BSOD Display Drivers have Stopped Responding

[mintybreath]

Hello everyone! I've been having an issue with my computer for about 2 -3 months now, ever since I installed Windows 7 64 bit.

The error occurs when I try to run games, such as Battlefield Bad Company 2, and Just Cause 2. One of 2 things seems to happen consistently. Either everything runs perfectly fine, or after a few minutes of playing the game crashes with a "Display Driver has stopped Responding and Successfully Recovered" message.

A couple of times timeout detection has not caught the problem, and instead of the error message my computer BSODs.

I have hammered Google pretty hard to figure out a solution to this, and have to say that I have found nothing which has fixed the problem.

I have tried the following, with no results:

• Uninstall drivers, use driver sweeper, reinstall drivers
• Uninstall drivers, use driver sweeper, install modified drivers
• Disabling Windows 7 Aero theme
• Replace Power supply
• Remove all but 1 Ram Stick
• Disable timeout detection (The first time I did this, I'm pretty sure it resulted in BSOD)
• RMA'd the graphics card to XFX. They ran tests, and concluded the card was not defective. They sent me a new card anyway.
• Changing Memory voltage to 1.90 V
• Underclocking the graphics card (via the CCC built in clocking utility)
• Using an old NVidia card

I also ran Memtest86 through the night. It completed 10 passes, and found no errors.

I installed Windows XP Professional 32 bit, which seemed to stop the crashes.
I also installed a copy of Windows 7 32 bit, but have still been seeing the crashes (Possibly not as often..?).
This leads me to believe that the issue is related to Windows 7.

Note: My graphics card is not overclocked.

Here are my system specs:
OS: Windows 7 64 Bit
Processor: Intel Core2Quad 2.66 Ghz
Ram: 4 Gigs DDR2
Graphics card: ATI XFX Radeon HD 4650 1 Gig GDDR2
PSU: 600 W (I forget the exact manufacturer name. Its borrowed from a friend.)
Motherboard: Asus p5ne-sli

 

[mgorman87]

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Lycosa.sys   Fri Jan 18 03:51:42 2008 (4790689E)

Try unplugging everything from the computer except for your hard drive, keyboard and mouse.

 

[mintybreath]

Thanks for the response!

I am still getting having problems.

Try unplugging everything from the computer except for your hard drive, keyboard and mouse.

I unplugged all the peripheral devices. Did you want me to unplug other unnecessary hardware devices such as CD drives, extra HDD, etc.?

 

[DeanP]

What do you mean by "Neither of those suggestions seemed to fix the issue" Are you still getting BSODs after doing the suggestions? If so, please post the new dumps.

 

[mintybreath]

Sorry I wasn't clear. I am still having the problems with the "Display drivers have stopped responding and successfully recovered" problems.

So far I have not had a BSOD (which is and has always been a slightly rarer occurrence during the display driver crashes)

From what I've looked up before, I think Windows 7's Timeout Detection (which causes the "Display drivers have stopped responding and successfully recovered" messages) is preventing BSODs from happening while playing games.

 

[ms8miranda]

I am having this problem, too, as are many others (as found in searching for answers). Did you ever get this resolved?