Display Driver Stopped Responding and Has Recovered.

I get that alot since and it's been a couple of weeks now. Everytime I play a game and the graphics card reaches 70-80 degrees a black screen appears and stays for around 3 seconds and then everything is back to normal. I downloaded riva tuner to make my fan spin faster on my Geforce 9800 Gt. I pretty much need to have the fans running at around 80% to keep my graphics card under 70 degrees. This wouldn't be a problem if it made no noise, but after a few weeks of just hearing that fan, I can't stand it anymore. I opened my case on the side to let in more air and nothing really changes. I used a can of compressed air to remove all the dust and nothing has changed. Is there anything I can do instead of buying a new card? I can provide pictures of the inside of my computer if needed. Help would be greatly appreciated

Originally Posted by Momonator

Display Driver Stopped Responding and Has Recovered.

I get that alot since and it's been a couple of weeks now. Everytime I play a game and the graphics card reaches 70-80 degrees a black screen appears and stays for around 3 seconds and then everything is back to normal. I downloaded riva tuner to make my fan spin faster on my Geforce 9800 Gt. I pretty much need to have the fans running at around 80% to keep my graphics card under 70 degrees. This wouldn't be a problem if it made no noise, but after a few weeks of just hearing that fan, I can't stand it anymore. I opened my case on the side to let in more air and nothing really changes. I used a can of compressed air to remove all the dust and nothing has changed. Is there anything I can do instead of buying a new card? I can provide pictures of the inside of my computer if needed. Help would be greatly appreciated

your fan speed isnt even set to rise from 40% till your card reaches over 80 degrees on the NVidia default fan profile , those temps are hot but nowhere near the maximum , the core wont even throttle back till it reaches 120 degrees C.

In short your core temps are perfectly fine and not the cause of your issue , your onboard memory however could be overheating but i doubt it , have you tried a clean driver install or differant drivers?

try the software route before you start with hardware

and b clean driver innstall i mean uninstall drivers then use an app like driver sweeper in safe mode before rebooting and installing new drivers

Well one thing I noticed is that my fans don't go higher by themselves anymore when the temperature rises. (this info can help with the problem) I did install newer version of driver for video card only and recently had an update on it but I still get the black screens ( Got one yesterday when my computer reached 72 degrees while playing WoW) How would I update my motherboard driver? and btw in RiveTuner my clock is set to 600 on core clock 1500 shader and 900 memory. Is it possible that my fan in front of the computer isn't working anymore? I put my hand there and it doesn't seem to be strong.. Maybe lots of dust is in it but I don't know how to remove it to clean it..

I don't know if this could help...


Description
A problem with your video hardware caused Windows to stop working correctly.
Problem signature
Problem Event Name: LiveKernelEvent
OS Version: 6.0.6002.2.2.0.768.3
Locale ID: 1033
Files that help describe the problem
WD-20100729-0427.dmp
sysdata.xml
Version.txt
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Warning: If a virus or other security threat caused the problem, opening a copy of the files could harm your computer.
Extra information about the problem
BCCode: 117
BCP1: 8649D510
BCP2: 8E8ECA50
BCP3: 00000000
BCP4: 00000000
OS Version: 6_0_6002
Service Pack: 2_0
Product: 768_1

How do I check what motherboard that I have?

And no I didn't do a ram check but I will to make sure that's not the problem.