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Acer Aspire 4535 BSOD
Hey guys,
Good day! Got an Acer Aspire 4535, installed Windows 7 Ultimate (32-bit) on it and after a couple of minutes, the screen flickers and then displays "display driver has stopped responding and has recovered", this kept happening every few minutes until I get the BSOD and have to restart. At this point, I haven't installed ATI drivers yet, running on what Windows 7 detected and installed.
Sometimes gray lines appear, and stay that way until I restart the computer.
Installed ATI drivers, tried different versions, (the one specifically from the Acer support site) still keep getting the error. Some forums suggest I try 9.12, but it's much harder to track down older versions of mobility drivers. (This notebook has ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3200)
It originally came with Windows 7 Starter, so I tried restoring that version using Windows.old --- and the errors were still there. (Didn't spend too much time on Starter to find out about the error.)
Re-installed Windows 7 (again), tried just installing drivers for the Acer, and I still get it.
I get BSOD's about atikmpag.sys.
Sometimes it stays on indefinitely and the TDR's are tolerable. Sometimes when I start the system, I get the BSOD by just looking at the desktop.
My prime suspects are:
1. incompatible drivers
2. bad memory
3. bad video card
Any help would be great, included are the dumps/perfmon files.
Thank you so much!
EDIT:
Also, I read from another thread here, running Win7x64 on an Acer Aspire 4540, that I should turn HDD Mode into IDE from the BIOS. (Acer-specific. Since these two models aren't too far off from each other, this might work?) Not exactly sure what this will do. Should I? Is there even an option? Is it safe?