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

Hi I sent an email to the shop where i bought my pc. They said that this was a conflict between the os and the driver from nvidia.They advised me to install the driver that came with my pc. Did so, and now xbmc is working, and no more error messages.

I did mention that 'it doesn't matter if you don't overclock.' As long as you are using 4 or more gigs of ram then the controller is going to need a little help for stability. Before my issue was solved, i tried pretty much every suggestion that was listed here, yet nothing worked. Even if the problem stop for a short time it came back, which is exactly what persons here have mentioned. By all indication the problem it seemed was related to the grahics drivers or directx or some update from microsft....it just looked like a software problem. The asking calling all the companies that i mentioned in my previous post I began to wonder if my rams were bad (memtest showed they were ok) so i was back to teh software head aches. My system has been error free up until this point since i made my last post and i am currently installing all of my games (over 70 of them) and other programs with no problems. In fact by changing the setting in the bios as i had mentioned before, i was now able to lower my rams from the manufacturers recomended 1.65v to a little less than that and i have no problems whatsoever. My cpu (2600k) was now able to get some overclocking under it's skin with a nice overclock of 5.1 ghz with no issues. (p.s despite my super liquid cooling setup and low temps i wasn't keeping it @ 5.1 r u crazy, it's back down to 4.7) There is a reason some motherboards cost a whole lot more than others and it's not simply because a particular board might be rich with features. The fact is boards do get unstable whether initally or over time, it happens so you will have to tweak the setting when this happens for stabiltiy. The more expensive boards tend to be much more stable due to the type of equipment that pacted into it. if you don't believe me take a look at the p8z68 series. If you u look closely at the designs you will see that the more costly the board gets, the more capacitors it carries which ensures the boards stabiltiy in basic or extreme functions. I have the p8z68-v and it's no where decked out like the higher end version. Nonetheless my solution has worked and i am no longer getting any errors and i hope that its works just the same for everyone. if not then i am sorry my solution didn't work for you but do hope that you will find a solution cause this problem was very upsetting so i understand the frustration***if there is any.

I have the same problem too. I have installed windows 8 beta( i bought the pc without os). I havent tried any games, but the error message occurs when i use xbmc. I have a asrock ion 330 nettop pc. Earlier i have tried severel os of linux, but xbmc freezes the os. Thats why i installed w8 beta and see if i have to buy a windows os.

Yeah I don't think it's a clocking issue

“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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2011-11-04T17:22:48+00:00

Hi

I sent an email to the shop where i bought my pc. They said that this was a conflict between the os and the driver from nvidia.They advised me to install the driver that came with my pc. Did so, and now xbmc is working, and no more error messages.
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2011-11-03T18:29:52+00:00

I did mention that 'it doesn't matter if you don't overclock.' As long as you are using 4 or more gigs of ram then the controller is going to need a little help for stability.

Before my issue was solved, i tried pretty much every suggestion that was listed here, yet nothing worked. Even if the problem stop for a short time it came back, which is exactly what persons here have mentioned. By all indication the problem it seemed was related to the grahics drivers or directx or some update from microsft....it just looked like a software problem. The asking calling all the companies that i mentioned in my previous post I began to wonder if my rams were bad (memtest showed they were ok) so i was back to teh software head aches.

My system has been error free up until this point since i made my last post and i am currently installing all of my games (over 70 of them) and other programs with no problems. In fact by changing the setting in the bios as i had mentioned before, i was now able to lower my rams from the manufacturers recomended 1.65v to a little less than that and i have no problems whatsoever.

My cpu (2600k) was now able to get some overclocking under it's skin with a nice overclock of 5.1 ghz with no issues. (p.s despite my super liquid cooling setup and low temps i wasn't keeping it @ 5.1 r u crazy, it's back down to 4.7)

There is a reason some motherboards cost a whole lot more than others and it's not simply because a particular board might be rich with features. The fact is boards do get unstable whether initally or over time, it happens so you will have to tweak the setting when this happens for stabiltiy.

The more expensive boards tend to be much more stable due to the type of equipment that pacted into it. if you don't believe me take a look at the p8z68 series. If you u look closely at the designs you will see that the more costly the board gets, the more capacitors it carries which ensures the boards stabiltiy in basic or extreme functions. I have the p8z68-v and it's no where decked out like the higher end version.

Nonetheless my solution has worked and i am no longer getting any errors and i hope that its works just the same for everyone. if not then i am sorry my solution didn't work for you but do hope that you will find a solution cause this problem was very upsetting so i understand the frustration***if there is any.
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2011-11-03T13:18:26+00:00

I have the same problem too. I have installed windows 8 beta( i bought the pc without os).

I havent tried any games, but the error message occurs when i use xbmc.

I have a asrock ion 330 nettop pc.

Earlier i have tried severel os of linux, but xbmc freezes the os. Thats why i installed w8 beta and see if i have to buy a windows os.
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Anonymous

2011-11-03T06:38:52+00:00

Yeah I don't think it's a clocking issue
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