atikmdag error message/computer freeze.

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casey

I have a brand new Toshiba laptop. Very shorly after buying it i began
getting the error message "Display driver atikmdag stopped responding and has
successfully recovered" multiple times followed by a complete lockup of the
entire system.
I've updated all drivers but to no avail.
I've poked around both Microsoft and ATI's support pages and each seem to be
saying it's a problem steming from the other company.
I just want my computer to work and don't want to have to take it back under
warranty and start from scratch.
Anyone know of a simple fix?
I'm getting the impression this isn't a problem specific to me.
 
A long shot here...

ATI uses a driver interface that is based on .NET
Framework. Letaly, there have been several patches
to .NET that have been causing various problems. You
may have picked up one or two with Windoes Updates.

I would do a System Restore back as far as you can and
see if the problem goes away.
 
Thanks for the vote of support Ryan,
So far the problem isn't specific to any one program or even type of
program.
I'm running Vista Ultimate. It shuts down running; Explorer, Office or just
about any other program. This happens on average twice a day or more. A
simple google search of the error message yelds tons of others with the same
problem and even a few dedicated web sites. I've scrolled through the many
possible solutions but the ones I've tried haven't helped and the ones I
haven't seem pretty invasive given my skills/knoledge and the fact that they
don't seem to work for a large number of those who attmept them.
The frusterating thing I'm not really coming close to taxing the system. I'm
just expecting to have it function for basic tasks out of the box and it
can't even do that!

I appreciate you advice thoug and I'll keep listening here for advice.
 
Thanks V
I don't know, this problem has been happening since I bought the computer
and I'd hope that if Microsoft was including something in it's Windows
Updates that was causing a problem, that they'd quickly undo or correct it in
the next update. I'm thinking this is a bigger problem than a buggy update.
 
Try this, casey:

a very simple way I have found to bypass the problem is this:

start your system up, let it load, then simply logoff. Log back on.

Problem completely goes away for me no matter what and doesn't return until
you restart the system.

At which point you can simply just log off and log on again and be good to
go.


If this helps anybody else, please let me know. I have currently been
investigating and going back and forth with high level Microsoft support for
several weeks now. There are aware of, and are investigating this issue. They
acknowledge my fix.... that a log off and log on temporarily solves the
issue.

Brian

At my pc, it works fine
jrk
 
my acer did the same thing when i got it it stoped for a whil when i updated
windows it has started up again letely plz help it is very anoying
 
Wth is there any solution to this problem at all... apart from changeing
all your computer about isnt there a way you can stop it just by changing
like settings.
i have windows vista home premium 32 bit edition and a ati radeon x1650
series graphics card.
the two apparent downloads that are ment to fix this problem from microsoft
apparently did not fit my vista type i dont know why so dont ask im not sure
if it is thta its 32 bit or what.
sooo plz if anyone knows how to fix it without all the complicated bits plz
share

thanks matt
 
Has anyone aside from Level5Owner and U66888 tested this and found it to work
for them?
 
Ok,

I followed the directions and so far so good. I uninstalled the CCC, ran
DriverSweeper and reinstalled just the Display Driver. I noticed though that
atikmdag.sys still installed with the Display Driver only.

What I did was renamed the file to atikmdag.sys.old. I did call ATI Tech
Support and they told me it's a hardware issue, which I don't believe. They
did tell me that the file is the Windows Kernel Mode Driver. But, he also
told me that Windows runs in User Mode, so basically, the file isn't needed a
whole lot anyway. We'll see if I get any crashes or not.

I'll post more in a few days and we'll see what happens.
 
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