How did you fix this and is this the issue that causes the display driver to crash then reciver itself?
That's the one! After months and months of rock solid stabililty, the TDR errors just cropped up out of the blue. No rhyme or reason to it. I tried everything to fix this, up to and including standing on one foot whilst simultaneously chanting dark verse and drinking the blood of virgins, and it still wasn't happenening.
Then i really got into the guts of it and did some methodical testing of different Driver releases going way back to the 26X.XX era. I was testing some of the suggested 'fixes' that have been doing the rounds too to see what would help.
What fixed it for me a combination of using the 285.62 Driver set, (full uninstall of old Driver before Install of new set), which alone didn't eradicate the problem.. but setting 'Prefer Maximum Performance' in the Nvidia CP, rather than using 'Adaptive' Power Management did the trick. I haven't had a TDR Error for two weeks since then, whereas before i was having several of them a day.
It means that my GTX570 is running at full clocks most of the time, but of course it matters not as the GPU load is only around 1% most of the time anyway.