Windows 7 Driver Crash ATI 6490M

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Windows 7 Driver Crash ATI 6490M

This has recently started happening for me but sometimes the graphics card driver would crash while I'm watching a video, and I the screen would become all messed up. Is this something I should go to the geius bar about? After the first time the graphics driver crashed I tried to get the latest version of the catalyst control panel program, but after that it just crashed on me again. I have the early 2011 model which has the intel 3000 HD and the ATI 6490m I believe.

By the way could this be a hardware problem?

Macbook Pro (Early 2011), Mac OS X (10.6.8)

Posted on Jan 5, 2012 8:25 PM

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Nanotechnology Author

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Feb 7, 2012 7:45 AM in response to Nanotechnology

As a follow up to this post I took out the default boot camp drivers for the ATI card and I downloaded the newest catalyst/drivers and installed them. Haven't had any problems since.

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The hatter

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Feb 7, 2012 7:52 AM in response to Nanotechnology

Yours got lost.... some people use Driver Sweeper, many have trouble installing the latest catalyst driver (won't install, have to use Device Manager after unzip, etc).

I think the first thing to do after install Apple drivers is update a couple (like AMD) manually.

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Feb 7, 2012 8:17 AM in response to The hatter

I think I installed the latest beta driver and it was alright. Haven't bad any blue screens with it at least.

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The hatter

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Feb 7, 2012 8:40 AM in response to Nanotechnology

PS: are you using Lion now? Boot Camp 4.0x drivers? Those would be newest.

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Feb 7, 2012 9:13 AM in response to The hatter

I didn't like the new features in lion so I'm using snow leopard (my sig says so too). Um forgot which version of bootcamp I'm using but when I look for updates there are no new ones.

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