“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This error can happen because of an outdated video driver, to many programs running at one time or even high CPU activity.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

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  1. Anonymous
    2012-09-26T22:46:43+00:00

    I have the same problem with my asus

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  3. Anonymous
    2012-09-05T01:54:11+00:00

    Hello, I am hoping my solution works for other people. My display driver collapsed at every pressure. Now with only one click issue is SOLVED for me. Here is the solution: Open ATI ccc (Catalyst control center), latest version. Open, Graphics -- power play -- un-click 'enable power play option'. That is it. It saved me from the ****.

    WORKED, WINDOWS 7 ATI 1GB DELL XPS, it was a simple click. Thanks a lot man.

    I have been dealing with the "display driver recovered" error for 2 years!!!   First I had two NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 cards pushing to 3 monitors.  The errors were once a day.  Then I switched to one Radeon HD 6790 card pushing to 3 monitors (2 DVIs and 1 mini-display port) and the errors were once every 5 minutes.  I am not a gamer but I do watch and edit videos.

     

    Anyway, the whole issue is very very frustrating.  Plus, destroys my productivity.

     

    I have since taken the above advice.  Using Catalyst Control Centre Version 2011.0728.1756.30366 - go to Performance - AMD Overdrive - unclick enable AMD Overdrive - click apply.  Reboot system.

     

    I will let you know the results.

    De-enabling the PowerPlay option in CCC(Pro) (ref vivizi post 8-16-11) seems to have worked for me.  I suspect that the PowerPlay function is conflicting with a similar function built in to Windows 7

    but it may well work for some other reason.  My "display driver---has recovered"

    always seemed to appear when using vertical scrolling.    ATI 3670

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  4. Anonymous
    2012-08-29T00:01:15+00:00

    I had the same problem (only once so far) after downloading a large (about 100MB plus) update for my AMD graphics card from using windows update. I had it while using youtube.

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