What just happened (help)

I'm sitting here browsing the internet on espn, youtube, tumblr when all of a sudden the screen turns black for like 5-7 secs then comes back on. On the bottom it says display kernal stopped working but has successfully recovered. How or why did that even happen? Can anyone help me out? I'm scared

 

Sounds like VRAM is overloaded, I'm not certain since you were only browsing webs but similar thing happened to me while I underclocked my VRAM

 

I had like 4 windows open and I clicked on a picture on espn for the nba scores for yesterday and had it open, then it went black. Is it a major problem and is there anything I can do to avoid it again?

 

I run into the exact same problem once in a while, same card.

I kinda paniced at first too, tried updating, reinstalling drivers, redownloading flash, reinstalling ie, etc. Couldnt really find a clear cut solution. It only happens very rarely and didnt seem to affect 3D clock performance, only happens when browsing or watching youtube videos stuff like that. so i just gave up. not too big a deal.

Some other people were speculating it had something to do with AMD drivers and incompatibility with adobe flash but im not sure on that.

 

oh wait, never mind. i see you have 560m. i have a 6990m.. I got mixed up because I was reading a different thread just now tlaking about the 6990m

well, in that case. I dont know. maybe Nvidia has the same problem :/ strange

 

Thanks as long as its not going to cause any serious issues then I'm ok. I do think I'm going to update the drivers because of the release of the new Nvidia driver. Just hoping it doesn't happen again. Scared because this is my new laptop so I'm a bit worried but thank you for easing my mind a bit.

 

might just be a driver problem or as a worst case scenario, a bad gpu. Try to recreate the problem and use Resplendence Software - LatencyMon: suitability checker for real-time audio and other tasks to check what was causing the problem. Run some stress tests also.

I am having this same problem with my 280m gtx while playing guild wars (and i dont have it while playing any other game).

let us know how it works out.

 

It's most likely a driver problem which is a known issue with the NVidia display driver. Install the latest version which was released yesterday which specifically fixes this problem

 

I'm not sure if I did a clean install of the new drivers so here is a breakdown of what I did.

1. went to the control panel
2. uninstalled nvidia driver (but kept Nvidia HD audio 1.3, Update 1.7, and PhysicX 9.12)
3. reboot the laptop into safe mode
4. used a sweeper/ccleaner
5. restarted windows
6. installed nvidia display driver 295.73

Now I notice when I looked into the Nvidia folder I didn't delete the old 285 drivers folder will that matter?

 

If you mean the %SYSTEMDRIVE%/NVIDIA folder - it's just an unpack folder where all the driver install stuff is stored prior to installation. Once the installation is complete, the folder contents is no longer needed. It's never deleted automatically, so you can as well delete it yourself. Although I'd keep it around for a few days for an easy rollback, should the need arise.

 

Can you recreate the issue in a different browser? Try Chrome, Firefox, and IE.

 

It sounds like you've got either bad drivers or a bad install of them. Try doing a true clean install by uninstalling ALL Nvidia drivers, display or otherwise, then running driversweeper in safe mode. Install the new drivers again.

If you still run into issues, then clean them out and reinstall the drivers you had originally. It's always possible the new release just isn't going to work 100%.