GeForce GTX 980M crashing.

[livingchaos]

At the end of last summer, I bought a new laptop. It's running Windows 8.1, with a quad-core i7 4870HQ processor, 32gb RAM, and the Nvidia GEForce GTX980M. As of a couple days ago, the driver on my graphics card started to crash, I haven't had any problems until now, and haven't made any changes to the graphics card or the drivers. I checked the temperatures, and the temperature is at 40 degrees. It happens at random times, sometimes when I start up the computer, and sometimes when I am using the computer. The driver is on 348.01.

I was wondering what could cause this problem, and how can I fix it?

The error that pops up says
"Display driver stopped responding and recovered

Display Driver NVIDIA Windows Kernel Mode Driver, Version 348.01 stopped responding and has successfully recovered."

 

[Hamperking68]

Hi, Have you tried re-installing the drivers?

 

[livingchaos]

Hi, Have you tried re-installing the drivers?

I have not, yet, because I think I remember being told before to do that as a last resort.

I have been told to uninstall the drivers before updating to the new ones. How can I do this? (I'm not very knowledgeable when it comes to drivers and hardware)