Asus M2A-VM - driver issues

[rudder]

Very stable board which has the AMD 690 chipset and onboard 1250. Everything runs great until I get the latest version of drivers from ATI... then th eboard locks up at random anywhere from 5 - 15 minutes after booting up. Pain in the ass.

Right now I am using drivers from the included CD, I can't get this thing to crash.

Any one else had similar experiences with the latest ATI drivers?

 

[Uppsala9496]

I haven't had any issues.
The only updates I have installed are the new chipset (17th release) and the 0402 Bios. I haven't felt the need to update any other drivers.

 

[eklass]

i'm having major issues with this board as well. finally updated from shipping bios to 0602. if i uninstall the ati drivers (i.e. use just the the "vga compatible"), the machine is rock solid. i've tried every catalyst version from 7.2-7.5, and they always cause freeze/reboot issues

usually nothing it he event log shows up, but occasionally, i get directed to the following page for resolution: http://wer.microsoft.com/respo...406a-a6d9-475dab111d34
which leads to the following kb article:
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=293078

none of the suggestions (updating driver or disabling acceleration/write combining) resolve the issue

Newegg customer reviews are reporting a similar trend: http://www.newegg.com/Product/...ALL&Pagesize=10&Page=1


i'll pulling my hair out waiting from ATI to resolve their ****** drivers.

people complain about poor linux support? you can add poor windows support to that list!

 

[rudder]

The drivers that came with the board were not that old... so I just stuck with those. I am afraid to upgrade the ATI drivers again. But it is rock solid and I do not do too much gaming on this machine... so I will keep it as is.