Five-step solution to starting your AMD Catalyst Control Center

Solution with Five Easy Steps when your AMD Catalyst Control Center cannot be started.

Is this screen which you’re experiencing?

Time to say Goodbye to the this screen! And Hello to Switchable Graphics in this solution with five easy steps!

This worked for me as a solution on my notebook as a solution for the AMD Catalyst Control Center, and this could work for you as well.

Have you had the following experience on your notebook with switchable graphics? 

• AMD Catalyst Control Center cannot be started. There are currently no settings that can be configured using the Catalyst Control Center. 
• Trying to configure Catalyst Control Center to currently no avail.

Needed (What you’re going to need):

Note: This is only for notebooks which have switchable graphics.

a. System Restore Point.

b. Internet Connectivity. 

c. Cleaning Utility (such as CCleaner) – Go here if you need the software. 

d. Administrative rights/privileges; for when you run the setup. 

-        If you are on the move, you can either bookmark this page or if you can’t view the images for some reason, then this link is your friend to get a copy.

The Five-Step Solution:

System Restore Point, Uninstall, Download, Install and Update.

First: Create a System Restore Point.

Now that you have created the System Restore Point; here is what you do:

2. Uninstall: Completely Uninstall AMD Control Center in the Control Panel and then from your Registry {this is where you need software like CCleaner.}

2.1  Go to your ‘Control Panel’ and now click on ‘Program and Features’ (Control Panel\All Control Panel Items\Programs and Features)

2.2  Look for ‘AMD Catalyst Install Manager’, also known as the AMD Catalyst Center and then click on it.

2.3  After you have clicked on ‘AMD Catalyst Install Manager’, you are taken to a window that looks like this:

2.4  Click on ‘Next’ 

2.5 Now you have some options select ‘Express Uninstall ALL AMD Software’.

2.6  Click ‘Next’ again after you’ve made the selection.

2 7 After the uninstaller has completed, open up your cleaning utility (CCleaner in my case.)

2.8  Select the ‘Registry’ Tab (Make sure that everything is checked.)

2.9 Now click on ‘Scan for Issues’.

2.9.a) After  the scan is completed, play particular attention to ‘AMD errors’ and then select the Fix Button (which should be a removal). There is another screen after this, which you prompts you to create save a copy of the register before you make changes generally I always save the change, it is entirely up to you.

2.10. We are nearly there: now restart your Notebook.

      3. Download: The AMD Drivers Graphics from your Notebook Manufacturers’ site.

     3.a. Go to your notebook manufacturer’s site:

-        I’ve an HP notebook (so I went to http://support.hp.com/us-en/drivers/)

-        Or search (Your Notebook Manufacturer Name) drivers  just be sure to remove the brackets from the search.

Note for HP Users:

You need to get and use your HP Product Number. To do this you press the fn + esc keys, then an HP System Information Tab would pop-up, and after-which look for your Product Number.

3.b. After you got and entered on your Product Number (as the case may be) – Look for the ‘Driver Graphics’ menu/tab/field.

3.c. Download the respective AMD Package for your notebook.

4. Installing AMD Catalyst Control Center: Select “Custom Install”

i.          Go to the respective downloaded location of the AMD Catalyst Control and Run the ‘Setup’ which you have just downloaded.

 ii.          Then select ‘Custom Install’ then ‘Next’

  iii.          Then you will go to the ‘Analyze Screen’

  iv.          Make sure that all of the boxes are checked on the ‘Customize Screen’

   v.          Then click on ‘Next’, and then wait for the install to be completed. As  you can see from the above I have already installed the AMD Catalyst Control Center.

   vi.          After the installer has completed, restart your notebook.

5.  Updating: Intel Driver.

i.          Go ‘My Computer’

ii.          Then ‘System Properties’ (Control Panel\All Control Panel Items\System)

iii.          On the left-side you would see the ‘Device Manager’

iv.          Open the ‘Device Manager’.

v.          Select ‘Display Adapters’: you should see two listed\

vi.          Right-click on the ‘Intel HD Graphics Family’ and then select ‘Update Driver Software’

vii.          This takes some time, and after this has completed.

viii.          Restart your notebook.

SUCCESSFULLY LAUNCHING THE AMD CATALYST CENTER:

SUCCESSFULLY LAUNCHING THE AMD CATALYST CENTER WITH SWITCHABLE GRAPHICS:

The images which contain the name, design, features and/or functionalities in the above is the property off and trademarked to the respective brand, entity, company and/or organization;

AMD: Installer, Catalyst Control Center.

Piriform: CCleaner.

Windows: Programs and Features, Device Manager.

Intel: Intel HD Graphics.

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