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

My system has a PNY NVidia GeForce GTX560 Ti, which is brand new (the whole system is) and it has this problem, too. As far as I can tell, the card is not overheating. It shouldn't be, as it's not been doing much whenever I've seen the problem. I certainly haven't seen it happen while running applications with a heavy graphics load (games). The problem has only occurred three or four times (that I've seen) in the three weeks that I've been using the system. I've got the latest drivers from NVidia, and I've not seen the problem occur in Ubuntu Linux, which I use a lot. Thanks, John

i got my gtx560Ti today and installed it, same problem... i downgraded to the 275.33 driver and it hasn't happened again so i would try that, that worked with my last GPU too, i posted the link to it a few comments ago ^

After many weeks of Googling, going through 100 threads, trying many of the solutions (some of which being ridiculous like reformatting, replacing hardware, etc.), I found ONE POST that suggested what I can now confirm fixes this problem. Not "it hasn't happened yet, keeping my fingers crossed", but actually fixed. THE SOLUTION: Nvidia Control Panel -> 3D Settings -> Set PhysX configuration -> Select a Physx processor -> choose your graphics card instead of leaving it on auto-select.

“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This error can happen because of an outdated video driver, to many programs running at one time or even high CPU activity.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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2011-10-27T13:35:11+00:00

My system has a PNY NVidia GeForce GTX560 Ti, which is brand new (the whole system is) and it has this problem, too.

As far as I can tell, the card is not overheating. It shouldn't be, as it's not been doing much whenever I've seen the problem. I certainly haven't seen it happen while running applications with a heavy graphics load (games).

The problem has only occurred three or four times (that I've seen) in the three weeks that I've been using the system.

I've got the latest drivers from NVidia, and I've not seen the problem occur in Ubuntu Linux, which I use a lot.

Thanks,

John
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2011-10-27T20:11:55+00:00

i got my gtx560Ti today and installed it, same problem... i downgraded to the 275.33 driver and it hasn't happened again so i would try that, that worked with my last GPU too, i posted the link to it a few comments ago ^
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2011-10-30T20:36:30+00:00

After many weeks of Googling, going through 100 threads, trying many of the solutions (some of which being ridiculous like reformatting, replacing hardware, etc.), I found ONE POST that suggested what I can now confirm fixes this problem. Not "it hasn't happened yet, keeping my fingers crossed", but actually fixed.

THE SOLUTION:

Nvidia Control Panel -> 3D Settings -> Set PhysX configuration -> Select a Physx processor -> choose your graphics card instead of leaving it on auto-select.
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