Oh joy, another one...
I’ve been dealing with this error for about 6 months now. Ever since I moved to Vista 64 I’ve had numerous driver issues from my scanner and printer not working to this display driver. It seems to pop up at least 5-20 times a day depending on use of the computer. In most cases nothing really happens other than the screen going blank and then recovering, but in rare cases the program I’m working in doesn’t recover.
Photoshop CS4 seems to be one of the few programs that this has an adverse effect on. I’ve had to move back to CS3 until I resolve this issue.
I’ve replaced the Enermax 620W Liberty Power Supply with a Zalman 720W. I hoped this would solve the problem as many of the posts on nVidia’s forums mentioned that power was an issue. Yet… nothing changed. As soon as the new PSU was in I received my favorite “Display driver stopped responding and has recovered” error again. I next tried pulling out all RAM sticks except for one and then tried switching between the sticks of RAM to see if one was more stable than another. Still no change. I even tried running Windows 7 beta just to see if it was possibly a Vista issue that had been fixed or addressed in the new OS. Nothing. Rats.
Today I called up EVGA (as Nvidia’s support system send you to your cards manufacturer) and requested an RMA (as per microsoft’s suggestion). I guess we’ll see if this has any effect on my driver issues…
Until I get the card back, it looks like I’m back to my old 8800 GT. I’ll post an update in a few weeks on whether anything has changed.