black screen, nvidia driver recovers

[h90]

I get from time to time a short black screen, than everything comes back and I get a message that the nvidia driver recovered blabla.

Could be the:

graphic card

the mainboard

the driver

the win7

the application

Yesterday I even had a complete system freeze.

I think it has something to do with the new firefox and it crashes sometimes as well. I'll try to not use firefox and look if the problem continues.

Or anyone has a better idea?

[Chicog]

Have you tried checking for the latest driver?

[h90]

Have you tried checking for the latest driver?

actually this happened after the installation of the latest driver, but at the same time FF updated.

[Tywais]

I've had that symptom before but haven't seen it for a while now with the latest drivers.

//Edit - it was the latest drivers at the time I had the issue that corrected. Have not installed the latest, latest drivers though.

[MJCM]

Check if this helps

in Firefox

- Tools, Options, Advanced Tab, General, under Browsing, Deselect "Use Hardware acceleration..."

[h90]

Check if this helps

in Firefox

- Tools, Options, Advanced Tab, General, under Browsing, Deselect "Use Hardware acceleration..."

Thanks!

did that...lets see if it changes something.

[sirchai]

Please download the right driver for your card, take the VGA card out, clean the contacts with a rubber ( eraser), put it back in, install the new driver and see what's going on.

Sometimes it's just little animals such as ants who're in the system. That's not a typical Firefox failure.Good luck!-

[h90]

Check if this helps

in Firefox

- Tools, Options, Advanced Tab, General, under Browsing, Deselect "Use Hardware acceleration..."

Thanks!

did that...lets see if it changes something.

Till I changed that no problems anymore.....time is still a bit short but it looks like it did the trick...

[Briandajew]

Depends upon your system - I have the Nvidia GTX 460 1GB O/C from Gigabyte, any new drivers past about 310.xx cause this problem, See if you can roll back your drivers (I have this problem in Win 8.1 and Win 8 - x64) You will probably need to reboot into safe mode, uninstall everything from Nvidia, then restart, then reboot again into safe mode and try and reinstall an earlier driver - 314 was not too bad, but 310 is stable! (I am using 335 at the minute and it is not too bad as long as you do not use IE V11 - this just crashes the video drivers, if you use FF or Chrome you should be OK)

Reinstalling was a problem for me ( reverting to an earlier version - I kept getting error messages from the Nvidia drivers saying that they could not install - you need to use safe mode and then do a CLEAN INSTALL!)

The clean install option is only available if you select CUSTOM when you try to install the drivers!

The other thing I found was that if you are using an Intel Chipset - you can go and download the latest chipset drivers from Intel, run the Install package and everything says it has been installed...not true!

Go to device manager, click on System devices, click on Chipset, and my pc was still showing Microsoft Generic Chipset drivers from 2006!!!!!

If you get this, download the latest chipset drivers from intel - series 9...unzip (do not try and install) to a directory you can find easy - then go to device manager and select each chipset entry and then click on update driver - point it to the directory where you installed the Intel INF file....and as if by magic your chipset will be updated correctly! (The Intel install program falsley reports a correct install.....it does not work on my Z77 chipset)