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

Yes I get this too sometimes, when playing TF2, but not L4D2 surprisingly, or when using the unreal editor 3. Video card is NOT overclocked and does NOT overheat, my system is plenty cool, big-____ cooling fan inside my case and lots of airflow, good cable management. I heard that if you use non-aero themes in Win 7 it'll stop doing it, but I don't wanna do that, it's ugly! Microsoft has to fix this ____ already!

I am getting this problem too. It seems to only happen when I try to play games. I upgraded XP to windows 7 this week and these problems are my only complaint I have with 7. My setup is cooled just fine, no overheating is detected. No overclocking on anything. I am getting very frustrated and might just go back to XP if we cannot find a solution...

Same thing to me on my Lenovo w510. Display driver: nvidia fx quadro fx800m. Cpu Inter i-7. It only happens when I am using minefield. Temp is low. Any one knows a fix?

Same issue. It's really sad that this is such an old problem for which a good solution has yet to surface. Win 7 64 ATI Radeon HD 3870

“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This error can happen because of an outdated video driver, to many programs running at one time or even high CPU activity.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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2010-09-11T02:09:00+00:00

Yes I get this too sometimes, when playing TF2, but not L4D2 surprisingly, or when using the unreal editor 3. Video card is NOT overclocked and does NOT overheat, my system is plenty cool, big-____ cooling fan inside my case and lots of airflow, good cable management. I heard that if you use non-aero themes in Win 7 it'll stop doing it, but I don't wanna do that, it's ugly! Microsoft has to fix this ____ already!
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2010-09-12T19:21:23+00:00

I am getting this problem too. It seems to only happen when I try to play games. I upgraded XP to windows 7 this week and these problems are my only complaint I have with 7. My setup is cooled just fine, no overheating is detected. No overclocking on anything. I am getting very frustrated and might just go back to XP if we cannot find a solution...
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2010-09-16T21:49:25+00:00

Same thing to me on my Lenovo w510. Display driver: nvidia fx quadro fx800m. Cpu Inter i-7.

It only happens when I am using minefield. Temp is low.

Any one knows a fix?
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2010-09-16T23:32:29+00:00

Same issue. It's really sad that this is such an old problem for which a good solution has yet to surface.

Win 7 64

ATI Radeon HD 3870
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