Nvidia Display Driver keeps stopping and needing recovering...

[valve90210]

Hi All

As the title says, my which has been fine since I put it together, suddenly has started having a problem whereby the screens go black for a moment, then coming back on, Windows then pops up a message saying that the device driver has stopped working and has been succesfully recovered.

This only started happening yesterday as far as I am aware and seems to be pretty random.

I have performed a clean install of the newest nvidia drivers but it's still doing exactly the same.

As I've been typing this i have remember that there was a very short power cut on Saturday afternoon which knocked out the PC... could this have had any effect and maybe caused this?

System is:

EVGA GeForce GTX 570 HD 2560MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card
Intel Core i5-2500K 3.30GHz (Sandybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor
Gigabyte Z68XP-UD3P Intel Z68 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard
XFX Pro 750W Core Edition '80 Plus Bronze' Power Supply
Microsoft Windows 7 Bundle - Home Premium 64 Bit
Western Digital Caviar Blue 500GB SATA 6Gb/s 16MB Cache - OEM (WD5000AAKX) HDD
Corsair Vengeance Blue 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (CMZ8GX3M2A1600C9B)
OcUK 22x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM



Any thoughts on what I can do to sort it?

 

[andybird123]

the most common cause of display driver resetting is when you are running an unstable overclock on the GPU... if you aren't overclocking then it could indicate the card is on it's way out...

even if you aren't overclocking you could try lowering the clocks on the card slightly to see if that makes them stable again

 

[valve90210]

Hmmm, wouldn't be impressed if the card was on it's way out. It's not overclocked at all and has not exactly been abused, It's only 18 months old!

I'll try lowering the clocks slightly and seeing what happens.

Out of interest, are there any keyboard shortcuts that can alter the clocks of the gpu directly when you are on the desktop?

I don't imagine there are, it's just that my little lad was hitting lots of keys and clicking the mouse a lot yesterday (he's only 14months) and at one point I did see something flash up on screen, some kind of info or warning box but it was only on screen for a blink of an eye and I have no idea what it said or what it was. And the driver resetting seemed to start around the same time, could he have inadvertently changed the clocking and made it unstable?

 

[Rroff]

Hammering certain keys if you don't have accessability features turned off can enable/disable stickykeys, etc. (i.e. pressing shift 5 times in a row) functionality that flashes up a box, there are other features that depend on what 3rd party software you have installed so its pretty much impossible to tell what other hotkey features you might have.

 

[clone]

I had this problem untill i did this.

Go to power options,PCIE,Link state and turn it off.
Never happend again

 

[EVGAdominik]

Hi,

if the hint of clone do not work for you, you can try to flash the BIOS out of the following link on it.
ftp://ftp.evga.com/bios/1571.zip
ftp://ftp.evga.com/bios/1573.zip