New
#1
ati radeon 7200 BSOD at power down
Hello, hope someone can help. I'm running an oldish pc with the above graphics card and win7.
All seemed well but I noticed that some displays were slow to load on certain web pages and Windows Experience Index gave the graphics a rating of 1.0. I checked in Device Manager and found that the graphics driver was running the Windows default driver.
After researching some chat forums, I discovered that there were no drivers for this graphics card for Win 7, but one suggested downloading an XP driver and manually installing it. I did this and all seemed fine, now see in Device Manager: Radeon 7000 series driver, version 6.14.10.0.313. However, when shutting down/restarting the pc or if it is left idle I get a Blue Screen of Death, which requires manual intervention to shut down the pc.
I downloaded BluescreenView which tells me that the problem is linked to the ati2dvag.dll with terminal_server_driver_made incorrect_memory_reference.
More researching of forums indicates there are a host of entries for this dll. I followed some leads: downloaded supposed win 7 driver and ran setup.exe. this completed successfully but the driver was unchanged. Tried uninstalling the driver, but windows re-installed the same driver on startup. I downloaded a different version of the dll, replaced the old but regsvr32 failed to run in elevated command mode, so replaced with the original dll.
So, here we are, the graphics work better but I keep getting the BSOD. I'm hesitant to download one of these tools recommended by some techie forums that are supposed to rectify all things known to man because I don't trust them/their motivation. However, if some one can recommend a utility to download that will fix this problem then happy to change my views.
Thanks in anticipation.