topic AMD Radeon causing Blue Screen in PCs & Accessories https://community.sony.co.uk/t5/pcs-accessories/amd-radeon-causing-blue-screen/m-p/341244#M21865 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Hi,</P><P></P><P>I'm having a very iritating issue with my Sony Vaio <STRONG>VPC-SB3C5E</STRONG> notebook computer. Often (ie over 60%) of the time when I switch my laptop to 'Speed mode' and enable the AMD Radeon HD 6470M dedicated graphics my laptop will blue screen and force me to turn it off. </P><P></P><P>When I eventually manage to get the computer to switch, it will work fine but the driver will occassionally crash when doing something graphics intensive (like video editing) and the pop-up 'AMD display driver has been recovered successfully will come up.' I have tried reinstalling the graphics card driver, however have not done anything else yet.</P><P></P><P>It is possible that an update has caused the problem, because I have installed all of them and the computer did not seem to have this problem in the first few months of owning it.</P><P></P><P>I'd be very greatful for any suggestions to fix this problem. Although it is within the warranty period, it would be a huge inconvenience to have to send it away to be repaired since I am very dependant on my computer for a number of reasons.</P></BODY></HTML> Sat, 07 Jul 2012 02:24:58 GMT tkell97 2012-07-07T02:24:58Z AMD Radeon causing Blue Screen https://community.sony.co.uk/t5/pcs-accessories/amd-radeon-causing-blue-screen/m-p/341244#M21865 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Hi,</P><P></P><P>I'm having a very iritating issue with my Sony Vaio <STRONG>VPC-SB3C5E</STRONG> notebook computer. Often (ie over 60%) of the time when I switch my laptop to 'Speed mode' and enable the AMD Radeon HD 6470M dedicated graphics my laptop will blue screen and force me to turn it off. </P><P></P><P>When I eventually manage to get the computer to switch, it will work fine but the driver will occassionally crash when doing something graphics intensive (like video editing) and the pop-up 'AMD display driver has been recovered successfully will come up.' I have tried reinstalling the graphics card driver, however have not done anything else yet.</P><P></P><P>It is possible that an update has caused the problem, because I have installed all of them and the computer did not seem to have this problem in the first few months of owning it.</P><P></P><P>I'd be very greatful for any suggestions to fix this problem. Although it is within the warranty period, it would be a huge inconvenience to have to send it away to be repaired since I am very dependant on my computer for a number of reasons.</P></BODY></HTML> Sat, 07 Jul 2012 02:24:58 GMT https://community.sony.co.uk/t5/pcs-accessories/amd-radeon-causing-blue-screen/m-p/341244#M21865 tkell97 2012-07-07T02:24:58Z Re: AMD Radeon causing Blue Screen https://community.sony.co.uk/t5/pcs-accessories/amd-radeon-causing-blue-screen/m-p/341245#M21866 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>If it is possible to change the fan you have in your Vaio, that would be great. Sometimes, cleaning the fan saves you a lot of trouble. <IMG src="https://ip2.i.lithium.com/310a5625553112306a75d047ad672dadb8d4b1b6/68747470733a2f2f696d616769636f6e2e696e666f2f6361742f31322d31332f7662736d696c652e706e67" /></P></BODY></HTML> Mon, 09 Jul 2012 03:46:27 GMT https://community.sony.co.uk/t5/pcs-accessories/amd-radeon-causing-blue-screen/m-p/341245#M21866 warriorfullight 2012-07-09T03:46:27Z Re: AMD Radeon causing Blue Screen https://community.sony.co.uk/t5/pcs-accessories/amd-radeon-causing-blue-screen/m-p/341246#M21867 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>I wondered whether it was a problem with overheating but the problem only occurs when switching to the dedicated graphics... do you think I'll have to send it in for a repair?</P></BODY></HTML> Sun, 15 Jul 2012 01:58:44 GMT https://community.sony.co.uk/t5/pcs-accessories/amd-radeon-causing-blue-screen/m-p/341246#M21867 tkell97 2012-07-15T01:58:44Z