Not Good Enough » Uncategorized http://www.notgoodenough.net The things that just aren't quite good enough... Mon, 22 Aug 2011 07:59:37 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 BSOD when updating ATI drivers on Windows 7 64 bit http://www.notgoodenough.net/archives/80 http://www.notgoodenough.net/archives/80#comments Sun, 06 Dec 2009 14:22:35 +0000 admin http://www.notgoodenough.net/?p=80 Continue reading →]]> I have an ATI Radeon HD 2400 Pro video card. Back in October I attempted to install the latest ATI drivers in the hope that it would resolve a problem I was having (I was previously using the drivers that came with Windows 7). I downloaded the lasted driver at the time (9.9) from the ATI website and then ran the install. Imagine my surprise when I got the following (sorry about the image quality, I used the camera on my phone):

BSOD when installing ATI Drivers

BSOD when installing ATI Drivers

It turns out that I wasn’t the only one getting these blue screens of death. I think it’s totally unacceptable that a major hardware vendor can release drivers or software that cause a BSOD of death during install. Don’t they test these things?

Since then ATI have released newer drivers. I have successfully managed to install version 9.11 – although it didn’t fix the problem. However. that doesn’t change the fact that ATI released drivers that not only wouldn’t install, but crashed Windows.

It’s just not good enough!

]]> http://www.notgoodenough.net/archives/80/feed 0 Useless Error Messages http://www.notgoodenough.net/archives/46 http://www.notgoodenough.net/archives/46#comments Wed, 01 Oct 2008 09:42:38 +0000 admin http://www.notgoodenough.net/?p=46 I went to shut my computer down last night and received the following error (it turns out that “No” was the option I wanted – “Yes” didn’t seem to do anything):

Useless Error Message

It’s just not good enough!

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