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Anyone with a 48xx and Vista 64?

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UPDATED: Seems i'm not alone with this crashing problem! with all these people on AMD's forums. And quite few in this thread getting it.
Please post in this thread if you have this problem, especially if you have Vista (even more so if it's 64-Bit) and/or dual monitors as it seems to happen a lot with this setup.

The Problem:
I kept getting a black screen for a couple of seconds with my 4870 on Vista 64-Bit, now with the 4870X2 (but it's way less) then when it recovers i get the old "Display driver stopped responding" message. But sometimes it will go in to a continuous loop, or sometimes just BSOD. The cause of the crash is "atikmdag".

This mostly happens with games, but it also happens on the desktop, and even when idle. Basically any time the GPU is being used theres a chance of it happening, so being as Vista's Aero uses the GPU it also happens on desktop.



Links to forum threads regarding this problem:

A thread i found on these very forums using Google.
Another AMD forum thread.
Guru3D thread.
Another Guru3D thread.
Whirlpool.net thread.
Toms Hardware thread.
Another Toms thread.


Stuff so far tried :

8.6 + Hotfix
8.7 BETA
8.7 final
8.8 BETA
8.8 final
Tweaked 8.7 drivers.

Installing just the display driver with no CCC.

Disabling a monitor.

Physically unplugging second monitor.

Disabling Aero (will stop it happening on desktop, but not in games)

Underclocking card.

Flashing BIOS to Asus TOP BIOS.

Used a MultiMeter to monitor PSU voltages (all fine)

Tried different RAM.

Tried system all at stock speed.

Changed the PCI-E speeds in BIOS, and tried disabling PCI-E Spread Spectrum.

Tried many different voltages within BIOS on different components.

Reinstalling Vista x64, with nothing else installed, just SP1, latest DX version and ATI drivers. (i've done this atleast 3 times, including on another computer)

Tried Vista without SP1 installed.

Tried the 4870X2 in a completely different Quad-Core Vista 64-Bit system - still happens.


...nothing works! And a 8800GTX, 9800GX2, GTX 260, GTX 280, and 8500GT all work fine in the same system(s).
So for anyone else who has this the only thing you can do is get a different card, or hope a driver fixes it soon (unlikely as this problem has been around since Vista's release with ATI, but people with 4xxx cards seem more likely to get it).
 
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4870 on Vista 64 here, no problems whatsoever with the drivers, only time i have had a display driver recovery is when i OC to far otherwise everything runs sweet.
 
Have not had this problem myself with Vista 64.

Problem I got - and only with the 8.7 finals was that my res would keep resetting to 800x600 which could only be fixed by restarting.
 
i had a black screen last night on my 4850 on vista64 before i got to windows. I had the little green loading line then nothing. I will try again tonight. My card worked fine last night when i loaded xp32 instead. So may well be a driver issue.
 
Hi everyone,

I'm having exactly the same problem too, "Display driver stopped responding", although i've only had it whilst gaming. To be honest it seemed to start when i overclocked my 4870, temps seem fine so its somewhat confusing. The problem is sporadic and it seems to be ok now, played some COD 4 tonight with an OC of 790 and 1100 and not an issue at all.

Just hoping its driver related

Adam
 
meh just happened again, played crysis for a few hours today and nothing, yet some light google earth usage makes it crash heh, seems software related to me, going to try the 8.6 / hotfix....
 
these cards suck tbh... ati banging out cards that do good fps but run like crap in reality choppy in games even @ 60fps and black/blue screen city drivers
 
Cupra said:
these cards suck tbh... ati banging out cards that do good fps but run like crap in reality choppy in games even @ 60fps and black/blue screen city drivers
Click to expand...

you what? stop trolling every ati 4xxx related thread.

Anyway 8.7's here on vista x64 and no problems. I did have problems installing them though even on fresh install (driver wouldn't load up after restart), dloaded the driver package and ccc seperately and that sorted it (instead of the all in one). May be worth uninstalling, cleaning and then trying that.
 
Its Aero. I started getting this error a lot in Crysis, and every now and then on the desktop. Turned off Aero, the problems completely vanished.
 
I'll try disabling Aero then.... Hope the 8.8 drivers fix this, i've had trouble with ATI cards in the past due the **** drivers. Was hoping they would have improved by now.

Dunno how turning off Aero stopped the crashing in games though, as Aero is disabled when a game is running anyway.
 
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