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So for a very long time now my computer randomly crashes when playing games, and sometimes when I’m watching 720p movies.

I get the “The display driver has stopped working and has recovered” message the few times it actually recoveres, when not I have to manually restart the computer…

I get it when playing TF2 and in several BF games.

Here’s what my montor sometimes lookes when getting the error:

http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/35/img0192x.jpg/

Here’s what happends when it recoveres:

http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/546/img0228yq.jpg/

Specs (if needed):

CPU: Interl(R) Core(TM) i7
Motherboard: ASUS P7P55D LE
RAM: 6144MB RAM
Monitor: BenQ G2420HD
Graphiccard: ATI Radeon HD 5800 Series

Would appreciate any help I can get!

I used to have the same problem, bought a new graphics card = problem solved.

This often happens when your graphics card overheats.

Quoted from Mark

This often happens when your graphics card overheats.

I pretty much have my fans on 100 %, and the the temperature is maximum upto 70C.

Quoted from AnimaL

[…]you can also have memory or condensator faults, not allways related to gpu temp

It it hardware faults only?
Or do you think formatting can be an option?

I was getting this today for the first time :(

this happened to me before along with some pixels/artifacts, had to downclock the gpu about 100mhz and haven’t had the problem since

You can make it run slower even though you never OC’d.