Display driver has stopped working and has succesfully recovered. HELP

[Steve McGrossi]

Hello, first of all I am not an English person so excuse my grammar 😛

So I have a Build:

CPU Intel Core 2 Duo E6850
GPU ASUS GeForce GT640 v3 Low Profile edition
MoBo Gigabyte GA G31M-es2l rev 2.0
RAM 2gb (2x1) One is Kingston and other is Corsair running at 667mhz (pc5300)
OS Windows 8.1 Pro 64-bit

And sometimes the screens gets black for 5 seconds, after it recovers I get a notification message saying: Display driver has stopped working and has recovered (it says something about Kernel mode I don't remember exactly)

Mostly happens when I am using firefox (which is no problem, but annoying). But also when I am in-game, the screen turns black followed by a complete crash of the game. I don't know anything more.

I tried several methods:

Like re installing the DirectX 11
Adding the Registry Key that Microsoft has provided on it's page.
Switching to older drivers, updating them again and such. But absolutely nothing has helped me solve it.

On Windows 8.1 Pro 32-bit it NEVER happened but I had to switch it because I changed my motherboard. I installed Windows 7 Ultimate 32-bit right after that and it happened like every 5 minutes, regardless of when I was on firefox, game or not. I installed Windows 7 64-bit to see if it would solve it. But still nothing, and then I installed Windows 8.1 Pro 64-bit but it happens less frequently now. Yeah switching so many OSs bust have been a pain 😉

Sorry for the long thread but I'd like to provide as much information as I could 😉

 

[warhead0]

This is a common problem if you are overclocking the GPU too far. If you are not overclocking you should take a look at your temps and GPU usage.

 

[RCFProd]

I have the same issue mate. I'm sure It's incredibly difficult to fix and you'll probably have to be lucky aswell. I haven't got rid of my issue anyways.

It mostly happens when using Chrome and it can also happen in-game but that's rarely the case.

This is a common problem if you are overclocking the GPU too far. If you are not overclocking you should take a look at your temps and GPU usage.

There is nothing wrong with my temps or GPU usage. It usually happens when my GPU is idling at around 28 degrees. Rarely It's because of an overheating GPU.

 

[warhead0]

Bit of a long shot... you could try an old version of graphics drivers.

 

[Steve McGrossi]

My GPU runs at stock clocks, nothing is is overclocked or underclocked

 

[Steve McGrossi]

As I said, I tried that as well @warbead0

 

[RCFProd]

It is a very complicated issue that can relate to several things such as a motherboard that doesn't want to work well with certain graphics cards or system memory that is timing out.

As I said I haven't figured out how to fix it yet.

 

[Steve McGrossi]

And I tried UNDERCLOCKING the graphics card but I can only customize the Memory Clock and Core Clock, many people suggested playing with the GPU voltage a little and that could help the problem, but ASUS GPU Tweak won't let me do nothing with the GPU Voltage