Please help. 'AMD Driver has stopped responding and has succesfully recovered'

[kurosenpai]

To all the computer gurus here. Ok. This is one tricky and annoying computer problems ive encountered. This problems started to happen a few months after I switched from nvidia card to amd card. To my horror, my monitor was damaged by lightning and I've left with my hdtv. So i use my tv as monitor temporarily before I bought a new monitor. After a few days of using, my screen started to go black for like 2 seconds and when it comes back the ' amd display driver has stopped respnding and has succesfully recovered ' . And it would occur randomly to a point of making my computer useless. So I've reinstall the driver and to no avail. I've sold my card so I can't check whether its the card or something else. To my horror again, ibe realised that my psu wasn't up to the job, as my new build with the new card asus hd7770 needed at leqst 550w. So I've changed the psu to cooler master 600w and uninstall all the drivers including the nvidia and bought a new monitor the same time and walla, problems fixed! Ok this was a few months ago and last night the problem is coming back again! I'm so lost now. I just don't get it. Is it the driver, the card, the psu, the bios, ram corrupted?

 

[Bubbaleone]

Please, post your hardware specs and what operating system you have.

 

[kurosenpai]

Intel i5 3.1 ghz ivy bridge
Asus hd7770 1gb
Asus maximus v gene
Cooler master gx lite 600w
4gb ram
1T seagate hdd
Blue ray dvd drive combo
Win 7 home premium

I've installed the driver and when I run it driverless no problem at all. But once I installed the driver it started again.

 

[Bubbaleone]

I'd suggest that as the first step in diagnosing why the driver causes your PC to crash, that you first run chkdsk and then sfc to eliminate any possible file system and disk errors, as well as any corrupt Windows system files that may be part of the problem. Open an elevated command prompt and run chkdsk with this command:

chkdsk C: /x /v /r /b (press Enter)

Chkdsk will tell you it can't lock the drive and ask if you would like it to run the next time the computer starts. Type Y, press Enter, close the command prompt then reboot. Chkdsk will then run prior to the login screen and with a 1 TB drive may take an hour or more to complete. Don't interrupt chkdsk for any reason, and take note of any errors that it reports having corrected. When chkdsk completes you can login, again open an elevated command prompt, then type this command:

sfc (press Enter)

System File Checker will inspect all the Windows files and replace any missing or corrupt files with fresh copies. When you get these two tasks finished, post back with the results.


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[kurosenpai]

Hi sorry for the late reply. I am very busy with works and such.

I just realised that my gpu is slightly unattached to the pci-e slot. I am not sure wheater this is the source of the problem, but when i reattached my GPU the problems stops.

I also made a research from the Internet about this problems. It seems that the error " amd driver has stopped and responding and sucessfully recover " and the black screen prior before that is because the GPU has stopped responding for a lot of reason and this TDR system (TIMEOUT DETECTION RECOVERY) found in VIsta and 7 kicks it and try to wait for the gpu to recover without any need to reboot the computer. If this is would happened in Windows XP the computer would just BSOD because XP doesnt have TDR system.

The causes of TDR to kick in in the first place is a lot.
Maybe my first problem was because my PSU wasnt up to the job, so my gpu wasnt getting enough electric current? I dont know about any of this stuff. Please correct my if i am wrong.
Second, maybe it was because I was using HDTV? Which I doubt it would cause a problem.
Third, my Graphic Card is faulty? It couldnt be, ive tried on my friend's computer and works lke a charm.
Fourth, Old driver? Ive updated everthing to even the motherboard bios.
Anyways, I bought a new PSU and a new monitor and uninsttaled all nvidia drivers (including in the registry ) and the problem was fixed.

My second problem was maybe because my GPU is somewhat loose from the PCI-E and after reattaching them it seems to have fxed the problem.

Thanks for helping! The method you have suggested will be used on my laptops as it seems that it keeps on BSOD'ing. Maybe the OS is currupted.
Thanks again !

 

[nightspydk]

Are you running vista. Get Windows 7 fully updated.

Give it a go.

Like I said I had plenty of problems with Windows 7 in the beginning. Yep I kinda of skipped vista. My problem was excactly like your I got vga not reponding/recovered and that made it impossible to work on that pc.

If you cannot get it to work on a fully updated windows 7 then skip ultimate (just guessing) and try eg enterprise and please report back.