ATI Catalyst 13.1 Black Screen/ BSOD

[ezekiel2517]

Hello, and thanks for your help. I recently upgraded my computer to Windows 8 (a clean install), and was updating all of my drivers. Everything was going fine until I got to the drivers for my Crossfire 6870/6850 graphics cards. During the installation of the latest (13.1) catalyst drivers, my screen flashes as normal during a driver update, but then freezes on a black screen. On a hard restart I get a BSOD on atikmpag.sys. This issue also occurred on windows 7 with anything past the 12.11 drivers. I tried manually installing the drivers in safe mode, which works but still BSODs on a restart. The most progress I've made was getting to my desktop with the 13.1 drivers manually installed, but the BSOD occurred after a restart. I'm not overclocking anything. Thanks in advance.

Specs:
Windows 8
AMD Phenom II x6 1075T (stock)
Crossfire HD6870/6850
128gb Crucial M4 SSD
Asus M5A97

Current drivers:
Catalyst 12.10
All other drivers (chipset, SATA etc) all up to date

 

[rynetemp]

http://support.amd.com/us/kbarticles/Pages/CrossfireInstallIssue.aspx
AMD has created a specific page detailing the 970 chipset issue. THEY FINALLY KNOW about this issue. It appears that it will be fixed in the next driver release.

 

[elroy71]

Hooray for progress!!

 

[Elliott20]

http://www.rage3d.com/board/showthread.php?t=34003002

Its out guys, just the beta hope it fixes your problems, i will be trying it in a hour or so, will let you know how it goes on my system.

Oh and apparently this does not work with windows 8.1 i am afraid.

 

[M3TAl]

Not running crossfire anymore but I really hope this fixes the problem! Come on AMD! Come on!!!

 

[derrekn]

Finally. 13.8 beta has resolved the BSOD crossfire issue with my 970 system. Have yet to see how it performs in games, but was relieved I didn't have to immediately pull the second card again.

 

[M3TAl]

Well that's good news.

 

[kickthedamcat]

bit late now amd half of us have moved on rather then waiting what nearly a year

 

[antony209494]

PROBLEM SOLVED: AMD released Catalyst 13.8 beta yesterday which addresses the issue.

 

[nemmondod]

hi. a couple of days ago i bought a 7950, installed it and downloaded the latest drivers (13.4). I had a 4870 before. So everything was ok until I got my first BSOD, atikmdag.sys. After that every time i restarted my pc i would get the same BSOD, but here's the catch, only if i connected my other monitor to the Intel integrated onboard graphics. So i thought there must be some conflict with the integrated card's software and my ati catalyst software. If i closed the Catalyst Control Center from the task manager everything was good and my pc ran ok. I solved my problem by accident. After fiddling with the catalyst control center i found under My digital flat-panels / Properties menu a checked checkbox with : Alternate DVI operational mode. The tool-tip said that "Enable this is you are experiencing display corruption on your digital panel". I said to myself, wait a minute, I didn't enable this, why does it have to be enabled, and of course i unchecked it. After that i had no BSOD-s whatsoever. For me this was the solution to the atikmdag.sys BSOD issue. I hope that i helped someone with this information.
Take care