I would just like to say thanks to all those who have posted their fixes in the comments section below!
The error you receive on the cards is different because obviously the driver that stops has a different name, but the symptom is the same, the screen will go blank and then sometimes the game/application will recover or it may crash. A small message will appear on the bottom right hand side of your screen if you are using Vista.
This page contains all the information I have collected and possible fixes and puts them in one place.
I will point Nvidia users to the best solutions for them and then list possible fixes for ATI users - I am a ATI card user myself and have found a few fixes which increase the stability of my system - this has reduced the frequency of the error but has not eliminated it entirely.
Some users have solved the problem by actually uninstalling a windows hot fix, the "KB952287" patch. (Vista Users)
I had this problem and found it quite annoying. Due to other circumstances, I reinstalled Windows Vista, and found that I did not have this problem before installing updates. In fact, installing update KB952287 caused this problem to start, and when I un-installed this update, it went away.
I looked up the update, and it deals with some very specific SQL server issues that I will likely never deal with, so it will stay gone on my machine.
I un-installed "update KB952287" and the problem is gone.
I also use the AMD 780G chip set.
You may have these fixes installed already, write them down then check if you have them installed.
According to several posts I have read over the internet a sure-fire way to rid yourself of this problem is to only have one stick of ram in your PC. I personally have not tried this method as I only have 2gb of ram, reducing it to 1gb would not be enough for me as I am using Vista and have to run several applications.
If you are so sick of this problem and can reduce your PC to only one stick of ram then give it a go.
Some people report cleaning the registry and removing unnecessary files using a registry cleaner has solved the problem for them.
Update 30.9.2007: I managed to totally remove my atikmdag error now following the information below
This stage is what removed the error for me. My ATI card is a HIS Ice3q 1950 Pro which is an overclocked video card. Doing some research I found that it wasn't very stable running at the speeds it is set at, so I made one small change to the VPU clock speed. Obviously I don't know what card you have and weather this will make any difference for you, but I can say that before most games had this error every 5 minutes of game play and after I haven't had the error since.
On the ATI tool main menu you will have your graphics card clock speeds. My core speed was 621 I reduced this to 600 and pressed set clock - the tool set it to 594 - I saved the profile and that was it - that little adjustment removed the error. Your graphics card will run at different speeds to mine, but it might be worth dropping the core speed by 20 points to test if this works - also make sure you go to stage 3 as well.
Reading through all the hundreds of posts I took down notes and kept a record of what worked for some people, some responded saying that it worked, some say it made no difference. So give some of these a try and see if it makes a change.
Select tools and scroll down to disable UAC and click launch (see pic) - reboot your PC
This is basically as far as it goes for now, but these are few other fixes that you could try:
Had the same problem until I set my bios setting to auto! Now everything is good to go!
I have got the system stable by uninstalling the ati driver and using the standard vista vga driver, aero and window transparency don't work, nor do any of the screen savers but no more BSOD..
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Daryl M London  | Posted at 6:10pm on January 21st, 2012 |
2 brand new PC's I built last year have been rendered useless by this problem. Both PC's have different components, this error seems to have no consistency, the only consistent factor is that both computers are running Windows 7! Microsoft should be providing their customers with a solution. I have literally tried everything, new graphics cards, up to date drivers, old drivers, RAM, etc.
The 2 temporary workarounds I found were these...
1) Uninstall ATI drivers and Catalyst Control Center. This will force Windows to use the standard graphics drivers. The screen resolution wont be amazing, but it will enable you to use your pc. This work around wasn't ideal for me as I do a lot of design work and need a good resolution on my screen. But it did stop the atikmdag error.
2) If you are using a multi-core processor, set Windows to single core following these steps..
Control Panel ---> System & Security ---> Administrative Tools ---> System Configuration --->
This will open a box with 5 tabs. Select the Boot tab, and then click 'Advanced Options'
Click 'Number Of Processors' and select 1 from the drop down menu. Then click ok.
I will add, to revert back to multi cores you will need to go through the same process, and on the 'number of processors screen' untick the box, click ok and restart your computer. The reason for this is if the 'number of processors' box is unchecked this forces Windows to revert to using all available processors on start-up.
Again this work around isnt ideal. Running in single processor mode can be a pain especially for someone like me who needs to run large graphic design and daw applications. But for everyday use like browsing etc it is acceptable.
Hope these help someone. I have repeatedly emailed Microsoft complaining about their poor response to this issue.
If you would also like to complain this is the email I have been using - directx@microsoft.com
Administrator comment: I know its crazy, this article is 4 years old now and still many people are having this problem!
Anyway thanks for your input. |
sc2fan USA  | Posted at 1:58pm on January 17th, 2012 |
I have an ATI Radeon 5770. Since I bought my card I have experienced the Display driver amdkmdap stopped responding but has recovered issue and in Windows and also while playing Starcraft2. This issue also caused Dragon Age origins to crash CONSTANTLY.
My fix was to clean my registry. CCleaner actually found some old Starcraft 2 registry and ATI video card entries, which were removed. I played Starcraft 2 for 30 minutes last night and today for another 30 minutes.
Also I want to note that I tested a Nvidia GTX560 as well and the Display driver amdkmdap stopped responding but has recovered also occurred in Windows 7 professional 64 bit.
I really hope cleaning the registry fixes this issue for you too! |
Marius Poznan  | Posted at 8:19am on January 16th, 2012 |
First of all thx for this site.
I had artifacts and BSOD right after I launch Win7 64 when replaced GPU for a new one. I've tried with TdrDelay and RAM but no results. Uninstall CCC and install Display Driver Only and it's working since then.
My spec:
Win7 64, HD6870 |
Marius Poznan | Posted at 8:01am on January 16th, 2012 |
ATI user HD6870, Win7 64, uninstall CCC (11.12) and install only Display Driver in Safe Mode. Works for me. |
Nghĩa Phạm Trọng Vietnam  | Posted at 1:56pm on January 12th, 2012 |
BSOD appears again even though I edited the registry TdrDelay with value 7. The solution of Luke doesn't work for me.
I'll try to disable ULPS/ raise the GPU voltage. Hope it will work...
P.S: Sorry for my English if it's bad. I speak Vietnamese.
Administrator comment: Thanks, your english seems fine :) |
Nghĩa Phạm Trọng Vietnam | Posted at 4:27pm on January 4th, 2012 |
Awesome! Luke, thankyou very very much!
My DELL V3450 with AMD Radeon HD 6630M crashes with BSOD 0x116 anytime gaming. I'd tried to do many things to fix this error, such as:
> Update driver
> Install different versions of windows
> Check my RAM, HDD
> Disable hardware acceleration
> Disable Aero
> Change from 4 to 2 cores
> Underclock GPU
...etc...
but nothing worked untill I saw your solution. It seems stable for a long time playing games. I'll follow it if there'll be any more crash.
Thanks again! |
Thu Win Truro | Posted at 4:49pm on December 29th, 2011 |
I have a HP p6792uk Desktop that keep crashing whenever I tried to change the settings of the Microsoft Lifecam software.
I fixed the problem by uninstalling ALL the Catalyst program *using Add/remove and selecting "express" uninstall. Then I reinstall the drivers from the manufacturer (OEM, in this case HP) website. The I went to the ATI Website and did an update but did not opt for the AMD Vision Control Center (using the ATI Control Center of the HP original update).
For more details see http://forums.amd.com/game/messageview.cfm?catid=260&threadid=157989&enterthread=y. |
Nate United States | Posted at 2:51am on December 26th, 2011 |
Thank you to the most recent post! INCREDIBLY HELPFUL. I have windows 7 and it has been crashing in adobe after affects while trying to use a particle effect, APPRECIATED GREATLY! |
Tommy Houston | Posted at 10:16pm on December 7th, 2011 |
I use Windows 7 32 and in my case I have both an ATI and an Nvidia card totalling 6 monitors.
I would get the BSOD often with error 116 and the same driver mentioned. Eventually what fixed my problem was to use the nvidia beta drivers and uninstalled all panels (ATI and Nvidia) and use only the drivers.
Then once I disabled Aero by using the classic theme, it all became insanely stable. |
Craig Location unknown | Posted at 9:34pm on November 23rd, 2011 |
Just like to share my solution to this problem. I have a HD6950 that was locking up all the time while gaming (not BSD).
Tried everythingn under the sun for days trying to fix. Finally i installed some 'default' Realtek HD audio drivers NOT the drivers packaged with my motherboard. Everything was stable thereafter.
Here is the link http://www.realtek.com/downloads/downloadsCheck.aspx?Langid=1&PNid=24&PFid=24&Level=4&Conn=3&DownTypeID=3&GetDown=false |
Alex Brasil  | Posted at 2:00am on October 26th, 2011 |
After two years I formated my HD and installed Windows Vista SP2 again. I just installed 3d softwares for my work and no games.
Two weeks and no more red dots, white horizontal lines or bluescreen caused for Atikmdag.sys or Atikmpag.sys.
When I used Firefox I installed flashplayer 11 from Adobe and some hours later ... Bluescreen caused for dxgkrnl.sys and atikmpag.sys!
What I did? Disabled the Adobe Flash Player hardware acceleration and no more bluescreen! :)
Of course... I installed my PC games and until now all work fine!
I am using:
>Windows Vista SP2 x64 with all updates
>Directx 10
>Catalyst Version 11.7
Administrator comment: Very helpful and worth trying if you are still having this problem, thanks for sharing! |
oreste france  | Posted at 7:17pm on October 19th, 2011 |
i had this problem too:
"Display Driver ATIKMDAG Stopped Responding" while playing demanding games (after 5-30 mins)
what didnt work for me:
-uninstalling KB952287
-messing with msconfig boot menu
-desactivating/uninstalling CCC
-clean reinstall of windows vista
-tried many versions of drivers with clean reinstall (safeboot and driversweper)
-ccleaner
-overclocking GPU/memory
WHAT WORKED: underclocking both GPU and MEMORY through CCC
my setup: home made computer
-i5 2500k
-sapphire HD6950
-gskill sniper 2*4gb 1600mhz
-black caviar 1To
-MB P8P67
-CCC 11.9 |
Robin Germany  | Posted at 4:12pm on October 17th, 2011 |
After more than 10 hours of trying to fix that c***, I downloaded MSI Afterburner, clocked my GPU down for 10% and it seems to work, l0l00ll0l0l0l0l00ll0. |
Ramon Germany | Posted at 9:25pm on October 14th, 2011 |
Hello World,
I am an IT Professional and enthusiastic gamer. 15 years in the job. Experienced and also desperate due to this issue.
I encountered the TDR issue 4 times with 3 different system configurations, triggered by at least 4 different ca** and solved by 4 different actions.
My current system:
AMD Phenom II BE@3.4 Ghz, 4GB Mushkin DDR3@1333MHz, ASUS Crosshair Formula 3, Sapphire Radeon 6950/2GB Dirt Edition, PSU Enermax ProModu 550W, all hardware running with default settings, Windows 7 Professional 64bit / Ubuntu Linux 11.04 64 bit, entire system and drivers are up to date
1.Configuration / Issue (occured 2-3 years ago):
Windows Vista Premium 32 bit, all available updates and service packs installed, all drivers up to date, no OC. Bought a new NVIDIA GF9800GTX ExoEdition. No problems at all, while working with standard applications (Mozilla, Office), but massive problems when operating at large workloads. Solution: Built in a new PSU 550W and happy, until ...
2.Configuration / Worst Issue (occured 1.5 years ago):
Upgraded to Windows 7 64bit in the meantime. System became very unstable, BSOD and TDR issue occured permanently and randomly. It took me weeks to solve. Although memtest reports no errors I decided to swap the RAM as long as it was in warranty. Problem solved, but ...
3.Configuration / Issue (occured 6 months ago):
Deja vu? Screen becomes blank, then reappearing with a message so familiar to me: "The display driver has stopped working ... nvkrnl.dll ... and has recovered ... and so on". Noticed also some flickering green dots on the screen. To keep it short: There were some or more cold solder joints on the graphics adapter's PCB.
I considered the oven trick (always worth a try) considered the ROHS compliance (lead-free soldering) in my plan and set it to 220° C, (duh! damn metric system! that's 428°F) after dismantling the fans, cooler and plastic parts, and resoldered the joints while leaving the PCB in for 10 mins in the pre-heated oven. Great trick, isn't it? But unfortunately this didn't work for me, so ...
4.Configuration / issue (occured less than 2 months ago):
I bought a new graphics adapter. This time it should be something completely different. Powerful. Reliable. Future proof. The Sapphire Radeon 6950 Dirt Edition with 2GB VideoRAM. After decades of using Nvidia in true conviction. Yeeeeeeessss, Sir!! I assume you will already know what happened next...
No problems while gaming, great performance, but severe problems when idle or when simply surfing the web or writing emails. "The display driver has stopped working, the warp core will be ejected, all personnel evacuate immediately." OK. This time it was software related. I tried the same with Ubuntu Linux using the proprietary driver and no problem occured.
If you are unsure if this problem is hardware related or not, I recommend you should do the same. There is even no need to install Ubuntu, you may simply boot from a Live CD and btw, you might even like it ...
The next thing you should do is to boot into Windows, check if your driver and additional software is up to date, enter AMD VISION Engine Control Center --> Performance --> Graphics Overdrive and disable all AMD Overdrive features available, apply and reboot.
This solved my problem so far, I have no loss of performance, and I hope this works in the same way for you, and also for me in the future.
My conclusion:
It's very, very hard to determine whatever may cause this issue. I'm afraid this will persist, as long as Microsoft will develope another more precise error reporting and response to certain different hardware and software issues.
Especially the 4th case might be a problem of dynamic over/underclocking (a.k.a. switching between High Performance and Energy Saving Mode), causing the driver not to respond in a predefined time. If this is the case, you can try to increase the tdr_value in registry to match your requirements, or simply disable this feature like described above.
If you are in doubt what hardware you should use to circumvent such problems, I would point to Nvidia. The software is mature and works like expected. But thats my opinion only. Decide yourself.
However, finally I would like to thank the administrator for taking care of this nasty problem and also for keeping this thread alive. At least, it felt good to experience, not to be the only one with such problems.
Administrator comment: Excellent, thanks for the detailed response, I am sure this will help others with this problem, thanks again! |
Szabod Hungary  | Posted at 1:44pm on October 13th, 2011 |
I underclocked the Video Memory (VRAM), and no BSOD since then. ATI Tray Tools has a VRAM Stress test, it may help you. |
John T. Greece  | Posted at 1:13am on October 4th, 2011 |
At Last two solutions that work for me.
First i disable the hardware acceleration in flash player and the ''Atikmdag has stopped responding and has successfully recovered'' disappeared.
Two , update bios to fix the blue screen problems.
_______________
win 7 x64
Intel core duo E4400
Abit Fatal1ty fp-in9 sli
Ati hd 4850
Administrator comment: Thanks for sharing your success! |
Alexandro Brasil | Posted at 4:14am on October 2nd, 2011 |
Another friend found this solution and work fine to his Windows Vista:
Use a registry clean software and install **AMD Catalyst 11.1** Last updated 1/26/2011. AMD display drive version 8.812. Disable Catalyst A.I.
I used Catalyst 11.1 and did updates from Microsoft to my Windows Vista X64 and... work! Three days playing pc games and no more crash.
My PC:
Windows Vista 64 bits
Intel Quad CPU Q9450 2.66 ghz
ATI Radeon 4870 X2
8Gb Corsair Dominator
TX 650W Power Supply
Motherboard Maximus Formula
Administrator comment: Thanks! |
3Digital PR | Posted at 8:24am on September 26th, 2011 |
Well it seems we are zeroing out on the problem in the last few posts... to me it seems something about 4 cores machines using intensive programs and to games(not all games), so it got to be related to incompatibility with 4 Cores processors and code (Direct X myb?).
My problem is only related to gaming, I've done anything you can think of, including running M.R.I (Geek Squad Tools) performed an overall system faulty hardware test for 24hrs.. NOTHING!.. everything is ok!.
Some retail software code or Windows is interrupting the videocard rendering process, but it's not Memory, overheating, faulty hardware or corrupted drivers so what gives?...
The only solution that I've found is lowering the cores to 2 cores from 4 (like others above me did) but with 2 cores performance is not smooth at all.
PS: I don't crash when idle or with Aero on, only when gaming!.. also, I don't have the windows update mentioned here nor do I have overheating problems (i Know, cuz sometimes I just turn on my computer, quickly start a game and after a few secs it hard-crash and trip my PSU breaker)
Specs:
Amd Phenom x4 2.5
Gygabyte AM2+ MA785GM-US2H
Caviar HDD 500GB
9800GT 1GB
Creative 5.1 Xtreme-gamer
4GB (1X4) DDR2 800 Kingstone
650w zEROdba PSU
Windows 7 Ultimate x64
This problem is BIG!... biggest I've seen in a while.
Administrator comment: Many thanks, very helpful |
Alexandro Brasil | Posted at 3:49am on September 26th, 2011 |
My friend fixed your problem with Fix 3 : Cleaning the Registry.
He used a registry clean software to delete that:
hkey local machine > system >
controlset002 > enum > root > *LEGACY AMDKMDAG*
controlset003 > enum > root > *LEGACY AMDKMDAG*
controlset004 > enum > root > *LEGACY AMDKMDAG*
There were 3 keys to AMDKMDAG!
He got used two registry clean software but these keys were not deleted.
He found a good registry clean software and deleted the keys and your problem with bluescreen-atikmdag, red square dot and vertical white lines is over!
If you use a registry clean software to do always a backup of all registry!
I hope that it help someone to solve the problem with atikmdag crash :) |
Enrico Italy  | Posted at 9:53am on September 24th, 2011 |
I tried almost every suggestion,but nothing changed, but finally it seems I have come to an happy ending.
I slightly underclocked my nvidia GT240 with MSI Afterburner, and the infamous driver semms to have finished troubling me.
Anyway thanks for this very helpful guide.
Administrator comment: Glad to hear it helped! |
Alexandro Brazil | Posted at 4:07am on September 20th, 2011 |
What worked for me was uninstalling the windows updates!
I deleted all 2011 September and August updates. Now my windows vista sp2 gets back Directx10 and all my pc games work very well!!! |
Vincenzo Rome | Posted at 1:48pm on September 12th, 2011 |
UPDATE!! I re-enabled extented desktop and AERO too!! from 3 days all works perfectly.
I've used "registry easy", I suppose this is a good solution for windows 7 64 + nvdia driver 280.26
>LOL!!... solved...
>W7 64 bit / nvidia FX 2700M
>-disabled extended monitor
>-disabled aero
Administrator comment: Excellent - thanks for your comments! |
Vincenzo Rome | Posted at 12:11pm on September 9th, 2011 |
LOL!!... solved...
W7 64 bit / nvidia FX 2700M
-disabled extended monitor
-disabled aero |
Matt Ontario, Canada  | Posted at 10:03am on September 5th, 2011 |
I would constantly get full-stop crashes, sometimes I would get lucky with a kick to desktop saying my driver had an error and was restarted.
However just recently I have found much success with ATI Overdrive and under clocking my board.
I lowered my clock speed down a tad and manually set my fan to 70% - I will keep lowering it until I find my minimum but even at 70% it's not loud at all.
Cliff Notes:
Under clock your card and increase your fan speed. |
Evan King Canada | Posted at 11:50pm on August 31st, 2011 |
Fix 4 - Stage 2 (Clock Speed) Worked for me.
I just had to set the minimum clock speed lower, and it has been working fine since.
CPU usage is at 0-1% idle, against 3-10% idle.
Thanks a lot for this
Administrator comment: Excellent - thanks for the comment |
Saku Helsinki  | Posted at 9:13pm on August 15th, 2011 |
Thanks for this page. Sharing my information for the interested ones.
System specs:
Vista 64bit
C2D e8400@3600MHz
4870 512MB
1680x1050
I have had these issues only with some of the games - those games that have been bit more GPU-heavy like Crysis 2, Witcher 2, etc. I have never had problems with bit lighter games like WoW, DoW, Crysis1.
I did earlier done some GPU temp measurements and at that time they did not seem to have any affect on this issue. The GPU was running ~same temperatures with WoW and Crysis2, only the latter crashed within several tens of seconds whereas WoW never crashed.
I did do all these steps:
- cleaned registry
- removed that mentioned windows patch
- lowered default GPU clock from 800 --> 775MHz
Now, I can run Crysis2/Witcher2 with absolutely no issues, increasing graphic settings only slows the frame speed but does not crash the driver. Increasing GPU back to default values comes with all the issues.
So I vote for lowering the GPU core speed. Seems like these graphic card cores start to "wear out"...
Administrator comment: Thanks for the info! |
John Singapore  | Posted at 10:09pm on August 12th, 2011 |
I have just fixed this issue. I am using GTX 570 and running on Win7.
Solution: Swapped my graphics card into another PCI-E slot. Yes thats it!
Due to the big and hvy card, it may have worn off the slot so i swapped into a new one and it is solved. |
Richard Malta  | Posted at 6:15am on July 27th, 2011 |
Because my HP PC was running slow after 4 years,I decided to increase the Ram from 1 to 3GB. Then when running Rosetta Stone programes it started to go blank and I got the sign with atikmdag not working.
So after reading comments on this page I did the following and the problem seems to have gone away. I did it in this order.
1) uninstalled KB952287, rebooted
2) changed to Windows classic view rebooted
3) turned off user control rebooted and the problem has gone.
The program works as it did before. I don't think you need User control when you are the sole user. I hope this works for others who have the problem.
Many thanks for all the tips. |
Luke UK | Posted at 2:25am on July 10th, 2011 |
I believe it is caused by the TDR delay (win 7 and vista), I found something about it on the microsoft website and after playing around found this works 95% of the time. It does still crash, but probably about once every few weeks instead of every 5 mins.
Win 7 users -- Start -> Run (if not there ctrl, alt, del -> taskmanager ->file -> run)
Type regedit press enter, then yes on the user account control pop up.
Using the left hand pane navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE SYSTEM CurrentControlSet Control GraphicsDrivers. The right side of the window should have two keys, default and something about a kernal.
Right click an empty space below these two files. Select New -> DWORD (32-bit) Value, Rename it TdrDelay (case sensitive), next right click it and select modify. Change the default value to 7 and click OK. Exit the regeditor and reboot.
-- Note, YOU MUST CHANGE THE DEFAULT VALUE; if you leave it at 0 it will constantly reset the graphics driver. Choose between 3-9. There is an option to change the data between hexadecimal and decimal. I dont know the difference. Mine is on hex and it works, so does the 2 or 3 other computer i done this on.
IF IT WORKS FOR YOU DO AS I HAVE DONE AND SPREAD THE WORD! The hard part is done just copy and paste.
:-)
Peace.
Administrator comment: Awesome! |
Mitsos Greece | Posted at 11:35am on June 25th, 2011 |
Hello, found this workaround over another site (not allowed to post it)
IT WORKS AS A CHARM!!!!
Here is the workaround:
Open CCC and switch to ATI Overdrive
Unlock and enable Overdrive
Go to Options/ Profiles/ Profile Manager and create a new profile called, let's say, STABLE.
Save the new profile. But DO NOT ACTIVATE the profile.
Now go to C:Users {YourUserName} AppDataLocal ATIACE Profiles folder ( I assume C: is your system drive )
Note: You should have " show hidden files " turned on to see the folder.
Open the .xml file named STABLE with notepad.
Change the values of the idle Core clock and Memory clock speeds below
Feature name= "CoreClockTarget_0"
Property name= "Want_0" value="40000" note: previous value should be "15700"
Feature name="MemoryClockTarget_0"
Property name= "Want_0" value="90000" note: previous value should be "30000"
Save the file and close it.
Go back to CCC and activate the profile. This will make the card idle at 400 MHz core clock and 900 MHz memory clock.
It seems the problem is not overheating, but idling the GPU in very low voltages, causing it to become unstable.
Notice, that this workaround may increase you GPU temperature by 4%
Administrator comment: Many thanks for this solution! |
Andy M England | Posted at 5:43pm on May 13th, 2011 |
I've had this problem for the last year too, same old Driver message....
My graphics are onboard (Nvidia on an Asrock K10N78 FULLHD-HSLI Socket AM2+ Revision 3.0)
The problems don't seem specific to any action, it will even do it whilst the PC is idle. But push Online HD video through it, use the zoom slide bar on Windows Photo Viewer, or Boot Up Adobe Photoshop and it will definitely give that error message.
In addition to the Driver message; sometimes it will just bluescreen me without any error message beforehand, then reboot. Worse still, the PC will sometimes bluescreen me, restart then do it again and again, to the point the PC won't boot at all.
However i have noticed that when it goes into this loop of bluescreens, restarts, bluescreens, if i turn the PC off for 20mins the PC starts fine and runs well for maybe another hour.
Perhaps this is not one select problem. I think at least one of my problems is overheating. I haven't yet tried re-doing the paste on the CPU and GPU yet, or turning Aero off, but will soon....
Administrator comment: Very interesting. Could you remove the side cover of your PC to help keep it cool? Then if the error stops you could definitely link it to overheating. |
Karsten Fischbach | Posted at 9:14pm on April 24th, 2011 |
I have this problem with atikmdag.sys for more than 18 month after upgrading Vista to Win7.
My PC is running 24h a day and my finding is: After a MS patch day the problem is gone - until next reboot, power outage or software installation with computer restart.
This effect is repeatable. So I try to avoid installing new software shortly after a patch day.
:-) K.S. |
Mark Maryland | Posted at 5:34pm on April 22nd, 2011 |
I was getting the NVIDIA error more and more...went out and bought a new video card, out went the GT 9200..in went the GT520...fixed the problem. Good luck.... |
Seby Romania  | Posted at 9:27am on April 8th, 2011 |
I fix the problem videos.Disable Hardware acceleration by right clicking on any flash video, going to settings and unchecking enable hardware acceleration. |
lolos evia | Posted at 10:10am on April 3rd, 2011 |
I have laptop turbox with windows vista32 sp1 home gr edition card nVidia 9300M GS and i have problem every time i connected to net after 5-6 minutes working with mozilla my screen black for few seconds and closed the mozilla and also my desctop view is(bigger than before)and the view is foggy and also every time i shutdown the pc pop up on desktop the tag file nvlddmkm.sys not find the profile the solution i find :
I have before backup my old drivers from nvidia and i go to windows/system32 and rename the file nvlddmkm.sys to nvlddmkm.old and I take the previous file from my backup put it in the same directory make restart the computer and thats it the screen working same before perfect. |
ag Switzerland  | Posted at 1:45pm on March 30th, 2011 |
After trying more stuff:
- Downgrading the BIOS to the earliest version greatly reduced the freezes. (Have HP Pavilion dv5)
- With external monitor the freezes seem to appear more often. |
vkts south africa | Posted at 11:32am on March 30th, 2011 |
How do I un-install the KB952287 file that is disturbing |
Wayne Vancouver, BC | Posted at 10:49pm on March 27th, 2011 |
Some users have solved the problem by actually uninstalling a windows hot fix, the "KB952287" patch. (Vista Users)
This worked for me on my HP Tablet. I also disconnected the battery for half an hour and the problem seems to have gone away.
I also used to use a secondary monitor and have not reconnected it yet. We shall see what happens when I do. |
cquintanilla77 Boston, MA. USA | Posted at 4:54am on March 27th, 2011 |
This blue screen error is due to hardware overheatting. The solution, open up your pc or laptop and clean up the heatsink by removing it from the cpu.
At the time of installation, clean up the old heat transfer compound and apply new one. I recomment a non-silicone base compound.
I came upon this solution after extensive research, trial and error.
Also, remember to apply new heat transfer compound to all the components touching the heat sink.
Administrator comment: Very helpful, thanks! |
Captain Nevica Lancashire | Posted at 11:58am on March 20th, 2011 |
I have suffered this "display driver atikmdag stopped responding" problem everytime I have tried to run Adobe Premiere Elements for video editing under Vista. Result - I gave up with the software (expensive!).
Suffered the same problem for the first time viewing a YouTube video today so looked again for a solution.
Found this page... All I have done is select the "Windows Classic" theme (see FIX 5 above) and the problem seems to have disappeared.
Many thanks to those supporting this page - such a simple fix. |
H. Vestergaard Denmark  | Posted at 7:05pm on March 19th, 2011 |
Choosing other than aero is the solution for me.
Everytime I choose aero again the atikmdag or R200 driver stop working and restarts.
With eg vista basic instead nothing happens and problem solved.
Thanks to all :-) |
ag Switzerland | Posted at 9:57pm on March 16th, 2011 |
Have win7ultimate, nVidia 9200M GS
Things that did not work for me:
- underclocking, mild overclocking
- old / new drivers
- turning off aero
- downgrading system color settings to 16bit
- using only laptop monitor, no external
- one memory module (2GB instead of 4GB)
- disabling sound driver
- uninstalling d-tools
- power setting on performance
- dusting the inside
I still need to try w7 without any patches but do not have time for that.
Administrator comment: Thanks for sharing this, it must be very frustrating finding out that the problem still persists after trying all these different fixes :( |
zarko croatia  | Posted at 3:30pm on March 13th, 2011 |
i have windows 7 ultimate and i get message display driver kernel 268.56(name of my driver) stop responding and has succesfully recovered...
what is kernel and do you have fix for that??? |
ag Switzerland | Posted at 1:05am on March 13th, 2011 |
I used Riva Tuner and set the overclock on the max official values with 400 MHz on memory clock - Freeze kept happening.
Then I set the memory clock to 420 MHz and the number of freezez decreased (playing DA: Origins)! I could finally play without interruption.
Freezes still happened, but rarely and usually when the game was not intense, mainly when I was reading in the journal, thus it was not disturbing. |
HoruncaSunca Baia Mare | Posted at 7:13am on March 10th, 2011 |
like @Marco from Barcelona
I could finally solve the crashes problem turning Aero off. I had tried manies things and none worked, having this problem for a long time which crashed the PC many times per hour.
I run Vista businnes 32 bit with ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3650 Display.
Thank you all for sharing your solutions. |
Bigbillybear NC | Posted at 8:20pm on February 24th, 2011 |
Turned Aero off and I cant believe it but it worked lol... Dont ask me why but I can assure you it stopped mine... knock on wood...
BBB |
florina uk | Posted at 12:13am on February 19th, 2011 |
turned the aero off, thank you. so far so good! |
jrie182 Putrajaya | Posted at 1:08am on February 16th, 2011 |
I was suffering from atikmdag error for almost a year, only to find the solution yesterday, after some intense reading on some other forums.
For ati users, all you need to do is uninstall the rest of the ati software except for the driver only.
Just go to control panel>manage software>choose customize uninstallation of ati apps> uncheck all other ati apps except for the driver. And thats it, problem solved for me.
I learned that atikmdag error because of the ati catalyst control features that is executed from startup. |
Anonymous Russia  | Posted at 6:02pm on February 11th, 2011 |
->goldygopher wash dc
Is it applies to our problem? |
MAZI7 Serbia  | Posted at 7:14pm on February 5th, 2011 |
I disabled Realtek HD Audio drivers in device manager, i put 16bit deskop and everything works great. Dead Space 2 / CS1.6 without crashing 2 hours already, but i dont have sound :( |
gj USA | Posted at 7:19pm on December 31st, 2010 |
I did fix 1 and fix 2, Vista nvlddmkm driver solutions...my screen looks better...I think it might have worked..removed update and using ONE stik 1GB RAM.
I am hopeful, and grateful for this information.
Administrator comment: Thanks I am glad it helped you! |
angel ksa  | Posted at 9:01pm on December 29th, 2010 |
display driver stopped responding and has recovered .. What can I do to solve the problem >>> my laptop inspiron >> n5010 >> core i5 >> win 7 >> thanx
Administrator comment: Read some of the comments below |
Dude ISRAEL  | Posted at 8:08pm on December 10th, 2010 |
After two weeks!
after 5-10-15 min game,
my pc freezed, buzz from soundblaster, and i had to force a shut down...
SOLUTION!
REPLACE YOUR MEMOREY MODULE!!!
i had a mushkin 2GB DDR2
replaced it for the test withe KINGSTON 1 GB
PERFECT!!!
P.S hirens mem test didnt give any error...
i have no idea whats was the problem..
BUT WHO CAREs?? |
Vlad Romania | Posted at 4:20pm on December 7th, 2010 |
And for the Windows 7 users is the same ? i uninstall "KB952287" patch and its over? |
Snorri Iceland  | Posted at 10:36am on December 6th, 2010 |
ATI Radeon 4650, HP Laptop
Same issue, had been bugging me for almost a year before I found a few forums try this solution:
Disable HD sound/drivers. Fixed it for me.
Re-enable sound possibly w/alternate drivers or HD disabled. |
Eric Israel | Posted at 2:32pm on December 3rd, 2010 |
Atikmdag problem that appears when playing video from internet may be solved by disabling the hardware acceleration in flash settings. helped me. |
j ma | Posted at 2:38am on November 28th, 2010 |
fresh install of win 7 and latest drivers after from amd FAIL |
Daniel Baker UK | Posted at 1:46pm on November 26th, 2010 |
Mine was a memory issue - I had taken a 2 GB memory stick and put it in with 2 1gb,s (yeah i know they should always be the same) anyway when i took out the random memory my problems went away |
Raymond USA | Posted at 8:47pm on November 20th, 2010 |
Go back to the latest drivers that worked, for me the 10.11 drivers caused this so i went back to the ATI 10.10 one, also i uninstalled all windows update just to be safe. Fixed it totally. |
Gijs Galway  | Posted at 8:30pm on November 8th, 2010 |
Was getting the issue every few seconds and the pc would eventually crash.
Looked for installed updates on the PC and removed the last installed windows security vista update. This solved the issue.
Unfortunately I did not write down the update that i uninstalled. |
Jared Saudi Arabia | Posted at 7:58pm on October 23rd, 2010 |
I had this problem for 4 months. My system is a Toshiba A350-22Z. It has cool specs.
I encountered this problem when I enabled the Intel Dynamic Acceleration option in my BIOS. Then I started having video crashes.
I thought it was the OS. It was originally installed with Vista OEM. So I changed the OS to Windows 7 but still have the same experience. Now, as I was browsing this article, I remembered turning that "dynamic acceleration".
So, it must be the "overclocking" that is causing this trouble. I disabled it and it came back to normal. but i will observe this in the coming days. hope you find some ideas. |
BOBA_RUS Russia Moscow | Posted at 1:01pm on October 23rd, 2010 |
Hi everyone!
I also had this problem on the card Nvidia GeForce 8800 GT.
In addition to the deconfinement of the game after 5 minutes of the game, I still could not watch the video
a blue screen.
I completely dismantled the video card, cleaned it from dust, grease, and changed to get by!
With a dirty card temperature was 80 degrees immediately after cleaning 62 - 70.
Did not yet crash.
Good luck |
Besioli Rome | Posted at 2:50am on October 19th, 2010 |
Ive had this problem for a year and im sick of it. |
userNo1 germany | Posted at 3:32pm on October 17th, 2010 |
I have another information for you (unfortunately no fix).
Iīm using dual boot MacOSX 10.6.4 and Windows 7 64bit.
MacOSX use some "special" drivers for 5xxx cards. everything worked fine.
Then after watching a youtube video (in MacOSX) it froze. I had to reset the PC.
After resetting OSX isnīt booting anymore (only in safe mode).
Windows isnīt booting also. It hangs up before login screen with the atimkpag.sys BSOD.
So Windows and MacOSX hang up just before login screen.
So for me it looks like:
1. hardware failure (but why is it working then in safemode with full resolution)
2. some sort of graphics RAM failure.
Maybe it could help to some sort of reset the graphics card.
Do you know if something like this is possible?
Thanks in advance!
Administrator comment: Thanks very helpful post |
Myg Europe | Posted at 10:24pm on October 13th, 2010 |
The following issue is a software issue caused by an incompatibility between the acceleration of the 2d Windows Desktop and Certain acceleration products from ATI/Nvidia.
XP Users fix: Right click desktop -> Properties -> Settings Tab -> Advanced -> Troubleshooting -> Set the hardware acceleration to "None" -> Apply -> Restart Computer.
Vista/w7 users: Right click desktop -> Personalise -> Display settings -> Advanced Settings -> Troubleshooting -> Set the hardware acceleration slider to the lowest -> Apply -> Restart.
XP users are recommended to load their OS into "VGA mode" using the f8 boot selection system that is activated by pressing f8 before windows starts loading. |
