Display Driver stopped responding and has recovered issue

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Datura

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I am having a recurring (at least twice an hour) problem where my explorer freezes, causes my monitor to go to sleep for a few seconds and then comes back with the message Display Driver stopped responding and has recovered. I have browsed many topics regarding this issue and am yet to find a solution. Drivers updates, hardware replacements, registry fudging and much much more and yet the problem remains. Sometimes it causes BSOD. There are two of us at work with this issue and it is driving us nuts. Has anybody here had this problem and managed to resolve it?

Cheers,
Dat
 
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I don't suppose you have an ATI/AMD card?

I used to have very similar problems on my laptop with ATI 5450. Image would freeze, screen would shut off and then either BSOD or sometimes just recover and pop up with an error/notification.

I don't remember the exact steps, but I believe I downloaded the latest drivers available and installed Driver Fusion ( http://treexy.com/products/driver-fusion ). Rebooted into safe mode, ran Driver Fusion and cleaned everything up. Rebooted normally and installed the new drivers.

A buddy was telling me about a similar issue he was having. His problem was that he had mixed RAM modules. One DDR2 667 and one DDR2 800, from different manufacturers as well. He removed the slower/older one and his issue seemed to have been resolved.
 
Hi There,
Is it just explorer that freezes or does it also freeze on other applications such as Word?
I would make sure you have the latest drivers, scanned for viruses and alos loaded the latest version of explorer.

It may be the GPU that is failing as well so if you cvan try another card there just to eliminte it it would be a good idea.

Regards

Tim
 
Had the same issue after I installed Windows 8 on a PC with an AMD graphics card. It was mostly, but not always, triggered by websites like youtube, worked 100% when playing games though.
Nothing I tried fixed it, even considered going back to Windows 7, then it just stopped happening(windows update I assume).
If this was a PC I used for work I would have downgraded or replaced the GPU immediately.

Doesn't really help you, but I feel you pain/frustration.
 
Same problem with an ATI GPU on a desktop here running Win7,
Only happens when the PC comes out of sleep mode

Someone above mentioned Youtube, it seems to happen with sabnzb in Chrome with me
 
Hi Dat...haven't seen you around for quite a while.

Add more detail on "hardware replacements", exact graphics card models, driver version, OS version, GFX temps etc. Point is, the post needs way way more detail - its not enough info even with powerful crystal balls in use.

I'd run some memtest overnight too...not because I think its that, but simply because its an easy way of ruling out a large part of the PC (CPU, mem & partially mobo)
 
I had the same prob back in the day.You should look at your psu if it's providing enough amps on the rail to your gfx.Also make sure your pc under windows power options is set at high performance and disable sleep mode.
 
HavocXphere said:
Hi Dat...haven't seen you around for quite a while.

Add more detail on "hardware replacements", exact graphics card models, driver version, OS version, GFX temps etc. Point is, the post needs way way more detail - its not enough info even with powerful crystal balls in use.

I'd run some memtest overnight too...not because I think its that, but simply because its an easy way of ruling out a large part of the PC (CPU, mem & partially mobo)
Click to expand...

Piece of shyte work PC...
I will post details when I get a chance :)
 
I had the exact same problem on my Lenovo laptop, had a few techies look at it and everyone agreed that it's the gpu busy dying. I know someone that does gru repairs, just haven't bothered taking it in as it's a work laptop, was just easier replacing it :p
 
nivek said:
Same problem with an ATI GPU on a desktop here running Win7,
Only happens when the PC comes out of sleep mode

Someone above mentioned Youtube, it seems to happen with sabnzb in Chrome with me
Click to expand...

Come to think of it, mine used to bug out on youtube as well...
 
I had the same problem with an old ATI 4850x2 2gb on Win7 x64. Screen went blank, then pops up again and gives an error for the Catalyst Control Centre. "CCC.exe has stopped working" or something.

The problem arose when my driver installation didn't complete correctly. As I recall, I literally removed my 4850's entry from the device manager after uninstalling any drivers. Then rebooted, waited for it to detect again, and reinstalled the drivers.

Another issue I have had recently is driver clashes between ATI and Intel's HD4000 present on the Ivy Bridge CPUs. My Bios is supposed to disable any form of onboard graphics as soon as I plug in a discrete card, but Windows just tries its best to screw everything up again. So... you might wanna try to manually disable the "Intel HD Graphics 4000" from the Device Manager, leaving only your graphics card active. See if that makes any difference.

Good luck.
 
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