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

"casey" wrote:

> 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.