“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This error can happen because of an outdated video driver, to many programs running at one time or even high CPU activity.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
    2011-03-18T18:04:09+00:00

    I also have this problem w/ Windows 7 on a Dell Inspiron. It is sooo annoying and aggravating. Happens 80% of the time - sometimes, I just get a black screen and have to hard shut down, which is dropping the needle on my harddrive.

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  2. Anonymous
    2011-03-18T05:41:04+00:00

    as anyone got a answer for this as its annoying

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  3. Anonymous
    2011-03-11T22:11:31+00:00

    This is what i am getting

    http://img857.imageshack.us/i/capturehf.jpg/

    I started getting this too often

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  4. Anonymous
    2011-03-11T15:02:24+00:00

    Hey guys.

    I bought Toshiba Qosmio X500 last year and it worked perfectly.

    After doing recovery, my laptop comes with this error very often.

    How can i solve this??

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