Windows 10: Display Driver Keeps Crashing my Computer!

My display driver kept Crashing my Computer, so I updated it with the latest driver for Windows 10.

Now I keep getting a message to say that 'Scene Selection Has Changed' which annoyingly keeps on popping up on the Screen at regular intervals. (How can I stop this before it drives me Crazy!) too late it already has!

Then I get another 'Pop Up' which says 'Display Driver Stopped Responding but has now recovered' and is something else that I don't need to know (or maybe I do?)

If that message pops up a couple of times, it Crashes the Computer which then re-boots itself (sometimes!) or else gives me a 'Black Screen'

My Nvidea Graphics Card is virtually brand new and always worked faultlessly with XP and Windows 7.

Could it be the Updates we keep getting or something else?

I'm really loving Windows 10 and determined to hang in there, while they are fixing the bugs.

:)

 

Display Driver crashes computer

My display driver, a 765M GeForce, keeps on crashing and recovering, which also causes my computer to crash. I have a Windows 10 Asus G750JW, I started noticing this problem about 2-3 months ago. I also noticed that the crashing doesnt happen if the chrager
is unplugged. If it's plugged in, though, it will maje the computer crash if i run a display heavy application like a game.

 

My Display Driver keeps Crashing-Windows 10

My PC keeps giving me a black screen for about 1-2 seconds and gives me the message, "DIsplay driver stopped responding and has successfully recovered." I'm a gamer and when this happens my game quits itself and its really annoying. I hope someone has a
solution for this problem, thanks.

 

Not only are we mostly amateurs here, we also aren't telepaths or clairvoyants.

Filling in your System Specs might be helpful in getting responses.

 

If only I knew I would tell you.

 

Downgrade the NVIDIA driver to 347.88 do a custom install and click clean install, then use Brinks tutorial to block the new driver on windows update and don't install GeForce experience and your done no more driver crashes.

Tim

 

Might work. Not guaranteed.

I had a lot of driver issues on some of the preview builds. (10130 was really bad for me.) Some of them seemed to carry over through OS upgrades. I imagine that bad things could happen with a Win 10 upgrade over a corrupt older OS (7 or 8), even if the corruption wasn't visible under the old OS.

I was sufficiently compulsive that my main desktop PC is running a clean install of Windows 10 (build 10240). No problems there, with the latest nVidia drivers (355.60). A clean install is a lot more work, but it's, er, clean.

 

Hi Bob

Being a 'Newbie' to Windows 10

I let Nvidia Automatically Install the latest Driver which was 353.62

Which is giving me all sorts of Problems: Display Driver Stopped Responding And Has Been Recovered.

Screen Freeze/Mouse Freeze, You name it!

If this happens a couple of times, it Crashes the PC and then Re-boots (if I'm feeling lucky) or else I get a 'Black Screen' and have to Re-boot it myself.

What I haven't done as yet, is a 'Clean Install' Which I am no stranger to doing on Computers, as it is often the very best way of fixing a Corrupt File.

As I've often found when you do a 'Fix' sooner or later it always comes back to haunt you.

The reason that I decided Not to do a 'Clean Install' (At this Stage) was that I wanted to play the hell out of Windows 10 until I had managed to get my head around what all those 'Bells and Whistles' do and even now I don't know all of them.

So this has been a very Steep Learning Curve at least for me!

The idea was to make all my mistakes on what I'm using now and then once having done so, start afresh with a 'Clean Install'

Which with the Benefit of Hindsight, was not a good idea as everything keeps going a little bit 'Glitchy' maybe not entirely helped by the constant stream of Updates they keep sending.

But I really do love Windows 10 it is in a different league, to anything I've ever used before, so I am prepared to ride out the Storm until it settles down and works like a dream.

Having learned the hard way, I keep almost nothing on my Hard Drive, as all my files are always backed up on my External one.

So having got over the 'Shock of the New' Tomorrow I'll do a Clean Install and hopefully all my problems will be over!

Wishful Thinking on my part but I'm forever the optimist.

If I had done a 'Clean Install' right from the beginning, it all may have worked a lot better so I guess we live and learn.

 

Hi Tim

That sounds a really good idea, the driver I'm running at the moment is 353.62 and it is Playing havoc with this Computer!

Mouse Freeze/Screen Freeze and everything else in between, so may have nothing to do with Windows 10 as I was first thinking.

Please could you give me some pointers on how to change the driver, as this is not something I've done for a long time.

Do I just go to Nvida's Site, find the Driver I want and just download it, or is there more to it than that?

Many Thanks for your help, as I'm thinking the Driver I am using may be the cause of the 'Glitches' that I've been getting.

 

If you know you are running the 353.62 drivers, then you can know what your display adapter (graphics card) is. (or you can find out in 10 seconds by looking in Device manager.)

WHAT IS IT?

(That's shouting, if you didn't know.)

 

Hi

I can hear You!

This is it.

Intel (R) Core (TM) 2 Quad CPU

Q6600@2.40 GHz

4GB RAM

32 Bit Operating System X 64 Based Processor (can you see what I did there!)

Nvidea Ge Force GT 610

Driver Version 10.18.13.5560

Have I made an Epic Frap Up or What!

It looks as though I have installed the 32 Bit Version of Windows 7 when I should have Installed the 64 Bit Version of Windows 7

And yet before I put it on there, I'm sure it said my Computer was only a 32 Bit or I wouldn't have done that.

So if you can still type while you are laughing!

What Can I do now! (No small wonder I'm getting so many problems!)

HELP!

IF my Computer has a 64 Bit Processor? (Is there a way of double checking this?)

I went: Control Panel>Device Manager>Right Clicked on the HD Symbol (To get this Information)

I have got a 64 Bit disk with Windows 7 on it (which was an upgrade disk from XP) Not an OEM

But When I do a Re-Install, I take it I will have to go all the way back to square One!

(1) Re-Install XP

(2) Re-Install Windows 7 but this time the 64 Bit Version!

(3) Re-Install Windows 10 (Will I hit the Buffers at this point?)

(4) What will Microsoft Say about that! They might not Activate it?

(5) Wait for Microsoft to Activate it

(6) Then do a Clean Install

I've tried getting Telephone Help from Microsoft in the Past and found it a bit of a Nightmare!

Plan B:

I also have another Windows 7 Upgrade Disk/s of both 32bit and 64bit Still in the Box and never been used or Activated, which I could use instead, although I'd rather not if I don't have to.

How could I make such a Frap Up!

I absolutely know that I checked my system some way along the line and that is why I put on the 32 Bit Version.

Though could be Pilot Error I suppose.

 

The strongest reason to run 64 bit Windows is to access more than 4GB of RAM. The 32 bit Windows won't access all of 4GB, but it should give you most of it.

I haven't done it personally, but I have read that if you have a 32 bit version of Win 10 installed and activated, you may then clean install the 64 bit version and it will activate online.

That's plausible, because in the past (since Vista) the license key for Windows was valid for both 32 and 64 bit versions. I wish that I could tell you whether it's true.

You don't really need the 64 bit version, but a clean install may fix your driver problems.

 

Other users had similar issues with the 610 (which I don't but it seems widespread) and solved them by installing older Win 8drivers, try various versions if the one proposed by Bobkn stills fails

 

Hi Bob

I think I know what I did wrong!

I installed XP Pro which was the 32 Bit Version as that was the only Version that I had.

Then when I tried to Install the 64 Bit Version of Windows 7 on top of that in order to upgrade to Win 10 it wouldn't let me, as it said that the 64 Bit Windows 7 could not be Installed with the 32 Bit Version of Windows XP.

Or Words to that effect.

Except that more by luck than Judgement I managed to do it!

I tried to do a Clean install of Windows 7 64 Bit and it Worked! and it also Activated as Well!

How the hell did that happen?

Well the only thing I can think of, is that both my Copies of Windows 7 that both have disks for 32 Bit and 64 Bit, are the All Singing All Dancing OEM Type after all.

What really must have thrown me, was the Small Print on the Box, which when read under a Magnifying Glass, said that they were Windows Upgrade anytime.

I've had these in a drawer for years and to be absolutely honest, I really cannot remember what I ordered after all this time.

So Where have I got to, right at this moment in Time?

I've got a Brand New 1.5 TB Hard Drive which I have been keeping as a Spare, just in case I need it for my Web Sites and Now I've got it loaded with my other Copy of Windows 7 but this time its 64 Bit.

This Copy of Windows 7 is Brand New Straight out of the Box, with a different Product Key and everything and its been Activated on the Button by MS.

So it doesn't interfere at all, with my other hard drive that has the Windows 7 32 Bit Version.

And I am going to Format that and also put a 64 Bit Windows 7 then 64 Bit Windows 10 on it, as another back up drive.

So I'll have one for General Surfing and getting to grips with all the Features in 10.

While the other one will only be used for maintaining my Web Sites.

The reason I was reluctant to use my Second Copy of Windows 7 was that I wanted to keep it, on the off chance that one day I would be getting a PC with a 64 Bit Processor.

Which thanks to a kick up the backside from you, I can see I have already got! LOL

Just in case you're wondering, how I am running both drives, I've got them both in Caddies, so I can swap them around and also one with XP on in case of an emergency.

So what I am planning to do right now, as soon as I have got back from the Shops (so you've still got time to Stop me from doing another Fail!) Is to get the Media Creation Tool and burn a Compatible Copy of Windows 10 only this time it is going to be the 64 Bit Version.

Is the Media Creation Tool better than going direct to Microsoft?

Maybe you would provide me, with the appropriate link.

Also I won't be doing a Clean Install of 10 until it has been Activated by MS (or no doubt that is going fail as well!)

And I will also be turning off the Nvidia Driver Updater, which I know where to find, Thanks to Yourself.

As I'm pretty sure that the Update of this, was causing all the Problems.

Mouse Freeze/Computer Crashing etc.

How hard can it be, what else could go possibly wrong!

Above All

Thanks For Your Help

Which really is Appreciated.

 

Hi Derek

Thanks to Bob I think I might have cracked it but thanks for replying.