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

It's not a heating problem, I turned my computer off over night, just got on a few min ago, turned it on, “display driver stopped responding & has recovered”, poof, properly shut down, therefor it's more of a software problem, as Crabby Office Lady had stated.

This can't be my problem. My laptop is like 2 months old. But anyway, nice suggestion!

HI GUYS.I HAD A SAME PROBLEM FOR LONG TIME.I WAS SEARCHING ANSWERS EVERYWHERE .......BUT FINALLY I NOTICED THAT MY FAN IN MY LAPTOP IS BLOWING WARM OR EVEN HOT AIR.SO I OPENED ALL THE SCREWS .REMOVED MEMORY AND HARD DRIVE AND CLEANED MY FAN AND OTHER MOTHERBOARD DUSTY PARTS VERY CAREFULLY WITH "DUST OFF".I NOTICED THAT MY LAPTOPS FAN WAS FULL OF DUST.I CLEANED AS MUCH AS I COULD.SO AFTER 30 MIN WORK I TURNED MY LAPTOP ON AGAIN AND IT WAS WAY FASTER AND MY FAN IS BLOWING COOL AIR AND NO MORE DISPLAY ERROR MESSAGES,NO MORE BLACK DISPLAY AND NO MORE PROBLEMS. I THINK THE MOTHERBOARD AND GRAPHICS CARD JUST OVER HEATED OR SOMETHING,AND COMPUTER JUST TRIED TO PROTECT ITSELF .

“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This error can happen because of an outdated video driver, to many programs running at one time or even high CPU activity.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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2013-05-31T06:31:29+00:00

Agreed
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2013-05-31T06:29:43+00:00

It's not a heating problem, I turned my computer off over night, just got on a few min ago, turned it on, “display driver stopped responding & has recovered”, poof, properly shut down, therefor it's more of a software problem, as Crabby Office Lady had stated.
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2013-05-23T05:41:33+00:00

This can't be my problem. My laptop is like 2 months old.

But anyway, nice suggestion!
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2013-05-22T16:28:02+00:00

HI GUYS.I HAD A SAME PROBLEM FOR LONG TIME.I WAS SEARCHING ANSWERS EVERYWHERE .......BUT FINALLY I NOTICED THAT MY FAN IN MY LAPTOP IS BLOWING WARM OR EVEN HOT AIR.SO I OPENED ALL THE SCREWS .REMOVED MEMORY AND HARD DRIVE AND CLEANED MY FAN AND OTHER MOTHERBOARD DUSTY PARTS VERY CAREFULLY WITH "DUST OFF".I NOTICED THAT MY LAPTOPS FAN WAS FULL OF DUST.I CLEANED AS MUCH AS I COULD.SO AFTER 30 MIN WORK I TURNED MY LAPTOP ON AGAIN AND IT WAS WAY FASTER AND MY FAN IS BLOWING COOL AIR AND NO MORE DISPLAY ERROR MESSAGES,NO MORE BLACK DISPLAY AND NO MORE PROBLEMS.

I THINK THE MOTHERBOARD AND GRAPHICS CARD JUST OVER HEATED OR SOMETHING,AND COMPUTER JUST TRIED TO PROTECT ITSELF .
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