T510 Error Msg: Display Driver Stopped Responding

[archer6]

Here is the intermittent problem I'm experiencing. It's happened three times in a month. I'm running 64 bit Windows 7 Pro.

Using my T510 working in Firefox (only) for about an hour, when the display went black for a moment, then came back up and a message briefly appeared from the lower right side of the taskbar / notification area saying: "Display driver stopped responding and has successfully recovered"

It has the NVIDIA NVS 3100M

Driver Version: 8.16.11.8825
Release Date: 1/12/2010 (this is the latest driver) All other updates are current including the BIOS.

Ideas?

Thanks!

[Colonel O'Neill]

My 3470 does that occasionally. I assume it's a driver fault in both cases, but for me it never actually poses an issue except for crashing whatever 3D game/app I was using that necessitated using the discrete card.

[archer6]

Yes... I've got it narrowed down to a driver issue, but was looking for a fresh idea, as I've tried every driver to the best of my knowledge.

[Navck]

This may sound bitter and sarcastic, but:
Put up with it. I mean it

If anything, think of yourself as being very, very lucky compared to the once-a-day-BSOD with earlier drivers. (Read: My desktop's 8800GTX.) Being able to actually recover from a driver level chokeup without having to reboot is great.

NVIDIA is know for terrible drivers.

[JonathanBe]

Same hardware and software. Nope, doesn't happen to me, knock on wood. Though I'm never running just Firefox, there's always something else on the taskbar.

[infinus]

I rarely update video drivers on my T61p because it can take me up to a week to find an Nvidia driver that won't do that.

I use www.laptopvideo2go.com

[infinus]

http://forums.nvidia.com/index.php?showtopic=100800

An interesting read on the topic of driver stability in Windows 7.

[visionviper]

Here is the intermittent problem I'm experiencing. It's happened three times in a month. I'm running 64 bit Windows 7 Pro.

Using my T510 working in Firefox (only) for about an hour, when the display went black for a moment, then came back up and a message briefly appeared from the lower right side of the taskbar / notification area saying: "Display driver stopped responding and has successfully recovered"

It has the NVIDIA NVS 3100M

Driver Version: 8.16.11.8825
Release Date: 1/12/2010 (this is the latest driver) All other updates are current including the BIOS.

Ideas?

Thanks!

I think there is a newer driver than what you have. I think your driver version is supposed to be 8.17.xxxxx if it was the latest one.

[archer6]

Thanks to everyone who posted. Here's the update:

I had tried every driver available via Lenovo & NVIDIA'S sites, to no avail. So in lieu of other options, and due to the fact it was becoming a frequent problem, (daily) I decided to do a clean install of Win 7 64.

Now several days later I'm happy to report that the problem seems to be resolved, at least so far. If something changes I will keep you posted.

Cheers...

[visionviper]

My next suggestion was going to be use a program like Drivercleaner to completely remove the video card drivers and then do a fresh install of the drivers.

I guess a wipe/reinstall of Windows 7 works just as well... haha

[archer6]

A quick update. After the reinstall, I now have over 80 hours of run time without a single problem. It seems that a fresh install was all it needed.

Cheers...