"display driver has stopped responding..."Post Date: 2010-08-08 |
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Ashandarei
Newbie Joined: 20 Jul 2009 Online Status: Offline Posts: 16 |
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Topic: "display driver has stopped responding..." Posted: 08 Aug 2010 at 10:16am |
Hello everyone, hoping this is the right forum for this. I'm the proud owner of a DS computer and I couldn't be happier with my rig. It runs amazing and I haven't had a single problem until now...and I'd like to get the issue resolved as it's about to be one year from my purchase date. It'd be extremely fustrating to have to replace a 500ish dollar video card because it went bad on me RIGHT after my warranty expired.
Some system specs before I continue, I can be more elaborate if needed. i7 920 2.6 ghz OC'd to 3.5 6 gigs of ram Vista 64 GTX 295 with 2 gigs vram Coolermaster HAF 922 case with ample airflow and 7 fans I've noticed while playing a few games, mainly World of Warcraft (usually happens in the BETA) that my video driver will crap out and I'll get a black screen for a few seconds then it'll recover. My computer tells me my "display driver has stopped responding but has been recovered." It's happened once or twice while playing starcraft 2, but I've been having the problem very sporadically for a few months. I've updated to the current nvidia drivers, but I can remember it doing it with the last set of drivers too, I think. I've perused a few sites and it says it may be a driver issue, but that it could also be a faulty card. It would seem to me it's maybe just the driver, but other insight would be nice if anyone else has experience this problem or has way to help me isolate the cause so I can get it fixed quickly. Edited by Ashandarei - 08 Aug 2010 at 10:27am |
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You can never know everything, and part of what you know is always wrong. Perhaps even the most important part. A portion of wisdom lies in knowing that. A portion of courage lies in going on anyways.
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!ender_
DS Veteran Joined: 24 Oct 2007 Online Status: Offline Posts: 4219 |
Quote Reply Posted: 08 Aug 2010 at 10:31am |
try installing different versions of your nvidia drivers and see if it still happens
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Ashandarei
Newbie Joined: 20 Jul 2009 Online Status: Offline Posts: 16 |
Quote Reply Posted: 08 Aug 2010 at 2:25pm |
I've tried 3 different drivers so far and they all seem to still do it, any other suggestions?
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You can never know everything, and part of what you know is always wrong. Perhaps even the most important part. A portion of wisdom lies in knowing that. A portion of courage lies in going on anyways.
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!ender_
DS Veteran Joined: 24 Oct 2007 Online Status: Offline Posts: 4219 |
Quote Reply Posted: 08 Aug 2010 at 3:36pm |
this used to be a really huge problem a few years ago, there are tons of different posts online with wierd fixes to this, i would just dig around until you find somethng that works, or contact dso by email and see what they suggest
from what ive gathered, no one really knows the source of issues like this, every answer seems a little different, and no one seems to know who to blame
i went through this problem with an 8800gt, and i thankfully did not have this issue with my 8800gts512
make sure youre using something to clean out any evidence of your drivers before you install new ones, and make sure windows is fully updated
try going back to a significantly older driver also
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Dragoonseal
DS Veteran Joined: 03 Apr 2009 Online Status: Offline Posts: 2247 |
Quote Reply Posted: 08 Aug 2010 at 3:58pm |
I used to randomly get that sometimes with my 8800GTS 512 on my old Dell. Not often though.
Only happened under heavy gaming and only with certain games, I always just chalked it up to overheating, bad game programming, and/or driver/software issues. To date Lilim's 480 has never had it happen, so it may not necessarily be a driver issue since for awhile I was playing the same games with the same driver as I was with the 8800GTS 512. |
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Lilim
Intel Core i7 920 @4.2GHz HAF 932 - Dual SLI Nvidia GTX 480s 3x Intel X25-M G2 (80GB) SSD RAID0 |
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ablahblah
DS Veteran Joined: 12 Jun 2009 Online Status: Offline Posts: 2312 |
Quote Reply Posted: 08 Aug 2010 at 6:49pm |
your system would RECOVER?! dang, you're lucky. my current last-gen dual 9600 setup would just go to a black screen mid-game and stay like that. I gave it 20 min, still stayed black. only on one lucky occasion did it revert to windows and heal, telling me that the display drivers stopped functioning. otherwise, it'd tell me when I reset and rebooted.
the thing that fixed it for me was when I upgraded to windows 7. but it came back 3 months later... Edited by ablahblah - 08 Aug 2010 at 6:49pm |
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Core i7 920 @ 3.9Ghz Asus Sabertooth X58 EVGA GTX 570 Mushkin 6GB 1414Mhz |
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Ashandarei
Newbie Joined: 20 Jul 2009 Online Status: Offline Posts: 16 |
Quote Reply Posted: 08 Aug 2010 at 10:32pm |
Doesn't seem to be doing it with 197.45 driver from nvidia, but I'm going to keep running stuff and checking it out. Ran the stability test in furmark without once wigging out.
I think it was Vista64 and the driver conflicting, since my brother has the same card and his runs fine on 7. *Edit* Nevermind, it's back. Edited by Ashandarei - 08 Aug 2010 at 10:46pm |
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You can never know everything, and part of what you know is always wrong. Perhaps even the most important part. A portion of wisdom lies in knowing that. A portion of courage lies in going on anyways.
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EdH63
DS Veteran Joined: 01 Sep 2007 Online Status: Offline Posts: 1826 |
Quote Reply Posted: 08 Aug 2010 at 11:49pm |
Read through this thread and see if this is any help at all. As others have stated already, this issue has been around for a long time and there are many speculations as to what causes it. I did a few things including flashing my bios and I haven't seen it since. Notice the date of my post.
http://www.digitalstormonline.com/forums/forum_posts.asp?TID=5326&KW=&PID=59114#59114 |
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Alex
Admin Group Digital Storm Supervisor Joined: 04 Jun 2012 Online Status: Offline Posts: 16312 |
Quote Reply Posted: 09 Aug 2010 at 2:07am |
You might also want to try:
http://www.digitalstormonline.com/forums/forum_posts.asp?TID=5499&PID=60736#60736 Edited by Alex - 09 Aug 2010 at 2:08am |
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Ashandarei
Newbie Joined: 20 Jul 2009 Online Status: Offline Posts: 16 |
Quote Reply Posted: 09 Aug 2010 at 9:44am |
So far, tried uninstalling drivers and cleaning out then reinstalling, seems to be working alright. Will keep testing to make sure.
*Edit* nope, just did it, moving on to next fix. Side note, it's only happend once in Starcraft 2, but after I played the world of warcraft catacylsm BETA, so I'm wondering if it's the beta causing my issues. Running various games to check to see if the problem persists solely in one game or others, and if it happens outside of games (hasn't yet that I can remember) Nevermind, it just did it in another game. This is semi aggravating. Tried a few more of the fixes but they don't seem to work. What should I do if I can't find a solution? Edited by Ashandarei - 10 Aug 2010 at 8:55pm |
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You can never know everything, and part of what you know is always wrong. Perhaps even the most important part. A portion of wisdom lies in knowing that. A portion of courage lies in going on anyways.
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justin.kerr
DS Veteran Joined: 06 May 2008 Online Status: Offline Posts: 5084 |
Quote Reply Posted: 11 Aug 2010 at 3:22pm |
what temps are you seeing? high GPU's temps can cause problems, and can increase over time, as dust builds up inside the card. I would run a GPU stress test, like furmark, post processing, max resolution, and details, for at least an hour.If that all passes then I would look into the drivers.. uninstall, re-boot, driver sweeper, reboot, install drivers, re boot. If issues still occur, I would run Prime95 for a minimum of 12 hours, if that passes, then re-install windows, sometimes after a while it just get a few hiccups.
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Ashandarei
Newbie Joined: 20 Jul 2009 Online Status: Offline Posts: 16 |
Quote Reply Posted: 13 Aug 2010 at 6:49pm |
Ran Furmark a while ago for a few hours and nothing got hotter then 70 degrees, I'll have to try that prime95. I was trying to avoid a reinstall if I could manage to fix it, but I'll try that if I can't. |
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You can never know everything, and part of what you know is always wrong. Perhaps even the most important part. A portion of wisdom lies in knowing that. A portion of courage lies in going on anyways.
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Ashandarei
Newbie Joined: 20 Jul 2009 Online Status: Offline Posts: 16 |
Quote Reply Posted: 01 Sep 2010 at 9:46am |
Seems I'm starting to have other video problems now, pixelation and screwed up sections of screen randomly during games.
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You can never know everything, and part of what you know is always wrong. Perhaps even the most important part. A portion of wisdom lies in knowing that. A portion of courage lies in going on anyways.
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Utopi
Newbie Joined: 04 Aug 2010 Online Status: Offline Posts: 43 |
Quote Reply Posted: 05 Sep 2010 at 8:04pm |
I have the same problem 2-3 times a day but I know why... my graphic card went "boom"... overheated and ruined... new DS system is on the way!
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Ashandarei
Newbie Joined: 20 Jul 2009 Online Status: Offline Posts: 16 |
Quote Reply Posted: 19 Sep 2010 at 8:42pm |
Which is why I went with Digital Storm. Amazing forum and amazing customer support. Buyer for life.
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You can never know everything, and part of what you know is always wrong. Perhaps even the most important part. A portion of wisdom lies in knowing that. A portion of courage lies in going on anyways.
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Fang
Newbie Joined: 06 Sep 2010 Online Status: Offline Posts: 2 |
Quote Reply Posted: 21 Sep 2010 at 3:21am |
I hope your issue gets fixed (if it already isn't)... My computer was doing exactly the same problems basically, so I took it down to DS and they're working on it.
edit - Fyi, with mine, the tech guy I talked to said it was most likely (not confirmed) corrupt DirectX files and a re-install may be needed. So... make sure you back up your data. o.o Edited by Fang - 21 Sep 2010 at 3:25am |
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msconfig
Newbie Joined: 27 Nov 2010 Online Status: Offline Posts: 2 |
Quote Reply Posted: 29 Nov 2010 at 1:27am |
was this problem every resolved I am having the same thing and have tried every thing Alex suggested in the link she posted even a reinstall and still have the problem, have used driversweeper to clean out video drivers and tried from original drivers off NVidia disk to different updated drivers all the way up to present most upto date drivers..
if there is a solution to this would like to know,
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