GTX 460 freezes intermittently

eloric

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Receiving error message "Display driver NVIDIA Windows kernel Mode Driver, Version 266.58 stopped responding and successfully recovered."

My speculation is that the drivers started crashing when I upgraded to Fire Fox 4.0 recently (I can’t pinpoint if this is the root cause); when I surf, the browser will occasionally freeze (about once a day), the display will go black for 3-5 seconds and come back to normal with a message of the event popping up in the system tray.

Can anybody help explain?
 

benski

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Try running driver sweeper and reinstalling your drivers, I doubt it's an issue with Fire Fox. It's not neccesarily the drivers though, could be a faulty power supply or the card overheating, although that seems unlikely with just internet browsing.