ATIKMDAG Has stopped responding

[AirmanD]

ATIKMDAG Has stopped responding but has recovered successfully. Anyone know good ways to fix this problem. Heard that it is pretty wide spread through ATI cards. Happens when im playing any graphics intensive games. Ive got an AMD Phenom 9750 Quad Core Proc, 2 4Gig Sticks of Ram, Radeon 4850 and im about the least computer savvy person out there.

 

[Maziar]

Have you updated your VGA drivers ? also please post full system specs

 

[hell_storm2004]

Maybe this link would help:
http://www.repairyourpcnow.com/resources/atikmdag-has-stopped-responding.php

 

[flabbergasted]

My Nvdia 7600 GT is having similar problems too.

 

[AirmanD]

Have you updated your VGA drivers ? also please post full system specs

as far as i can tell my graphics drivers are up to date. ive downloaded and installed the latest drivers. But when i actually look up the version numbers on my pc to the most recent one showing that i downloaded they never match. Its pretty odd.

 

[AirmanD]

Maybe this link would help:
http://www.repairyourpcnow.com/resources/atikmdag-has-stopped-responding.php

thanks but thats actually why im here. Ive tryed every one of those fixes that i understood how to do. And still nothing has changed.

 

[Maziar]

You didn't post your system specs

 

[AirmanD]

Operating System: Windows Vista™ Home Premium (6.0, Build 6002) Service Pack 2 (6002.vistasp2_gdr.090803-2339)
Language: English (Regional Setting: English)
System Manufacturer: MICRO-STAR INTERNATIONAL CO.,LTD
System Model: MS-7388
BIOS: Default System BIOS
Processor: AMD Phenom(tm) 9750 Quad-Core Processor (4 CPUs), ~2.4GHz
Memory: 4094MB RAM
Page File: 2534MB used, 5888MB available
Windows Dir: C:\Windows
DirectX Version: DirectX 10
DX Setup Parameters: Not found
DxDiag Version: 6.00.6001.18000 32bit Unicode

Card name: ATI Radeon HD 4800 Series
Manufacturer: ATI Technologies Inc.
Chip type: ATI Radeon Graphics Processor (0x9440)
DAC type: Internal DAC(400MHz)
Device Key: Enum\PCI\VEN_1002&DEV_9440&SUBSYS_0502148C&REV_00
Display Memory: 2297 MB
Dedicated Memory: 506 MB
Shared Memory: 1791 MB
Current Mode: 1440 x 900 (32 bit) (60Hz)
Monitor: Generic PnP Monitor
Driver Name: atiumdag,atidxx32,atidxx64.dll,atiumdva,atiumd64.dll,atiumd6a.cap,atitmm64.dll
Driver Version: 8.14.0010.0662 (English)
DDI Version: 10.1

 

[Maziar]

Disable Windows Aero and play a game and see if it happens or not

 

[AirmanD]

i already disabled it.

 

[Maziar]

Can you try with XP ? i have seen users having this problem and its been solved with installing win xp

 

[AirmanD]

how do i go about doing that and will it cost me anything and/or effect any of my hardware?

 

[Maziar]

Do you have a copy on win XP ? also installing XP won't have any bad effects for your hardware,i just want to check whether your problem will be solved under XP or no

 

[AirmanD]

Could you give me a link for drivers sweeper.

 

[Mousemonkey]

Could you give me a link for drivers sweeper.

It's in the 'Most Downloaded' column.
http://downloads.guru3d.com/

 

[AirmanD]

atikmdag is common, it also occurs with nvidia cards but it's called nvlddmkm.

I have this problem every time I re-load Vista. First uninstall windows update KB952287.

Then uninstall all your ati drivers. re-boot and let windows use its own drivers. Then use Driversweeper to remove anything ati or nvidia.
Then download the video drivers from ATI but use the standalone graphics driver only, DO NOT INSTALL Catalyst Control Center.
This always fixes it for me.

when i go to the ati website and download the display driver only it forces you to install the catalyst install manager...

 

[AirmanD]

oh ok well that didnt seem to work as well but i think i did find a fix oddly enought. I redownloaded my drivers using the full download including catalyst control center despite what everyone says and i havent gotten the error since... odd i know.

 

[AirmanD]

installing the display driver only didnt seem to work. actually it seemed to worsen the problem. But when i redownloaded the full drivers with ccc i stopped getting the problem.

 

[AirmanD]

Did you reboot after you installed just the display driver?

Did you remove the windows update I suggested?

I've spent many hours on many different forums researching this issue and not one time have I heard someone solve the problem by downloading the newest drivers, which you should have had installed to begin with.

Like I said, I know of this problem existing all the way back to the 8.XX drivers, so there's no way new drivers fix it. In fact it is not a driver problem at all. It is a Windows Vista problem.

ive done everything youve said multiple times in the past. ive had this problem for around 5 months now and i never had tried downloading the full download with CCC, i always dLoaded the display driver only. But this time i havent gotten the error.

 

[AirmanD]

i think you might be right.... was just playing a game and i got the error but only once then it stopped. But afterwards blue dots started flashing all over my screen.

 

[AirmanD]

Wow I'm soooooo surprised. LOL

lol so from what ive heard my best bets would be new gfx card, windows xp, or windows 7

 

[AirmanD]

well i did what you suggested and it seems to have fixed it. at least for the time being. Thx.

 

[AirmanD]

eh guess i spoke soon. the error came back

hmm also just noticed that even after i uninstalled my drivers, made sure i didnt have that update, used driver sweeper, and reinstalled the display drivers only ccc didnt uninstall... not sure how to uninstall that...

 

[AirmanD]

haha /face palm i didnt even think about using catalyst install manager...

 

[AirmanD]

You uninstall it through programs just like you uninstall the driver.

If you ran driver sweeper and you still have CCC installed, your doing something wrong. LOL

The most important part of what I told you to do is uninstalling CCC.

and it came back...