Since I wrote the article yesterday about the alleged NVidia problem in Microsoft Windows Vista operating system, I did some roaming around the Internet. It appears that the display adapter problem plagues both NVidia and ATI drivers. What is hard to figure out is what drivers do what, since the systems may display different errors or behaviors.

What was also interesting was that there were even some suggestions that having more than one stick of RAM could also cause problems. Some users have found relief from the crashing caused by the display adapter problem by dropping down to a single stick of RAM.

I was able to locate a help site for the problem that appears to be worth a look for those who are having issues with Vista. On the site it states:

Purpose of this article

This error has been a constant problem on my new PC for the last 8 months. This particular error exists on both ATI and Nvidia cards and on a whole range of different PC builds.

The
error you receive on the cards is different because obviously the
driver that stops has a different name, but the symptom is the same,
the screen will go blank and then sometimes the game/application will
recover or it may crash. A small message will appear on the bottom
right hand side of your screen if you are using Vista.

ATI Cards: Atikmdag has stopped responding and has successfully recovered

Nvidia Cards: nvlddmkm has stopped responding and has successfully recovered

This page contains all the information I have collected and possible fixes and puts them in one place.

Hopefully this site will be able to assist those in finding a solution to what has to be a very annoying problem. I consider myself extremely fortunate to have not experienced this problem as of yet.

As a side note if you know of other help sites for this problem, please let us know. Also if this site helps let us know as well.

Help site is here.

Comments welcome.

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