This is the message I got in that bubble on the task bar on the bottom. I was having problems with my graphic driver because I was getting those BSODs (which I already posted in the BSOD thread and am still waiting for a reply). I actually reported the BSOD in another PC message board but after still having problems, I didn't trust the guy who tried to help me so I came down here instead. He actually said to install all optional windows updates including the new graphic driver and that put the old driver back on my computer which is not what I wanted to do so here I am.
Anyway, in January I installed the newest AMD driver (the 14.12, right? Sorry if I get the number wrong, it is from December 2014 and has the R3 Series next to the name AMD Radeon 8400). No problems since January til about a week ago when I got the BSOD. I reported it to the other message board and they said it was a graphic display driver causing it so he had me go to device manager and find updates for the driver. So I did and it did the same thing windows updates did, put the old driver back there. Shouldn't Microsoft be on top of things like when or what new drivers are available?
When I told him that the updates from device manager didn't work, that's when he suggested optional windows updates including the driver that installed the old one. It was the WMMD1 or something like that and just a few minutes ago, I read from here that it actually installs the old driver so I quit trusting that guy and came here.
Finally I went to the AMD website and tried the auto detect and it told me what driver to installed. I installed the newest driver I just mentioned earlier. Now I got the message, "Display driver stopped responding and has recovered" in the taskbar. So far, it only happened once since I installed the newest driver but wanted to post it here and see what to do in case it happens again. It's a new driver so you wouldn't think that you'd get that message.
Anyway, in January I installed the newest AMD driver (the 14.12, right? Sorry if I get the number wrong, it is from December 2014 and has the R3 Series next to the name AMD Radeon 8400). No problems since January til about a week ago when I got the BSOD. I reported it to the other message board and they said it was a graphic display driver causing it so he had me go to device manager and find updates for the driver. So I did and it did the same thing windows updates did, put the old driver back there. Shouldn't Microsoft be on top of things like when or what new drivers are available?
When I told him that the updates from device manager didn't work, that's when he suggested optional windows updates including the driver that installed the old one. It was the WMMD1 or something like that and just a few minutes ago, I read from here that it actually installs the old driver so I quit trusting that guy and came here.
Finally I went to the AMD website and tried the auto detect and it told me what driver to installed. I installed the newest driver I just mentioned earlier. Now I got the message, "Display driver stopped responding and has recovered" in the taskbar. So far, it only happened once since I installed the newest driver but wanted to post it here and see what to do in case it happens again. It's a new driver so you wouldn't think that you'd get that message.
My Computer
System One
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- OS
- Windows 8.1
- Computer type
- PC/Desktop
- Browser
- Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome
- Antivirus
- McAfee