Display Driver stopped responding and has successfully recovered

[Mintos45]

Yes, perfectly safe. HOWEVER, remember to uninstall your card in Safe Mode (It's called Safe Mode for a reason). Then when you reboot in normal windows, let your computer sit there for a few minutes until it recognizes your graphics card again. Then install the BETA drivers.

 

[DanRex]

Okay. Thank you!

 

[Mintos45]

Your Welcome! If you have any troubles after just send me a private msg or post back to the thread

 

[viking2]

Widespread problem: stopped responding and has successfully recovered

Hi,
Can someone come with a better advice then Mintos45 just suggesting to update drivers? I have the same problem on two different computers with inter integrated graphics (intel i5), and new drivers did not solve the problem. I bought two different graphics card, disabled the integrated graphics, and problem persists. Microsofts wrote this fixit task, but all it does is extend timeouts, and does not solve the issue for my computers. It seems widespread with 11000000 hits on google.

 

[DevoDave]

Here is the message I sent to Nvidia.

When playing certain Video Games (i.e.) Spore, Empire Total War, Battlefield Bad Company 2, The game randomly display black screens before shutting off completley and displaying this message at the bottom of my screen "Display Driver nvidia Windows Kernel Mode Driver, Version 301.42 stopped responding and has successfully recovered"

I have tried downgrading to a younger Driver Version, Placing all Settings under graphics within the game to Low or Lowest, Emphasize my Graphics card usage through the Nvidia control panel to Performance, Patching the games listed, reinstalling the games listed, Updating all hardware in the computer to the newest versions (including Bios). And I am still experiencing this problem.

I am close to returning the computer back to the store but would like some advice on fixing this problem and hopefully avoiding that. Can you help?

Thankyou
Adam (Stacy) Winson.

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Followed by a DxDiag report

Go into your bios and look at your memory settings for your motherboards ram. Not video memory for the card. The first thing i would try is to raise the setting for tRFC. If it is like 60 or something try raising it to 74 or 88 and test again. If it still does it try relaxing other memory timings a bit. Take note of your changes but tRFC is where i would start.

Something to consider is just because your computer will pass memtest or win 7 built in checker doesnt mean it wont crash while gaming. Your video card uses your motherboards ram as shared memory for textures and what not, and if timings are to tight you will have this problem.

 

[viking2]

DevoDave, Please dont respond if you have no knowledge whatsoever about the issue. It just pollutes the thread.

 

[viking2]

Hi,
Can someone come with a better advice then Mintos45 just suggesting to update drivers? I have the same problem on two different computers with inter integrated graphics (intel i5), and new drivers did not solve the problem. I bought two different graphics card, disabled the integrated graphics, and problem persists. Microsofts wrote this fixit task, but all it does is extend timeouts, and does not solve the issue for my computers. It seems widespread with 11000000 hits on google.

Did some poking around, and discovered that one of the things causing this issue was calls to WebGL from the browser. I disabled WebGL in Chrome, and the problem has gone away when using that browser. Not really a good solution, but maybe a hint at the real solution.
Please try this on your PC, and confirm.
Thanks

How: launch google chrome like this "chrome.exe -disable-webgl"
You can edit the icon properties to make this the default.

 

[DevoDave]

DevoDave, Please dont respond if you have no knowledge whatsoever about the issue. It just pollutes the thread.

And as far as your concerned I wasnt replying to your post. Just an hour ago you were also looking for suggestions. Well BUB you can install and uninstall your drivers all day long if you want or disable your webgl if you think it will help you.

Goodluck!

 

[zdozdo]

Right for a while i've been suffering from a problem where whilst playing certain PC games (i.e. Empire Total War, Battlefield Bad Company 2 & even Spore) the game begins showing black screens followed by a complete crash of the game, me having to ctrl+alt+delete it and be given this message at the bottom right of my PC ("Display Driver nvidia Windows Kernel Mode Driver, Version 301.42 stopped responding and has successfully recovered").

I've been to many forums to look for a way to remedy this problem to no avail. Then I thought HANG ON! this isn't my fault it's Nvidia's, It's been like this since I got the computer.

I've e-mailed them and the responses I get will be featured on here to help all of you who are also having this problem, I just wish this forum stays open to give anyone at any time the answer to this problem.

I had the same problem mainly while using the internet and games that use an internet connection and I updated my ethernet driver.

 

[Ramsayaaron]

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.

 

[OCIR]

Did you remove all nvidia dravers for the gpu and restart and see if it trys to install a stored nvidia driver? I had the same thing happen to me over and over again ,I had 3 stored nvidia drivers . I did a clean install of the new driver and have not had the problem again . I uninstall the old driver befor installing any new one.

 

[DevoDave]

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.

 

[mayadajeffery]

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.

 

[Dorothydix]

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.

 

[Layback Bear]

Welcome to the forum Dorothydix.
I suggest you start a new thread for your exact problem you are having.
You will have a better chance of other members seeing your new thread and helping.

It would help if you also filled in your system more completely.

Look at My System Specs at the bottom of this post. It will give you a idea of needed information.
It will help others to give you recommendations.

 

[RoasterMen]

Have you tried updating your driver to the latest version?

 

[Dorothydix]

Thanks

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.

 

[Layback Bear]

You don't have to fill in your specs if you don't want to but it does make it easier to help you.
You say you have tried all the fixes so I don't understand your post #1.
Are you asking for help or complaining?