Display Driver stopped responding and has successfully recovered

Ramsayaaron said:

Hi there.

I recently started having this problem, and I'm not sure if anyone else out there found a solution, but I appear to have found one for me at least so I thought I'd share. Upon opening the system management portal and looking at the windows hardware log, I came across repeated hard disk failures, always relating to accessing the paging file. These seemed to directly precede the display adapter failure. So, one deleted page file later, no problems at all so far. I'm assuming it's somethig to do with the shared ram that the video card is using, though not sure if it's corrupted the page file or my disk has bad sectors (which is what the windows report suggested, however scandisk found no bad sectors).

Anyway, thought it might help some people to check.

P.S. Also, I noticed I got the problem a lot more when my desktop background was set to cycle as well - perhaps that was directly related to the pagefile issue, or maybe unrelated.

Hi Ramsayaaron

Sounds like youre getting close to the problem. I have seen this to many times and its almost always the same problem.

1: motherboards memory timings and voltage are incorrect
2: video card is clocked to high for the board your using
3: motherboards bios doesnt support the use of your card or some features

If you know your motherboards memory timings aren't too aggressive, try downclocking your video card to a point at which the errors go away. there has to be some harmony between the video card and the motherboard and cpu frequencies. If one is a severe bottleneck to the other it will cause corruption in memory and then the display driver will crash. This takes some experimenting to find the right harmony. There is no ideal latency or clock speeds.

A lot of people buy high end videocards to extend the life of an aging computer, but theses cards today are extremely fast for a 5 or 6 year old boards. Not saying this your case, but it is for many. A lot of people also think the sky is the limit for overclocking as long as there temps are okay.

With computer running normally, click "start" ->search for "device driver" -> click "Display adapters"-> NVIDIA 12345XYZ -> (highlight this with single click) -> click "action" -> seach for driver update -> wait (quite a while) for it to locate, download and install new driver. Reboot.
Problem solved.

NOTHING, so far has fixed this problem for me and I've tried every registry and windows fix I've found online. Loading new drivers will work temporarily but not for long. If you check your logs you will find this occurs every hour ON the hour,like clockwork.SO what does this tell me? It appears to be a virus or malware BUT no amount of scans have turned anything up. That's why I'm trawling this forum. In the hope that SOMEONE has actually found a fix that WORKS. The official MS fix doesn't work either. This has been an ongoing problem with Windows for YEARS.

Thanks for replying guys but as I said, no amount of "latest drivers" or revealing my system specs is going to change the fact that this is an ongoing problem which I have researched exhaustively and tried every trick I found. There are many varying "once and for all" fixes but none have worked. I just thought maybe someone may have found something that actually does work permanently.