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EdBelgium

Posts: 43
Registered: 09/11/10

Qosmio X500: "Display driver stopped responding" - SOLUTION
Posted: 22-Nov-2011 10:21

It doesn't matter if you have an ATI or NVDIA, it works for all and fixes all. Yeah finally I got rid of the problem, and I found it here on the forums and some win7 forums on what was causing it.

First you can start by reading some more here :

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/hardware/gg487368.aspx

That's one of the causes, but now the EASY FIX. (without reinstalling windows !)

Following programs needed :

Display drivers : Download on your brand's support page the latest video drivers first.
CCcleaner : free version can be found here :

http://www.filehippo.com/download_ccleaner

1. open your control panel, programs, uninstall program, and UNINSTALL NVIDIA display drivers.
2. reboot your computer, upon start windows will install an older driver for you video card, just let it be.
3. Start CCcleaner and let it run. It will clean a lot of registry entries that are absolete.
4. Uninstall the video drivers again windows just installed (trough device manager or programs/uninstall)
5. reboot your computer in SAFE MODE (else windows will upon start reinstall some drivers by itself)
(safe mode by pressing F8 on start)
6. now in SAFE mode , install the drivers from your brand/model.
7 reboot normal

You're done!

I've successfully tested this for over a week now, ran a lot of applications and games together to stress it to the max , and the problem has not occured.

Meanwhile I would still URGE TOSHIBA to release a newly updated proofed display driver. It has been long enough, won't you think ?

Regards

Lasko

Posts: 102
Registered: 02/11/11

Re: Qosmio X500: "Display driver stopped responding" - SOLUTION
Posted: 22-Nov-2011 10:28

in response to: EdBelgium

Very interesting… thanks for posting!

Akuma

Posts: 4,190
Registered: 12/08/08

Re: Qosmio X500: "Display driver stopped responding" - SOLUTION
Posted: 27-Nov-2011 23:22

in response to: EdBelgium

Did you reinstall the same graphics driver version or was it different?

EdBelgium

Posts: 43
Registered: 09/11/10

Re: Qosmio X500: "Display driver stopped responding" - SOLUTION
Posted: 28-Nov-2011 14:00

in response to: Akuma

I installed the latest drivers from the Toshiba support site (for my model) which are over 1 year old.

This solution works for all brands and video cards, I only noticed that some older (bad coded) programs might still recreate nvdia or ati shared dll entries in the registry.

So it's safe to say that CCcleaner should be launched once in a while to check registry entries. For nvidia they look like \shared dll\nv..... . Just clean em again.

Regards.

EdBelgium

Posts: 43
Registered: 09/11/10

Re: Qosmio X500: "Display driver stopped responding" - SOLUTION
Posted: 28-Nov-2011 17:54

in response to: EdBelgium

I installed latest drivers from the support site, altough they are over a year old.

It has also come to my attention that some badly programmed applications reinstall registry entries for the shared dll files from the nvidia/ati video drivers. So you might want to run CCcleaner on your registry once in a while to see if they aren't back in there, else it will regenerate an error.

Regards

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