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    VAIO EA3S1E Ati driver crashes

    Discussion in 'VAIO / Sony' started by joske, Oct 17, 2010.

  1. joske

    joske Newbie

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    hello,

    Yesterday, I bought a new Vaio EA3S1E 14" notebook.
    I have a problem with crashing ATI graphics driver. During the initial setup/configuration of the notebook, the graphics driver auto restarted several times. Sometimes, the crashes occur after clicking a couple of times on the windows orb, or while going thrue the vaio gate software.

    I already removed the pre installed ati driver and reinstalled a downloaded driver from the sony support site. Removed the mcafee/norton software, disabled the sony vaio gate, but nothing seems to fix the issue.

    Sometimes, the driver is automatically restarted, but sometimes, windows is completely hanging and a hard reboot is needed.

    Should I return it and ask for a new one ?
    All suggestions are very welcome ?

    Greetings.
     
    joske, Oct 17, 2010
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