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Alright so I am in need of some assistance. I travelled back home overseas with my computer. When I got home I got a strange BSOD whenever I turned on my computer. So I tried booting onto my second Windows 7 HDD. Same thing. Same thing with my Vista HDD as well.
Well the BSOD was telling me it could not refresh the video drivers and timed out. The file under suspicion was a file associated with my ATI drivers called "atikmdag.sys".
Well after clearing my memory, power supply, and everything but mobo and video card, I found that when I went into DOS and deleted every file under that name with the following commands:
C:>del /s atikmdag.sys
D:" "
E:" "
I was able to then log onto any one of my partitions, uninstall all traces of any ati driver, thus clearing the HDD's of any hardware issue, and use my computer just fine. However, this left me without my video card, which I need for games.
Whenever I went to reinstall the drivers (tried CCC 9.5, 9.4, and 9.3 for vista and win 7 64bit) it would get through the installation, ask me to restart the computer at the end, and give me the same damn BSOD when it tried to reboot:thumbdown:, making me go through the DOS step again, putting me in an endless circle of fail.
I would just like any suggestions or help. I transferred all my parts to another new case
this morning, ruling out the possibility of foreign objects affecting the flow of power.
Later today I will be trying to take out the 4870X2 and use my 8800GTS to see if its a mobo problem or not.
For notes I am not using the power cord that came with my corsair 1k watt PSU, im not sure if it matters, I am using one I found around the house. Additionally, the fan on my video card works, and the red light on the corner flash when I startup and power down the computer, but immediately turn off after I press the button. I think I remember one light staying on when it was working, not sure.
Also, my computer specs can be found in full in my sig, just check out the links.
Please and thank you.:facewall::facewall::facewall:
Well the BSOD was telling me it could not refresh the video drivers and timed out. The file under suspicion was a file associated with my ATI drivers called "atikmdag.sys".
Well after clearing my memory, power supply, and everything but mobo and video card, I found that when I went into DOS and deleted every file under that name with the following commands:
C:>del /s atikmdag.sys
D:" "
E:" "
I was able to then log onto any one of my partitions, uninstall all traces of any ati driver, thus clearing the HDD's of any hardware issue, and use my computer just fine. However, this left me without my video card, which I need for games.
Whenever I went to reinstall the drivers (tried CCC 9.5, 9.4, and 9.3 for vista and win 7 64bit) it would get through the installation, ask me to restart the computer at the end, and give me the same damn BSOD when it tried to reboot:thumbdown:, making me go through the DOS step again, putting me in an endless circle of fail.
I would just like any suggestions or help. I transferred all my parts to another new case
this morning, ruling out the possibility of foreign objects affecting the flow of power. Later today I will be trying to take out the 4870X2 and use my 8800GTS to see if its a mobo problem or not.
For notes I am not using the power cord that came with my corsair 1k watt PSU, im not sure if it matters, I am using one I found around the house. Additionally, the fan on my video card works, and the red light on the corner flash when I startup and power down the computer, but immediately turn off after I press the button. I think I remember one light staying on when it was working, not sure.
Also, my computer specs can be found in full in my sig, just check out the links.
Please and thank you.:facewall::facewall::facewall:
