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.

"casey" <casey@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:07456485-B236-4D2B-8DD4-69B6B2D5DD1B@microsoft.com...
> 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.

What exactly are you trying to use. This sounds like a non-Vista
program. I say non-Vista as in a rare occurance of software that is not
Vista friendly. I bought a Vista HP lappy in 2007 and it ran FLAWLESSLY
and I love Vista now, howver I never played any games other than WOW on
it. I assume it is a program. I wish I could be more help faster for
you. Stick here and wait it out. Sooner than later someone will help you
out. Probably isn't too bad. I had that issue myself but it just went
away! I did nothing. My girl has the new Toshiba and I love that thing.
Good choice!


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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.

"RyanHell078" wrote:

>
> What exactly are you trying to use. This sounds like a non-Vista
> program. I say non-Vista as in a rare occurance of software that is not
> Vista friendly. I bought a Vista HP lappy in 2007 and it ran FLAWLESSLY
> and I love Vista now, howver I never played any games other than WOW on
> it. I assume it is a program. I wish I could be more help faster for
> you. Stick here and wait it out. Sooner than later someone will help you
> out. Probably isn't too bad. I had that issue myself but it just went
> away! I did nothing. My girl has the new Toshiba and I love that thing.
> Good choice!
>
>
> --
> RyanHell078
>
> Ryan Hell
> Q6600 GO stepper
> Vista 64 (and I love it!)
> XFX 8800 GTX XXX Edition
> XFX 680i LT Sli MoBo
> 2 gigs Corsair XMS2 ram
> 22inch Viewsonic Monitor
> Antec 900 case
> IT student (networking)
> Crysis player!
> Posted via http://www.vistaheads.com
>
>

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.

"V Green" wrote:

> 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.
>
> "casey" <casey@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:07456485-B236-4D2B-8DD4-69B6B2D5DD1B@microsoft.com...
> > 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.
>
>
>

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.

If you have the ATI Radeon 9550 try Catalyst 7.6

"jrk" <jrk@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:CF30BFE7-1BCE-4A99-AD6C-72DDA5AD01BA@microsoft.com...
> 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.

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

"chuckbam" wrote:

>
> I updated to Service Pack 1 and most problems were solved. I have CC 8.4
> and all is running fine now.
>
>
> --
> chuckbam
>

I unistall all ATI stuff and install only the
Graphics Driver as Level5Owner indicated and since then the irritating
message "Display driver atikmdag stopped responding and has
successfully recovered" disappeared from my system.
Thanks Level5Owner.
Since ATI and MS don't fix this bug, I think this solution is the best
for some system stability.

Paul

MB - ASUS P5WDH Deluxe
CPU - INTEL Core 2 Extreme X6800 2.93Ghz
RAM - 4GB ( 4 x 1GB ) Kingston PC2-8500 DDR2 1066Mhz
Graphics - ATI RADEON 3870 512Mb
Storage - 2 WD Caviar Green SATA 750GB RAID1
VISTA 64 - SP1
FSX - SP2


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I unistall all ATI stuff and install only the
Graphics Driver as Level5Owner indicated and since then the irritating
message "Display driver atikmdag stopped responding and has
successfully recovered" disappeared from my system.
Thanks Level5Owner.
Since ATI and MS don't fix this bug, I think this solution is the best
for some system stability.

Paul

MB - ASUS P5WDH Deluxe
CPU - INTEL Core 2 Extreme X6800 2.93Ghz
RAM - 4GB ( 4 x 1GB ) Kingston PC2-8500 DDR2 1066Mhz
Graphics - ATI RADEON 3870 512Mb
Storage - 2 WD Caviar Green SATA 750GB RAID1
VISTA 64 - SP1
FSX - SP2


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I unistall all ATI stuff and install only the
Graphics Driver as Level5Owner indicated and since then the irritating
message "Display driver atikmdag stopped responding and has
successfully recovered" disappeared from my system.
Thanks Level5Owner.
Since ATI and MS don't fix this bug, I think this solution is the best
for some system stability.

Paul

MB - ASUS P5WDH Deluxe
CPU - INTEL Core 2 Extreme X6800 2.93Ghz
RAM - 4GB ( 4 x 1GB ) Kingston PC2-8500 DDR2 1066Mhz
Graphics - ATI RADEON 3870 512Mb
Storage - 2 WD Caviar Green SATA 750GB RAID1
VISTA 64 - SP1
FSX - SP2


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