Alienware 14, dysfunctions of the screen after the idling or after reboot - drivers?

Hello

I have an Alienware 14 I had probably more than a year before, so I'm probably out of warranty now. Fortunately, this problem seems less to do with all the problems of hardware and some weird stuff going on with drivers.

What happens is that after the screen becomes inactive, or after I restarted the computer, the screen goes wonky.  It flashes green (or cyan) and purple lines across, with the upper part of the screen on the bottom.  If I restart the PC often enough, then possibly screen returns to normal and works perfectly fine, no matter how long I keep active to screen.  But then when I have to restart my PC or make it become inactive, I have the problem all over again.

Here is a video that I could find on Youtube that shows an approximate example of display problem and recovery solution:

http://www.YouTube.com/watch?v=eaqRaqBqwog

This issue started to happen to me in mid-November, after the tool of pre installed nVidia (GeForce experience) prompted me to update my nVidia drivers.  Comments on this video, youtube and other topics like the following, all this seems to be a questionable issue with an update for nVidia drivers.

en.Community.Dell.com/.../19610218

I tried to restore my GPU driver in September 2014 published version (344.11) and that seems to fix the problem for several reboots.  Then a few hours later, I tried to restart, had the same screen problems, and my GPU driver reverted to the version of 18 November 2014 (344.75).  I don't know that I have the nVidia tool configured to not the automatic update of the GPU driver.

(I don't know if it's related, but when I used http://www.geforce.com/drivers to detect version, Firefox had forgotten that he was authorized to execute Java.)

Is there something else, maybe in the OS (Windows 8.1), which is auto-update the driver GPU?

Is there a way that you can have Windows to stop updating your drivers:
I think this might solve your problem.

Here is a tutorial on how to disable the Windows updated driver.

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