- Vista and ATI 8.5 Display driver atikmdag crashes
- Posted by Derek on June 8th, 2008
With the ATI Catalyst 8.1 or 8.5 installed, I was getting the error message
"Display driver atikmdag stopped responding and has successfully recovered"
error whilst playing games and Google earth, then blue screens appeared
eventually.
Gigabyte GA-P35-DS3L
Intel Core 2 E8300 2.88Ghz
2G DDR2 800
ATI Radeon HD3690 256mb
1 Seagate 500G SATA II 7200 w/32mb
Samsung DVD-RW
Vista Ultimate SP1 32 bit
Anyone can help?
- Posted by Calvin Guan on June 8th, 2008
Technically speaking, this is because a rendering or mode setting operation
had been pending/hanging for too long (15s in XPDM). In xpdm, the OS
watchdog will crash the OS with bugcheck EA when that happened. I believe
ATI's XPDM driver has a VPU recovery option you can enable from the control
panel such that the driver can reset the chip and disable 2d/3d
accelerations to let the system continue before the watchdog tries to kill
the system. In LDDM/WDDM, msft took the idea and integrated it into the
dxgkrnl. After GPU recovery, the chip may be in a flaky state and eventually
crashes the system.
Many things can cause a GPU to hang. i.e. one or more command rings got
corrupted or malformed command in the ring, system memory clock or GPU core
clock "glitches" during powerplay or overdrive, overclocking, cooling fan,
system chipset problems, chip bug or driver bugs.... Contact ATI's tech
support for more help.
Gee, GPU and graphics drivers are so insanely complex. I'm glad I got away
from it 3 years ago
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- Posted by Ivan Brugiolo [MSFT] on June 8th, 2008
On top of Calvin excellent explanation, in internl terms,
we call what you have experienced a `TDR`.
Then a miniport gets a TDR it gets reset at the hardware level,
and, in theory, it should revert to a working state.
Routinely we try to force TDR in all the drivers that
are supplied in box with Vista to validate the recovery
strategy of the OS and the driver.
Try to downgrade the driver to a version that is known to
work on your configuration.
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- Posted by Derek on June 9th, 2008
Hi Calvin and Ivan,
Wow! What a complicated issue. I will contact ATI for such issue.
ANyway, thank you for both of your advice.
Derek
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- Posted by nolanb on June 27th, 2008
Really hate to say this, but ATI has known about this issue for quite some
time now. They are blaming Vista for it, while Microsoft is blaming ATI for
it, but nothing is getting done. I have an ATI card that any time ANYTHING 3D
attempts to display (not like a picture, but graphically rendered 3D), my
screen will flicker and eventually crash if the application is not closed.
Myself along with thousands of other people have contacted ATI about this
issue, but ATI just ignores them - but if they do respond, then they say that
they don't know what the problem is and you should buy another card.
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- Posted by Volodymyr M. Shcherbyna on June 28th, 2008
What is the error of crash?
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