Display Driver Help

[Cobalt]

Okay so to make a long story short, I built a basic PC for my sister last year with an AMD A8-3850 because she didn't want to spend the money on a graphics card (she doesn't play games or anything, it's just for work/homework stuff and browsing the web). In December the GPU in the A8 failed so for Christmas I bought her a Radeon HD6450. Just got around to installing it about a week ago and since then the display driver fails every few minutes, sometimes there will be some artifacts on the screen and then the monitor flashes back and it comes back to life with the error message (display driver failed then recovered). I've tried uninstalling the drivers and updating to the latest to no avail. I've tried going into the BIOS to see if I can disable the integrated GPU, as that's what I thought was causing the issues, and can't. Aside from formatting completely and starting over, does anyone have any suggestions on how to fix this?

 

[ViRGE]

The odds of just the GPU portion of an APU failing are astronomically low. It's far more likely the entire APU is on its way out.

 

[VirtualLarry]

Rumor has it that Apple was looking at using LLano for their systems, but decided not to, after determining that the failure rate was too high.

I've also read other reviews on Newegg about failed LLanos.

It surprises me, because other than the P3 1.13Ghz, I've rarely ever read about CPUs with problems, even at stock speeds.

 

[Tweak155]

The issue you're describing with the 6450 sounds like overheating. It shuts off to cool down, then comes back on when it is within temp ranges.

I've solved this issue before by uninstalling the CCC & drivers and letting windows pick the driver for me.

 

[birthdaymonkey]

It sounds to me like you've got bigger problems than the display drivers. Either the APU itself (CPU included) is on its way out or you've got a motherboard issue. Or there's something else going on that caused the original video card to fail and is still interfering with the new card.

If the system is only a year old, why not exchange for a new A8 and see if that fixes the problem?

 

[vladicaris]

no,that is driver problem,I have same problem with ati card