display driver stopped responding and has recovered ?

[jamieuk23]

keep getting this the odd time for some reason , I am using a 5970 with windows 7 32bit. Any ideas why ?

[spoon_]

I get this as well, 5870 here, w7 x64.

Watching Youtube videos seem the be triggering it when nothing happens on the screen [apart from the video itself lol]

RDP to my w7 box seems to be having the same symptoms...

[Queelis]

Used to have that just after buying my PC with a 4830, sorted itself out with later drivers

[blueball]

It has been, and still is, happening to cards from both ATI and Nvidia for years. You can trawl google until you are blue in the face but nobody wants to own the problem (card vendors or MS). All sorts of supposed fixes out there but I have yet to find one that works (happens with my GTX280 in vista and win 7, never happened in XP though!)

[jamieuk23]

Nice to no I am not the only one , but in a none selfish way lol

[Phage]

That's a common error message with the GSOD. See my comments in this thread.
http://forums.hexus.net/graphics-car...ml#post1947768

[Rainmaker]

While I realise this won't be the problem in every case, I suffered this in increasing frequency for several weeks last month. I tried new drivers, updated bios; nothing worked. Then the caps on the card's PCB blew their tops. It was simply the symptom of a dying card. Fingers crossed yours isn't on the way out.

[UrbanKiwi]

While I realise this won't be the problem in every case, I suffered this in increasing frequency for several weeks last month. I tried new drivers, updated bios; nothing worked. Then the caps on the card's PCB blew their tops. It was simply the symptom of a dying card. Fingers crossed yours isn't on the way out.

Yeah same thing happened to me (HD3870X2), the display driver recovered successfully for a number of months but the crashes became steadily more frequent followed by total failure and BSOD!!! I am now in the market for a new card

[jjgreenwood]

never happened to me before today and it happened several times after I plugged in a new monitor. I ran driver sweep and installed the latest beta's and its been fine ever since.

[Urban-UK]

Ive had this a few times on my gtx280 using windows 7 64bit, No idea why it happens, but system seems to be ok though

[this_is_gav]

You can trawl google until you are blue in the face but nobody wants to own the problem (card vendors or MS). All sorts of supposed fixes out there but I have yet to find one that works

Unfortunately I'd imagine the cause could be any number of things. All it's saying is that the driver or the card has had a temporary fit and that the driver has successfully restarted itself.

What causes the issue on one PC may not be the cause on an identical PC.

Personally I've not had it since my card stopped overheating (the cause being a broken fan on the after-market Akasa Vortexx Neo cooler, which was replaced). Windows 7 here too.