“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This error can happen because of an outdated video driver, to many programs running at one time or even high CPU activity.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
    2012-11-29T14:52:41+00:00

    i am having this on win 8 release preview, so its still not fixed yet.

    Nope still not fixed using full version of 8 and the problem has changed some what but its still there.

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  2. Anonymous
    2012-11-29T18:25:17+00:00

    I got rid of Adobe flash totally from my computer and got Chrome as a browser which has Adobe flash integrated into it.  Problem solved, honestly, I did this months ago and no problem since then.

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  3. Anonymous
    2012-11-29T19:20:14+00:00

    I have a AMD A8 APU, so no discrete graphic card and I also have this problem.  It occurs not always but often on flash games, 3d games and occasionally with Google Earth and streetview. 

    It happens as wel with XP as Win 7.  I tried most solutions wich are mentioned here but non of them works. The only thing I did not try was check on my memory.  I will do that soon.

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  4. Anonymous
    2012-11-30T02:18:59+00:00

    Had this problem with Win XP and Win 7.  I fixed it by using the steps found on this link:

    http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows\_7-hardware/display-driver-stopped-responding-and-has/4e8ed22d-fe52-4321-b83c-3ecd6650f91d?page=6

    I did 8 seconds.

    Also, I set my Windows theme to Windows basic.

    Right click on desktop.

    Hit personalize.

    At the bottom there will be a them title Windows basic.

    Hope this helps.  I had this problem for over a year, and I was starting to lose my s***.

    -GW

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