Display driver has stopped responding and has recovered-Over and over.

Display driver has stopped responding and has recovered. Need help with this problem. In every game except counterstrike, the game will checker all over my screen with purple/multi colored checkers, then the game will freeze, turn black for about 10 seconds, then come back, and keep repeating till i get frustrated and just exit... i cannot play any games except cs withou this problem occurring many a time. Tried multiple system re formats. Tried many different/up to date display AND mainboard drivers, as well as tried playing games in and out of sli mode, with restart. Cooling is NOT an issue, plenty of fans n temps are fine. Here are my system specs:

Intel Core 2 Quad Processor overclocked @ 3.0 ghz (fsb @ 1333) w/zalman aftermarket cooling fan
evga nforce n75oi sli ftw mainboard
4x 1 GB ocz ram dual channel
seagate 160 gb 7200 rpm hdd w/serial ata connect
2x geforce 9800 gt (pci express x16) ...can the sli bridge on top of the cards be installed backwards? jw...
microsoft windows vista home premium 32 bit with ALL updates for all hardware SP2+

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Have you tried each card separately (and in the other physically removed)? I couldn't tell from your post. Also, run memtest and prime95 just to ensure the rest of the system is good. And finally, what is your power supply? Symptoms could be from lack of power.

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Hi.

This error is due to Timeout Detection and Recovery (TDR). It is a feature in windows vista (and 7) designed to restart a crashed video adapter without a hard reset.

Originally it was buggy, and drivers didn't get along with it very well. However, and I know a couple people do not agree with me on this one, it is more or less entirely working now a days assuming you have the latest drivers and updates in your system. Though there are cases I have seen where the issue lied in the bios of the card itself.

What this error is telling you is that the card has crashed. This is generally a hardware problem. It could be brought on by an excess of heat, a bad overclock, something wrong with the card itself, or something wrong with a part feeding the card (MB or Power). If the card is clean, you are sure nothings else in the system is broken, and the cards are not overclocked then the issue is probably with the cards or the motherboard.

This is a specific error (in a way.. it is also painfully general in that it does not tell you the exact issue) as it points directly to the GPU. It is very unlikely the problem is with a part of the system unrelated to the GPU (overclock on the memory or cpu for instance). However, SLI or crossfire adds an extra bit of issue to this as cards that work fine alone may have problems together that would trigger TDR.

You can try a lot of things for this.. you can even turn off TDR in the registry... but more often than not it is related to the cards themselves, though if the issue only crops up in sli it is possible there is something wrong with the mb... but not as likely as the cards simply not behaving.

Despite what the error message states this is notification of a hardware issue. This is not a driver problem.. though it might be a symptom of a bad driver install and wiping+reinstalling drivers is much easier than replacing hardware.

Message edited by daedalus685 on 09-20-2009 at 06:58:16 AM

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ok. yea i tried running on just one card in the slot, same problem. i didnt try the OTHER card alone tho. i have a 500watt power supply. the cards are not overclocked, just the processor is. ill snoop around some more using these suggestions. also, my memory, ocz platinum 4x 1gb sticks, 400 hz each, is showed as being half used, even at idle with nothing running, is this normal?

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To add.. given the corruption you see the memory is probably the culprit. The corruption is probably the result of bad video ram (either overheating because the heat sink came loose or just plain broken). The card is more than likely giving out (why you see the corruption) and TDR is bringing the system back to life without the need for a hard reset or BSOD. This can happen over and over and over.. for as long as the card acts up.. even at desktop.. though it is far more likely to occur when the card is heavily taxed.

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affliictiion wrote :

ok. yea i tried running on just one card in the slot, same problem. i didnt try the OTHER card alone tho. i have a 500watt power supply. the cards are not overclocked, just the processor is. ill snoop around some more using these suggestions. also, my memory, ocz platinum 4x 1gb sticks, 400 hz each, is showed as being half used, even at idle with nothing running, is this normal?

That is normal. Windows will use a lot of ram if it is there. More often than not that chunk of ram being used is by superfetch and prefetch to speed up file access times, or is simply cached. You can reduce that if you want but there is no real point. The files will be dumped by windows if it needs the ram for more important things.

If it helps, the same TDR issue with ATI cards comes up as "atikmdag.sys has stopped responding...."

Message edited by daedalus685 on 09-20-2009 at 07:06:21 AM

Reply to daedalus685

ok. thank you immensely for the help guys. thanks daedalus685... u seem very well educated on pcs/components.

Reply to affliictiion

np, good luck with sorting everything out.

Reply to daedalus685

Hi All,
I have a similar problem with my Toshiba laptop. My laptop uses a "ATI RADEON XPRESS 200M Series " graphics display card. Whenever I watch a video in a smaller screen, I don't see any issue. But, after sometime I make the video full screen, it stops the video playing and displays the message - "Display Driver Stopped Working and has recovered successfully". Can you please let me know if I install the latest display driver from ATI, will it help me solve the problem? Or is there any known way to fix this issue?

Thanks in advance,
Swami.S

Reply to satswami

Hi,
I am also having this problem, same os OP's but I only have a single card and windows 7.

My spec is as follows

Intel i7 860 @2.8GHz
4MB Corsair 1600 ram xms3
2XWD 500GB green SataII HD as raid 0
1XWD 640GB SataII HD
2X LG litescribe SataII DVD+-RW
Asus P55D EVO Motherboard.
Antec NEO 500W PSU
Sapphire ATI Radeon 5770 1GB GDDR5 Memory PCIE GFX
Recommended ATI Drivers
Windows 7 x64

My system is not overclocked at all but I keep getting Screen freezes, mouse locks nad bad graphic corruption, generally I do a ctrl-alt-del ctrl-C and escape to restore display but it is a pain.

My cpu tem is around 20-28C most of the time
According to Catalyst my GPU is 41C
Fan speed 35%
activity 1-5%

This happens when just browsing the web and certainly nothing strenous on the GFX card or CPU
Sapphire recommended I install the lates drivers, this did not work

Has anybody else found a solution or have any ideas what could be causing this?

Cheers

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Nothing fixed this problem as permanent/right solution. From search, I found one quick workaround for this. But, it may not be recommended if you are used to fascinating GUI of Windows Vista/later. If you are okay to compromise the window color and appearance rather than getting annoyed(like I used to ) when watching an interesting movie or video clip; please modify your theme to "Windows Classic" theme and you can see the problem getting resolved and watch the video without any break. Let me know if this works for you!!

My assumption for this solution: Windows' jazzy theme, color, appearance of the GUI is one of the largest consumer of CPU and memory Usage. If I am right, this switching back the theme to Classic one, reduces the memory usage to larger extent and gives space for the Video Graphics Card's CPU which is running in parallel..!!!

My OS: "Windows Vista Home"

Thanks,
Swami.S

BlokeUK wrote :

Hi,
I am also having this problem, same os OP's but I only have a single card and windows 7.

My spec is as follows

Intel i7 860 @2.8GHz
4MB Corsair 1600 ram xms3
2XWD 500GB green SataII HD as raid 0
1XWD 640GB SataII HD
2X LG litescribe SataII DVD+-RW
Asus P55D EVO Motherboard.
Antec NEO 500W PSU
Sapphire ATI Radeon 5770 1GB GDDR5 Memory PCIE GFX
Recommended ATI Drivers
Windows 7 x64

My system is not overclocked at all but I keep getting Screen freezes, mouse locks nad bad graphic corruption, generally I do a ctrl-alt-del ctrl-C and escape to restore display but it is a pain.

My cpu tem is around 20-28C most of the time
According to Catalyst my GPU is 41C
Fan speed 35%
activity 1-5%

This happens when just browsing the web and certainly nothing strenous on the GFX card or CPU
Sapphire recommended I install the lates drivers, this did not work

Has anybody else found a solution or have any ideas what could be causing this?

Cheers

Reply to satswami

just my 2 cents. both times when i started getting this "gpu has stopped but has recovered" error, within a month the cards died. happened on a 4 year old x850 and 3.5 year old x700 that came with prebuilt P4 Dell computers.

Reply to paperfox

my friend has the same problem on a fairly new ati 4670, I hope the card is not broken.

Reply to gomi

Thanks for all the replies.

I have now been running stable for over 3 hours! (touch wood)

I set my cpu settings to manual and manually set ram and turned of Turbo EVO, even thought his was set at manual anyway and all seems fine, cpu temp running hotter than before 25 - 30c with Firefox and about 80 open tabs and vcore running slightly higher, but I have for the first time experienced a snag free evening, even when running prime 95 64 bit.

I was sure it wasn't cpu or GFX since I was able to run for an entire week on the windows 7 vga drivers without a glitch.

I guess my GFX and mobo don't play nicely together when auto setting on in bios

Googled for some bios setting for P755D EVO but no joy

Hope this helps anyone else

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