem a while back when I tested some other ATI cards, and the only way to ever get it to work was to install a specific version number of the drivers (even then, every time I rebooted I had to re-install to make it work again). NVidia cards, poor as they might be for mining, don't seem to have these problems and will work practically right out of the box. So is there some specific version number or something else required to get this new HD 6970 working?

Here are the general system specs:

Windows 7 (x64 / 64-bit)
12GB DDR3 RAM
Intel i7 CPU
Gigabyte P55A-UD3 mobo

And here is the GPU information:

ASUS HD-6970 (EAH6970/2DI2S/2GD5)

Any help is greatly appreciated!  

Regards,

--ATC--

[Gator-hex]

You probably need to install AMD OpenCL drivers.

[ATC777]

Nevermind; I figured out what was wrong! 

The installer kept crashing because it was expecting a particular version of the Microsoft VC++ 2010 redist package, and when I installed Visual Studio 2012 a few months ago it gave me a much newer version the AMD driver installer executable was not expecting. So I updated Visual Studio 2012 and ran a "Repair Mode" installation for VC++ 2010 redist, and the installer was finally able to finish successfully. Thus the drivers were finally installed properly and I can now mine.... saaahhhweeeettttt! 

Regards,

--ATC--