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Hello, I recently found my old Toshiba Laptop (Toshiba Satellite L510), I tried turning it on to look at my old photos, and noticed that the laptop display would not work properly, I would only saw a grey screen. That's all, no cursors, nada. Then someone told me to check if I can see the screen if I connect it to an external display via a VGA cable. I tried it and it works! But it would be a lot better if i could use the laptop display though. I can safely tell that my display isn't broken. I suspect the display driver, The laptop was running windows 7, I have updated it to windows 10 since I prefer windows 10 more. I tried looking for its display drivers on the internet, and don't seem to find it. I only found the Mobile Intel(R) 4 Series Express Chipset Family driver, the problem is not fixed. Its still showing the grey screen. Are there any other ways I can fix the laptop display ? Thanks in advance.

I have an AMD A6-3650k APU and an XFX RX 570 4GB. My pproblem is that since my mootherboard wont boot from the 570 ( I knowthe cpu bottle necks but I cant afford an upgrade yet unless you lovely people will donate your old hardware ) I can't set it as the primary device and try to disable the iGPU. Windows update keeps trying to install a driver for the 6530D and breaking everything forcing me to reinstall radeon software? Any thoughts on stopping this from happening? I'm on Windows 10 Home 64

No signal after installing an AMD display driver. without AMD display driver pc working on windows default display driver. These guys having same problem : https://community.amd.com/thread/245010 https://community.amd.com/thread/226635 spec: 2200g B450 8gb 450w

When try to start OBS Studio, it crashes graphics driver, My specs is AMD Athlon II X2 250 2GB RAM iGPU ATI HD 3200 (already updated the driver) How do I fix AMD Graphics Driver Crash?

I have a 1080Ti AMP! Extreme whenever I Play games both my monitors turn off and when I restart it says "Display Driver failed to start" in my notifications. I have tried: Reinstalling Drivers Reseating GPU Unplugging both of my monitors New windows user

I've been experiencing freezes/hangs during usage to varying degrees, during both web browsing and games. Games typically are more severe where either the game, after playing for 20-30 minutes, instantly locks up the system and all i can do is move my mouse cursor (Dota 2), or the rest of the system freezes and game audio seems to repeat from the moment of the freeze, but the game continues to run apart from the audio for a little while after (ETS2). While using Chrome, after a varying amount of time, the browser will freeze, and audio continues for a bit. For the games, I have to force off the system, but for Chrome, I can close the brower, and the system seems to recover. All of these events seem to correspond to a system event, which I've attach a screenshot of below from Event Viewer. Information on the warning suggests graphics driver reinstall, with DDU, which I've done without success. The BIOS was previously the release BIOS for the board, which i updated recently since I was already having stability issues. I even re-seated the GPU since that was a solution brought up as well (didn't work), and set all my power settings to High Performance. Help is greatly appreciated. System specs: Windows 10 Home 64 bit Asus X470 Crosshair VII Hero (BIOS 0804) AMD R7 2700 (Auto in BIOS) Corsair Vengeance LPX 2X8GB 3000 (Auto in BIOS) MSI GTX 1070 Ti Titanium (Stock clocks) WD Blue 3D NAND 1TB SSD (WDS100T2B0B) (Boot drive) SK Hynix 500GB SSD (HFS500G32TND) Seagate 2TB SSHD (ST2000DX001) EVGA P2 1200 (1200W 80+ Platinum)

When ever I install my display driver on my computer. My OS hard locks. I can access my PC without any drivers installed or through safe mode. The GPU is liquid cooled and has not been overclocked. I have tried installing the driver from both the AMD website, and through Windows update as well with the same result. My current build: AMD FX 8350 Black Edition - Stock Clocks PNY Anarchy 16 GB 1866 AMD RX 480 8GB on water with Swiftech waterblock Asus M5A99FX PRO R2.0 motherboard Kingston HyperX Fury 480 GB SSD 2x 1TB standard 7200 HDD's Seasonic 900 watt PSU Current build of Windows: 17134 64 Bit Just trying to get my system to work so that I can use it. Thank you ahead of time for any assistance the community provides.

TL;DR Display driver constantly crashes and recovers once every boot up session. Changed the monitor. Problem still occurs. Changed the gpu. Problem still occurs. The display driver is up to date. Do I need to change the motherboard?I've been updating my old build to a new build part by part. It's based on just not having a lot of time at the moment. I upgraded from two old Acer G235HAbd 23'' monitors, a solid 1080p screen each, to the Acer Predator x34. The Predator is a 34" curved monitor, 21:9 aspect ratio, and 3440x1440 resolution.My old 970 gtx gpu was doing fine with the Predator but I knew it couldn't handle the monitor if I tried recent games on high specs. The problem begins with this setup. Over time the display driver would crash and recover once per session regardless of what the computer was used for. Artifacts then showed up on the screen. The predator monitor finally wouldn't show anything, "no signal", and so I switched to my old Acer monitor. Using one old Acer monitor the display driver would still crash and recover once per session.I then bought the new 1080 ti. Great card. Unfortunately, the display driver still crashes and quickly recovers using either monitor. One time the display driver crashed and recovered three times in a row.What is the solution? The problem shows up using both kinds of monitors and both kinds of gpu's. My motherboard and cpu are old hardware. Is this caused by my motherboard?My computer specs are below.Cooler - Noctua DH14CPU - Intel i7 950GPU - Nvidia 1080 tiMOBO - Gigabyte X58A-UD3RMonitor - Acer Predator x34 PSU - 750W, Corsair TX SeriesRAM - 12GBSSD - Samsung 950 1TB (x2)

I've been running an Sapphire 7870 and wanted to upgrade to a XFX RX480, since I just got a 1440p monitor and it's shipping. I went to my "uninstall a program" section in the control panel and uninstalled my current version of Crimson 16.1. I then ran AMD's CleanUp Utility for good measure. 1.The screen went to low resolution, as it should, since I'd uninstalled the driver. Then I heard the Windows install sound and the screen went back to normal resolution. I went to device manager and found that Windows had already reinstalled the 7870 driver by itself. 2. I unplugged my network cable in hopes that that would stop Windows from reinstalling the driver. I uninstalled the driver from device manager and reran the CleanUp Utility. I restarted the computer and when it booted back the screen was at normal resolution and it looked like Windows had again reinstalled the driver by itself, even with the network cable disconnected. 3. I uninstalled the driver again and shut the computer off. I swapped the graphics cards and put the RX480 in. I booted up using a DVI cable on my Dell E228WFP (my current monitor, the new one is shipping). It booted up normally through the bios screens, but when it got to the Windows desktop, the screen went black after a few seconds and then the monitor went into sleep mode. It only does this when it isn't getting a signal. 4. I then booted into Safe Mode. Worked fine. The screen did not shut off and I looked at the Device Manager, it showed that there was an RX480 as the graphics adapter. I tried to install the Crimson 16.2 driver while in safe mode, but it kept freezing at the "Analyzing System" section and telling me to contact AMD. 5. I put the 7870 back in and booted up. Worked fine, no black screens. I uninstalled all drivers again and tried installing 16.2 driver. Worked fine, no errors. Shut down and put the 480 back in and booted up. Same problem, would go to black screen. Sometimes it will get to the desktop before black screen, other times it will only get past loading screen. I'm not sure where I'm going wrong. My last card upgrade was a lot simpler.

Hi, So after owning this rubbish card for a while I decided to OC it, and recently after around 1/2 hour of gaming for example, both my screens will go down for around 5 seconds, give me an OpenGL display driver issue (I believe Error 7) and sometimes crash my game. When coming back, instead of my FPS being around 40 or so, it will go to around 10 (which is unbearable if it isn't already). I tried re-installing drivers, installing old ones, re-fitting the GPU, putting an extra molex fan on (above the heatsink) and even trying nVidia tech support. Its specifically a Zotac GeForce 210 512mb. It doesn't really matter as soon I am getting a Gigabyte GeForce 750Ti 4GB but it would help if I could solve my issue for until I get this new card. Thanks, Jago

I have been having an issue with my two GTX 970's which I run in SLI ever since I accidentally overclocked them waaay too high by that I mean the sliders were set as high as they could go and saved I wont go into too many detail as I would like to get to the point but know that it was not entirely my fault. I nearly had a heart attack my PC would crash while trying to load the desktop and somehow through all this my display driver became completely corrupt and without a display driver I cant dial back the overclock so while my cards were having a meltdown I was installing display drivers once installed I dialed the overclock back to stock and since have applied an extremely modest overclock yet since that day I have had a few odd issues 1. I occasionally get this error while entering or exiting full screen applications such as going into full screen mode on YouTube or extending a window to fill the screen "Display driver stopped responding and has recovered Display driver NVIDIA Windows Kernel Mode Driver, Version 258.96 stopped responding and has successfully recovered." The screen only turns black for a split second and everything continues as normal like the error never happened 2. After playing games after a fair deal of time maybe 4 or more hours I sometimes yet once again not consistently have an issue where my screen will go black but this time stay that way, my two displays will receive no signal but the computer continues to run I often listen to music or watch YouTube on my secondary display while I play and the audio from those still play but no audio from the game I was just playing so i'm not sure if the game itself is suspended or had crashed at the same moment the screen went black or what regardless once it does this I cannot get the picture back whether I unplug the display cable or what have you. I must hard restart the computer (using the power button). So that's jist of it sorry if its a bit much to read I appreciate any help the community can offer and will try to provide more details if necessary.

So I come to you guys after seeking help over at r/nvidia and r/nvidiahelp, along with the GeForce Forums who actually mocked me instead of helping me for not knowing how to use a few tools... My problem is that I've just built a fresh rig, fresh hard drives, fresh CPU, fresh everything. All components used in this rig have never been used prior is my point, and just incase if it helps here are my system specs: - Corsair Carbide Series Air 540 Black - Corsair Air Series AF140 140mm Purple LED Quiet Edition x2 - MSI Z170A SLI Plus LGA 1151 - Intel Core i5-6600K - Noctua NH-D15 - Nvidia GTX 1070 Founder's Edition - CORSAIR Vengeance 8GB DDR4 x2 - CORSAIR RMx Series RM850X - Windows 10 Home Continuing, my problem is that when playing any game, any game at all no matter how demanding, the game crashes with this notification appearing right after: "Display driver stopped responding and has recovered Display driver NVIDIA Windows Kernal Mode Driver, Version 368.39 stopped responding and has successfully recovered" I was led to believe it was a TDR of sorts but discarded that though because there's an actually coherent message instead of a string of letters where "NVIDIA Windows Kernal Mode Driver" is. I did a bit of digging and found out that with this recent 368.39 driver, a lot of people with similar specs to mine started having this problem, for some it was occurring almost all the time, others were fine until their game crashed no more than 5 min in like me. People told me I got a faulty card (which is entirely possible), but my temps on everything have been just fine, and when my games run for the short time they do they give me glorious frames (Witcher 3 Ultra gave out a good 60-80 FPS with no stuttering), which leads me to believe it's not the card but rather the driver 368.39 itself. I'd downgrade to an earlier one but this current driver is the only one that supports the 10XX cards. What's weird is I have this exact same driver on my AMD Athlon 860k/GTX 960 build with no problems at all, but then yet on my current build I'm having these problems. I built this current rig the exact same way I did my previous one, so I have no clue what could be causing this, any help at all would be greatly appreciated.

Okay i keep getting this error display driver has stopped working and recovered. windows 10 64bit nvidia gtx 970 8gb ram 1866 things i have tried stable drivers , 2 different video cards (GTX 970 R9 280x) both cards have this same error im thinking its a memory stick bad any thoughts ?

Greetings fellow member of linustechtips , I am a new guy i don't know where to ask i hope i'm not making thread in wrong tag or place i'm really confuse and need assistance. My PC is very old G41M-ES2L Intel Dual Core E5400 2,4ghz 2x 2gb RAM VS550 watt power supply Sapphire AMD Radeon HD 5550 1gb ddr3 Windows 7 64bit I've been using my PC fine for 7 years but i notice starting 3 years ago my GPU heat sink fan stopped spin when i turn on my PC, it has to be on windows desktop and i have to turn fan speed to 100% from MSI afterburner and sometimes i have to touch the fan a little to make it spin, but regardless it was fine until now. About 3 weeks ago my screen starting to flash and goes black and then return to normal with a warning "display driver has stopped responding and has recovered", at first i'm just ignoring this but as time goes by it goes worst. My pc will freeze and goes to black screen now, and when i restart my pc there is nothing except black screen and i have to wait like 10-15 minutes then i can turn on my PC, sometimes there is a BSOD after the freeze "Attempting to reset display driver from timeout failed" or "Video scheduler internal error". This problem happen randomly sometimes it happen 5 minute after i turn on my PC, when i browsing and watching youtube or video and playing video game like world of warcraft it is guarantee it will happen. AMD has stopped making new driver for my GPU since 2 years ago, so theres no update for my display driver, i did try to reinstall my display driver, add the TDR setting in registry to 8 and 10, check my hard disk for error, unplug and test each of my RAM, all didn't work. My GPU have 46-50 degrees on idle and 60-80 degrees on gaming i don't know if that overheating, both CPU and GPU are at their default no overclock. People said to upgrade my bios but i don't think its the bios fault i've been using this bios for 7 years, people said its either RAM or PSU, i can't use memtest to test my RAM i don't have external USB or DVD/CD to use it, but i can use integrated graphics without any problem, i'm pretty sure its not my RAM or PSU. I think my GPU is failing but i'm really afraid if i buy a new GPU and it turns out that my PCIE express slot is damage and i have to change motherboard. I have only 100 bucks. I'm only playing old games like World of Warcraft, Dota 2. And i don't really need high settings, i don't need anti aliasing. The only new game i can't play and i really want to play is Metro Last Light, Rise of Tomb Rider and Dragon Age inquisition. Do you think my GPU is dying and i should get new one?? i'm thinking to get HIS Radeon 250x 2gb gddr5, can i use that GPU on my mobo?? Or is there any way to salvage and fix this situation?? i don't want to buy new parts if i can because my mobo and CPU is very old i will ended up bottleneck, and my case is very small i can't put GPU with dual fans in it. Or you guys think its my PCIE slot/Motherboard damage??

Hey all. Okay, so I recently installed a Radeon R9 390 in my computer. I had to do a clean install of Windows AFTER installing it, for totally unrelated reasons. I installed the latest version of the Crimson drivers from AMD, pretty much as soon as Windows was done installing. Yet, anytime I play any intense games, or sometimes even browsing the internet, the screen locks up for a second, then pops up the "Display driver stopped working, but has recovered" error message. There have been several times where it just shuts down my monitors altogether, as if I put the computer into sleep mode, but I have to restart it to get it to come back on. I can provide any additional info you need, please help!

Shutdown: Windows 10 started up within 5 seconds absolutely fine. When it came to shutting down, you could see the shutting down screen and then the display power down within 5 seconds, however the actual system will still be powered up for another 60-120 seconds before shutting down, even though the display/ OS where clearly ended. Solution: I put it down to OS drivers originally but finding they were fully up to date, i moved into power settings. Power options > choose what the power button do > shutdown settings > ''turn on fast boot (recommended)'' From what i could see, windows 10, auto enabled it's own fast boot option in a recent update, causing it to make a fast boot profile as it shut down. simply disabling this option fixed the issue. My system still starts up within 5-6 seconds, but purely because i'm using an SSD. -------------------------------------------- Another unrelated issue: Intel hd 4600 graphics would crash at random times within windows 10 whilst watching videos etc. This problem occurs straight after you upgrade from windows 7 or 8.1 to windows 10. What happens is, the OS upgrades but still keeps the old drivers, so your windows 7 and 8.1 display drivers will still be active, and the system update will keep them to the latest versions for windows 7 and 8.1. But will not detect your OS / change the drivers to windows 10 versions. Solution: Go to intel's website, and find the windows 10 driver for your chipset, Run the installer, and it will automatically remove the old drivers and replace them with the windows 10 versions. Hopefully these solve some problems people are experiencing.

I don't know why I didn't post about this topic earlier, because it's been happening to me a lot. I don't remember when or how it started, I think it was after some windows update. I all of a sudden started receiving the same message, over and over again (refer to picture), saying the the "Display Driver has stopped responding and has recovered." I thought ok, my computer still works, nothing is crashing, so I should be fine, probably just a bug in windows. Then it got worse. I was doing my own thing one day, playing good ol' League of Legends and the sort, and constantly, CONSTANTLY, my computer would freeze for a while, like a minute or 2, and then after it stops being frozen, it displays the message. "Display driver has stopped responding and has recovered." It is really getting on my nerve and I need someone to help! I don't really have much experience in graphics drivers and stuff, so I googled some stuff but none of the solutions have worked for me. Here are some of the things that I have already tried doing: 1) Going into regedit and creating a QWord 64 bit TdrDelay with a value of 8 (I also tried 10) 2) Reinstalling drivers with a clean installation, reverting back to old drivers, trying hotfixes 3) Rebooting computer (#1 solution!) Nothing has worked. I opened up my computer and everything, nothing seems wrong. The fans for my graphics driver is working, I mean it's not like anything is overheating. In the pictures provided, you can see the temperatures of my hardware while idle and while gaming, the error message, and info about my rig. This is the error message that pops up, it pops up whenever I play a game, even when I am idle and browsing the web, my computer freezes and then displays this message My temps while idle My temps while in Garry's Mod My specifications. One thing to note is that I do have 3 monitors, an Apple Cinema Display, an HP L2045w, and an HP 2035, I have all my drivers updated. Please provide help if you have any advice! Thanks.

Hello everyone, I've been running a pretty hefty 3D program called Maya from autodesk. I've been animating for some time now, but I've had this error message start to appear more and more often. When it does, Maya and any other open windows or programs freeze and I lose all unsaved progress. Having YouTube and Maya open at the same time almost guarantees the error will occur. The error message that appears is "Display driver stopped responding and has recovered". This seems to be a pretty common thing when I scanned the internet forums, and I tried editing my TdrDelay by upping it to 8 from the previous 0 but that didn't work and ended up giving me a new error message "application has been blocked from accessing hardware" so I undid the edits I made. I also tried troubleshooting my RAM to see if one out of the two sticks was broken, but they both were getting the original error. I'm kind of at my wits end here and I need to get Maya up and running so I can do my homework, please help! I've attached a screenshot with the error. operating system: Windows 10 Home 64 bit. specs: Intel Core i7-4790K @ 4.00 GHz Quad-Core motherboard AsRock Z97 Pro4 ATX LGA1150 G.Skill Ares series 16GB (2x8GB) DDR3-1866 250 GB Samsung 840 EVO SSD drive 500 GB Western Digital HDD drive EVGA Supernova GS 650W 80+ XFX Radeon R9 280X 3GB Double Dissipation Video Card BIOS version:​​ American Megatrends Inc. P1.60, 1/15/2015

Hi guys, My girlfriend told me her PC has started giving out an error message. It says; Display driver stopped working and has been restored, or something similar to that. I thought maybe the GPU was at a too high clock for its age or something like that, so I've put it at these settings: However, whenever I do a load test on AIDA64, on the GPU, the error messages comes again, and the display driver stops working, in like a SECOND or two after starting. I've tried the Microsoft fix it thingy, which how I understand it, lets windows give the GPU more time to process before crashing, it didn't help... Any ideas? Or is it time to buy another GPU?

I have a R9 280x Windforce (Rev.2) card and some games randomly freeze for a few seconds with the error "Display driver has stopped responding and has recovered". I have RMA'ed the card, they said it was "fixed" nothing has been done to the card... I tried everything; Reinstalling drivers and Catalyst Control Centre multiple times, BIOS updates (I even bricked one of my BIOS'es on my GPU), Reinstalling Windows. No results. Catalyst Control Centre says that my memory runs at 1500MHz in stead of the 6000MHz promised by Gigabyte, I think my card doesn't have enough voltage, but I can't modify the voltage setting nor monitor it. Anyways, I have no hope anymore. Maybe someone had/has the same problem or has an idea how to fix it, or what's causing it. Thanks in advance. Specs: CPU: FX-6300 GPU: R9 280x Windforce Rev. 2 PSU: Corsair CX600M RAM: Hyperx Fury 8GB Motherboard: Asus M5A97 R2.0

Hi, I had the mains in my house redone today, they where quite sloppy doing so, They killed the fridge by pumping 380v into the 220 line, and I'm worried my pc bit the dust as well : Every time I startup the pc, the "amd display driver" crashes, and recovers. After recovery the card is pinned at 100% usage, and that makes it noisy and makes games ( and especially alt+tab's ) run slower. CS:GO now takes 10+ seconds to alt + tab whereas before it took 1 maybe 2. The worst part is I'm supposed to sell this card monday, but I don't want to send a broken card to the guy . EDIT: PSU seems to be dead, gpu, mobo and cpu are fine.

Hello, i'm new here to the linustechtips form, and i really need help overclocking my GTX 660Ti. I got this card over a year ago, and could never overclock it. Any increase on the core clock would result in my game freezing, and a message saying, "Display driver stopped responding and has recovered" (pic: http://imgur.com/LkguEU4) Any help would be appreciated Specs: i5 4670K (OC 4.3GHz) ASUS GTX 660Ti DC2OC-3GD5 EVGA SuperNova 750G PSU ASRock Z87 Extreme4 mobo Windows 8.1 64bit

I had to RMA my graphics card, so i have been using the integrated intel HD graphics. When light gaming and some web applications the screen goes black and it eventually loads up and sais intel integrated graphics driver has crashed and recovered again

My little brothers PC's Nvidia Display Driver doesn't startup when starting up Windows. Its install alright, but its not. I can tell by right clicking on the desktop and it doesn't show Nvidia Control Panel. This happend when I had to shutdown his PC to install the an Optical Drive, but while doing so I had to remove the GPU to be able to plugin the other end of the wire from the optical drive to his motherboard. How is removing a GPU and putting it back make the display driver not work anymore? I tried restarting his PC 2 times and still its not working. My little brother's specs: CPU: Intel Pentium G2020 GPU: Nvidia GT 620 (OCed it and got a 30% performance boost.) RAM: HyperX blu 1600Mhz Motherboard: Asus H61-M LX3 Plus R9.0 Right now I am going to try to fix it by reinstalling his driver, but the download it taking time. Download speed of ours is 300Kpbs.

Just got this display driver error. Screen went black, monitor shut off, and then it came back with a display driver has crashed and recovered message. I'm running the latest Nvidia drivers, I have uninstalled and re installed them completely, and still get this error sometimes. The error log is here: https://www.dropbox.com/s/ci68875n4qwsp82/display.evtx?dl=0 Thanks guys