This is killing me. I’m using an HP tx2500z with Windows 7 Home Pro 32 bit(came with Windows Vista installed), which has a Radeon HD 3200 video card. At semi-random times, my screen starts getting multicolored pixels all about while my mouse cursor freezes. A second later, it fixes itself and I get a message saying “Display driver stopped responding and has recovered”. Soon after that, the pixels get worse and the freeze time longer, the message pops up after fixing itself, then very shortly after that the screen fart basically results in a mostly black screen with random multicolored lines crossing the screen with pretty much neverending freeze that forces me to restart the computer. Now when I restart the computer when this happens, the HP logo is always clear and visible, but may be an awful pinkish color rather than the normal white. When it’s pink, the following pre-Windows loading screen is frequently screwy and leads to the PC kind of restarting itself. This may happen once before it loads or it may cycle itself indefinitely before, by chance, it gets through.
I’d say this problem occurs more often the hotter it gets, which has me thinking hardware. Thing is, I’ve had it work all day whilst very hot as well as have the pink screwy loading problem occur when I first turn it on in the morning, which has me hoping it is compatibility.
So I’ve googled this many times and I’ve seen others have had the same “display driver stopped responding and has recovered” message, but no mention of the bad startup problems and many seem to have it happen exclusively during games. I’ve re-installed Windows, which seemed to fix the problem for a week maybe. I’ve uninstalled the video card drivers before reinstalling the latest, and that has never helped. I finally flashed the BIOS, which fooled me into thinking it was fixed for about 2 days before the problem popped up.
Any ideas? I’ll take some pictures of the screens I get once it starts happening again and post them if it helps.