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    Display driver stops responding upon wakeup from sleep.

    Discussion in 'Gaming (Software and Graphics Cards)' started by shinakuma9, Jun 10, 2010.

  1. shinakuma9

    shinakuma9 Notebook Deity

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    I believe that this could be the problem to all my woes with Windows 7's sleep because this never happened on windows vista. Basically, at random, when i would wake up my computer from sleep, everything will be super laggy. It would take a while for anything to respond and i would have to force restart. In the event viewer it says that my display driver stopped responding and recovered, right after i woke up from sleep. I am using ATI 10.5 on a Mobility HD 3650.

    Any ideas?
     
    shinakuma9, Jun 10, 2010
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    ziddy123 Notebook Virtuoso

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    Hmm odd, Catalyst 10.5 have been great for me. Good performance, low temps and no issues with sleep.

    Try a complete uninstallation and reinstall Catalyst 10.5

    1. Run Uninstall ATI Catalyst Install Manager in Control Panel.
    2. Run Driver Sweeper.
    3. Clean files and registry with CCleaner.
    4. Reboot into Safe Mode.
    5. Open services.ms
    6. Stop the service "AMD External Events Utility"
    7. Open cmd console and type in: sc delete "AMD External Events Utility"

    Response should be: "success: [SC] DeleteService SUCCESS"
    This should delete atiesrxx.exe that is undeletable.

    8. Open services.msc again and verify that "AMD External Events Utility" has gone.
    9. Clean files and registry once more with Driver Sweeper and CCleaner.
    10. Reboot and install new or older driver that works!
     
    ziddy123, Jun 10, 2010
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