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Supacon
03-20-2006, 03:55 AM
Often times my Inspiron 6000 with 64MB ATI Mobility Radeon X300 is rather slow to enter into hibernation, and I am not sure why. Other times, it's virtually instant. I don't know if that's related to the problem in the subject, but often when I resume from hibernation, the display takes a while to show anything, and when it finally does, I get the following error:

Windows - Display Driver Stopped Responding

The ati2dvag display driver has stopped working normally. Save your work and reboot the system to restore full display functionality. The next time you rebook the machine a dialog will be displayed giving you a chance to upload data about this failure to Microsoft.


I close the dialogue, and things all seem to work fine. Other than the error when I resume my computer, things appear to work just as before, but it's troubling, and perhaps this is related to slow hibernation. I have had problems with the display going all weird on me after resuming from hibernation before that I attributed to overclocking a bit with ATITool, but in this case, I'm definitely not overclocking anything.

I found a really long thread about this somewhere, but I'm hoping that it's a trivial fix. I do have the latest updates for windows and drivers for everything from Dell, so please don't bother with that suggestion, unless you want to suggest that a downgrade might help.

Thanks for any info...

dlinkin
03-20-2006, 04:12 AM
2 options.

I prefer to reformat to get the driver fixed.

But you could uninstall the display adapter and reinstall it.
Go to
- Start
- right click my computer
- properties
- hardware
- device manager
- Display adapters
- there's two identical keys, double click the second one
uninstall the driver then restart.

Install the video driver when you reboot. You get it from support.dell.com

Supacon
03-20-2006, 11:35 AM
Reformatting seems quite excessive and time consuming... aside from that, I pretty much just did do a clean installation of windows about a week ago to get rid of the bloatware that my laptop shipped with.

But I could try uninstalling the display driver. I'm not sure how I would have borked it though!