“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This error can happen because of an outdated video driver, to many programs running at one time or even high CPU activity.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
    2015-09-18T06:19:13+00:00

    Hi Red.  You can go into ADVANCED SETTINGS of the Power Options and choose CHANGE PLAN SETTINGS.   After that click on CHANGE ADVANCED POWER SETTINGS and scroll down to INTEL GRAPHICS DRIVERS.  When you click on that make sure MAXIMUM PERFORMANCE is selected for both battery and plug in usage.  Hope this helps.

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  2. Anonymous
    2015-09-18T16:20:16+00:00

    Do not see INTEL GRAPHICS DRIVERS

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  3. Anonymous
    2015-09-22T00:41:18+00:00

    Hello,

    I am having the same problem when I upgraded from Window 7 Home Premium to Windows 10. I have been in contact with NVIDIA about the display driver for my GeForce GT720 graphics card. After the upgrade I keep getting the "Display driver stopped responding and has recovered" error with the latest driver. In fact, many of the newer window10 drivers do not work; these include 355.60; 353.62; 353.30. The only driver that works is a Windows 7 driver 347.88; many people are just using this driver because NVIDIA says it is a local issue and there newest drivers do not work with Windows 10 on a 32 bit machine. So, the NVIDIA driver 347.88 works great but the very helpful Window10 system keeps installing the latest version of the driver 7/22/2015 353.62 version; how can I stop Windows10 from putting this newer version on my machine? I keep installing 347.88 and it keeps getting updated.

    thanks

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  4. Anonymous
    2015-12-08T14:22:00+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

    Same problem as above very frustrating

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