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like the tittle implies a fix for the error message that almost all of the ati radeon 5 series owners has been suffering from including myself with my sapphire 5850 Toxic edition card. and ATI/AMD has yet to this date release an actual fix for the problem that works to remove the problem permanetly.
Enviroment Conditions: Windows 7 X64bit
Symptom: screen freezes after a few secounds screen then flashes to a random color then a few secounds after that u recover to the desktop again like nothing happened. and you are greeted with a nice pop up notification bubble on the bottom right of your desktop that says
...."Ati display driver has stopped responding and has recovered from an error".
now u get this error sometimes so bad as every 2 mins when watching a streaming movie online or roughly every 5 mins without fail when trying to browse the web or type a document etc etc. some of u are unlucky enough to have this happen during gaming which i fortunately have not experienced yet. And on a final note not to bash the companys that gave us the fine kit but all these supposed revised drivers or aka xcode drivers didnt do jack to fix the problem like they were suppose to.
THE FIX: <hope this works for all of u, i got my fingers crossed even if it dosent no one cant say i didnt try to help ;-)>
Step one: Reboot into safe mode.
run driver sweeper check the option for ati drivers and click analyze, whatever it finds make sure their all checked and click clean. Then reboot as prompted.
Step two:
reboot back into safe mode.
go to start >
right click my computer>
choose manage> then select device manager from the listing.
select display adapters from the right hand pane. it should read the GPU card installed right click it and choose uninstall. now at this point a box should pop up with a check box. that says "would u like to completely remove the driver" that would be a yes so check the box and click okay. Now their should be no listing for display adapter. That is until u right click on anything listed in the right hand pane and select "scan for new hardware changes" windows 7 will now re-detect your GPU and it will now show as this instead " Standard VGA adapter" instead of saying HD5850 etc.
Step three: close out of Device mangler and install your cat 10.3 drivers or whatever the newest one might be. after the install finishes reboot your rig as prompted and this time boot normally we will N0T be going back into safe mode. And thats it their should be No more display driver has stopped responding errors in windows 7 x64.
this worked for me. i just stumbled upon this fix in the midst of my frustration and hoped it would work and it did. this has been recommended by other people but has not been presented with any real clarity for the not so computer savy.
***UPDATE*** for some reason if u just run driver sweeper in windows 7 when not in safe mode when u go to remove the ati drivers and u reinstall like normal it does not resolve the problem. i forgot to add this tidbit before but i speculate that the built in windows 7 driver for the ati cards was causing a driver conflict with the cat 10.3 drivers in essence by going into safe mode and removing the cat 10.3 drivers and rebooting then going in and removing the default windows 7 ati driver seemed to fix the issue. So far i have not experienced the display driver error or screen freezes ever since i did this. once again good luck and if this works for you to. spread this post all over the internet cause theirs an F-Ton of 5 series owners with this issue lol.
Enviroment Conditions: Windows 7 X64bit
Symptom: screen freezes after a few secounds screen then flashes to a random color then a few secounds after that u recover to the desktop again like nothing happened. and you are greeted with a nice pop up notification bubble on the bottom right of your desktop that says
...."Ati display driver has stopped responding and has recovered from an error".
now u get this error sometimes so bad as every 2 mins when watching a streaming movie online or roughly every 5 mins without fail when trying to browse the web or type a document etc etc. some of u are unlucky enough to have this happen during gaming which i fortunately have not experienced yet. And on a final note not to bash the companys that gave us the fine kit but all these supposed revised drivers or aka xcode drivers didnt do jack to fix the problem like they were suppose to.
THE FIX: <hope this works for all of u, i got my fingers crossed even if it dosent no one cant say i didnt try to help ;-)>
Step one: Reboot into safe mode.
run driver sweeper check the option for ati drivers and click analyze, whatever it finds make sure their all checked and click clean. Then reboot as prompted.
Step two:
reboot back into safe mode.
go to start >
right click my computer>
choose manage> then select device manager from the listing.
select display adapters from the right hand pane. it should read the GPU card installed right click it and choose uninstall. now at this point a box should pop up with a check box. that says "would u like to completely remove the driver" that would be a yes so check the box and click okay. Now their should be no listing for display adapter. That is until u right click on anything listed in the right hand pane and select "scan for new hardware changes" windows 7 will now re-detect your GPU and it will now show as this instead " Standard VGA adapter" instead of saying HD5850 etc.
Step three: close out of Device mangler and install your cat 10.3 drivers or whatever the newest one might be. after the install finishes reboot your rig as prompted and this time boot normally we will N0T be going back into safe mode. And thats it their should be No more display driver has stopped responding errors in windows 7 x64.
this worked for me. i just stumbled upon this fix in the midst of my frustration and hoped it would work and it did. this has been recommended by other people but has not been presented with any real clarity for the not so computer savy.
***UPDATE*** for some reason if u just run driver sweeper in windows 7 when not in safe mode when u go to remove the ati drivers and u reinstall like normal it does not resolve the problem. i forgot to add this tidbit before but i speculate that the built in windows 7 driver for the ati cards was causing a driver conflict with the cat 10.3 drivers in essence by going into safe mode and removing the cat 10.3 drivers and rebooting then going in and removing the default windows 7 ati driver seemed to fix the issue. So far i have not experienced the display driver error or screen freezes ever since i did this. once again good luck and if this works for you to. spread this post all over the internet cause theirs an F-Ton of 5 series owners with this issue lol.
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