If you have the ATI Radeon 9550 try Catalyst 7.6

"jrk" <jrk@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> 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.