I’m seeing an annoying error on my Portege M400 running Vista. The thing is almost clear of beta drivers now, after numerous downloads from Toshiba, including the display driver. The graphics chipset is a Mobile Intel 945GM, and I have a production release driver dated 13th December 2006, version 7.14.10.1151, though I saw the same problem with earlier releases.
Specifically, from time to time the display blanks out and an error 4101 is logged. Sometimes I get this supposedly reassuring toast pop-up:
The warning message is:
Display driver igfx stopped responding and has successfully recovered
The error is worse than it sounds. The screen blanking is irritating, and sometimes causes the current application to crash (I’ve seen this with games). I’ve also seen it when working with multiple displays. Fortunately it only seems to occur with the display is being stressed in some way – I can work all day in Word and Excel, and not see the problem.
I’ve tried turning off Aero and it makes no difference.
A bug in Intel’s driver I suppose (I never get this on my Vista desktop), though it is not exclusive to Intel; this user reports the same problem with a GeForce 7900.
This is the kind of thing that spoils Vista right now. I think this OS will work much better six months from now.
hasnt worked, nothing works… im just gonna have to take my laptop back. thanks any way
Hey, I manually installed the newest driver from Intel and it fixed the igfx problem, but it caused
a very small but kind of annoying problem. The little blue volume box that appears in the top left of my screen when I adjust the volume is now just a box with black and white fuzz in it, kinda like when your cable goes out on your tv,lol. If anyone knows a way to fix this please post it.
Thanks
I have the same problem, and the igfx thing is driving me crazy. i know that it isn’t stress, because Ive ran like 5 different games of runescape at once on this computer without it running slow (runescape tyakes a lot of memory) I need a way to fix this, because my characters will all expire if i don’t and ill b screwed…
I have a problem when I try to play Age of Empires 3, it appears that I need a 64mb card and that I have a 32 card. What can I do?
I have a dell E1405, with 1gb of ram, 950 intel card, with windows vista premium.
Jamie,
I under the same boat as you are. No matter what I try I continue to get the same error message about the IGFX. I have tried everyone’s suggestions, and nothing works for me.
Hey all, I’m having the same prob with my new gateway playing WoW. I love the game and i have been playing it on my desktop but that crashed so i went out to get a new laptop.
Anyway, I tried downloading the new drivers but Intel keeps telling me
” The driver being installed is not validated for this computer please obtain the approprate drivers from the computer’s manufacurer.”
SO i zipped over to gateway and tried that.. but no go. I just want to play WoW.. come one please help. I don’t really know what i’m doing on computer… and i would for someone to help me with a play by play.
My email is someonelikeyoulovesme@yahoo.com
I have tried all of the above steps and i get no results still. when I install the drivers with the exe, I restart it and the screen is blank. when i do it manually, it installs correctly, but i still get the flicker. if anyone has a solution, PLEASE tell me.
thx, Matthew
oh, and i also forgot to add in that my computer is a gateway laptop.
I just got everything working smoothly using Colby’s steps although he left out two very important and necessary details.
First, you will need to disable Windows automatic driver updates. To do this right click Computer, then click Advance System Properties, then click the Hardware tab, then click “Windows Update Driver Settings,” then check “Never check for drivers when I connect a device,” finally click OK.
Second, when you uninstall the graphics driver you need to check the box that says “Delete the driver software for this device” also.
Then install the newest driver from the Intel site and you should be fine!
I’M having exactly the same problem and am not sure whether it is an error with Direct X 10. I am running 8800 graphics card. the driver does it constantly in lost planet, and it is annoying. STAY AWAY FROM VISTA
I have the same problem. Dell XPS M1210 with Intel 945 integrated graphics
ok, i give up, tried everything for changing the vid drivers, then dual partitioning, and putting XP on my computer, and i couldnt get a single thing accomplished.
everything i tried failed miserably.
can anyone please tell me if theres an alternative.
The driver update is the fix. I know a lot of people are saying that their drivers are up-to-date. They don’t understand that you computer will say that but you still need to manually install the update for the driver. After that is done, presto it works flawlessly. The update takes less than 10 minutes just follow Tim’s directions listed above!
Guys,
I have a geforce fx5700 ultra card. MSI (the maker) does not have vista drivers. I’m using the standard microsoft drivers as nvidia does not allow me to install the latest drivers for this (which is a bit strange as it does allow me to select the card type and the OS and then provides the suggested driver…).
I too have this problem. It started one day and suddenly it got progressively worse up to the point that I can only run my pc in safe mode!!! I don’t think Vista is fully to blame for this, but they are at least partly responsible if not the cause of the problem. (It’s like with car insurance for women. It is cheaper for them: yes they are less liable than men, yet it is their incompetent driving skills that caused the accidents in the first place!).
As you will get with these american cooperations, they’ll both deny all responsibility and point fingers to each other, rather than take the european solution and work together to fix the problem!!!
Ofcourse, the result of theirlack of cooperation is that people switch to apple and ATI cards etc, and then both nvidia and MS are screwed…
by the way, if someone can tell me how to fix my situation (no drivers being available for my graphics card and vista…) then I would love to hear it!
Thanks!
Tim, regarding the problem with the intel 945gm driver; you are an absolute legend!!! My WoW is working fine now……after 10hrs of trouble shooting that is 🙂
can any give me some help with this igfx
vista is the worst thing to ever come out good job
i have a toshiba qosmio f20. recently tried vista installation in a new partition successfully but not happy with the display driver output on my geforce go 6600 GPU.There are portions of screen display blacking out and aero mode experiences flickering errors constantly…although i have an windows experience index base score 3.9…. i’m sure i’m not alone out here with this same problem and from my searchings i have found toshiba haven’t released any working whql drivers for geforce go 6600 so far, well that’s disappointing!!!i have found a solution indeed with a newer forceware but funny thing it is neither whql certified and different hardware driver. it’s a geforce 6600 desktop card driver rather working smartly on mobile hardware!!
Dan, all you need to do is download the latest Intel 945GM Graphics controler/driver; Uninstall the current driver manualy, and then install the driver that you downloaded.
Hope this helps ya:)
Colby, you really screwed us up.
Thanks Mike, for the fix.
(Very Important that you have the microsoft update before attepting this…)
Solution: 1. Click start
2. Right Click on Computer
3. Choose Manage
4. Click on Device Manager
5. Click on Display Adapters
6. After you’ve expanded that click on your display adapter underneath. ie mine is Intel (R) 82945G
7. Right Click on that and choose to update driver.
8. Choose the option “browse my computer for driver software”
9. Choose “let me pick from a list of device drivers on my computer”
10. Hightlight “Intel (R) 82945G Express Chipset Controller 0 (Microsoft Corporation-WDDM)
11. Choose Apply and reboot… Happy Gaming!
(This works for the graphical error “Display Driver Igfx has stopped responding but has since recovered” Error messages and black outs with this chipset for W.O.W users. )
Woot it worked for me I hope it does for you as well!
Hi, i’ve had this problem too, so i installed the files manually as instructed by the read me file and my games have stopped crashing…
but…
now i have a new problem. Everytime i log onto my computer, or open the graphics panel, i get security warnings about unverified publishers. I have trawled the web for hours looking for a solution to be rid of these, but so far have found nothing. Does anyone know how to stop these? I’m on Windows Vista.
Sorry for posting again, but i got some kind of result, but it didnt fix my problem.
when i installed the drivers every way that was listed above, my screen just went black, but it was still running properly, i just couldnt see anything. Restarted my computer and the screen was still black.
any way around this? im pretty sure that im close to finally being rid of this problem and being able to PvP on WoW.
Hello after a week and help from a friend I was able to install a better version of the chipset which this might help http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.html;jsessionid=CE8AA994CFD2122F8E06DEE7AEFFA4EB?topicId=81881456&postId=818247241&sid=1#2