Display driver issues

[Frog]

For the last month or so, the old laptop decides to momentarily go black and gives this message, and seems back to normal.

Display driver stopped responding and has recovered
Display driver NVIDIA Windows Kernel Mode Driver Version 189.11 stopped
responding and has successfully recovered

Last I checked, all drivers were up to date. What can you guys with more knowledge than me offer?

[cbjamel]

Usually its to new for it. go back 1 driver and you are usually OK if it worked ok before.
Shane

[inkman996]

This may not even be remotely close to your issue but I have experience with the same error. The error can also be caused by more than one thing as well.

In my case I had a custom Gaming built for home with dual cards. The above error started to happen constantly and cause everything to crash that was relying on anything JAVA based. The PC was sent back to the builders and they discovered a voltage issue within the mother board. In other words the GPU's were receiving bad voltage and causing them to crash. They replaced the MB and everything was fine from then on. Like I said tho the Error is a symptom and not the problem.

[Admiral]

Could be the gpu overheating too.

Clean out the laptop with air.

[Frog]

All good stuff. I will clean it out, and in fact, have never had it open.

As for the driver, where in Windows 7 do I even find it? I'd like to see a log that indicates if an automatic update coincides with the issue popping up.
I also understand that this gets a little more convoluted with laptops because of some proprietary components and sooftware. This happens to be a Samsung.