ATI Crashing, What happens to you?

[Soultribunal]

Well, it looks like I'm fighting an interesting crashing problem.

I'll have to post a picture later of what it decided to do. But basically when my wife was on the computer beside me, she started watching a video Full screen and the screen went black, the sound got distorted, and I got a traditional ATI dump.

When restarted, windows reported the driver had stopped responding twice.
So, I un-installed the driver 11.1 I think.
After the un-install I rebooted, and sure enough the screen was now all distroted, blocky, multicoloured etc etc.

Rebooted again, and then it looked normal. Installed the latest driver now. So far okay, but I want to know what you guys experience when you get a Driver crash? Is it the same?

ST

[ZZLEE]

there was a windows update! caused me lots of fun today. crashing getting into windows.

[Keywork]

I've got an HP Elitebook with a crummy HD 3650 card. A few months back, if I did anything video intensive, I would be greeted with artifacts up the wazoo and a VPU recover. I thought this was a driver issue with xp as it never occured under ubuntu but after recently reformatting to W7/Mint, it is now happening more than ever, not to mention under both Windows/Linux. I'm convinced the card itself is on its way out and that may be something to consider in your position as well. Hope you get it sorted out!

[_dangtx_]

furmark usually settles if the cards a goner or not

also, st, when the screen gets weird, shut down lcd, power it back up.
or switch imputs. or do an alternate login, see which fixes it. have a larger sammy over
here that sometimes decides to take a crop, so rebooting it makes it go away. at first i thought
the gpu pair or at least one of them were going, since under linux it happens too.

[punk_zappa]

I just bought an ASUS HD6870. It is an open box thinking what the heck, since it was the last unit. First time I have seen a complete blue screen just after Windows was installed and it happened a couple more tmes yesterday with one being a complete purple screen.

It happened again this morning, first boot. It got to log in screen for about a minute and blue screen came out as I logged in but sound was still there. I will try another input and see what happens.

[Soultribunal]

I've been having some wierd stuff happen to Punk, so don't feel alone this card is 2 months old, and probably 20-30 hours of use.

Dan - Rebooting the monitor won't works since it clicks off first and flashes blue (No signal) then suddenly back to life for 1 sec before the BSOD.

Right now as it stands, 11.2 is holding stable, but who knows.

ST

[_dangtx_]

k, glad you sorted it out,for now :)

punkz, try a live cd, see what gives.

[punk_zappa]

History...
-I installed 11.2 to start with.
-Tried to install 11.2 again this morning. Fail. Had to go safe mode and ATI comes back saying "Failed to load detection driver". Removed old drivers using driver cleaner.
-Found a new driver off Guru3D, 11.4 (8.84). Installed and seems to be fine. Crossing my fingers.

*Spoke too soon. It seems like it doesn't like going to sleep. It BSOD'd after waking up with "atimkpag" or something error.