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Display Driver keeps disconnecting and recovering successfully...
The machine I am currently having this problem on is a very old machine, bought in around 2003. It was pre-installed with Windows XP, and handled games and tasks extremely well; and the machine was very expensive at the time.
I upgraded this machine around 2 or 3 years ago to Windows 7 Professional, and throughout those two or three years (not so much before, but a lot now) I have been getting a persistent problem with the Display Driver disconnecting and re-connecting. This is extremely annoying, and happens EVERY SINGLE TIME I under-go a task that stresses the PC ever so slightly. The specs are here:
AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3000+ 2.00 GHz,
2.00 GB DDR2 RAM (mother-board does not support DDR3 or any more than 2GB),,
32-bit Windows 7 Professional,
ATI Radeon HD 3450 512 mb
Service-pack 1 updated earlier today.
I have heard rumors and others say that this problem relates with Catalyst, and the current display driver that is installed. I went onto the AMD website to find the latest driver, installed it, and still no difference.
I uninstalled every single component of Cataslyst, still with no visible luck. It even freezes on YouTube videos, the problem is THAT BAD. I even tried reverting to Window's default driver for my device, still no luck.
Bearing in mind this is not my PC anymore, it is a friend's PC now as I recently gifted it to him, so he could have a better PC than his old one. True enough, it is better. But it's still pretty awful at the moment.
I am no newbie in the field of computing, so I do not need to be metaphorically soon-fed with basic information, thank you :)
- LifeStealer