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Display Driver Stopped Responding from bad AC power?

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I've been having an issue starting only a week ago, I get the "Display Driver Stopped Responding and recovered..." error on my gaming rig, even when it's just idle for a few minutes and I go to move my mouse. REALLY ANNOYING. Many posts around the next seem to indicate that it's a power issue. So using nVidiaInspector, i cranked up the voltage incrementally on my 560 ti hawk, only to have the error persist. All the way up to 1.150v - still happens.

So I work from home occasionally too, and I brought my work notebook down to my gaming room this week to work. Plugged in the power supply, and after a few minutes, the "Display Driver Stopped Responding and recovered..." error started on my notebook! REALLY?!?!? Now I use this notebook at the office ALL DAY and this error never happens, so I can only deduce one thing – there is some variable in my gaming room that is causing this. And of all things, since the error is power-related, I can only imagine that my AC lines are bad in that part of the house? How can I fix that, maybe some sort of pwer conditioner? What do you guys think?

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Line noise or a bad Surge protector/powerstrip can cause ripples in the power. This makes the voltage surge and dip. That can cause the computer to do weird things and crash. I would not expect it to happen with a laptop though, the laptop should be insulated from the outside world by the battery.

I had a guy in an apartment that had a high end gaming pc crash every few minutes. It was not crashing at the shop so I did not know what to tell him. We changed the PSU and that did not help. We gave him a loaner and that one crashed like nuts. In the end he gut a uninterrupted power supply(battery back up). Fixed.
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bucknutty said:
The only constant here is your house. If its not the power, battery in a laptop should rule this out, is it the network. A bad router can do weird things and make windows unstable, but I would not expect it to cause the gpu driver to crash.


The gaming rig was cabled and the notebook wireless - still think it's a possibility?

Jim_L9 said:
I don't think it is a power issue because on the laptop you are running on the battery, which is being charged by the AC power. What if you try the laptop and/or desktop in another room?


bucknutty said:
The only constant here is your house. If its not the power, battery in a laptop should rule this out, is it the network. A bad router can do weird things and make windows unstable, but I would not expect it to cause the gpu driver to crash.


I will try that.

bucknutty said:
Line noise or a bad Surge protector/powerstrip can cause ripples in the power. This makes the voltage surge and dip. That can cause the computer to do weird things and crash. I would not expect it to happen with a laptop though, the laptop should be insulated from the outside world by the battery.

I had a guy in an apartment that had a high end gaming pc crash every few minutes. It was not crashing at the shop so I did not know what to tell him. We changed the PSU and that did not help. We gave him a loaner and that one crashed like nuts. In the end he gut a uninterrupted power supply(battery back up). Fixed.


I may be able to get one from work, or should just buy one anyway...
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