Hi,
I've encountered a problem and despite reading about the issue on multiple forums including this one, I haven't really been able to figure out how to fix the problem on my laptop.
Issue is: Sometimes when watching movies on DivX player (could be several times per day and other days no problem) I get this error message "A Display Driver has Stopped Working and has Recovered". Display starts blinking and freezing and a few times I have had to shut down the computer on the physical on/off button.
My laptop specs are:
HP Pavillion dv5, AMD Turion X2 Ultra Dual Core ZM-82 processor, 3 GB Memory RAM. Windows Vista Home Premium. The graphics are ATI mobility Radeon HD 3450. I tried updating driver, but it says driver is up-to-date.
The computer is about 5 years old and has always had a tendency to become very warm. I have never had this issue before, but it's also only recently that I started wathing movies via DivX player on this laptop.
I read that overheating could be one of the problems, so I downloaded SpeedFan. I cannot figure out how to control fan - it might be that fan is not working or maybe you just cannot control the fan on this laptop, but I simply do not know. According to SpeedFan HD0 was in the 60's, Temp1 was 85-88 and Core was 70+. As I don't seem to be able to control fans, I tried to address the heat issue by simply tipping the laptop over, so it's not placed bottom down and doesn't get as hot because air can more easily get out of it. Now temps are HD0 around 45, Temp1 65-68 and Core 55-58, so it's definitely down, but problem isn't solved. Before I was able to get the temp down it had a tendency to be very noisy as if it was working overtime, but that actually seems to be much less now.
I'm not running any other programs on the computer when watching movies, so unless some programs are running in the background it's not as if it should be working too hard on anything but the DivX player.
I don't know anything about over- / under-clocking, voltage and stuff like that, so it's difficult for me to say if any of this could be the problem (I only know of these things from reading up on possible ways to solve this issue on various forums).
It's a real problem for me, as watching movies is almost the only thing I use this laptop for. I would really appreciate any help on this.
Best regards
I've encountered a problem and despite reading about the issue on multiple forums including this one, I haven't really been able to figure out how to fix the problem on my laptop.
Issue is: Sometimes when watching movies on DivX player (could be several times per day and other days no problem) I get this error message "A Display Driver has Stopped Working and has Recovered". Display starts blinking and freezing and a few times I have had to shut down the computer on the physical on/off button.
My laptop specs are:
HP Pavillion dv5, AMD Turion X2 Ultra Dual Core ZM-82 processor, 3 GB Memory RAM. Windows Vista Home Premium. The graphics are ATI mobility Radeon HD 3450. I tried updating driver, but it says driver is up-to-date.
The computer is about 5 years old and has always had a tendency to become very warm. I have never had this issue before, but it's also only recently that I started wathing movies via DivX player on this laptop.
I read that overheating could be one of the problems, so I downloaded SpeedFan. I cannot figure out how to control fan - it might be that fan is not working or maybe you just cannot control the fan on this laptop, but I simply do not know. According to SpeedFan HD0 was in the 60's, Temp1 was 85-88 and Core was 70+. As I don't seem to be able to control fans, I tried to address the heat issue by simply tipping the laptop over, so it's not placed bottom down and doesn't get as hot because air can more easily get out of it. Now temps are HD0 around 45, Temp1 65-68 and Core 55-58, so it's definitely down, but problem isn't solved. Before I was able to get the temp down it had a tendency to be very noisy as if it was working overtime, but that actually seems to be much less now.
I'm not running any other programs on the computer when watching movies, so unless some programs are running in the background it's not as if it should be working too hard on anything but the DivX player.
I don't know anything about over- / under-clocking, voltage and stuff like that, so it's difficult for me to say if any of this could be the problem (I only know of these things from reading up on possible ways to solve this issue on various forums).
It's a real problem for me, as watching movies is almost the only thing I use this laptop for. I would really appreciate any help on this.
Best regards