vistawindows
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I got an ASUS M51 laptop 2 years ago with Vista Ultimate 32. I felt
pretty good about the machine, until I connected a second LCD monitor
with DVI connection. Connecting with VGA port had no crash problem,
but I prefer using DVI with a HDMI/DVI cable. Using non-Aero theme had
no problem.
Occasionally the system reported graphic card driver crashed and tried
to recover. Sometimes the system recovered, more often not, leading to
total crashing of Windows.
Surely I did the following:
1. Reinstall the latest graphic drivers.
2. Reinstall the latest ASUS splendid utilities.
3. Keep Windows patches updated.
4. Install and uninstall some Windows hot fixes, as suggested by some
newsgroups' posts.
5. Many other methods.
This link provided a lot possible solutions.
Display Driver atikmdag and nvlddmkm Stopped Responding
however, I would not use all of them, for example, a solution was to use 2 monitor with the same resolution, but I could not offer buying a new one just for this bug. By the way, my workplace PC with Vista Business has 2 monitors of the same model, it had the same error once or twice, and apparently recovered OK ever since. Some suggested turning off UAC but I don't want to lower the security.
So, none worked, so I gave up Aero for almost a year. Until I read a post
when searching for answer about mysterious disappearing of desktop
icons when the desktop is refreshing sometimes. The post had the
finger pointing to Power4Gear eXtreme. For some reasons, the default
settings of Miscellaneous power settings of the Quite Office profile
will hide desktop icons. After changing the setting to No, the desktop
icons stay still forever. And the Windows graphic driver crashing
occurred less often.
As the crashing still happened, so I uninstalled ASUS Splendid
utilities. And crashing of graphic driver never come back.
In short, there's a bug in ASUS Splendid triggered by such combination
only: Vista Aero, and second LCD monitor through DVI connection.
Apparently the engineers in ASUS did not test scenario well.
Actually, later on I bought another Asus machine with Windows 7 / Intel i7 /64bit, it still got the same problem. So, I applied the same solution, all good.
pretty good about the machine, until I connected a second LCD monitor
with DVI connection. Connecting with VGA port had no crash problem,
but I prefer using DVI with a HDMI/DVI cable. Using non-Aero theme had
no problem.
Occasionally the system reported graphic card driver crashed and tried
to recover. Sometimes the system recovered, more often not, leading to
total crashing of Windows.
Surely I did the following:
1. Reinstall the latest graphic drivers.
2. Reinstall the latest ASUS splendid utilities.
3. Keep Windows patches updated.
4. Install and uninstall some Windows hot fixes, as suggested by some
newsgroups' posts.
5. Many other methods.
This link provided a lot possible solutions.
Display Driver atikmdag and nvlddmkm Stopped Responding
however, I would not use all of them, for example, a solution was to use 2 monitor with the same resolution, but I could not offer buying a new one just for this bug. By the way, my workplace PC with Vista Business has 2 monitors of the same model, it had the same error once or twice, and apparently recovered OK ever since. Some suggested turning off UAC but I don't want to lower the security.
So, none worked, so I gave up Aero for almost a year. Until I read a post
when searching for answer about mysterious disappearing of desktop
icons when the desktop is refreshing sometimes. The post had the
finger pointing to Power4Gear eXtreme. For some reasons, the default
settings of Miscellaneous power settings of the Quite Office profile
will hide desktop icons. After changing the setting to No, the desktop
icons stay still forever. And the Windows graphic driver crashing
occurred less often.
As the crashing still happened, so I uninstalled ASUS Splendid
utilities. And crashing of graphic driver never come back.
In short, there's a bug in ASUS Splendid triggered by such combination
only: Vista Aero, and second LCD monitor through DVI connection.
Apparently the engineers in ASUS did not test scenario well.
Actually, later on I bought another Asus machine with Windows 7 / Intel i7 /64bit, it still got the same problem. So, I applied the same solution, all good.
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