Blocks appearing in internet browser with new video card

[rickastley]

Been occurring fairly frequently since I installed a new video card a few weeks ago. The blocks tend to disappear if I open another tab so not sure if it's a driver issue or something wrong with the installation. Any ideas. has anyone seen this occur before?

 

[blastingcap]

update drivers?

 

[VulgarDisplay]

Try turning hardware acceleration off.

 

[CA19100]

I'd also suggest running Memtest86+. I had a similar issue, and it turned out to be bad system RAM. (Had a few random crashes as well.) Memtest86+ found it after a few passes, and replacing the RAM solved both issues. Worth a check, and hey, it's free!

 

[tamm]

does this appear on all screens that you connect the card too? It seems its either a driver issue or bad card. I`m not really leaning towards a bad card yet, since as you said its a new card, but not out of the question.

 

[rickastley]

thanks for the replies, have discovered that it seems to only occur on one of my dual monitor setup pointing to a possible driver issue with the new monitor (around a month old). however that brings me to a issue i was incurring a few weeks ago when i was trying to update the drivers for this new video card (sapphire hd 7750). i was constantly getting blue screen errors whenever i installed the new drivers. something along the lines of below (screenshot taken from elsewhere on the web)

hence i uninstalled all the newly installed drivers to stop the above occuring but i obviously have the issue from the OP.

 

[rickastley]

:whiste:

 

[Nate_007]

Which PCIe slot did you insert the card into? Make sure its inserted on the one closest to the cpu. x16 lane

 

[SiliconWars]

Blue screen while installing AMD drivers isn't that unusual, some of them are a joke tbh.

I'm also getting this blue blocks thing during firefox with my new card. It's pretty harmless all said and I don't appear to be having issues with anything else. Also using two screens at the moment but it shows in both for me.

 

[blastingcap]

uninstall all drivers and the rest of catalyst too, and reboot

only then should you install new drivers, and then reboot again afterwards for good measure!

 

[SiliconWars]

There are certain drivers that will cause blue screen (repeatable) on fresh installs of Windows 7.

 

[blastingcap]

There are certain drivers that will cause blue screen (repeatable) on fresh installs of Windows 7.

Wth?? I know Win7 has a tendency to want to download and install drivers on its own, so maybe it's not a totally fresh install if Win7. If that's not the case, then that is really messed up!

 

[SiliconWars]

Nah it's fresh installs, I've tested it quite a few times on different systems. I can't remember exactly but I think some of the early 13.x would blue screen on a fresh installation with 6-series cards and Trinity APU's. Dropping to an earlier driver solved it - I believe it might have had something to do with .NET

I think they should just throw out Catalyst altogether and start from scratch tbh.

 

[blastingcap]

Nah it's fresh installs, I've tested it quite a few times on different systems. I can't remember exactly but I think some of the early 13.x would blue screen on a fresh installation with 6-series cards and APU's. Dropping to an earlier driver solved it - I believe it might have had something to do with .NET

I think they should just throw out Catalyst altogether and start from scratch tbh.

Yeah that's messed up, I hate how they have .NET and Raptr bundled with it. Catalyst is already bloated enough without those. It takes forever just to download Catalyst let alone install. I haven't had any issues with 13.11 beta5 yet, but I did have recurring bluescreen issues with 13.12 whenever I opened a Chrome browser, so I dropped back to 13.11 beta5.

 

[KompuKare]

+1 to hating bloated drivers. And coding installer in .NET is never a good idea (even if it is easy), an installer should ideally work in generic Windows without any dependencies.

But these kind of artifacts sound like either something wrong with the clocks of that the card (even with two monitors) is running at the wrong speed. Defaults for 7750 with multi-monitor are 300/1125 (core/vram). I would suggest the OP monitors those clocks. Might be a case that the vram is too slow, or for some reason hardware acceleration for the browser is not working.

Really do feel that AMD need to work on their idle power usage. Actually all three (AMD, Nvidia, Intel) should work on it since the ideal thing would be something like ZeroCore kicking in when not using 3D programs or even better seamless switching to Intel or AMD onboard would be really nice. And if the dGPU could then enter the equivalent of AMD's ZeroCore (basically turn off and stop the fans), it would make a desktop a bit quieter which after all is one of the (admitably minor) reason for the decline of desktops vs laptops.

 

[Warsam71]

I installed 13.12 a couple of weeks ago and haven't had any problems. Btw, did a fresh install by removing the old driver.

That said, I just did a search for you...I Googled "atikmdag.sys" and found a possible solution in a thread on Tom'sHW, take a look, I hope it helps you: http://www.tomshardware.com/answers/id-1656824/atikmdag-sys-error-bsod-startup.html

 

[Atreidin]

I know it has been said but make sure you try disabling hardware acceleration in your browser (firefox?). There are a number of guides on how to do this if you google it.