“Display driver stopped responding and has recovered” error.

Anonymous
2009-10-13T16:38:34+00:00
  • 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

Windows for home | Previous Windows versions | Devices and drivers

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Anonymous
2012-01-27T00:10:30+00:00

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This error can happen because of an outdated video driver, to many programs running at one time or even high CPU activity.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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  1. Anonymous
    2012-03-23T12:34:24+00:00

    check your RAM timing and voltage in BIOS. Make sure they are set to the RAM manufacturer's specs. Some video cards are extremely sensitive to RAM settings.

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  2. Anonymous
    2012-02-27T23:58:25+00:00

    Same with me.. And isnt RAM memory? Because I litterally just bought it a few months ago and  it makes me mad how it just STOPS working... But I usually have google chrome opened up while im on the game.. Would that affect it?

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  3. Anonymous
    2012-02-27T17:19:48+00:00

    I wonder if Microsoft monitors their own forum feeds because this problem seems to be something that may have started after a regular Windows 7 upgrade; the problem began for me about 4-5 months ago.  Before that, everything was fine, and I had made no changes to my system, and had been running Windows 7  32 , upgraded from XP, for over a year.

     Mine crashes to the black screen about 1 time out of 10 when I hit the "Reply" button in Windows Mail.  It recovers fairly quickly, but some of the Live Mail screen remains black, like where the buttons are, so I must close it, losing any email I was composing. I have an NVIDIA display card, and the newest driver for Windows 7.

    After reading all of the posts, it seems that the only thing they have in common is Windows 7.

    MICROSOFT TECH SUPPORT: Please pay attention to this problem feed and post a solution!

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  4. Anonymous
    2012-02-27T13:22:23+00:00

    Oh and which sort of RAM are we talking about?

    (Really this is irritating me)

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