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BSOD caused by AMD Graphics Driver
I need a bit of help in installing the graphics drivers on my laptop. It's been bugging me for a long time.
My laptop's a Samsung Notebook Series 3. It's GPU is supposed to be AMD HD 7670M. Thing is whenever I install the drivers, be it from the Samsung or AMD website, it always gives me a BSOD. It has different error codes, but it usually starts with the atikmpag.sys code. It differs from then on. I had concluded that the graphics card is the main culprit because I have the Standard VGA drivers on here and it doesn't BSOD on me.
I did a clean install of Windows 7 using the Recovery Disc.
Another thing to mention is I brought this laptop to a technician a few months back to upgrade its RAM. They updated my drivers for free. They connected and external HDD and used some sort of software, I don't know which but it sure did bring back the AMD drivers flawlessly. No blue screens, no crashes, and it definitely made me play games at a stable frame rate. Before they fixed it, I was using Standard VGA drivers too.
I have done a bit of tinkering and tried the following:
-Uninstalling the AMD drivers using the AMD Uninstall Tool and reinstalling
-Using the command prompt to expand the atikmpag.sys
-Installing different kinds of versions of the AMD drivers
Other things to note:
-One time after installing the drivers it didn't produce a BSOD, it shut down unexpectedly and give a BSOD after rebooting just before the Windows logo
-Safe mode works and it's what I'm using right now
This is my first time posting in the forums, I'll be your eyes and ears for the duration of fixing this. Thanks in advance!