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display driver has stopped responding and has now been resolved

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andy63walsh

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Posted January 14, 2013 at 1:53PM

Hi, now and then i get a message saying ....display driver has stopped responding and has now been resolved, any ideas?

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Chronos the 2nd

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Posted January 14, 2013 at 2:26PM

A few more details would be useful. Make/model of graphics card or make/model of PC. Operating system. When was the last time you updated your graphic card drivers?

Do you use your PC for gaming? If so what type of games?

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andy63walsh

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Posted January 14, 2013 at 2:44PM

it says ati radeon family has stopped. I'm on windows 7, don't use it for gaming. I have two small screens on it though, one is just looped playing a basic video all the time (it has been running no problem up till now)

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Chronos the 2nd

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Posted January 14, 2013 at 2:48PM

What about drivers,when did you last update them? If you can tell me make and model of PC I'll find out what GPU you have.

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andy63walsh

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Posted January 14, 2013 at 3:06PM

we have a dell vostro 1000, i will look for the drivers now.

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Chronos the 2nd

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Posted January 14, 2013 at 3:26PM

Is it a laptop?

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andy63walsh

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Posted January 14, 2013 at 4:00PM

yes laptop

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Chronos the 2nd

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Posted January 14, 2013 at 5:04PM

Ah,that makes a difference than if it was a desktop.That is why it is important to supply as much info as you can in your opening thread.

I am a desktop man and know little of laptops. But you say it was running fine and the problem has just begun. If it were a desktop I would say check fans for dust and update driver but with a laptop I have no idea, sorry.

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Ian in Northampton

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Posted January 14, 2013 at 6:05PM

FWIW, my son runs a GTX560 (i.e. NVIDIA rather than ATI/AMD), and sees this occasionally also. It is sufficiently momentary in nature that we've never tried to fix it: he suspects it is application-dependent (i.e. it just happens at certain times in the games he plays).

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Number six

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Posted January 14, 2013 at 10:38PM

This is a fairly common problem with AMD Radeon graphics. A driver update often cures, if not some more ideas here:

AMD Radeon

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andy63walsh

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Posted January 16, 2013 at 2:38PM

I updated the driver, now the laptop has died, keeps trying to start up and reboots constantly. I can get into safe mode, but not sure what to do next.

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