Windows 7 - Display driver stopped responding and has recovered

My PC started to get a weird popup saying "Display driver NVIDIA Windows Kernel Mode Driver , Version 275.33 stopped responding and has successfully recovered." at my lower right. This appears everytime I play games like Hon and L4D. Please help

Filling out your system specs would be a big help......Up dating your drivers may work...or the card could be overheating or starting to fail....

My wife was using a 8500GT constantly the same problem...updated drivers stopped it for a week...then started up again...replaced with a ATI 4830, problem went away.....you didn't say if you followed any of my first post or not....so check for dust balls/alien life forms ect in the case...clean with canned air, if a laptop use canned air with the system off...

On the bottom of my post...in left corner, it says "My System Specs"...click it and there is the specs for my system...At the top of the page is "user cp" click it...on the right is "edit system specs" that is how you fill out system specs...that is important because suggestion on how to fix your problem can vary with the system you are running...for example if your computer lives in a CoolerMaster full tower with a empty 16x pci slot I can suggest some nice video cards and power supplies...if its a laptop I can express my condolences for your loss....

well i've been having these problems since a week now. i got my power supply replaced bt it was still the same problem. i went into safe mode and uninstalled the display driver and when i booted it normally and installed the nvidia 7300 le fing and my pc is ok since 35 mins... am crossing fngers though.

The 275.33 is buggy, uninstall it, Phyxion.net - Driver Sweeper then grab the 270.61 NVIDIA Driver Downloads - Advanced Search

Hi People

The problem is heat. I've got the same system (NVIDIA Ge Force GT 430) so get a small fan ( like i did ) open the side opening of the computer and face the fan at the Graphics card. If you have MSI afterburner, open that and you can monitor the heat and if it gets higher than 60 C then the card shuts down and displays the problem. I play wow and I had the problem for weeks and once I got the heat controlled i didnt have the problem anymore.

Hope this helps

Ok, I uninstalled my drivers and downloaded the latest ones but none seems to remove the error. My screen is sometimes getting pixelated and distorted in weird ways even when I'm not doing anything that heavy to my system. Can't play cause everything gets pixelated and sometimes causes my computer to hang up. And then it pops up again, any more help?

well some system specs would be helpful

by the sound of your issue graphics card might be playing out if it is onboard then something is going on with the chipset

sorry about the above you posted specs but didnt see what kind of graphics card ?

Fill in your system specs according to this:

System Info - See Your System Specs

What are your temps, GPU, CPU?
Do this stress test. Video Card - Stress Test with Furmark

Keep GPU-Z open during the test and monitor temps, stop if it goes over 80c. techPowerUp! :: Downloads