Graphic driver stop responding?

splysh · 27 Nov 2014 at 11:42

Over quite a long period now when i play a few of my games everything will be running fine then all of a sudden my monitor will be black then come back on again, sometimes it does this once others it can do it 2-3 times before it stops. I've checked my RAM that's fine, i've checked my temperatures and that's also fine and my graphics card is fine so i think it may be my psu but wasn't sure so i came on here to see if anyone thinks i may be right or maybe it could be another issue?

Games it has happened on:

World of warcraft
Medal of honor
The witcher 2
Sleeping dogs

ExRayTed · 27 Nov 2014 at 12:00

The monitor goes black then comes back on? As in the pc doesn't reboot, you just lose the display momentarily?

If so I'd start with the cable that goes from the GPU to the monitor - replace it.

If you still get issues try running your pc from the integrated graphics (change setting in BIOS) to rule out GPU issues.

After that you're looking at swapping out GPUs and trying a new monitor.

splysh · 27 Nov 2014 at 12:39

yes the monitor goes black then comes back on. i'm not great with computers so changing things in the BIOS is alien to me and have no idea how to do this.

splysh · 27 Nov 2014 at 12:43

splysh said:
yes the monitor goes black then comes back on. i'm not great with computers so changing things in the BIOS is alien to me and have no idea how to do this.

Display driver stopped responding and has recovered
Display driver NVIDIA Windows Kernel Mode Driver, Version 196.21 stopped responding and has successfully recovered.

That's the error

AthlonXP1800 · 27 Nov 2014 at 12:54

Wow are you really used very old Geforce 196.21 driver released on 19 Jan 2010 which is almost 5 YEARS in 2 months time with GTX 670??? :eek:

GTX 670 came out in 2012 but Geforce 196.21 driver did not supported all Kepler features. You should download latest Geforce 344.75 driver that likely fix issue.

splysh · 27 Nov 2014 at 12:58

that wasn't the exact version that pops up, i couldnt remember the full error message so i found it through an old image

AthlonXP1800 · 27 Nov 2014 at 13:28

lol oh I see.

HalfBakedJake · 27 Nov 2014 at 13:36

Yes updating your graphics driver should help. If not it could be your a problem with the cable from the PSU.

Have you hadded nay hardware to the PC recently? Could be your PSU can't handle the full load of the GPU and everything else.

splysh · 27 Nov 2014 at 14:41

HalfBakedJake said:
Yes updating your graphics driver should help. If not it could be your a problem with the cable from the PSU.

Have you hadded nay hardware to the PC recently? Could be your PSU can't handle the full load of the GPU and everything else.

that's what i thought and was going to buy a new psu. i wanted to buy another graphics card anyway which means i'd need to get a better psu anyway. just didnt want to spend money doing this and then having to spend more money on something else