Nvidia driver stopped responding and has recovered GeForce GT 220

[Guest]

Hello,
I have Getaway dx4831 Intel i5 with 8GB Ram, 1 TB HD, and 1GB nvidia geforce gt 220 video card.
for a few days, about a few times a day I'm getting error message: "nvidia driver stopped responding and has recovered GeForce GT 220". I have windows 7.
But today, my screen went black and my 23" viewsonic monitor says: "No signal" and light went from blue to orange. So, I had to hard boot my PC.
Did anyone experience similar problem before? and how you guys fixed it?
Thank you

Alek

 

[mister g]

Did you have the latest drivers? If yes try rolling back to previous ones.

 

[alekyoo]

i dont know, i do regularly updates for windows.
maybe i need to buy a new video card? if so, what website do i use to figure out which one will work for my PC? something like auto detection, i want to get the best video card. thanks

 

[alekyoo]

and, i dont want to buy any software to check for my drivers

 

[Mousemonkey]

What driver version are you using?

 

[ern88]

I get this with my 5850 once and a blue moon as well. i think it's a Windows thing myself

 

[alekyoo]

i have: driver version 8.17.12.5896
driver date: 07/06/2010
driver provider: NVIDIA
NVIDIA GeForce GT 220

 

[Mousemonkey]

Try the latest one then, it's the 260.99 one and is on the Nvidia site.

 

[alekyoo]

done, download, will see.
it usually happens after 1 hour of watching movie... before i was able to watch for like 5 hours straight, but now, only for 1 hour, then my monitor turns off, and i have to hard boot PC and wait for about 1 minute before turning PC on, otherwise, it would turn off monitor again when windows loading, at windows logo

 

[mister g]

Could it be a heat ussue then? Use a can of compressed sir and clear out dust in the GPU fan.

 

[alekyoo]

nah, i don't think so.
by the way, my monitor just went off again yesterday, after 20 minutes of watching movie i guess latest driver didn't help.
so.... whats the website where it automatically detects which video card/memory/hd/etc our PC has? i forgot it

thanks

 

[mister g]

Not sure about website but look up SIW(system information) by George Tepola

 

[alekyoo]

just bought for $81 tax included same video card i have
i had DDR2 and new one DDR3 which is almost the same, run movie for 1.5 hours and no problems. i guess it was video card problem...

 

[alekyoo]

run movies overnight for about 10 hours straight, still no problems...

 

[mister g]

DDR3 and DDR2 shouldn't be much of a differentiating factor, but good for you, what GPU did you get?

 

[alekyoo]

i dont know what GPU, but this is the card: http://www.legitreviews.com/article/1121/1/

so far no problems

 

[alekyoo]

actually with DDR3 I have 5.9 rating for Windows Experience Index and with DDR2 I had 5.7

for Graphics before I had 5.7 now 6.4
for Gaming Graphics before I had 6.3 now 6.4

but not sure why, I still can't play GTA 4 even though their requirements 512MB for graphic card, and I have 1GB...

 

[Mousemonkey]

actually with DDR3 I have 5.9 rating for Windows Experience Index and with DDR2 I had 5.7

for Graphics before I had 5.7 now 6.4
for Gaming Graphics before I had 6.3 now 6.4

but not sure why, I still can't play GTA 4 even though their requirements 512MB for graphic card, and I have 1GB...

The GT220 is a low end card and would never make use of a gig of RAM, it's just a marketing trick that is as old as the hills but still works.

 

[mister g]

Define can't play. Based on the system requirements the card whould be able to play the game as all the game requires is a old 7900 or 8600. Based on those specs I'm pretty sure even my 9400 can run the game on lower detail, your 220 is at least 4 times more powerful than my card.

 

[Mousemonkey]

Define can't play. Based on the system requirements the card whould be able to play the game as all the game requires is a old 7900 or 8600. Based on those specs I'm pretty sure even my 9400 can run the game on lower detail, your 220 is at least 4 times more powerful than my card.

No it isn't, a GT220 is about the same as a 9500GT.

 

[mister g]

Which is still better than a 8600GT right?

 

[Mousemonkey]

Which is still better than a 8600GT right?

It's about the same actually, check the hierarchy chart if you don't believe me.

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/graphics-card-geforce-radeon,2646-7.html

 

[mister g]

GTA 4's recommended specs include the 8600GT, I don't see a reason why the OP shouldn't be able to run the game seeing as he also has an i5 and 8GBs of RAM.

 

[Mousemonkey]

GTA 4's recommended specs include the 8600GT, I don't see a reason why the OP shouldn't be able to run the game seeing as he also has an i5 and 8GBs of RAM.

I never said the game wouldn't run, just that a GT220 won't use a gig of RAM and that it's not four times the power of an 8600GT or 7900GT.

 

[mister g]

My bad on that statement and I agree that that card will never utilize that 1GB effectively, yet manufacterers still do it, especially on the low profile 5570s' I see on Newegg and Tigerdirect. Still I find it confusing how GTA IV would recommend a new middle end GPU over a high end from the last generation.