"display driver has stopped responding..."

Hello everyone, hoping this is the right forum for this.  I'm the proud owner of a DS computer and I couldn't be happier with my rig. It runs amazing and I haven't had a single problem until now...and I'd like to get the issue resolved as it's about to be one year from my purchase date. It'd be extremely fustrating to have to replace a 500ish dollar video card because it went bad on me RIGHT after my warranty expired.

Some system specs before I continue, I can be more elaborate if needed.

i7 920 2.6 ghz OC'd to 3.5
6 gigs of ram
Vista 64
GTX 295 with 2 gigs vram
Coolermaster HAF 922 case with ample airflow and 7 fans

I've noticed while playing a few games, mainly World of Warcraft (usually happens in the BETA) that my video driver will crap out and I'll get a black screen for a few seconds then it'll recover. My computer tells me my "display driver has stopped responding but has been recovered." It's happened once or twice while playing starcraft 2, but I've been having the problem very sporadically for a few months.  I've updated to the current nvidia drivers, but I can remember it doing it with the last set of drivers too, I think.

I've perused a few sites and it says it may be a driver issue, but that it could also be a faulty card. It would seem to me it's maybe just the driver, but other insight would be nice if anyone else has experience this problem or has way to help me isolate the cause so I can get it fixed quickly.


Edited by Ashandarei - 08 Aug 2010 at 10:27am

I've tried 3 different drivers so far and they all seem to still do it, any other suggestions?

I used to randomly get that sometimes with my 8800GTS 512 on my old Dell. Not often though.

Only happened under heavy gaming and only with certain games, I always just chalked it up to overheating, bad game programming, and/or driver/software issues.

To date Lilim's 480 has never had it happen, so it may not necessarily be a driver issue since for awhile I was playing the same games with the same driver as I was with the 8800GTS 512.

Doesn't seem to be doing it with 197.45 driver from nvidia, but I'm going to keep running stuff and checking it out. Ran the stability test in furmark without once wigging out.

I think it was Vista64 and the driver conflicting, since my brother has the same card and his runs fine on 7.

*Edit* Nevermind, it's back.


Edited by Ashandarei - 08 Aug 2010 at 10:46pm

You might also want to try:

http://www.digitalstormonline.com/forums/forum_posts.asp?TID=5499&PID=60736#60736

Edited by Alex - 09 Aug 2010 at 2:08am

what temps are you seeing? high GPU's temps can cause problems, and can increase over time, as dust builds up inside the card.

I would run a GPU stress test, like furmark, post processing, max resolution, and details, for at least an hour.

 

If that all passes then I would look into  the drivers.. uninstall, re-boot, driver sweeper, reboot, install drivers, re boot. If issues still occur, I would run Prime95 for a minimum of 12 hours, if that passes, then re-install windows, sometimes after a while it just get a few hiccups.

Seems I'm starting to have other video problems now, pixelation and screwed up sections of screen randomly during games.

Which is why I went with Digital Storm. Amazing forum and amazing customer support. Buyer for life.

was this problem every resolved   I am having the same thing and have tried every thing Alex suggested  in the link she posted  even a reinstall and still have the problem,  have  used driversweeper to clean out video drivers  and tried from original drivers off NVidia disk  to different updated drivers all the way up to present most upto date drivers..