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RomitKumar1
I have just assembled a new PC 6 months ago. Until recently, it worked without a hitch. But in the last 2-3 weeks I've been experiencing blue screen errors from time to time.
No such issues had arisen before and this issue came seemingly out of nowhere. One day everything was just fine and the next day everything went wrong. The issue came whenever I started gaming, sometimes just when starting, sometimes after five minutes or when I did any kind of multi tasking with 5-6 windows open, which was something I could easily do before. The blue screen shows-
Stop Code: VIDEO TDR FAILURE
What Failed: atikmpag.sys
I googled and many people have had this issue, mostly with AMD parts. I tried many of the fixes shown, even those shown in these forums but none of them seemed to work. Some of the things that I have tried -
1. Updating, re-installing and installing old versions of my graphics drivers.
2. Running all sorts of scans, most of which just displayed that everything was fine other than windows memory diagnostic which showed a hardware error but I it didn't specify what and I any general fixes didn't work, but I don't want to go as far as to replace my RAM.
3. Some websites recommended adding .bak and .old after the file extension but somehow, these files don't even exist in my System32/drivers folder, even after re-installing windows.
4. Refreshing windows or even re-installing it completely from a flash drive.
I have completely run out of ideas and need help. My desktop's specs are -
Ryzen 3 2200G
Radeon Vega 8 graphics (allotted 2gb of video memory)
8gb RAM (from which 2gb is given to the integrated graphics)
MSI A320 Pro VD/S motherboard
Windows 10 Pro 64 bit
I any other details are required please let me know. Also, before you ask, my computer did meet the requirements for the games that I tried, and some of them were even ones that I had played just the day before the issue first occurred.
Edit: The file which has also caused errors in other people's computer, atikmdag.sys, is also not present in my System32/drivers folder.
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No such issues had arisen before and this issue came seemingly out of nowhere. One day everything was just fine and the next day everything went wrong. The issue came whenever I started gaming, sometimes just when starting, sometimes after five minutes or when I did any kind of multi tasking with 5-6 windows open, which was something I could easily do before. The blue screen shows-
Stop Code: VIDEO TDR FAILURE
What Failed: atikmpag.sys
I googled and many people have had this issue, mostly with AMD parts. I tried many of the fixes shown, even those shown in these forums but none of them seemed to work. Some of the things that I have tried -
1. Updating, re-installing and installing old versions of my graphics drivers.
2. Running all sorts of scans, most of which just displayed that everything was fine other than windows memory diagnostic which showed a hardware error but I it didn't specify what and I any general fixes didn't work, but I don't want to go as far as to replace my RAM.
3. Some websites recommended adding .bak and .old after the file extension but somehow, these files don't even exist in my System32/drivers folder, even after re-installing windows.
4. Refreshing windows or even re-installing it completely from a flash drive.
I have completely run out of ideas and need help. My desktop's specs are -
Ryzen 3 2200G
Radeon Vega 8 graphics (allotted 2gb of video memory)
8gb RAM (from which 2gb is given to the integrated graphics)
MSI A320 Pro VD/S motherboard
Windows 10 Pro 64 bit
I any other details are required please let me know. Also, before you ask, my computer did meet the requirements for the games that I tried, and some of them were even ones that I had played just the day before the issue first occurred.
Edit: The file which has also caused errors in other people's computer, atikmdag.sys, is also not present in my System32/drivers folder.
Continue reading...