On occasion I get a Blue screen of death. Since its a BSOD I am not sure what i can do to determine what the actual problem is. What info do i need to paste here to help determine what is causing it. When i get home today i will post my dxdiag, and other info. but if there is any specific Windows 7 BSOD files that get created please let me know. I will verify tonight that my ati drivers are up to date.
I did find this youtube video that someone posted that shows a sto caused bsod. If it happens again I'll try to compare that screen to the one i get.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DETYlHrCfv8
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without more info then theres not an awful lot anybody can suggest, other than try the latest drivers, update directX or maybe try older drivers which can on occasion be required
few things that can be telling with a bsod are:
does it always happen when you try the same thing?
does it always name the same error and same file or are one or both different?
with win7 you can on occasion read what the bsod error is or what caused it in event viewer, usualy you will see a 'your machine has recovered from a crash' popop after restarting your machine, if theres nothing in the eventvwr next time you get a bsod look for text that looks similar to
"DRIVER_IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL"
bellow that it may name a file we will need both of those to help.
if the text is missing there will be a stop code we will need at least the first number block which means the same as the text above
STOP:0x000000D1 (0x00000000, 0x00000000, 0x00000000, 0x00000000)
if your machine is still set to store crash dump loggs then you could try a tool called 'who crashed' which will analyse the crash logs and tell you what caused the bosd. you can always cut and paste the most recent bosd errors as well
http://www.resplendence.com/whocrashed.htm
Here are the old drivers i'm using now. So its older than I thought it was.
Driver Packaging Version 8.681-091124a-092499C-ATI
Catalyst Version 09.12
Provider ATI Technologies Inc.
2D Driver Version 8.01.01.984
2D Driver File Path /REGISTRY/MACHINE/SYSTEM/ControlSet001/Control/CLASS/{4D36E968-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318}/0000
Direct3D Version 8.14.10.0716
OpenGL Version 6.14.10.9232
Catalyst Control Center Version 2009.1124.2131.38610
On Sun 2/28/2010 5:13:07 AM your computer crashed
This was likely caused by the following module: atikmdag.sys
Bugcheck code: 0x116 (0xFFFFFA8002B19230, 0xFFFFF880048F8EF0, 0x0, 0x2)
Error: VIDEO_TDR_ERROR
Dump file: C:\Windows\Minidump\022710-21855-01.dmp
file path: C:\Windows\system32\drivers\atikmdag.sys
product: ATI Radeon Family
company: ATI Technologies Inc.
description: ATI Radeon Kernel Mode Driver
On Fri 2/26/2010 3:32:06 AM your computer crashed
This was likely caused by the following module: atikmdag.sys
Bugcheck code: 0x116 (0xFFFFFA8007F100B0, 0xFFFFF880048F5EF0, 0x0, 0x2)
Error: VIDEO_TDR_ERROR
Dump file: C:\Windows\Minidump\022510-25896-01.dmp
file path: C:\Windows\system32\drivers\atikmdag.sys
product: ATI Radeon Family
company: ATI Technologies Inc.
description: ATI Radeon Kernel Mode Driver
On Fri 2/19/2010 11:07:00 PM your computer crashed
This was likely caused by the following module: atikmdag.sys
Bugcheck code: 0x116 (0xFFFFFA8002BF0010, 0xFFFFF88004868EF0, 0x0, 0x2)
Error: VIDEO_TDR_ERROR
Dump file: C:\Windows\Minidump\021910-58781-01.dmp
file path: C:\Windows\system32\drivers\atikmdag.sys
product: ATI Radeon Family
company: ATI Technologies Inc.
description: ATI Radeon Kernel Mode Driver
remember to run something like driver cleaner\sweaper to remove the old drivers first before instlaling new ones
I would recommend lookng at this thread on the AMD forums as it goes quite indepth into possible causes with some possible fixes
http://forums.amd.com/game/messageview.cfm?catid=260&threadid=104677&enterthread=y
PS. I also updated my mobo drivers last night. I was 2 versions behind on that.
Well, it happened last night again. but slightly different cause.
On Mon 3/8/2010 5:03:31 AM your computer crashed
This was likely caused by the following module: atikmpag.sys
Bugcheck code: 0x116 (0xFFFFFA80022571E0, 0xFFFFF88004006024, 0x0, 0x2)
Error: VIDEO_TDR_ERROR
Dump file: C:\Windows\Minidump\030710-23852-01.dmp
file path: C:\Windows\system32\drivers\atikmpag.sys
product: AMD driver
company: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
description: AMD multi-vendor Miniport Driver
On Mon 3/8/2010 4:01:07 AM your computer crashed
This was likely caused by the following module: atikmpag.sys
Bugcheck code: 0x116 (0xFFFFFA8001C27330, 0xFFFFF88003E58024, 0x0, 0x2)
Error: VIDEO_TDR_ERROR
Dump file: C:\Windows\Minidump\030710-23977-01.dmp
file path: C:\Windows\system32\drivers\atikmpag.sys
product: AMD driver
company: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
description: AMD multi-vendor Miniport Driver