Hey there! I have a Lenovo y560 from 2010. It has an AMD Mobility 5730 discrete gpu. Recently, XIV started doing this odd thing where it would freeze, flash a black screen, and then go back to normal. It wasn't a big deal, but it was really annoying. I asked around, and was told updating my GPU drivers would solve the problem, as someone who had the same issue reported it worked.

Unfortunately, Lenovo stopped updating Y560 drivers in 2011. I looked around AMD's website, and found their mobility verification tool. From my understanding, as long as that tool installed properly, I could use the 13.10 beta drivers(same page, scroll down) with minimal problems.

I thought it worked, but when I restarted, I would get to my log-in screen, and then get a BSOD. I freaked out, and booted into safe mode. I attempted to Uninstall the drivers using the Catalyst software, but the application would crash when trying to clear AMD drivers. I went to the device manager, and manually uninstalled the display adapter driver.
Tried uninstalling through Catalyst again, and it worked, and I managed to go back to old Lenovo drivers.


Anyway, does anyone have an idea as to how I can get the weird black screen issues to go away? Is there some way I can properly update my gpu with AMD generic drivers?