8510p display driver stop responding

my screen sometimes would go white with black vertical lines for a split second just like the matirix and then would recover. it would say display driver was not responding but now has recovered. also i tried playing solder front in ijji.com just to test it out but it would always close it automatically and it would say a small message such as it has close because i might have press alt+tab. something like that i dont quite remember

any of you guys have this problem

 

"it says display driver atkmddag stopped resonponding and has successfully recovered."

 

Used to have that problem as well. Just grab the new HP display drivers and that will fix your problem.

 

I'm still getting black screens with HP drivers and Win XP.

 

hey jin i got the new ati driver from the hp website, but its still getting those malfunctions. is this problem still occuring to other 8510p owners.

 

Hi, I have the same problem. Here is the thread on HP forum about this problem.
http://forums12.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/bizsupport/questionanswer.do?threadId=1184904

 

I was able to stop the VPU recover errors by downloading the driver from ATi and using DriverHeaven's MobilityModder to install it. It's been at least a couple of wqeeks now with no errors, and I was getting them 3 and 4 times a day.

 

I see the graphics reference above so I will repeat a post I made someplace else to warn people.

Hp has gotten a large number of complaints that the ATI graphics chip is crashing left and right. I know because I have 2 cases open with them for 2 months. The kept saying nothing known was wrong but two brand new 8510's had the problem.

HP is working desperately with ATI to try fix it with a major bios revision is what HP told me over the phone, after two months of telling me nothing was reported wrong with the 8510p series product line. ATI already released a revised graphics driver back in October that did not fix the problem.

Now they tell me scores of people are having problems and they are trying to avoid a recall on the entire 8510p laptop line.

I am getting rid of mine for an 8710p, it has the NVIDIA graphics chip.

This is a legit post folks, I am sorry, I like the build quality but this is a serious flaw in the model, and at present they do NOT know if it is fixable. Two different tech support engineers and an escalation customer service team as well.

I do see a mobility mod fixed the problem for some people, I called ATI on using that and they warned me anything graphics intensive would still crash.

 

That would really suck if they recalled the entire line, but new laptop I guess. I still haven't had any screen crashes for months. However, that does not mean others are not having problems. If HP does release a major new bios I hope they fix what I consider the three major problems: the temp the fans kick in is too low, screen crashes, and the severely under-clocked GPU. I would say that all of these problems are most likely fixable through updates. I don't think there's a problem with the hardware since I don't remember other laptops with the HD 2600 reporting screen crashes. Hence, if that is the case, I wouldn't call this un-fixable by a long shot. Could the problem with the screen be due in part to under-clocking the GPU? I don't know why it would cause it, but I'm not well versed in hardware.

 

hey xhepera which ati driver can you give me a link, much appreciated. thanks

 

Here's the link you're looking for: http://www.driverheaven.net/modtool/

 

thanks i modded and installed 7.8 but did not work then tried 7.11 and same result. This issue is so frustrating, i read through many forums and no one has an ideal answer, yet so many are experiencing it.

just a question when you download the mod tool did you extract to the ati folder as well, or just run it.

 

Do you wipe all previous drivers before installing the new ones, or just overwrite? Might make a difference I dunno..

 

i overwrite the existing driver from hp and moded and installed 7.11

 

This looks like a hard one to fix, on the other boards the list of things HP has already tried to repair or change to attempt a fix are:

1) Trying several different spec power adapters, which struck me as odd( this is one you don't hear about very often)
2) Quite a few bios updates, both official releases and betas
3)At least three driver software revisions from ATI.
4)New motherboards, both identical replacement and revised, or more along the lines of a new motherboard design.
5)Installing an NVIDIA gpu.

None of this fixed it, though I might wonder if here and there some of the notebooks worked after replacing so much. I just would worry about how long. Of course if you replace enough or put in a substantially different or completely different motherboard, at some point you have a new computer in the same 8510p case.

I do applaude HP for their efforts.

It sounds like its so hard to fix because its more than one thing that needs to be changed or fixed to resolve this.

Once I hear about HP swapping out power adapters of substantially different specs, motherboards and various brand GPU chips, it would seem to suggest whatever was wrong to begin with involves power, and the graphics chip. If you bear in mind the motherboard and GPU are designed for particular power spec, even if it is a range, I think you get some idea of why that this has not been fixable for some time now.

Again I will give them credit for trying.

... and to be fair, HP does not make the graphics chip obviously, ATI does.

Looking at a unit with a different graphics might be safer, and HP offers that in a number of other models.