Comments on: VPU recover issue and ways to fix it

By: xalk

xalk — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 10:23:42 +0000

hi monstaA1 can you tell me more about
standard PCI to PCI bridge thingy? does that fix it? this problem is driving me crazy i cant even use 3ds max..

By: monstaA1

monstaA1 — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 04:34:48 +0000

Hi guys,

This is what I had found and hopefully your VPU recovery error message can be solved.

Just before christmas, I started putting together a new computer from scratch and these are my components – ASUS P7P55D, ASUS EAH5770 ATI and running on WinXP SP3. About 3-4 weeks later, the VPU recovery error pop up and then it became a regular occurance. Very annoying indeed.

Basically this error is here to protect our investment but at the same time it is downright heat sensitive. I had the cover off and fan blowing directly at the grahpics card still the error comes up after some use especially graphic intensive games like Counter Strike Source at 1920 x 1080. Using SmartDoctor, it registered at 53 degrees which is quite acceptable. For older computers it is a good idea to do some house cleaning once in a while.

Despite everything being new and parts being handpicked, I simply don’t believe that any of them is a cause.

I sifted through the web and forums until someone suggested using “standard PCI to PCI bridge” driver in your “System Devices” which was for older AGP cards and they all worked. But despite mine being a HD PCI-Express card, I had similar success. Now, my problem is solved! I definitely dislike sending error reports.

Hopefully you guys can have similar success. Good luck!

By: Fik

Fik — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 12:17:27 +0000

Thx sooo much for this article. I am facing vpu recovery for few months and till now, I didnt find a way how to fix it. I will do every thing in this article and hope for best.

By: Riker

Riker — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 20:56:56 +0000

Through investigation and diagnostics, I feel I have fond the solution to my shared problem, the onboard sound card which is a realtek based sound card driver was disabled on the mother board, but the driver was not, and kept loading on startup, While this was not a problem for the most part in everyday use, Anytime I played that Half life game … that’s when I ran into problems and the screen was going into VPU recovery and then unstable and uncontrollable and unreadable situations began to occur, in turn it lead me to believe it may have been the video card, So I replaced it with a newer Ati card but still ran into the same problems. I always run a very high resolution as I do video editing and this was getting quite frustrating. So to make a long story short, My on board sound card driver was the conflicting with another sound card driver within the system, It was trying to work over my creative sound blaster card which I had installed.. because in my opinion and experience, the on board sound card.. just don’t perform as well as the “old standby” creative labs make.
result,
The system has been diagnosed, the registry cleaned and streamlined and all the driver’s are totally up to date. And the systems in performing great.. hope this helps

By: satyanjoy

satyanjoy — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 11:21:56 +0000

Very informative article; I am facing vpu recovery for couple of days. I doubt my ram stick got some problem. I will do the test that you gave indicated here.