lilrayray69
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I've had this issue ever since I got this 970 SC. Perioidically at seemingly random times my screen will go black for a moment and then come back and the little pop-up from the taskbar displays saying the Nvidia driver stopped responding and has recovered, or something along those lines. This happens sometimes just at the desktop or during gaming. It seems to do it when the card is at stock settings, OC'd, and even when underclocked. I did a fresh install of Win7 when I got this 970 so there would be no conflicting AMD graphics drivers. I did go into safe mode and remove/clean the nvidia driver then reinstalled with the newest one...same thing. However, it seems to run things just fine except for the crashing part.
I have looked around for others with similar problems, one thing I did notice is that most others reporting this also had Gigabyte motherboards, possibly a coincidence but I'm not sure.
Intel i5-4690k @ 4.3ghz | EVGA GTX 970 | G.Skill RipJaw 8GB DDR3 1600 | GIGABYTE GA-Z97X-SLI | Antec TruePower 750W | Samsung 120GB 840 SSD
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Re: 970 SC, 'Nvidia driver has stopped responding' crash
2015/05/29 17:05:03
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Reset your cpu to default settings and make sure your ram timings, frequency, voltage are correct.
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Re: 970 SC, 'Nvidia driver has stopped responding' crash
2015/05/30 05:02:32
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Also, many people are reporting that the new driver is borked and are installing an older driver that works for them..You can search that in the GeForce Forums..If the above mentioned suggestion (which is important) doesn't work, I would uninstall the driver and any optional driver components in Safe Mode using Display Driver Uninstaller (DDU) and then perform a Custom (Advanced) install selecting to only install PhysX (unless there's a need for the other optional driver components) along with the Graphics Driver and go from there..EVGA Precision may be linked to your problem too, try running without it if you have it installed..Just a few thoughts here.
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Re: 970 SC, 'Nvidia driver has stopped responding' crash
2015/05/30 05:11:07
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lilrayray69
I've had this issue ever since I got this 970 SC. Perioidically at seemingly random times my screen will go black for a moment and then come back and the little pop-up from the taskbar displays saying the Nvidia driver stopped responding and has recovered, or something along those lines. This happens sometimes just at the desktop or during gaming. It seems to do it when the card is at stock settings, OC'd, and even when underclocked. I did a fresh install of Win7 when I got this 970 so there would be no conflicting AMD graphics drivers. I did go into safe mode and remove/clean the nvidia driver then reinstalled with the newest one...same thing. However, it seems to run things just fine except for the crashing part.
I have looked around for others with similar problems, one thing I did notice is that most others reporting this also had Gigabyte motherboards, possibly a coincidence but I'm not sure.
Intel i5-4690k @ 4.3ghz | EVGA GTX 970 | G.Skill RipJaw 8GB DDR3 1600 | GIGABYTE GA-Z97X-SLI | Antec TruePower 750W | Samsung 120GB 840 SSD
Retry this with no CPU overclocking and see if the issue continues as Sajin has suggested
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lilrayray69
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Re: 970 SC, 'Nvidia driver has stopped responding' crash
2015/05/30 14:32:45
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Ok will reset CPU to default settings, RAM timing and speed is set correctly. Also updated some motherboard firmware and BIOS to see if that will help. Will report back.
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lilrayray69
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Re: 970 SC, 'Nvidia driver has stopped responding' crash
2015/05/31 07:24:03
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Well that does not seem to have made any difference with the issue.
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Re: 970 SC, 'Nvidia driver has stopped responding' crash
2015/05/31 07:36:19
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If you haven't tried driver 347.88, give that one a try to see if your issue goes away.
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Re: 970 SC, 'Nvidia driver has stopped responding' crash
2015/05/31 07:39:14
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I'd also suggest as bob16314 said and run DDU then install an older driver and see if that helps. There are more reports than normal of people having issues with 352.86. Try this and see if it helps at all. With it happening at desktop too, it may not be the video card or video card driver itself at all, but Windows. Microsoft has a fix for the Timeout Detection and Recovery error HERE that may help. Also make sure all your Windows updates have been done, this tends to help with TDR errors often.
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lilrayray69
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Re: 970 SC, 'Nvidia driver has stopped responding' crash
2015/06/04 12:42:54
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Installing that MS fix seemed to help, but it ended up crashing a couple of times again. That new nvidia driver came out so I installed that one - haven't tried reverting to 352.86 yet. So far I've had 1 display driver crash on the new drivers.
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lilrayray69
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Re: 970 SC, 'Nvidia driver has stopped responding' crash
2015/06/08 06:45:05
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I finally tried reverting back to 347.88 and so far no driver crashes! Ironically enough, I seem to be getting better performance in Witcher 3 than I did with the 'game-ready' drivers. Hopefully it doesn't have further problems, I was beginning to worry it could be an issue with the GPU itself.
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Re: 970 SC, 'Nvidia driver has stopped responding' crash
2015/06/08 11:28:19
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Install Precision X and make sure its turning your video card fan on. It won't turn on at all automatically for this card without the software in my tests.
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Re: 970 SC, 'Nvidia driver has stopped responding' crash
2015/06/08 11:34:41
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Foonus1Install Precision X and make sure its turning your video card fan on. It won't turn on at all automatically for this card without the software in my tests. I use Afterburner and GPU-Z which both monitor fan speed and it seems to be working fine. I have Afterburner set to keep it at 75C and it hasn't had a problem.
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