Yea, it's just terrible. It crashes for no reason at all, with the 'atikmdag.sys has recovered successfully' multiple times, crashing between, and then it just turns to either a black screen, or a black screen with vertical grey lines. Won't respond to anything, have to powercycle it. Happens randomly. Happened three times today; once while playing a game, successfully recovered. Second time, it just hung and had to be powercycled, while web surfing. Third time, it was untouched. I wasn't even near it, and it just crashed.
Have tried:
Reinstalling Windows (vista x64)
Catalyst 8.6 + hotfix drivers
Catalyst 8.6 drivers
Hotfix drivers
Catalyst 8.7 beta
Removing half the ram
Disabling UAC
Disabling Catalyst AI
Unplugging my second monitor
Stock speeds on CPU and ram
Swapping power supplies
Disabling Aero on Vista
Every single time it's atikmdag.sys. Never anything else.
This is getting pretty unbearable. At this point I wish I just went with a 9800gtx instead.
Specs:
Intel E4300
4x1gb pc6400
4 hard drives of various sizes
Silverstone ST50EF+
2x monitors (Acer 22", Viewsonic 17")
And of course, the Visiontek HD4850.
Have tried:
Reinstalling Windows (vista x64)
Catalyst 8.6 + hotfix drivers
Catalyst 8.6 drivers
Hotfix drivers
Catalyst 8.7 beta
Removing half the ram
Disabling UAC
Disabling Catalyst AI
Unplugging my second monitor
Stock speeds on CPU and ram
Swapping power supplies
Disabling Aero on Vista
Every single time it's atikmdag.sys. Never anything else.
This is getting pretty unbearable. At this point I wish I just went with a 9800gtx instead.
Specs:
Intel E4300
4x1gb pc6400
4 hard drives of various sizes
Silverstone ST50EF+
2x monitors (Acer 22", Viewsonic 17")
And of course, the Visiontek HD4850.