Driver Stopped Responding And Recovered!

[Abhimanyu]

Has anyone experienced it? This was weird. :|

 

[Shooter]

No not me ,question you using on board graphics

 

[mansrm81]

What are you doing when it happens. I only got it when I ran the WEI score update.

 

[skunksmash]

it happens to me quite a bit, the usual cause is either an unstable BETA driver or unstable OC on the GFX card....?

do either of these apply to you..?

EDIT:
i see you have on board graphics, what drivers are you using, generic ones..??



SK

 

[Abhimanyu]

Yup! I didnt install any drivers,its the one that windows 7 installed itself.
And i right clicked on a link in firefox when this happened.

 

[mansrm81]

Try and install the drivers for you computer from HP's website and see if it goes away.

 

[Abhimanyu]

Actually it has happened just once. I just wanted to know if it happened to anyone else or not. If it happens again ill install the Hp drivers.

 

[smarteyeball]

It happened to me a lot using ATI drivers and dual screens.

 

[Airbot]

Yup, me too. In vista with ATI. I would get it randomly for no reason. Every update wouldn't fix it, until 8.12 for me , that is. I haven't had it since 8.12 came out.

 

[ArtG818]

I only get that error when my card reaches to 110c :sarc:

 

[Spr07]

I had this problem just after Christmas, only with Aero enabled (ATI Driver) :S
It disappeared with a System Restore...

 

[limneos]

does Windows Update show a new driver for that?

 

[Spr07]

I think that depends on the model of the graphic card.
In all cases, it's an optional update. So you must select and install it manually.

 

[Soylent]

That is the TDR. It happens when Windows detects your FPS drops below a certain number for a certain period of time, and it assumes your video driver has crashed. There are registry entries available if you need to disable it (I kept getting it when I was benchmarking with 3DMark Vantage, cause it was dipping below 20 fps).

 

[Spr07]

Very strange, after updating my graphic driver via Microsoft Update, it's not recognized by the Catalyst Control Center. I've my driver installed, but I don't have access to graphic settings with Control Center ...

 

[Soylent]

Very strange, after updating my graphic driver via Microsoft Update, it's not recognized by the Catalyst Control Center. I've my driver installed, but I don't have access to graphic settings with Control Center ...

I had same problem. Try reinstalling the ATI Windows 7 Beta Catalyst.

 

[Spr07]

I had same problem. Try reinstalling the ATI Windows 7 Beta Catalyst.

I tried reinstalling ATI Drivers and they work, but I lose a setting which not appears in Control Center : the scaling when I change the screen resolution : with Windows driver, the display is full screen, whereas it's centered with ATI driver. I can't change that in Control Center

 

[LordVorontur]

I'm having similar issues while playing LOTRO on my Dell Studio XPS 16 laptop. This laptop has a Mobility Radeon HD3670 in it. I get the "driver has stopped responding and has recovered" messages. This is on both Windows 7 x64 and on my Vista Home Premium x64. The problem has to do with the atikmdag.sys (ATI Kernel Mode Driver). I am using the latest drivers on both Vista and 7. It will do this 3 or 4 times, and then it will just lock the laptop up. I have none of these issues on my XP machine which also has an ATI card in it. At this point in time, I'm wondering whether it's a compability issue between that driver and DirectX, or if I've got a hardware issue(altho, if I had a hardware issue with the card itself, surely watching videos would also cause problems, which seem fine to me).
If anyone has experienced the same thing and has resolved it, I would appreciate the help.

 

[brilliantul]

Hi,
I'm having a similar problem with my video card drivers (I think).
I'm using nVidia 9600GT (latest driver) on Windows 7 RC1

Everytime I open a new document in Adobe Dreamweaver my video card stops and restarts. Screen goes blank for 2 seconds then it comes back.

This is happening only in DW CS3.
Anyone has a solution for this ? Everything else works just fine and smooth.
It's preety anoying, cuz I open alot of files...

Thanks.

 

[splendid]

Could anyone help me please?

I ALWAYS get this message after playing Fallout 3 for 5 seconds and I don't know what to do to make things work. I didn't tried other games though, but I think they wouldn't work either.
I have:
• ASUS P5QL-E motherboard
• Pentium Dual-Core E5200 @ 2.50 GHz
• 2 GB memoryx
• ASUS EAX1950PRO video card with 256 MB memory...
...which may be insufficent but I could play on Windows XP without any problems - on Low settings, after installing of ASUS Smart Doctor but I CAN'T install it properly on Windows 7 because it "Can not find graphics card information"

Windows 7 automatically installed the driver which is fine for regular things - Photoshop (CS2), watching movies and stuff but it's not working properly with Fallout 3
nor which were from the ATI homepage for
• XP - I tried to install it with troubleshooting compatibility --> XP, XP SP2 and i think even SP 3
• Vista - I tried to install with troubleshooting compatibility --> Vista
Same thing with Catalyst Control Centre - doesn't recognize the display driver...
Even had somekind of PC Probe ASUS, I think but didn't change anything.

Tried to install driver package from game.amd.com and:

Am I missing something?
I don't want to buy a new video card if there is some way to make it work...