Atikmdag.sys - blue screen of death

Often, many users of computers in everyday work face such a phenomenon as BSOD, called the blue screen of death. The reasons for its appearance can be quite a lot. But now let's look at the case when this is due to the mention of the Atikmdag.sys file (the blue screen is directly signaling it). Let's see what types of failures exist, what they are related to and how to eliminate them.

An error occurred indicating the Atikmdag.sys file: the nature and causes of the occurrence

In general, as is commonly believed, the blue screen, in which there is an indication of a failure to access our file, does not just appear. As for the file itself, it is a system component, therefore, in itself serves to ensure the operability of the operating system in terms of initialization of video cards of the Radeon family with the subsequent installation of the driver.

Another type of Atikmdag.sys file in Windows Vista (there are two of them) is to ensure the sending of documents for printing, but again it does not create conflicts by itself.

As for the blue screen, in most cases this is due to the "shutdown" of the Radeon video accelerator driver, the failure of the video card itself, problems with the motherboard (or rather, power supply to the components installed on it), etc. Let's look at some basic errors related to the Atikmdag.sys file. The blue screen - the failure is far from critical. So it is possible and necessary to combat this phenomenon. If the failure occurred relatively recently, you can initially try to simply restore the system from the control point preceding it. But the problem can be covered not only in this.

Atikmdag.sys: blue screen (0x00000116)

This error can appear mainly because of problems with the graphics accelerator Radeon. To begin with, you should try to completely remove all device drivers, after installing them again. And it is desirable to install the latest versions of drivers, for example, using the utility Driver Booster, which when downloading refers directly to the official Internet resource of the manufacturer of this equipment.

If this option does not help, and the blue screen of death (the Atikmdag.sys file is listed as a bad one) appears again, it may very well be that the user should replace the graphics accelerator. BUT! Install in the system you need any other video card that is not a product of ATI Radeon or even a whole family. Take any graphics adapter from NVIDIA, install it on the motherboard, install the driver, and then watch how the system behaves. If everything is in order, the problem is in the video system. If BSOD appears again, then the problem is in the motherboard.

Here, most often there is a situation where the main reason for the occurrence of a failure is that due to some factors a variable voltage is supplied to the video card, so to speak, by spasmodic waves. Because of this, the power supply unit overheats, which leads to the appearance of a screen.

Equally common is the usual discharge of the battery on the motherboard, which is responsible for monitoring the system date and time on a stationary computer. What is most sad, while the battery itself is able to allocate some types of caustic toxic substances, which adversely affect the motherboard as a whole. But first of all the thermal paste, used for cooling processors and video cards, suffers. Hence, as is already clear, again there is an indication of an error associated with the Atikmdag.sys file, a blue screen, and sometimes a spontaneous reboot occurs.

But if the problem is not this, the following measures will have to be applied. First, download and install the latest version of the driver, in the Drivers directory rename the source file to Atikmdag.sys.old, then find the Atikmdag.sy_ file in the ATI directory and place it on the Desktop.

After that, call the command line and go to the Desktop (chdir Desktop). Then execute the command EXPAND.EXE atikmdag.sy_ atikmdag.sys. Now it remains to copy the new file from the Desktop to the Drivers folder and reload the system. The last command replaces the old file with the new Atikmdag.sys. The blue screen should not appear any more. But that is not all.

Atikmdag.sys: blue screen (0x0000003b)

Another type of failure, also associated with the desired file, can appear mainly in the "seven", and with a very large number of local users on one computer terminal.

In order not to get into the jungle of fixing the situation programmatically by hand, many experts recommend simply downloading from the Internet a ready-made patch called stop 0x0000003B Win32k.sys, which was specifically designed specifically for this type of failure. The only condition is the included update (system update). After it is completed, the problem should disappear.

Other types of errors

There is another type of error - system_service_exception (atikmdag.sys). For the first time such a glitch appeared in Windows 8.1. It is also connected to Radeon cards, but in most cases it appears for some reason when watching a video, for example, in social networks or on popular videohosting. The system with enviable persistence requires a restart of the computer due to some unforeseen problems.

What to do in this case? Again, try installing the latest version of the graphics adapter driver. Unlike the "seven", for which we apply the more complicated method described above, here either the usual update of the driver, or its removal and re-installation of the most recent version, will help.

Instead of the total

In general, only the most frequent problems and methods for eliminating them are considered here, and in fact the disconnected update of the system, and attempts to overclock the video cards, and the violation of the integrity of system files, and many other things can become the cause of the failure. If the program is faulty and it is connected with system libraries, you can use utilities like DLL Suite for their automatic recovery. In the case of physical damage to the components of the computer will have to find out what is the cause of the failure.