Guide: Restart your crashed GPU driver without rebooting.

[Paradiso]

Hi, thought I'd pass this on as I've experienced a lot of "driver stopped responding" crashes recently whilst tweaking mining settings and trying to view videos whilst mining I got the info from here but I've compacted it all below.

1. Download DevManView from the bottom of this page and extract the exe to the desktop or location of your choosing. There is no installation and you don't need the .chm file to run it.
2. Create an empty batch (.bat) file in the same location as the exe using notepad or whatever you prefer. Copy the following script into the bat file and save as restartgpu.bat (make sure not to save as a .txt file) keep the file open for now.
   

   @echo off
   echo.
   echo *** Restarting GPU  
   timeout /t 2 /nobreak >nul
   devmanview.exe /disable_enable "[B][I]AMD Radeon HD 7900 Series[/I][/B]" 
   echo. 
   echo *** DoNe 
   timeout /t 2 /nobreak >nul
   taskkill /f /IM explorer.exe
   explorer.exe

3. Run DevManView and right click properties on any of the rows that is your graphics card (there may be multiple entries). In the box that opens copy the Device Name: and paste into the batch file you created. See above where I have put mine in bold italics. Close DevManView and save your batch file.

To test just run the restartgpu.bat file. A Dos box will appear and then DevManView will ask for admin privileges to run, press ok and let it do its thing. The screen will go blank as explorer.exe is restarted int he process. You will need to restart your browser and miner if they were open.

Hope this saves a little time for someone else. Should work for both AMD & NVidia cards.

 

[Orangey]

Cheers friendo, saw dm (I think) talking about wanting this a couple of days ago and I'm sure there's plenty others who could use it.

 

[drunkenmaster]

thanks for the info, and e-mail from orangey, stuck with onscreen kb so will type more later .

 

[alex_123_fra]

Very useful thanks. My cgminer would cause a display driver error every time the monitor wakes from sleep mode. Was getting tedious having to restart to get mining again.