Hi im new I have a Toshiba Equium EA60-173 PSA67E-00700C8J
Im having often reoccuring problems almost as soon as i reboot my laptop freezes and a blue screen appears saying the ati2davg display driver is stuck in an infinate loop. and my laptop has to be rebooted, also it freezes and changes to the lowest display settings and a window appears saying the display driver it has stopped working properly. I need advise on how to sort this as its very annoying, my laptop also over heats, gets very hot and just turns itself off. the fan constantly runs.

Any ideas or advise greatful

Thanks Jamie

I don't know about the over-heating. Is this laptop still under warranty?

As for the driver...

What ATI card do you have? Did you egt the latest driver from ATI for your card? Do you know how to go get the latest driver for your card?
IF you answered YES to all these question, CONTINUE to read below.
IF you answered NO to any of these questions, DO NOT FOLLOW THE STEPS BELOW.
If you answered NO, to any questions, please post the info on your video card from your laptop. If you do not know how to obtain this info, post again here saying so.

Can you use windows at all? Can it boot normally sometimes? Do you have the internet on it?

If you have another PC where you can DL an ATI driver, do so and then save the downloaded file (DO NOT double click this file after download complete) it on a disk or flash drive. Then, put it in laptop and put the ati file on desktop.
If you can use windows on it, and have the internet, you can directly dl the file to the desktop. Make sure you save ti to desktop and not a previous location.

Restart.

As windows boots up, press and HOLD F8 key (press it and hold it as soon as you can after boot begins). Use arrow keys on keyboard to select "Safe Mode".
Then see what happens. Windows should boot in a crappy resolution, but that's OK.
Go to "Add/Remove" programs in your control pannel, and search for any ATI files. Then, remove then and restart.
Press and HOLD F8 during boot up to verify you're running in Normal Mode. If it's not on normal mode, use arrows to select "Normal".
After windows is doen booting, double click the ati file you put on the desktop and let it run. This will install the new ati driver.
After the driver is finished installing, it should promt you to restart. After that, everything should be fine.

Thanks for the interest.

Its an ATI Mobility Radeon 7000 IGP The version is 6.14.10.6430 The date of it is 9/3/2004. I d/l a driver from toshiba then I installed it restarted the computer but the problem still persists. I have windows and internet fine, but after 30 mins or so it crashes for some reason it gets very hot, if I have a electric fan on it, it tends to be more reliable???? weird
Do I have to uninstall the old driver?

Kind Regards

You're laptop is overheating... make sure any and all fans are operating and that any vents are clear of dust.

don't install new drivers on top of old drivers
uninstall them first, clean it out, reboot a few times and see how things are without the ati drivers at all, just use the default windows ones

then think about installing the latest

I mentioned in my specific instructions to remove old ATI drivers. When people take the time to help you out, at least pay attention.

I'm not angry, just kinda disappointed. You seemed eager to fix this. Not only did it take you days to respond, but you didn't even read the directions carefully.

Your old driver is ancient.

My apologies!,

Im greatful for every post thanks!
I have uninstalled all drivers and am now running off the windows driver. The problem has stopped so far! The only side effects I now have is when i scroll down on internet explorer it creates a wave effect, but the problem I originaly had has stopped. thanks again for every ones advice.!

Kind Regards
Jamie

I have to also state that when I said I installed a toshiba driver and the problem carried on, I had done all of this before I posted anything on this site, I should have said that, Since I followed the instructions above ' Install all drivers and run from the windows driver' the problem has stopped. Im still unsure how to get the latest version for my laptop.

Kind Regards
Jamie

go here: http://ati.amd.com/support/drivers [...] 00-xp.html

and dl that driver. don't forget to go to cntrl panel. add/remove programs, and remove anything ati.

then restart, and install the above driver.

PS: That card is OLD!

Thanks again for the interested, very much appreciated.

I have d/l the driver from the page however when I start the set up two windows appear saying: Video driver not found. Then:
Setup could not be complete try to setup up display adapter with a standard vga driver before running setup. Since I have deleted ALL ati applications when I boot up its asks if I want to install new hardware: vga compatable video driver, But this just installs my old driver. does the vga driver need to be uninstalled to??
Kind Regards

Jamie

you've probably downloaded the incorrect driver package

Hmm....my friend had the same problem....we couldn't install that new driver. Had same error.

I'm going to try and find out for ya.

thanks, as I said my laptop has stopped crashing and overheating. It has took over a year to find the root cause. My thanks to all above who have advised.

Regards Jamie

So is your problem solved now? Or do you still have the driver problem/weird graphics when scrolling and such?

Hi,

I still dont have a driver and the scrolling is still a minor issue but if you dont mind finding me one id be very pleased, I dont wanna feel like im using up your time!
Kind Regards
Jamie

Well, as I mentioned, my buddy has the same problem. He does have a driver, without scrolling issue, but he cannot install a new driver, and that stops him from playing a game.

I looked on Google for a bit and found a couple things. I'll see what else I can find, but it might be a while with T-day coming and a lot of school work.

Hi
I have uninstalled all ATI drivers and I am running from my windows driver. Id like advise on which drivers to download as the crashing, and turning off of my laptop has stopped however when I scroll in internet Explorer it creates a wave effect also video quality is slow.

Any Advise appreciated!

Regards
Jamie

Hey,just found a fix which works on my Dell,anyone know if changing the '82801 PCI bridge' - to 'standard PCI to PCI' bridge will have any adverse effects on my notebook(slower bus speed maybe?).
Fix is at http://www.sightsea.com/pghpchd/pa [...] _loop.html .

damit yo, i have a desk top with the same ati2dvag problem and i duno what to say lol, it also over heats, freezes, and alot of other stuff.. theres alot of crap going on with this ati2dvag, i read somewhere over the net, if your using a specific version of the graphics card, 70% of all users using this will have this problem.. bleh. its anoying *comp has just froze* crap.. -.-

Hello,

I had this blue screen problem on my thinkpad this morning. I think this was caused by a change I made on the airplane with my battery setting. I changed it to "Power Source Optimized" which change the fan setting to "balanced". When I changed it back to "Maximum Performance", then the fan setting went to "Maximum Performance" and the problem has gone away.