display driver stops working...dropping me back to Windows

HI all...

Saw a similar, but no answers...

Home built machine: Intel Quad, Vista 64, 8800 GT, 4 gig ram...

Been playing all FPS, racing, etc. for months w/o problems...

Not sure if I unloaded some Nvidia drivers while updating to latest driver, but I get "display driver stop working" within a few minutes of game play.
Loaded the turd game MoH Airborne, and it all started. When I removed drivers to update, I think I unloaded ALL of the related drivers, not just display driver...

Now Crysis, Dirt, and anything intensive to display will drop out within a few minutes. I saved all of the crash information....the top line is usually this "AppHangB1", along with a short list of other codes....

Everything has worked great all year, you think I just removed something that I shouldnt? I tried to go back to original (EVGA) drivers, but upon restart, machine wants to load up the latest or most recent display drivers...

I reloaded the DX9c and the Nvidia Physics back up...pretty frustrating, and its just a touch past my level of knowledge...probably something simple.

(also cleaned out machine in case dust build up was causing a heat issue)

Thanks a ton for any assistance...

Tom Whitemore

Hello,
Thanks...

I did try to remove them from Control panel, however, upon reboot, Wondows asks if I want to continue loading the drivers. Its forcing me to...so I of course cancel that, and load the newest drivers...but with the newest drivers, the "display driver stopped responding and recovered" error pops up...

I thought I could reload the original drivers from the EVGA disk, but when I click on that, it just returns to desktop and laughs at me...(biyatch!)

The Nvidia site mentioned that I should NOT remove ALL drivers, but just the display drivers, last week I think I did remove ALL in the Nvidia box...display, physics, and I dont recall the other two...

Could that be the problem? that its looking for the stuff I removed? Even though I have replaced the display drivers? gads!

Thanks again guys...

Tom W.

i just checked my nvidia drivers and all i see loaded are the video and the network/nic drivers,i think what you need to get a hold of is a third party uninstaller,,so go to:: //majorgeeks.com/google_search.html?domains=MajorGeeks.com&q=your+uninstaller&sitesearch=MajorGeeks.com&sa=Google+Search&client=pub-6960825562757852&forid=1&channel=6517887233&ie=ISO-8859-1&oe=ISO-8859-1&cof=GALT%3A%23003300%3BGL%3A1%3BDIV%3A%23665522%3BVLC%3A78B749%3BAH%3Acenter%3BBGC%3Acccc99%3BLBGC%3A336699%3BALC%3A11593C%3BLC%3A11593C%3BT%3A000000%3BGFNT%3A940F04%3BGIMP%3A940F04%3BLH%3A0%3BLW%3A0%3BL%3Ahttp%3A%2F%2Fmajorgeeks.com%2FEric%2F404.gif%3BS%3Ahttp%3A%2F%2Fmajorgeeks.com%3BLP%3A1%3BFORID%3A11&hl=en
download this and install it let it do it's thing through the auto fix button at the bottom,,AND stay the hell.away from the add remove that comes with ms windoze,because like everything else they make it is half assed,as you heve seen it leaves junk behind,which can and will corrupt your system,just like their chkdsk..

ALso...I made sure Div-x, DX9, and my Nividia drivers were all current...no difference other than Cysis froze every 20 seconds....

aaarrrggg

When is the last time you cleaned the graphics card?

I get this message anytime I forget to turn up the fan on my 8800gts 512mb before starting a game. My guess is your graphics card is overheating.

edit:

just read that you cleaned out the computer, but still what are the temps while you game / at desktop