Hello, I am looking for help with a "Display driver stopped responding and has recovered" issue. The issue occurs in Office 2013, specifically Outlook 2013 and Excel 2013. I can't reproduce on demand the Excel 2013 issue, but Outlook 2013 I can.
I work for a hardware manufacturer in tech support and get a lot of emails to forward to the relevant area's. If I manually forward and email, hit send then click on another email it freezes and the display driver recovers. This is on Windows 8.
I have been using the hardware for 18 months with Windows 7 and switched to Windows 8 on release. I have installed the latest full release of Office 2013 Professional Plus from a Micosoft supplied DVD.
The issue has only occured recently, I updated to 13.1 and the uninstall utility broke many UAC controls in Windows. Others have had the same issue and a system restore or full Windows re-install has resolved the issue. Office 2013 worked fine during this period, and I am fine with updates occasionally breaking things so that isn't my issue.
I did a System Restore, and on the next reboot I had access to UAC controlled areas again (such as editing Users or Network Properties) but then the display driver stopped responding. As this made my original issue worse I did a full re-install of Windows 8.
I re-installed Office 2013, the AMD Catalyst 13.1 (without uninstalling anything) and the latest AMD chipset driver (AHCI), no other drivers or software (our system is browser based and needs no additional software or browser plugins). Office 2013 (Outlook and Excel) still occasionally cause the driver to stop responding.
The CPU, VGA's, RAM, HDD's, PSU and Motherboard have been tested (I work for a VGA/Motherboard manufacturer and the Service Centre tested the unit, this system does not contain their parts though) and are all working ok. Microsoft have a suggestion on their website:
Blank UI or video driver crash
http://office.microsoft.com/en-au/help/office-2013-known-issues-HA102919019.aspx
I will try that tomorrow, but it involves turning hardware acceleration off, which they do not recommend for performance. I have CPU to (total overkill for my workload) but I would like to see if there is another solution as the Display Driver worked fine until I did a System Restore and the machine has since had a clean reinstall of Windows (two days old).
The issue has been reported to AMD and my machine details are below, any suggestions? If the disabling of Hardware fixes the issue I will add to the post.
Graphics Card
Powercolor HD7750 2GB DDR3 (AX7750 2GBK3-H)
Gigabyte HD6450 1GB DDR3 (GV-R645-1GI)
Both running stock, zero overclock.
AMD Catalyst Driver Version, and Driver History
AMD Windows 8 Default Driver
AMD Catalyst 13.1
Operating System
Windows 8
Fresh Install
Motherboard or System Make & Model
Gigabyte GA-890GPA-UD3H
Power Supply
Thermaltake Toughpower XT 775W
Info
Label
Display Device(s) and Connection(s) Used
ASUS MW221C 22' LCD - HDMI to DVI - HD6450
ASUS MW221C 22' LCD - HDMI to DVI - HD7750
Philips 190X7 19' LCD - DVI to DVI - HD7750
Applications and Games
Office 2013 - Excel
Office 2013 - Outlook
CPU Details
AMD Phenom II X6 1090T
Stock settings, 0 overclock
Motherboard BIOS Version
FF - 2010/11/24 - Last release
System Memory Type & Amount
16 GB (4 x 4GB)
Kingston KVR1333D3N9K4/16G (4 x 4GB ValueRAM pack)
Additional Hardware
0 additional PCI-E
0 additonal PCI
1 x OCZ Agility 3 60GB SSD (Boot Drive) - AGT3-25SAT3-60G
1 x Western Digital Green (Storage) - WD10EZRX
0 optical drive
1 USB wired mouse, 1 USB wired keyboard (Microsoft Wired Desktop 600)
0 speakers connected
1 USB iPhone Lighting connected - only USB device connected except for Mouse and Keyboard
4 Case fans - One front push, one rear pull, one side over both VGA, one side over CPU
HDD, CPU, VGA have all low idle temps, office environment, air-con at 18 C (64.4 F)
Additional Details
Fresh install of Windows 8.
System has been running for 18 months with no issues.
System (CPU, MB, VGA, RAM, HDD) has been tested
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03/06/2013 08:14 AM
