I have been getting this error messege for about two years now. Sometimes when im watching videos or playing games my computer will crash and this messege will come up. If its a youtube video the video will go green. I have tried updating everything in my computer to fix this and its still doing it. Just recently the computer screen has started going purple when this occurs and going into a frozen state. If some one could explain how to fix this I would be very greatful.
I get that too, I've a Nvidia geforce 315m, and every so often the screen will flash black for a few seconds and everything will reload, as you said it makes videos go green.
It's been like this since I got my laptop (about 9 months ago) but I haven't experienced it during any games yet. I did check it out originally but it seems to be a hardware issue, not software, so apart from sending our computers in to get the graphics card changed I don't think it can be fixed. I never bothered to fix it since it is only a minor annoyance, but if it's going to start freezing up and crashing altogether I'll have to.
EDIT: Here's an image of my last problem report about the crash for any tech. minded people:
Ok, I'm not technically minded, but I Googled it and found this thread: http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3471563 It's dated this March, so it's right up to date After reading through a whole pile of technobabble I couldn't understand I found this comment:
I had this problem on a Gainward 560ti Golden Sample.
The solution was maddeningly simple!
In the Nvidia control panel, under "Manage 3d settings", in the "global settings" tab, set "Power Management Mode" to "Prefer Maximum Performance", and it theoretically won't do it anymore.
It's not quite that simple, because some programs (notably Firefox) don't seem to take the global setting and you have to go through the list of progs in the "program settings" tab and make sure everythign is set to either "prefer max performance" or "use global". Some things won't be.
So I've done that. Hopefully it'll work, and won't screw up my computer. Since the freezes are pretty much random I suppose only time will tell.
P.S. If it doesn't work then this other bloke seemed to know what he was talking about:
This problem has been coming up for various people, including myself, since the release of the 280.xx drivers.
The issue seems to be that the video driver now drops the clocks and voltages on the video card when it's idle. When the driver needs to do some 3d rendering it ramps these back up. It's supposed to keep the card cooler and reduce power consumption. The driver doesn't seem to anticipate power needs as well as it should and when it doesn't ramp up in time it causes the driver to bug out like this.
The fix is to use the Power Mizer Manager utility to enable the registry keys that were found on laptop drivers to allow users to customize their performance/power conservation stuff. It won't give you any control panel options so all the settings are configured by the utility. It can be found here:
Back up everything in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Video\, run the utility, check off 'Enable powermizer feature', Set both radio buttons to 'Fixed Performance Level' and set both drop downs to full performance/min savings.
It essentially creates the following registry keys(note that the string between the {} brackets may be different on your system):
I'm testing the 295.73 drivers on my system right now without the fix but according to the NVIDIA forums these latest drivers don't fix the issue for all people.
Out of curiosity, before you try this utility, where do your clocks and voltage sit when your graphics card is idle? After intsalling the 295.73 drivers my card is running with all these things at full speed when idle, even without these settings.
But that looks really complicated, so I'll give it a miss while I try the simple solution first.
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