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Random BSOD with atikmpag.sys
Hello everyone,
This is my first post here, and I hope I'm not making any mistakes. Also, I'm not native English, I don't know all the words you techies use, I hope you'll understand anyway.
The first crash I experienced was a few months ago, may 2014 to be precise. But until october 2014, I had never seen a BSOD. It appeared to be caused by atikmpag.sys, I'm sure you will know better than me what's the use of this driver.
The BSOD happened once, then twice, and I had no clue what was wrong about my machine. I did a little research and found out it could be something linked with the compatibility of the driver and my hardware. Like most HP owner, my laptop is built with dual graphic : AMD + Intel.
During my first year of use I updated the amd driver only, because intel did not provide updates for its driver. Now my laptop has a couple years of use behind him, mostly games, music production and internet use. I had to clean the dust from the cooling system a while ago. During the last 2 months (10/24/14 - 12/25/14), my laptop crashed 11 times, each of these crashed caused by my graphic hardware (or software i have no idea).
I updated both AMD and Intel drivers in october, using LeshCatLabs UnifL 14.4 drivers. It worked for a while, then the blue screens came back. Now I can't even launch my camera or any app that would need a higher level of resources to run properly.
Now I assume this is an endless issue, not caused by any software (by that i mean driver) but the hardware. I was told BSOD are the most difficult things to diagnose, because it can be caused by anything.
Anyway, the true question is : is there something I can do (except throwing this laptop away and buying a new one) to make it stop, and being able to use my laptop like I did before it started ?
Thank you for your help.
And merry christmas to you all.
TRONDHEIM
Attached :
- SF Diagnostic Tool - 25.12.14
- Speccy Test - 25.12.14 (french) - a lot of information here, most of it is useless.