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Hi all, I've got a fairly new Dell (6 months old) with a 21inch screen.

Today the screen goes black/blank for maybe 1-2 seconds then comes back to life. I am getting a warning message that says

"Display driver atikmdag stopped responding and has successfully recovered"

Can anyone tell me what this is and how to fix. It gets rather frustrating when happening every few minutes.

Really appreciate it,

Chop

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Should add I have googled this and loads of stuff comes up, obviously a common fault but no solution is available that I can find.

Chop

jaytc2003

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do the obvious if not already by getting the latest drivers, and also the latest catalyst control centre and see if that helps

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Done the latest Drivers. No improvement.

A few of the websites point to the Catalyst Control Centre. I'm struggling to find it

Chop

lightning101

I would uninstall the driver and CCCentre from the add/remove programs in control panel.

Then go to device manager and uninstall the card.

After rebooting ignore the automatic device install and hit cancel.

Download the exact driver from the amd/ati website and install manually, then reboot.

andys

Would use drive sweeper in safe mode to full remove the drivers and then install new ones form sratch.

scoobynewbie72

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Cant you roll back the driver to a known good one?

jaytc2003

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catalyst control centre from the amd/ati website, if you look down the page you will see different options like driver only, driver with catalyst control centre etc (did the other week when I updated mine)

It is best to download the relevant software first then uninstall the existing software/drivers/hardware, reboot and then ignore any found new hardware request, and just run the downloaded setup program and hopefully that will sort things for you

Another thought, has any other hardware been added since the problem has occured, or any other driver updates?

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Right going to try the download of the CCC as this appears to be where most suggestions to fix problem point.

I will give it ago now.

Jay - Not installed anything in the last week maybe 2 and problem started yesterday. Not installed anything since either. The problem seemed to come from nowhere.

Will let you know how I get on.

Thanks for all replies

Chop

jaytc2003

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good luck, I did have the same problem many many many years ago with a radeon 9800xt, however I cant remember what I did to solve the problem (probably bought an nvidia card )

andys

Seen a simlilar thing with an old Nivida card and a windows update