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Display driver has stopped responding and has recovered"

PESolution

PESolution

PESolution

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Hi all,

Recently I keep getting "Display driver has stopped responding and has recovered", and sometimes a BSOD (although not sure if they're related).

Do you know if this error is caused by clocking the core or memory too much, or is it possible for it to be both?

Thanks in advance,

Pes x
 
Is it an Nvidia card? there is a bug in the latests drivers that some poeple have reported does this.
 
What are you doing at the time of the problem?

If you are watching flash videos, try disabling the 'enable hardware acceleration' in global settings I think it's called.
 
It could also be overheating or lack of power.

Does the problem happen at stock speeds ?

I had a similar problem when playing bf3. Removed and reinstalled bf3 and also the gpu drivers and everything worked fine afterwards.
 
I constantly getting the same error with my crossfire 6950's any ideas as to why this is happening anyone?

Also if the display driver doesn't not respond it crashes the whole pc to blue screen...
 
I had this happen to me about a month ago with a HD5770. Turns out the card was faulty so, I sent it back. No problems with the new card.
 
Most likely a overclock/driver issue, but it can be caused by a faulty card as well. Time to start troubleshooting.
 
I was getting that a lot in BF3 until I updated the drivers over the weekend.
Thought it was because of my OC attempts on my 7950 but it appears to be driver related for me as I have no more problems.
 
I had this on my 6950 when using a certain version of catalyst (can't remember which one anymore sorry), random crashes, bluescreens, "has stopped responding".

Some 6950's seem to need more power pretty early on with overclocking too, but work like a charm with just a small increase in MSI Afterburner.

I'm now keeping 11.11 as they work with everything and have never crashed even when overclocked.
 
im using a 6950 cucore, and so cannot bump voltages, although i dont think this is the problem.

It must be to do with either the new 12.1 or 12.2 or whatever they're up to drivers, or the updated version of rivatuner i got.

It happens on multiple games, never on desktop, although i do sometimes just get a random bsod on desktop.. but never put this down to my gfx card.

Guess i'll try going to stock first, then drivers, then format ^^

On another note, and i dont know if it's related, but when i try to uninstalled a CAP from add/remove programs i get a BSOD, perhaps signs of a dodgey installation, and so two sets of caps are stuck there.

Finally i used driver cleaner and a fresh install when doing these drivers so i dont think doing it again will help.

thanks,

Pes x
 
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