Help: Nvidia driver stopped responding and has recovered.

Hi everyone!

I've had my Asus G53-JW for about 2 months now and it's been running great so far, until today. I've played games on it just fine, been doing Photoshopping as well and everything used to work.

Today today I started getting screen flickering and then I got this message in the taskbar: "Nvidia driver stopped responding and has recovered."

I'm running the latest driver for GTX460M. I reinstalled the drivers but it didn't help. I tried running Crysis 2 demo and as soon as I log in, the problem happens again. The screen starts breaking up until it turns black and then it refreshes and I get that message. So I figured this problem happens every time the GPU starts working. The GPU temperature is around 48C idle and it hasn't gone up when the problem happens.

Anyone got any idea on what I should do? I googled the problem and tried different solutions - mostly reinstalling drivers - but nothing helps.

Thanks in advance!

 

Install the previous drivers, see if that help.

 

I tried that already and no help. What's concerning is that the problem started all of a sudden. I haven't made any changes to my hardware or software in the past week. Everything worked fine a couple of days ago but today the driver is crashing.

 

This can be caused by a couple of things. First thing I would try is a clean reinstall the official driver from Asus.
Uninstall the current one, then restart and go to safe mode, there use CCleaner (or a similar tool) and Driver Sweeper to make sure that all of the old files are gone and then install the driver.

 

Clean installing the geforce driver didnt help. I noticed something else today. When I plugged in my USB mouse (razer abyssus) I got a blue screen. This has never happened before. The computer restarted and the mouse works fine but I'm still getting the screen tearing and sudden flickering and the error message when I run something heavy. Is there a way to clean install USB controller or something?

 

Did you get any further on this? I'm having the same problem.

I was originally running with the build that comes installed. I tried doing a clean install of Win7, then the necessary drivers, etc., and am now experiencing the same thing again.

Going to try another wipe/install, but the big problem I see is that the problem seems to start after no changes -- in other words, I can't identify any kind of proximate event that could be a trigger.

 

OK, so I'm trying to be scientific about this thing.

I wiped and did a clean OS install. I installed only the bare minimum hardware drivers and Wireless Console 3, then did a Clonezilla image. I then went through and installed all my apps and games and did another Clonezilla image. I've got CCleaner installed. I finished all of this up yesterday AM. The drivers are all from the Asus site; I am NOT using the latest Nvidia drivers from Nvidia.com.

Last night I was playing Star Trek Online (all settings maxed except for shadows; there's some kind of Nvidia shadows bug floating around) and I got some nasty artifacting. It was like some colors were dimming or going inverse or something. I did not think to get screen grabs; if it happens again, I will.

However, today I played STO for an hour or so with no issues at all. It could be thermal, so tonight I'll put in a few hours and see what happens.

If I find anything, I'll update this thread.

 

I got this message and little colors snow flake artifacts on screen when I overclock the GPU too high (850core) and running gpu stress tests. At stock clock, never happened, but I have my g73sw for only 1 week. So consider if the gpu is defective. Run some benchmark like 3dmark or furmark to test.

 

Terrific suggestion; I will do that and let everyone know what I find.

 

this also happens to my ati 5870.. it perfectly works in stock clocks, but when i use amd overdrive thats when things go wrong

 

FYI, since my latest wipe/install, I have not had any problems. I can't get the issue to crop up again. So...who knows?

If it fails again, I'll post an update.