nVidia Driver Has Stopped Responding...DESPERATE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I have been getting the Vidia Driver Has Stopped Responding and has recovered error in W7 for a long time now. I remember having it in Vista too.

I am becoming extrememly desperate!!!!!!!!!!!!

I have tried...

Updating drivers to absolute lates

Using 1 stick of ram at a time

Re Installing OS to see if it was Windows Updates fault.

I found out it happens when i put a game up on max settings. At low or medium settings it does not happen. I have also become weary of my ram. I have tried using 1 stick at time and they both gave me the driver crash. Though they might both be damaged. I will run W7 Memory Diagnostic over nigh to see if the RAM is the culprit.

I have also heard of ppl changing where their HDD is located on their computer helped too.

And lowering the clocks is another common solution. This might work for me because playing games at low or medium settings does no give me the crash. THo i can run them very smooth at max so i don't want that to be my solution.

CAN SOME PLEASE HELP ME> PLEASE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I am very desperate to fix this problem. VERY... i WIll try anything at this point.

 

You already said lowering the clock speed of the GPU. This is indeed one of the solution.
8800GTS(envious). LOL.
HDD problem? Maybe the RPM of you HDD is too slow for high-performance-quality gaming, that's why it crash with your GPU/CPU. Change it to a higher one(7200RPM)?
How about heat? Heat can be culprit too.

Take note,
8-series(M) nvidia geforce Core:Shader ratio should be 1:2. I think yours is not. You should overclock it according to the ratio. Maybe this will fix your problem though.
Correct me if I am wrong.

 

It could be the driver you're using - have you done a clean uninstall-reinstall of a WHQL release?
It could be you've overclocked the card beyond its stability point.

 

i Have everything at stock clocks. My max temps only hit about 77C. I have bought a cooler which it arrive 2 morro. I will try installing W7 32 bit and see if that fixes my problem instead of x64.

 

I am almost 100% sure doing clean installs won't solve the problem. It probably has something to do with your graphic card. You can try what DarkSilver said.
Oh and btw why don't you just use something like memtest86+ to check your ram? Would be faster.

 

But i am running at stock speeds, why would lowering my clocks fix the problem.

I was thinking maybe i should just call Best Buy Geek Squad and replace the MB. That would end all this crap.

I wan't to try installing 32 Bit W7 instead of 64 bit. That might fix the problem.

Any1 else every had this problem and fixed it. PLEASE i cannot play any games, i really need help.

P.S. this only happens after i play the game for a while. Then it crashes so maybe once i get my cooler the problem mights become less rampant. Oh and it is not my RAM, i just did W7 memtest and it did not detect any problems.

 

Yeah well I have the same thing when playing left4dead on my desktop. I have a 8800GTX that after maybe an hour or so crashes with the icon on the bottom driver stopped responding. My error reports are full of video hardware failure. Yours maybe the same. Try and search for that in windows (I honestly don't remember where it is). It could give you a hint on what is making the driver stop. But if it happens at max settings, after a while, then it looks like the card is heating too much.
My desktop 8800GTX idles at around 60c and when going to around 80c crashes.

 

Well i will be receiving my cooler 2morro (today really) XD.

This probably if freakin' depressing tho. I am going to install the new driver on guru3D.com and try that out. For now. 2morro i will contact geek squad.

 

I think 77C is way too hot for a stock clock.

I have a personal(sounds noob) solution:
Remove the dust of your laptop. You can try open the casing and vacuum it or maybe try Compressed Air.
Get a good cooler which can blow the GPU and CPU as well as the Fan area.
Undervolt your CPU, with CPU temperature lowered, the temperature around the area may decrease too. Thus, the GPU temperature may decrease.
Install Official Driver only from Nvidia website. Currently, it is Nvidia Geforce 186.03 WHQL.
Use stock clocks.
If you want to overclock, make sure the Ratio for Core:Shader is 1:2.
Change your HDD or maybe RAM(sometime can be RAM because my friend laptop got screw-up by RAM).

 

Only time ive had that happen to me was when i had installed new drivers while there where still residues of the olds ones remaining, and nothing i did fixed it until after reformating, the i uninstalled previous drivers and ran driver sweeper, everything worked perfectly after that.

 

Hmm i will have to go to best buy tomorrow and buy a can of compressed air and some q tips and do a full computer clean up.

And Mtness, i just re did my OS with the new driver so it is the cleanest install you can get XD.

Oh and now that i remember i get this problem ONLY in Section 8 and CoD4 1.7. When playing Crysis Warhead, or Crysis 1 i never get this problem. I will try Far Cry 2 and other games and see what happens. All i got left is Far Cry 2, Mass Effect, Sims 3(hate that game), Dead Space.

Will test those games out and see if it is only a problem with Section 8 and CoD4. As CoD4 has given me problems before, and Section 8 is a beta. So...Will test out my 10 other PC games and get back to you guys.

P.S. my laptop cooler is gonna get here sometime today...CRYO LX, hope it's worth the 76 bucks.

 

LOL my stock clocks cause my GPU to go up to 85 celcius when i game in india . In UK where it is much colder it can go up to 81 so 77 isn't too high u know.

 

Your temps are perfectly fine, just keep them at stock and you shouldnt have any problems related to that.

Make sure that the drivers are completely uninstalled as well, and re-install the most stable driver you remember using. Getting rid of the dust and lowering the temps never hurts either.

 

yo everyone i just ran 1 lvl of Crysis without any crash. I guess it was the 2 games that were having trouble with the drivers after all. Ah well, i can just wait for Section 8 to be released.

P.S. The cooler is still not here yet, freakin' UPS.