“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This error can happen because of an outdated video driver, to many programs running at one time or even high CPU activity.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
    2011-01-28T02:29:21+00:00

    Hi

    I had the same issue until few days ago. Downloaded Microsoft Fix It tool and ran it.

    http://fixitcenter.support.microsoft.com/Portal/GetStarted

    http://download.microsoft.com/download/D/7/E/D7E37511-A7CA-4C8B-B61B-1C90895D9823/FixitCenter_Run.exe

    It deleted & repaired some FF or something video codecs.

    The problem disappeared.

     

    God Bless u.....Some how the computer deleted my driver & had no way of getting it back but thanks to you "fix it" it troubleshooted it & put it back on my computer. Thanks a million :)

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  3. Anonymous
    2011-02-02T00:45:49+00:00

    Hi Maxstr,

    I changed that value to 0, but alas there are still problems. I've changed it back to two again.

    Steve.

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  4. Anonymous
    2011-02-03T12:22:19+00:00

    SOLVED

    Hi everyone,

    Problem is not with a video card and is has nothing to do with video drivers. I think it has something to do with a motherboard.

    Before this solution I tried everything - renewing video drivers, deleting windows updates, I even installed new system coolers, tested random memory for errors - nothing helped.

    I have Gygabyte GA-MA78G-DS3HP. What you want to do is download latest mother board drivers from GYGABYTE site:

    http://www.gigabyte.com/support-downloads/download-center.aspx?ck=2

    I don't now about the other models, probably you can find something similar on google.

    I'm not sure which one of them did the trick, I recommend installing them all - chipset, audio, networking, it never hurts to renew your system drivers.

    Finally after 6 months of crashing I can finally enjoy full system performance. Good luck.

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