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

Hello (9-28-11) PROBLEM: Display driver stopped responding and has recovered **** I found the answer! **** I found the answer! **** I finally found the answer to this question after several crashes while using AutoCAD 2012 My computer: Dell laptop Inspiron 15R 2nd generation i-5 2.3ghz, 4GB ram and the basic graphics card that came with the system. The basic graphics card is the problem. I just got off the phone w/Dell support. They remotely connected to my pc. As it turns out, AutoCAD's minimum requirement is a graphics card w/at least 128MB of memory. I'm not sure how much mine has, but of course it's less than that. So what happens is once AutoCAD* tries to acquire more memory than the card can hold, it then pulls memory from computer RAM. Well with 4GB of ram of should have plenty enough. NOT TRUE. See my memory card can only pull 64MB at a time from my computers ram. I don't think my graphics card can hold any memory actually. So when I do something in AutoCAD that requires more than 64MB of memory, the computer crashed, turns black for a few seconds, and then recovers displaying that stupid message that we are all tired of seeing. The FIX: There isn't an easy one. I did download a new driver from dell that is supposed to help; however, it is not a fix. The only fix is a graphics card with at least 128MB of memory. Unfortunately for me. I cannot upgrade on this computer because in order to upgrade cards I would need to upgrade motherboards.... NOT AN OPTION. Very Frustrating Dell !!!! *(or any other program that requires extensive memory from a graphics card)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dliEjf1Ullo&feature=related i have a pc that was working fine with win7 normally until suddenly it developed this problem and its driver was crashing every couple of second specially when browsing internet or playing flash video or when windows were minimizes or maximizes . it was very frustrating but this youtube video helped me , i tried all other stuff given here and over the internet nothing works . try this out it may work for you too .

“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

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2011-09-28T20:09:49+00:00

Hello (9-28-11)

PROBLEM: Display driver stopped responding and has recovered

**** I found the answer! **** I found the answer! ****

I finally found the answer to this question after several crashes while using AutoCAD 2012

My computer:

Dell laptop Inspiron 15R 2nd generation

i-5 2.3ghz, 4GB ram

and the basic graphics card that came with the system.

The basic graphics card is the problem. I just got off the phone w/Dell support. They remotely connected to my pc.

As it turns out, AutoCAD's minimum requirement is a graphics card w/at least 128MB of memory.

I'm not sure how much mine has, but of course it's less than that. So what happens is once AutoCAD* tries to acquire more memory than the card can hold, it then pulls memory from computer RAM. Well with 4GB of ram of should have plenty enough. NOT TRUE. See my memory card can only pull 64MB at a time from my computers ram. I don't think my graphics card can hold any memory actually.

So when I do something in AutoCAD that requires more than 64MB of memory, the computer crashed, turns black for a few seconds, and then recovers displaying that stupid message that we are all tired of seeing.

The FIX: There isn't an easy one. I did download a new driver from dell that is supposed to help; however, it is not a fix. The only fix is a graphics card with at least 128MB of memory. Unfortunately for me. I cannot upgrade on this computer because in order to upgrade cards I would need to upgrade motherboards.... NOT AN OPTION.

Very Frustrating Dell !!!!

*(or any other program that requires extensive memory from a graphics card)
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2011-09-25T19:41:32+00:00

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dliEjf1Ullo&feature=related

i have a pc that was working fine with win7 normally until suddenly it developed this problem and its driver was crashing every couple of second specially when browsing internet or playing flash video or when windows were minimizes or maximizes . it was very frustrating but this youtube video helped me , i tried all other stuff given here and over the internet nothing works . try this out it may work for you too .
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