- Nov 30, 2013
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Hi,
I have an ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5650 gpu in my laptop. I used to get random BSOD error of atikmdag.sys with STOP 0x0116. Then, I serviced my laptop for cooling and dust from authorized Sony service and reformatted to stock OS. Drivers are the original stock driver from Sony. There was a considerable reduction in temperature of the lap.
But after a week of operation, i got a graphic noise (1 sec long vibrating noise) while watching YouTube. The next day (Yesterday, April 8th 2015) again while watching a YouTube video I got the same BSOD of atikmdag.sys. After that there is continuous BSOD at start-up. I have tried clean re-install of drivers (the original Sony and the only update Sony provided ( v 8.* , dated October, 2010). I even tried the method of expanding atikmdag.sy_ and replacing it manually in system32 folder but still BSOD.
Finally, i uninstalled all ATI drivers, installed windows basic VGA driver vgapnp.sys for my GPU and now i am able to use it in the basic mode. Obviously, the performance is way too low.
Since my GPU works with basic driver can i rule out the possibility that it is a hardware damage? Any solution for the BSOD?
Ps: I can't use the latest ATI drivers as they doesn't work. I am confined to the ones provided by Sony. Still, today i am going to test with one latest driver update and using the method of expanding atikmdag.sy_ . Will post the result.
GPU make : ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5650 1GB
Year : 2010
OS : Windows 7 Home Professional 64 bit
RAM : 4GB
Laptop Make : Sony Vaio VPCEB36FG [similar to Vaio PCG71211w ]
CPU : Intel core i3-380M
RAM : 4GB
I have an ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5650 gpu in my laptop. I used to get random BSOD error of atikmdag.sys with STOP 0x0116. Then, I serviced my laptop for cooling and dust from authorized Sony service and reformatted to stock OS. Drivers are the original stock driver from Sony. There was a considerable reduction in temperature of the lap.
But after a week of operation, i got a graphic noise (1 sec long vibrating noise) while watching YouTube. The next day (Yesterday, April 8th 2015) again while watching a YouTube video I got the same BSOD of atikmdag.sys. After that there is continuous BSOD at start-up. I have tried clean re-install of drivers (the original Sony and the only update Sony provided ( v 8.* , dated October, 2010). I even tried the method of expanding atikmdag.sy_ and replacing it manually in system32 folder but still BSOD.
Finally, i uninstalled all ATI drivers, installed windows basic VGA driver vgapnp.sys for my GPU and now i am able to use it in the basic mode. Obviously, the performance is way too low.
Since my GPU works with basic driver can i rule out the possibility that it is a hardware damage? Any solution for the BSOD?
Ps: I can't use the latest ATI drivers as they doesn't work. I am confined to the ones provided by Sony. Still, today i am going to test with one latest driver update and using the method of expanding atikmdag.sy_ . Will post the result.
GPU make : ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5650 1GB
Year : 2010
OS : Windows 7 Home Professional 64 bit
RAM : 4GB
Laptop Make : Sony Vaio VPCEB36FG [similar to Vaio PCG71211w ]
CPU : Intel core i3-380M
RAM : 4GB
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