I recently updated my display driver for my laptop via the Sager website and now every so often my screen will go completely garbled where I can see but it becomes difficult to read text. Closing the laptop or logging off temporarily fixes the issue. I also have been getting little color glitches between complete garbles (assume it's the same issue). I have ATI Mobility Radeon 9700 series adaptor w/main driver ati2dvag.dll version 6.14.0010.6467, date 7/17/2004.

Well, rollback the driver to the previous version. When Google isn't your best pal

Hello. If you cannot roll back the driver, do a system restore. By the way, did you install the proper video drivers for your laptop ? If you try to install desktop drivers to the laptop, you may have trouble. Also, did you uninstall the previous drivers and reboot before trying to install the new drivers ? If you install the new drivers on top of the old drivers, you may have trouble. Regards suatcini

Basically anything that appears as an 'artiefact' or 'garbelled' on screen, is almost always going to be GPU or driver related. I know what you mean about the 'garbelled' screen. Is the laptop running quite hot?? I've had this problem myself... logging off and back on temporarily solved my issues until it got really bad, then it wouldn't go away... on mine I had OC'd the GPU a bit too high so started to burn my memory modules... if you've OC'd at all, stop now, run at stock speeds. This happened on my PC's GPU, and after leaving it somewhere with good air flow for a day or two, it sorted it out.

So, it wouldn't let me rollback or system restore claiming a missing file ati2... something, assuming it's the old driver. Where did it go? And it's not OCing, i don't OC and I have an exterior desk fan blowing on it all the time cause it used to get hot playing games before my garbled problem. Now what?