"Display driver has stopped working but was succesfully recovered" error.

The card is factory overclocked, but other than that I haven't done any OC'ing. I had some catylist drivers on the system before the 285 (4890), but I removed those from the registry and everything. (I followed a tutorial online). I'll try rolling back to some older drivers and playing around with some stuff to see what I can find

Weston

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Well, I was getting this on Vista pretty much every time I played a graphics intensive game. When I switched over to Win 7, it still happens but its completely random, and doesnt happen very often.

I have just faced this problem, and have got the same message, ( yesterday) but do you know why did I get this error message ??

I got it because I was messing up with the card trying to overclocking it, though I know that it wont overclock that well, but it was a kind of knowledge to get, so when I went high, my LCD started blurring with colours, that I couldn't get it back to normal without a force-restart.

then when I lowed my card settings it down a bit, I got it back blurring, but not as much as big it did before, and after the second restart I did, I lowed the settings again, and then started Batman: Arkham Asylum Demo, ( I played this one to see how different the game will do due to the system change )

so I really noticed a difference in the game play, but I started then to get the message you talked about, and when I lowed the settings of my 8500GT again, that message stopped poping-up .

but fore sure I finally re-set the card to its factory default, and that was due to that I am out of power due to my humble PSU.

I hope this piece of information helped you.

best regards.

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I think it's neither your card is faulty nor the drivers is bad, but I think you have overclocked your card more than it can handles, so just lower your OCing, and I am sure you will be fine. and this is what I did to get rid off that error message.

best regards .

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Umm, I tried set both cards back to factory setting (core/shader/memory). But it still crashes after 1 hour of MW2

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Weird stuff, they seems to be fine for a while everytime I do windows clean install. maybe it's hardware faulty

He's already said he hasn't altered the clocks the card shiped with so why is there multiple posts saying it's because it's overclocked to much?

OP, There is a few things to try :

1. Use EVGA percision and underclock the card to reference GTX clocks and see if the problem remains, if it works fine and no longer crashes then the card has become unstable and needs to be RMA'd.

2. Do a complete reinstall of windows, that will give the Nvidia drivers a fresh clean install and will get rid of any fine traces of any previous drivers.