ATI Graphics Card Drivers drive me mad

[Konfucius]

Ok here's the problem. My Laptop keeps crashing regularly.

The last few days the screen would freeze for a second or so, then it would go black and come back a few seconds later. Now that wasn't that big of a problem actually but it caused my CAD Application I need for Uni to crash.

In a move of desperation I installed an older driver Version.

My Version wasn't up to date but the most recent Driver Version claimed I didn't have supported card

 

Installation was no big deal but after every half hour or so I'd get a bluescreen with the message that the file ati2dvag.dll was in a loop (that's the diplay driver). System restart.

 

Now I decided to wipe the drivers off my system completely.

First I uninstalled the driver over the control panel, then I uninstalled the rest via the ATI uninstaller and after that deleted that too.

 

Everything was fine after reboot, Windows didn't find any remains and asked me to install a driver. I declined and ran the Driver Installation instead.

 

Worked as well, now I decided to do some CAD and after about half an hour again the much dreaded bluescreen.

 

 

My System:

 

IBM Lenovo Thinkpad T60p

2,16 GHz Centrino Duo

2 GB Ram

ATI FireGL 5200 512 MB CAD Graphics Card

 

 

Main Driver: ati2dvag.dll

Version: 6.14.something

Date: 20.12.2005

 

 

Any ideas what I should do?

Modded gaming drivers, another uninstallation?

[Raining_again]

Google has the answers. Hopefully something you can use.

[Bogbas]

You could try removing the drivers using driver cleaner. http://www.softpedia.com/progDownload/Driver-Cleaner-Professional-Download-20706.html

 

use it after you have removed them from the add/remove programs. Follow the instructions that come with it. And then install new drivers.

[Konfucius]

Thanks guys, will try that.

[Blue_Ninja0]

I had exacly the same problem as you, but with an Nvidia. Frozen screen, black screen and then it comes back. It turned up it was a RAM incompatibility problem. It was not on a laptop btw.