God help me before i smash my PC

[Nintenchris]

I havent had my new PC for long and everything was running fine... untill i decided to buy a game.. Age Of Empires 3

Im running Vista Home Premium and my graphics card is a ATI Radeon X1650 PRO

 

So.. the problem... after playing for a little while.. some times minutes, some times longer the screen freezes or goes blank. seconds after it will come back and give me this error "driver atikmdag stopped responding but has recovered" or somthing similar. This will happen every couple of secons after it happens the first time.

 

Ive looked in the problem reports and it says

 

Description

A problem with your video hardware caused Windows to stop working correctly.

 

Problem signature

Problem Event Name: LiveKernelEvent

OS Version: 6.0.6000.2.0.0.768.3

Locale ID: 2057

 

Files that help describe the problem

WD-20070716-1503.dmp

sysdata.xml

Version.txt

 

Extra information about the problem

BCCode: 117

BCP1: 8406D480

BCP2: 8B140A82

BCP3: 00000000

BCP4: 00000000

OS Version: 6_0_6000

Service Pack: 0_0

Product: 768_1

 

I have the latest drivers for the graphics card and the latest vista updates... but nothing seems to help.. plus ive searched the net and found people with the same problem but no solution.

 

I just hope one of you lot can help me before i reach for a sledge hammer.

[Caris]

uninstall the drivers and reinstall them. If not your graphics card might be bust.

[Sanchez]

(Next time buy nVidia)

[Nintenchris]

I have tryed that Caris and it didnt help

 

Oh and Sanchez you should eat your words because if you look arround the net people are having the same problem with nVidia cards on Vista

[Caris]

Then google and find it if it's just a vista issue, if not ring the place where you ordered it from and complain.

[immy]

bloody pc games!

[Jackster]

God help me before i smash my PC

 

If you film that and put it on youtube I would maybe give you 4 stars

 

(Next time buy nVidia)

 

Ditto

[Slaggis]

Have you downloaded the newly release dpack from microsoft that helps with video cards on vista?

 

There's a link for it on the vista thread (last page)

[Ant-Shimmin]

I've had no trouble with Nvidia...

 

Anyway in response to your problem as Haggis said download the new update they are bringing out.

[Nintenchris]

Well after reading what others have said about this on various sites it seems that its quite a problem for alot of people.. and that is a driver issue not hardware.

 

i found this on ATI's site....

 

737-27116: Radeon™ Series - ATIKMDAG has stopped responding error messages

 

 

 

The information in this article applies to the following configuration(s):

Catalyst Display Driver 7.3

Radeon™ X1950 series

Radeon™ X1900 series

Radeon™ X1800 series

Radeon™ X1650 series

Radeon™ X1600 series

Radeon™ X1550 series

Radeon™ X1300 series

Radeon™ X1050 series

Radeon™ X850 series

Radeon™ X800 series

Radeon™ X700 series

Radeon™ X600 series

Radeon™ X550 series

Radeon™ X300 series

Radeon™ 9800 series

Radeon™ 9700 series

Radeon™ 9650 series

Radeon™ 9600 series

Radeon™ 9550 series

Radeon™ 9500 series

Windows Vista 32-bit Edition

Windows Vista 64-bit Edition

Symptoms:

 

 

When running games or full screen video, some users may be shown a message stating ATIKMDAG has stopped responding but was successfully recovered. In some cases, the system will continue to work as normal. Alternately, this error message may not result in the system being recovered and the system may need to be reset.

 

Solution:

Currently there is no solution.

 

ATI Engineering has been advised of this issue and is investigating. Any updates will be published when they become available.

 

 

 

 

 

 

So they know about it but they have no fix

 

Oh and some Nvidia's have the same problem but get this error "nvlddmkm stopped responding but has recovered"