AMD Drivers Stops Responding & Recovering Back in Win -8

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Hi,

I have a multi monitor Dell workstation T - 7500 with AMD FirePro 2460 Video Cards for multi monitors & the setup has worked flawlessly with Windows - 7 ( 64 bit ).

I now installed Windows -8 ( Pro ) 64 bit few times & new AMD Drivers for it from AMD Site but the darn thing keeps giving me following message with black screens few times an hour.

" Display driver stopped responding & has recovered "

I tried everything possible including installing several versions of the drivers starting from August 2012 for Win -8.

Any random number of screens suddenly go black & come back pretty quickly & happens randomly several times an hour.

My concern is :

(1) Could it hurt the Video Cards which are over $330.00 a piece.

(2) Could it hurt the data on hard drive ?

(3) Would it change actual live feed, may be missing few ticks or more ?

(4) Any suggestions & has anyone else experienced similar problem with Windows -8 & AMD Cards OR other Cards ?

I can use all the help.

Thanks
 
(1) No.
(2) No if the machine is not actually freezing or rebooting suddenly.
(3) Doubtful, appears to be video only issue.

Suggestions (in this order):

- Make sure you're running the latest BIOS for your motherboard.
- Google search for similar video card, driver, and OS and see if anyone else has found a solution.
 
I don't know much about windows 8, but I can say from experience that when I tried to run AMD video card drivers with ubuntu 11 and dual-monitors, there were major headache/debug compatibility issues (like watermarking and blackouts) with OS compatibility for 2nd monitor. Your description reminds me a little bit of that experience.

some examples have been documented in ubuntu forums...
http://askubuntu.com/questions/2065...-testing-use-only-watermark-from-ubuntu-12-10
 
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