Shamelessly posting this every where till I get a workable solution for my system. I am having a really terrible time with the ATI video drivers. And from what I have read, others are too. I shut it off for now and will leave it off till better drivers are released. The funny this is, is that the drivers from windows update are just as bad as the drivers from ATI. If you install the video drivers from windows update you are looking at BSOD. You can reboot into safe mode and remove everything ATI however if you continue to try to boot normally you will ruin the OS and you will have to reinstall. Specifically it is atikmdag.sys. This was also a problem with Vista from what I have seen researching this issue. The supposed work around is to just install the driver but even if you download just the driver it wants to install the Catalyst Control Center. So you are stuck between wanting to install the drivers for your video card or using the generic video driver that is stable and won't crash your system. The annoying thing is is that with the generic driver the video on the monitor is scaled. So you have a black border all the way around the screen. The maximum resolution of my monitor is 1920x1080. The best I can get with the generic driver is 1440x1080.
I would say that it was a hardware conflict somewhere however this is hardware that worked just fine in Windows XP.
Is there a fix for this yet or is it more of a "be patient" thing?
My system is as follows,
Windows 7 Professional x64 (Clean Install)
Asus P5K-E Motherboard
4 gigs of DDR2 1066 RAM
3 10,000 RPM drives in RAID 0
Intel Q9550
Powercolor ATI Radeon 4850 cards in Crossfire. Monitor hooked up via HDMI.
Not that any of that matters since it seems everyone across many different configurations is having the very same issue as I am. I have tried driver version 9.9 and 9.10 and had no success with either one. Does anyone have a driver version that works with Win 7x64?
Essentially, its a very expensive case full of hardware that is unusable. I know that I am going to asked for information that I haven't included in this post but I am at work at the moment and can't provide it.
Thanks
I would say that it was a hardware conflict somewhere however this is hardware that worked just fine in Windows XP.
Is there a fix for this yet or is it more of a "be patient" thing?
My system is as follows,
Windows 7 Professional x64 (Clean Install)
Asus P5K-E Motherboard
4 gigs of DDR2 1066 RAM
3 10,000 RPM drives in RAID 0
Intel Q9550
Powercolor ATI Radeon 4850 cards in Crossfire. Monitor hooked up via HDMI.
Not that any of that matters since it seems everyone across many different configurations is having the very same issue as I am. I have tried driver version 9.9 and 9.10 and had no success with either one. Does anyone have a driver version that works with Win 7x64?
Essentially, its a very expensive case full of hardware that is unusable. I know that I am going to asked for information that I haven't included in this post but I am at work at the moment and can't provide it.
Thanks