“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This error can happen because of an outdated video driver, to many programs running at one time or even high CPU activity.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
    2010-10-24T19:47:57+00:00

    Which Catagory did you run for troubleshooting?...I really want to play TF2...

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  2. Anonymous
    2010-10-24T10:56:54+00:00

    I have not had this problem on my NVIDIA GeForce GT 220 since installing the Beta Nvidia drivers 260.89, then the final 260.89 (just released).

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  3. Anonymous
    2010-10-15T06:15:41+00:00

    I believe you need to add those keys yourself. Microsoft stresses that they are used for debugging purposes only. I'm not certain whether you need to create a key called "TdrLevel" and within that key create the reg_dword "TdrDelay", or if the "TdrDelay" goes into the GraphicsDrivers key. I just added both, and set it to 6 (probably decimal, but they don't specify it), so it's on a 6 second timeout instead of 2.

    Whether this still works in Windows 7, I don't know. But the TDR technology is certainly still in Windows 7, so it very likely still works.

    Here is another link where people talk about the TDR setting: http://forums.amd.com/devforum/messageview.cfm?catid=328&threadid=100142

     

    Thanks for that link.  Meanwhile I have installed NVidias Beta driver 260.89 to see if that makes any difference.  If I still get the failure I will try that Reg fix.

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  4. Anonymous
    2010-10-15T02:50:40+00:00

    I tried FixIt but it didn't find any issues on my computer

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