BSOD running Windows, atikmpag.sys has resulted in Windows to stop.

Uffy

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I keep getting random BSOD's while my computer is idle or playing games/ watching Twitch.

A few times the 'Check for Solution' button once it has restarted has blamed Windows as it stops working due to the 'atikmpag.sys' file.

I've tried completely removing AMD Graphics Card utilities/drivers, and completely re-installed the newest version, and older versions that the BSOD's didn't occur on, but no fix.
 

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Hello, Uffy I will try to help you with the problem. Would you first completely fill out your system specs, complete with Manufacturer and model for all components. Please include the PSU and CPU Cooler. These are the instructions I usually give, so maybe they will help you.
Please fill out your System Specs

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Your System Specs will help us to help you, and doing it in this manner will make them available to all helpers in every post and keep us from hunting for them. We ask that you fill them out in as much detail as possible including Desktop or Laptop, Model number if it is an OEM computer and all components with the Manufacturer and Model number if possible.

If you will go to your last post and click the 'System Specs' in the bottom left of the post, you will find a link to update your system specs. Please fill those out in as much detail as possible, making sure to click save at the bottom of the page. If you would like to know what we would like, you can click 'My System Specs' at the bottom left of this post to see mine. If you do not know what your components are, this will help you accomplish this task. http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/180324-system-info-see-your-system-specs.html


I have looked at the last 6 or 7 dump files and they all are exactly the same.

Code:
[COLOR=red]VIDEO_TDR_FAILURE[/COLOR] (116)
Attempt to reset the display driver and recover from timeout failed.
Arguments:
Arg1: fffffa8006f293a0, Optional pointer to internal TDR recovery context (TDR_RECOVERY_CONTEXT).
Arg2: fffff880046b8848, The pointer into responsible device driver module (e.g. owner tag).
Arg3: 0000000000000000, Optional error code (NTSTATUS) of the last failed operation.
Arg4: 0000000000000002, Optional internal context dependent data.

That is your Video Card driver/card and is a TDR error (Timeout Detection and Recovery), It basically means your video card drivers and failed to recover within the necessary time. This is your current driver.

Code:
atikmpag
start             end                 module name
fffff880`046ad000 fffff880`04743000   atikmpag T (no symbols)           
    Loaded symbol image file: atikmpag.sys
    Image path: \SystemRoot\system32\DRIVERS\atikmpag.sys
    Image name: atikmpag.sys
    Timestamp:        [COLOR=red]Thu Nov 20 20:08:54 2014[/COLOR] (546E9EB6)
    CheckSum:         00093077
    ImageSize:        00096000
    Translations:     0000.04b0 0000.04e4 0409.04b0 0409.04e4

Please update/reinstall the driver. I will give you some instructions below to help you get a good clean install and not install anything you don't need.

I am going to give you some links that will help you get a good clean install and not have any drivers you don't need that will conflict with other drivers. Download a WHQL driver from http://www.sevenforums.com/graphic-cards/329659-latest-amd-catalyst-video-driver-windows-7-a.html . Once you have them downloaded, uninstall you current driver from control panel. next clean up any left over drivers from following this tutorial http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/83814-drivers-clean-left-over-files-after-uninstalling.html and select only ATI Display Drivers. After you have done that and rebooted, install the new driver, only select custom install and install only what you have to. Very few people need most of what they include. You do not need the audio/HDMI drivers as you already have that in your Motherboard drivers. Unless there is some reason you need them, the only thing you really need is the Display Driver.

After that please open an elevated command prompt ( click start, type cmd in the search box, right click on the cmd entry and select run as administrator) in the black box that opens, copy/paste sfc /scannow. If you decide to type it, notice the space between the sfc and the /. It is a system file checker which will scan your system files and attempt to correct any missing or corrupt files. What we want are the results to say windows found no integrity violations. If it says files were found but could not be repaired, close the box, reboot and run it again, after opening the administrative command prompt. You may have to reboot and run it three times for it to repair all system files. If it can't repair them after 3 reboots, let us know.

Please let us know the results of the scan and if the problems are any better after doing this.
 

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Hello, Uffy I will try to help you with the problem. Would you first completely fill out your system specs, complete with Manufacturer and model for all components. Please include the PSU and CPU Cooler. These are the instructions I usually give, so maybe they will help you.
Please fill out your System Specs

   Information
Your System Specs will help us to help you, and doing it in this manner will make them available to all helpers in every post and keep us from hunting for them. We ask that you fill them out in as much detail as possible including Desktop or Laptop, Model number if it is an OEM computer and all components with the Manufacturer and Model number if possible.

If you will go to your last post and click the 'System Specs' in the bottom left of the post, you will find a link to update your system specs. Please fill those out in as much detail as possible, making sure to click save at the bottom of the page. If you would like to know what we would like, you can click 'My System Specs' at the bottom left of this post to see mine. If you do not know what your components are, this will help you accomplish this task. http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/180324-system-info-see-your-system-specs.html


I have looked at the last 6 or 7 dump files and they all are exactly the same.

Code:
[COLOR=red]VIDEO_TDR_FAILURE[/COLOR] (116)
Attempt to reset the display driver and recover from timeout failed.
Arguments:
Arg1: fffffa8006f293a0, Optional pointer to internal TDR recovery context (TDR_RECOVERY_CONTEXT).
Arg2: fffff880046b8848, The pointer into responsible device driver module (e.g. owner tag).
Arg3: 0000000000000000, Optional error code (NTSTATUS) of the last failed operation.
Arg4: 0000000000000002, Optional internal context dependent data.

That is your Video Card driver/card and is a TDR error (Timeout Detection and Recovery), It basically means your video card drivers and failed to recover within the necessary time. This is your current driver.

Code:
atikmpag
start             end                 module name
fffff880`046ad000 fffff880`04743000   atikmpag T (no symbols)           
    Loaded symbol image file: atikmpag.sys
    Image path: \SystemRoot\system32\DRIVERS\atikmpag.sys
    Image name: atikmpag.sys
    Timestamp:        [COLOR=red]Thu Nov 20 20:08:54 2014[/COLOR] (546E9EB6)
    CheckSum:         00093077
    ImageSize:        00096000
    Translations:     0000.04b0 0000.04e4 0409.04b0 0409.04e4

Please update/reinstall the driver. I will give you some instructions below to help you get a good clean install and not install anything you don't need.

I am going to give you some links that will help you get a good clean install and not have any drivers you don't need that will conflict with other drivers. Download a WHQL driver from http://www.sevenforums.com/graphic-cards/329659-latest-amd-catalyst-video-driver-windows-7-a.html . Once you have them downloaded, uninstall you current driver from control panel. next clean up any left over drivers from following this tutorial http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/83814-drivers-clean-left-over-files-after-uninstalling.html and select only ATI Display Drivers. After you have done that and rebooted, install the new driver, only select custom install and install only what you have to. Very few people need most of what they include. You do not need the audio/HDMI drivers as you already have that in your Motherboard drivers. Unless there is some reason you need them, the only thing you really need is the Display Driver.

After that please open an elevated command prompt ( click start, type cmd in the search box, right click on the cmd entry and select run as administrator) in the black box that opens, copy/paste sfc /scannow. If you decide to type it, notice the space between the sfc and the /. It is a system file checker which will scan your system files and attempt to correct any missing or corrupt files. What we want are the results to say windows found no integrity violations. If it says files were found but could not be repaired, close the box, reboot and run it again, after opening the administrative command prompt. You may have to reboot and run it three times for it to repair all system files. If it can't repair them after 3 reboots, let us know.

Please let us know the results of the scan and if the problems are any better after doing this.

I have updated my System specs with what I know, I'm still looking for the PSU box to get the model number and such.

Unfortunately, I have done this process with all the Recent AMD Driver updates, just recently clean installed with DDU (the link you specified to use) and installed the latest BETA AMD Drivers (Release Date: May 27th 2015 - Driver Version: 15.5) and I'm having the same issues.

I have read a number of posts about the specific stop code I'm receiving, and have noticed that changing the registry to give the Driver a little more time to react has worked for some people, but it has not worked for me in that case, so I reverted to back to default.

The last scan System scan I ran (after installing the new 15.5 AMD drivers) came up clean with no problems; but I still get the same BSOD.

Is there anything else I can do besides that?

=Lastest System Scan=
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What graphics card do you have? Please get a GPU temp monitoring program and monitor your temps all the time. Then run Furmark video card stress test. Your temps will rise very high and very quickly. If they get too high stop the test. Run it until they quit rising and level out. http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/100356-video-card-stress-test-furmark.html Watch for any artifacting as the test is running. Take a screenshot just before you stop the test and upload it here.
 

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AMD Radeon R9 270.

I have downloaded a GPU Temperature monitor and left it idle for 30 minutes and it was averaging 27 degrees without any load.

I am currently running the FurMark stress test now, as you suggested and will upload the results once the test is complete.


This is the current screenshot, it's leveled out at 68 degrees; and has been consistent throughout the test, but I will upload another screenshot when it has near completed.
i7Xie.jpg


Ran the test for 17 minutes; and the temperature stayed the same (69 degrees) and had no problems with the display, and had no BSOD's or crashes.
i7Y36.png
 

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That looks fine and the temps are good.
 

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    Windows 11 Pro
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    Ryzen 9 5900X
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    Asus X570 Crosshair Viii Hero
    Memory
    32GB G Skill DDR4-3600
    Graphics Card(s)
    EVGA RTX 3080 FTW 3 Ultra
    Sound Card
    On Board/Sennheiser PC37X Headset
    Monitor(s) Displays
    3 X Asus 27"
    Screen Resolution
    2560x1440
    Hard Drives
    2 X 1 TB NVME drives
    PSU
    EVGA 850
    Case
    Phanteks Eclipse P400A
    Cooling
    EVGA 280 AIO
    Keyboard
    Logitech G510s/ Logitech G13
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    Logitech G502
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    24/1
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    Computer type
    Laptop
    System Manufacturer/Model Number
    Dell 16 Plus
    OS
    Windows 11 Pro
    CPU
    Intel Ultra 9 288V
    Memory
    32 GB LPDDR5X 8533
    Monitor(s) Displays
    16" Mini-LED HDR600 Touch 90 Hz
    Screen Resolution
    2560X1600
    Hard Drives
    1 TB NVME
You are getting a lot of errors from jagexLauncher.exe It may be associated with Runscape if you have that installed.
 

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    Windows 11 Pro
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    32GB G Skill DDR4-3600
    Graphics Card(s)
    EVGA RTX 3080 FTW 3 Ultra
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    On Board/Sennheiser PC37X Headset
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    3 X Asus 27"
    Screen Resolution
    2560x1440
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    2 X 1 TB NVME drives
    PSU
    EVGA 850
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    Phanteks Eclipse P400A
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    EVGA 280 AIO
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    Logitech G510s/ Logitech G13
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    24/1
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    Dell 16 Plus
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    Intel Ultra 9 288V
    Memory
    32 GB LPDDR5X 8533
    Monitor(s) Displays
    16" Mini-LED HDR600 Touch 90 Hz
    Screen Resolution
    2560X1600
    Hard Drives
    1 TB NVME
Yeah; is that what's making the majority of the crashes?

It always happens when I'm online, but does also happen when just idle.
 

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Custom Build
OS
Windows 7 Home Edition x64
CPU
Intel Core i5 (i5-4460) 3.20GHz
Motherboard
MSI B85M-E45
Memory
2x HyperX memory cards
Graphics Card(s)
AMD XFX Graphics
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Acer G24HL
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Microsoft Basic USB Optical Mouse
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I can't say it causes the crashes, but there were a lot of errors naming that as the cause. the errors don't help the situation in any case.
 

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    PC/Desktop
    Computer Manufacturer/Model Number
    ALWAYS UNDER CONSTRUCTION
    OS
    Windows 11 Pro
    CPU
    Ryzen 9 5900X
    Motherboard
    Asus X570 Crosshair Viii Hero
    Memory
    32GB G Skill DDR4-3600
    Graphics Card(s)
    EVGA RTX 3080 FTW 3 Ultra
    Sound Card
    On Board/Sennheiser PC37X Headset
    Monitor(s) Displays
    3 X Asus 27"
    Screen Resolution
    2560x1440
    Hard Drives
    2 X 1 TB NVME drives
    PSU
    EVGA 850
    Case
    Phanteks Eclipse P400A
    Cooling
    EVGA 280 AIO
    Keyboard
    Logitech G510s/ Logitech G13
    Mouse
    Logitech G502
    Internet Speed
    24/1
    Antivirus
    ESET/MBAM Pro/SAS Pro
    Browser
    Chrome/ Firefox/ Edge
  • At a glance

    Windows 11 ProIntel Ultra 9 288V32 GB LPDDR5X 8533
    Computer type
    Laptop
    System Manufacturer/Model Number
    Dell 16 Plus
    OS
    Windows 11 Pro
    CPU
    Intel Ultra 9 288V
    Memory
    32 GB LPDDR5X 8533
    Monitor(s) Displays
    16" Mini-LED HDR600 Touch 90 Hz
    Screen Resolution
    2560X1600
    Hard Drives
    1 TB NVME
Could there be any other things I could possibly check? As the System scan and Stress test came out good.
 

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Windows 7 Home Edition x64Intel Core i5 (i5-4460) 3.20GHz2x HyperX memory cardsAMD XFX Graphics
Computer type
PC/Desktop
Computer Manufacturer/Model Number
Custom Build
OS
Windows 7 Home Edition x64
CPU
Intel Core i5 (i5-4460) 3.20GHz
Motherboard
MSI B85M-E45
Memory
2x HyperX memory cards
Graphics Card(s)
AMD XFX Graphics
Monitor(s) Displays
Acer G24HL
Screen Resolution
1920 x 1080
Keyboard
Dell Standard PS/2 Keyboard
Mouse
Microsoft Basic USB Optical Mouse
Antivirus
Avira Antivirus
Browser
Google Chrome
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