Display driver stopped responding

Defiance_co · 13 Jun 2008 at 01:19

Hiya,

You mean how did i get the drivers to work ??

Ciao

Def

dheyworth1981 · 13 Jun 2008 at 08:27

Defiance_co · 13 Jun 2008 at 15:48

Hiya,
(i running older 8800gts 640meg ram)

Ok, I had just managed a long winded fix, Heard about asus accidently uploading the drivers for the new nvidia cards coming out

Grabbed them from vaguetech, I got the modded inf's from laptop2go

Swapped inf's over, and bobs your uncle

Now i can run the only game i've ever had issues with in vista x64 with explosions from torpedos n guns etc not giving me the nvlddmkm.sys message or a complete CTD

Hope that helps

Ciao

Def

ps: not tried cod4/crysis etc, just want a month or 2 at sea with my fav sub sim, if any probs with other games i can install last driver i used for those

Ciao

Def

Burned_Alive · 15 Jun 2008 at 16:33

I've been reading around the subject and it seems that few people suggest uninstalling ATI Catalyst Control Center, but obviously just keeping the driver. Going to give this a try.

http://www.vistax64.com/vista-general/126861-atikmdag-error-message-computer-freeze.html

http://forums.amd.com/gaming/messag...d=92659&STARTPAGE=4&FTVAR_FORUMVIEWTMP=Linear

marc2003 · 15 Jun 2008 at 17:03

Burned_Alive said:
I've been reading around the subject and it seems that few people suggest uninstalling ATI Catalyst Control Center, but obviously just keeping the driver. Going to give this a try.

http://www.vistax64.com/vista-general/126861-atikmdag-error-message-computer-freeze.html

http://forums.amd.com/gaming/messag...d=92659&STARTPAGE=4&FTVAR_FORUMVIEWTMP=Linear

well i've give it a bash. i'll post back later with how i get on.

edit; nearly an hour and no problems. before it was happening within minutes with dual screens enabled....i won't read too much into that just yet though..

Burned_Alive · 15 Jun 2008 at 19:31

Yeah, fingers crossed it fixes it! It seems to happen completely randomly for me even when the pc is idle.

marc2003 · 15 Jun 2008 at 19:56

nearly 2 hours now. i'm getting fairly confident now that this has fixed it me. thanks for posting.

Burned_Alive · 15 Jun 2008 at 20:47

Dont get your hopes up, just had the error, although it did recover rather than blue screening.

marc2003 · 15 Jun 2008 at 21:14

bummer. but i'm still going strong. like yourself, it was happening when i was doing nothing so i'm just using my pc as normal. i've got a couple of apps running on my 2nd screen (vmware) and it's been all good so far. beforehand, i certainly never went 4 hours without a crash like i have done now.......

Matteysan · 15 Jun 2008 at 21:19

Kept getting this, this morning with my 9800pro on Vista, I uninstalled the drivers & reinstalled that seemed to fix things.

Burned_Alive · 15 Jun 2008 at 22:38

marc2003 said:
bummer. but i'm still going strong. like yourself, it was happening when i was doing nothing so i'm just using my pc as normal. i've got a couple of apps running on my 2nd screen (vmware) and it's been all good so far. beforehand, i certainly never went 4 hours without a crash like i have done now.......

Im going to test each ram stick individually and then check my PSU out, i'm wondering whether the rails are a bit low, they look fine (if a little low) in the bios, but speedfan says my 12v is 11.25v which i believe is too low.

marc2003 · 16 Jun 2008 at 13:33

you can't trust software voltage readings. besides, they're within tolerances anyway i think.

i left my pc on all night and no problem so i think it's case closed for me.

Burned_Alive · 16 Jun 2008 at 17:06

Ahh see, mine isnt a regular problem. It only happens every now and then, it can go a while without happening so keep your eye on it!

marc2003 · 17 Jun 2008 at 14:15

Burned_Alive said:
Ahh see, mine isnt a regular problem. It only happens every now and then, it can go a while without happening so keep your eye on it!

hehe, it's come back... i'm unhooking my 2nd screen. even one crash every 2 days is too much for me. i hate instability. most of the time i'm not doing anything important but i'd be royally ******** off it crashes while i'm working on something.

Burned_Alive · 21 Jun 2008 at 23:39

Still suffering from this, upped the voltages on my ram and NB to come in line with ram specs and requirements for all 4 slots being populated. Also memtested my ram with no errors.

I am now trying disabling the vista aero theme and reverting to vista basic, I didnt realise that the aero theme is supposedly accelerated, so constantly putting some load on the graphics.

Next thing is RMAing my psu, 3.3v rail seems to be at 3.15v, which is within ATX specs but pretty low and some say this could cause problems/errors/damage.

marc2003 · 22 Jun 2008 at 00:11

Burned_Alive said:
Still suffering from this, upped the voltages on my ram and NB to come in line with ram specs and requirements for all 4 slots being populated. Also memtested my ram with no errors.

I am now trying disabling the vista aero theme and reverting to vista basic, I didnt realise that the aero theme is supposedly accelerated, so constantly putting some load on the graphics.

Next thing is RMAing my psu, 3.3v rail seems to be at 3.15v, which is within ATX specs but pretty low and some say this could cause problems/errors/damage.

i thought the gpu runs off the 12v line. besides, as i mentioned earlier, you can't rely on software readings (or do you have a multimeter?). besides, IIRC you have an hx 620w. i very much doubt that will be a problem.

Monkeynut · 22 Jun 2008 at 00:39

Didn't ATi say ages ago it was difficult to write Vista drivers because they had to write 4 different driver modules in the driver?

Burned_Alive · 22 Jun 2008 at 16:16

marc2003 said:
i thought the gpu runs off the 12v line. besides, as i mentioned earlier, you can't rely on software readings (or do you have a multimeter?). besides, IIRC you have an hx 620w. i very much doubt that will be a problem.

Yeah HX620, im willing to try anything, plus Im a bit uneasy about the lines being that low...

However... without wanting to jump the gun (fingers crossed) disabling aero so far seems to have done the trick, 17 hours uptime with no sign of the problem. I actually prefer the basic theme and dont use the aero program switch anyway. Hopefully this is the end of my woes! If not, I might give up altogether!

pegasus1 · 22 Jun 2008 at 21:58

kept gettng this and found out it was the Asus probe bug (ASUS ACPI cneter). Not had a single BSOD since i removed the process (Vista 64).

Burned_Alive · 22 Jun 2008 at 23:39

Well, 24 hours solid and i havent had the problem reoccur, I have recently removed AI Suite, but the main thing is reverting to the vista basic scheme (i.e. turning off aero).

I may do some testing with the aero scheme, but i think i prefer it without anyway!

Interestingly, after uninstalling AI Suite i lost the system temperature probe and it left aacenter.exe running, as soon as i killed aacenter, the system probe reappeared..... very odd.