Of course, this is not a fix, but now I know it had to be the GPU. Then I took the GPU out and used the HDMI on the motherboard. I used GPU-Z to monitor the temperature, but couldn't see anything out of the ordinary here, only that it showed GPU_Temp: 0.0C when the driver restarted (which makes sense, because it gets its temp readings from that same driver). I tried most of what's in your post, even went all the way back to driver version 314.22, no luck.ĭuring testing, the freezes started happening faster and more often. Then I did a clean Win 10 install, with the latest drivers and it still happened. I installed the latest drivers, still froze.

I was running Win 7, with a GTX 570 and suddenly I got these random freezes 15-20 mins into a LoL game. Shameless plug: Check out my website at Here's what I did to fix it: Now that you know a little about it, lets continue to the solutions, I'll start with the easiest first, and move up to the more drastic. Sometimes it will just happen once, normally while watching a video or playing a game, other times it will go berserk, right when you login you will get it every 10 seconds, and may even get the blue screen of death! There are a few known forms of this error. If you have only gotten it one time, just ignore it, but if you get it again, you should try the solutions. You will know you have it if your monitor goes black for a few seconds, and comes back, with the popup from the intro picture. It happens on all types of cards, and even built in ones, with your motherboard. Getting this error is like your computer saying 'something went wrong with your graphics card, and we're not sure what.' It could be you're power supply, ram, temperature, or just the card in general. The program that controls this is called 'Timeout detection and recovery.' The error is very vague, and doesn't correlate to one problem. What is this error? This error occurs when your computer thinks that you graphics card has stopped responding, mainly due to a low frame rate. I personally had that, until getting a GTX 260, in which case I got 'Display driver nvidia windows kernel mode driver has stopped.' Please note that this also works for other forms 'display driver_ stopped responding and has recovered,' however this is the most common. I've searched hours and tried many solutions, finally #1 worked for me. It's been found on operating systems XP, Vista, and Windows 7. This instructable will show you known ways of fixing the dreaded 'display driver nvlddmkm stopped responding and has successfully recovered' error. Dusting out your computer, and following the 'drivers' step would be a good place to start. While anything could be causing this, as the steps will show, overheating and driver errors are a dominating problem. UPDATE: This instructable is about 5 years old now, but this error still persists.

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