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The dreaded Display driver nvlddmkm stopped responding and has successfully recovered

I had this problem with vista 64 and an 8600gt using 177.84. The rig was folding all the time and everyday it would stop due to the driver recovering. I've gone back to 177.35 and I've not had the problem since. (touch wood) Strange though as I'm using the 177.84 drivers with a 8800gt and vista64 on another machine and have had no problems. Have you had any luck using different/older drivers?
 
BFG have replaced my card due to this problem and a new one is on it's way to me.

So they must have found a problem that was causing the nvlddmkm.sys error.

I'm not saying these errors are all because of hardware, I'm just saying it's very possibly if you've tried every other fix.
 
hohum

Interesting.

I'll be interested to hear if this sorts anyone's problems. Fingers crossed.

Though I would be interested to hear what exactly Microsoft have done / what it is actually meant to sort, as the comment is a little vague!
 
mikeo said:
"although i do suspect the RAM is to blame for other people here"

I'm sorry but I don't think it's as simple as that. Otherwise there must be an awful lot of duff memory doing the rounds and after many years of building PC's I'm inclined to say that this isn't the case. No offence meant.
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none taken. ;)

so, for most people, it's mostly changing driver that solved the problem? has anyone RMA'd their card and made the problem go away?

could it be the memory ON the card?
 
wuyanxu

Good point about the memory on the graphics card. This could more than likely be one of the potential problems that can cause/contribute to the TDR "issue". It could even be the reason why under-clocking the memory (IE. less stress) on the card appears to sort the problem for some.

AS to " has anyone RMA'd their card and made the problem go away". The answer from what I've been reading, is yes.

I'll definitely be VERY interested to hear if the latest Vista patch 955302 (which I got through auto update last night) sorts the problem for them? Anyone???
 
There was a stability hotfix for Nvidia cards and Vista with the last round of updates. Not noticed any difference, but I dont really get any issue unless it's a poorly coded game such as stalker cs
 
as you know mikeo it is a hard problem to solve as it is a generic failure code , could be hardware or software with only one costant vista . on the flight sim forums i use there are some quite techy people on there and it seems quite a high percentage off tdr's end up being memory related , not that most off the time there is anything wrong with the memory its just the way vista uses it . how they can say its a step forward from xp i don't know
 
well i decided to delete the nvlddmkm.sys files as suggested by some in safe mode. Have installed the 177.83 WHQL also in safe mode, and so far so good, no errors since this.
 
Craig321 said:
BFG have replaced my card due to this problem and a new one is on it's way to me.

So they must have found a problem that was causing the nvlddmkm.sys error.

I'm not saying these errors are all because of hardware, I'm just saying it's very possibly if you've tried every other fix.
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I think BFG are actually too good like that - a few months ago (when card was only running at x1 instead of x16) they offered to replace my card, sent me the rma mail and everything, but it turned out to be the PCIe slot on my mobo that was the problem, not the card at all.

I'm pretty sure it's not the hardware in my case because it never happened with the old drivers or on XP.:confused:
 
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seem to get this problem every so often but usually when im racing online the screen goes blank for 10-20 seconds which is enough to put me in a barrier or another car :(
i thought it was just due to the 177.98 drivers so went back to the 177.83 whql and its just done it again.
8800gt no overclock and vista 32 bit when it did it last week vista prompted me to dload some stability update but that hasnt worked card isnt getting hot as i usually fix it at 70% for gaming via rivatuner and leave it at 35% when idle quite annoying tbh.
 
I'm now getting this issue as well, the system has been fine for months. I have tried multiple drivers and a clean install of Vista but i'm getting this all the time, I can't even run a single game for more then 3 minutes.

I am suspected my 8800GTX has died.

Fine in windows tho :/
 
Been 7 days since i did the nvlddmkm.sys file delete in safe mode and replaced with the 177.83, played a lot of COD 4 as well and have been completely error free.
 
I've never had this problem once on my PC

Vista x64 SP1. GF8800GT OC to 700/1000 or 750/1050
MSI P35 Motherboard
Dual screens
4Gb RAM

I could just be lucky. I've discovered in life I never get problems when I use board based on Intel chipsets and have stuck with them ever since.
 
stonedofmoo

Yes I do think you "just must be lucky".

After thinking my "problem" had gone away, as it had not re-occurred for a couple of weeks.... O'dear... here I have a BSOD this time, saying that the attempt to recover the display driver had failed! On checking the Windows Event Viewer, I find it tried 5 times to do an automatic recover and as it could not, hence the BSOD. Think I'll ignore it and see if things will run for another couple of weeks OK. Can't see it's worth trying any other "magic solution" (not that I actually think there is one!) with the problem being so random. I still think it's a fundamental problem between Vista and Nvidia's display drivers (otherwise why did Microsoft issue a patch recently that was supposed to "improve stability with Nvidia graphics cards"???).

PC's... you've got to *** em!?

PS. I to am using an Intel based chipset, along with several thousand others I expect.
 
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Just so you guys know, I took my 8800GTX round to a friends house who has basically the same machine as me (bar a couple of different HDD's) but he runs XP

Put my card in his machine, he installed lastest drivers ran a game and bang, black screen and pixels (slightly different problem to mine but not a lot different) - presume because he was on XP it handles it different.

But whatever the fact my 8800GTX which is 1 year old about 3 days ago is dead :(
 
Wizzkidy

Sorry to hear!

So it sounds like in your particular case, it's your graphics card on the way out. Bummer.
 
This is going to sound really stupid and there will be those of you that don't believe me...

I had this issue for a year, changed drivers, mobo and ram and still it happened. About 4 months ago I changed my AV software from Kaspersky to Nod32 and I haven't had this issue since, honest.
 
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