Running Windows 7, 32-bi,t on a Lenovo W500. Display Driver: ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3650. The error message (“display driver stopped responding & has recovered”) follows a system freeze, a short blackout. Then everything works fine. Downloaded the most current driver from the company's Web site. Seeemd to work for a day, but now I'm getting the same behavior. Crabby Office Lady

Admittedly, I have no read through all the replies to this thread, but I wanted to say I've had trouble with this as well. I'm running a Radeon 6770M on my three month old HP Pavilion dv7 with Win7 64-bit. There are very specific times that this error occurs for me. When I am playing a game (any game, save for The Sims 3) and press the alt+tab code to select a different window, probably 7 times out of 10 the screen will blink, black out, and then that fun little bubble pops up telling me it's stopped responding and recovered. It's done this since I got it back in mid April. For a period of time the problem stopped, and I thought it must have been something in one of my most recent windows updates. Then I started playing The Sims 3 and this problem happened at least once every 5 minutes, sometimes more than that (as in like every minute or so), and I didn't have to be doing anything at all, and I could be sitting here minding my own business, staring listlessly, and it would blank out and then "recover". I seriously doubt it has anything to do with heat, my laptop is constantly on a fan and right next to my AC unit. Since then, the problem alternates between mildly annoying to entirely infuriating, and I've downloaded all the driver updates I can think of to no avail. I hope a solution for this is found soon, and though I doubt it, hope the details of my problem might somehow be helpful.

thanx for replying you name ive done it my machine is 6 weeks old and shouldnt require any updates for drivers etc . although your advice is taken onboard and ive allready tried what you suggested to no avail ( direct x and all your drivers are up to date) to explain in more detail i really cant every so often sometimes 3 times a day playing games surfing the net etc all of a sudden for no reason itll say display driver not responding for no reason. Ihave know got even more problems thx studio is going the same way , im just in the middle of returning this to the manafacturer who i hope can sort it out . many thanx for your advice and ill post what happens when the machine is returned to me many thanx

Same problem. My Gateway Laptop is brand #$$@$ new. It is not overheating!!

“Display driver stopped responding and has recovered” error.

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Running Windows 7, 32-bi,t on a Lenovo W500. Display Driver: ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3650.
The error message (“display driver stopped responding & has recovered”) follows a system freeze, a short blackout. Then everything works fine.
Downloaded the most current driver from the company's Web site.
Seeemd to work for a day, but now I'm getting the same behavior.

Crabby Office Lady

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Hello Crabby Office Lady,

This error can happen because of an outdated video driver, to many programs running at one time or even high CPU activity. There is a link to a KB article on the following post that gives more info on the issue and helps to fix it, see:

http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_7-performance/error-display-driver-stopped-responding-and-has/1b6c2b8b-b0a7-49d9-bc3b-e9cc98d51004

L.D.

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2011-07-23T10:20:01+00:00

Admittedly, I have no read through all the replies to this thread, but I wanted to say I've had trouble with this as well.

I'm running a Radeon 6770M on my three month old HP Pavilion dv7 with Win7 64-bit. There are very specific times that this error occurs for me. When I am playing a game (any game, save for The Sims 3) and press the alt+tab code to select a different window, probably 7 times out of 10 the screen will blink, black out, and then that fun little bubble pops up telling me it's stopped responding and recovered. It's done this since I got it back in mid April.

For a period of time the problem stopped, and I thought it must have been something in one of my most recent windows updates. Then I started playing The Sims 3 and this problem happened at least once every 5 minutes, sometimes more than that (as in like every minute or so), and I didn't have to be doing anything at all, and I could be sitting here minding my own business, staring listlessly, and it would blank out and then "recover". I seriously doubt it has anything to do with heat, my laptop is constantly on a fan and right next to my AC unit. Since then, the problem alternates between mildly annoying to entirely infuriating, and I've downloaded all the driver updates I can think of to no avail.

I hope a solution for this is found soon, and though I doubt it, hope the details of my problem might somehow be helpful.
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2011-07-20T19:53:30+00:00

thanx for replying you name ive done it my machine is 6 weeks old and shouldnt require any updates for drivers etc . although your advice is taken onboard and ive allready tried what you suggested to no avail ( direct x and all your drivers are up to date) to explain in more detail i really cant every so often sometimes 3 times a day playing games surfing the net etc all of a sudden for no reason itll say display driver not responding for no reason. Ihave know got even more problems thx studio is going the same way , im just in the middle of returning this to the manafacturer who i hope can sort it out . many thanx for your advice and ill post what happens when the machine is returned to me many thanx
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2011-07-18T00:16:16+00:00

Same problem. My Gateway Laptop is brand #$$@$ new. It is not overheating!!
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