I keep hearing the Linux thing as idea to fix it. Do you know where I would download a bootable version that would work?
http://www.linuxliveusb.com/This tool is AMAZING for putting linux onto a USB stick and leaving your windows install alone, if you have good internet you may as well pick a distro like Ubuntu (or one of the lighter weight Ubuntu versions) which should have the most support for AMD I believe
And... why is it better than the around-forever unetbootin?