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NVLDDMKM.SYS problem with GTX 280

Jurassic Pork

Jurassic Pork

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Hi,

Whenever I play any game the system gets blue screen of death after a few mins.

I originally thought it was a PSU problem and after advice from the really helpful peeps on these forums I bought a "PC Power & Cooling Silencer 750 Quad-SLi PCI-E 750W Power Supply" from here and isntalled it yesterday.

Unfortunately I knwo have this NVLDDMKM.SYS problem. I get blue screen error stating this driver has failed and then the system reboots. Never crashes to desktop though?

I've uninstalled drivers, used driver cleaners etc. I've googled the problem and tried to use fixes from there including using a modded NVLDDMKM.SYS file, altering RAM speeds, voltages and more.

Really ******* me off now. This is the first time I've ever had anything close to a decent system and I can't play any uber graphic goodness on it :(



If anyone can please give me advice on what to do?

My specs are
aSUS p5n32-sli mobo
8GB (4*2) OC DDR2 RAM
PC Power & Cooling Silencer 750 Quad-SLi PCI-E 750W Power Supply
BFG GTX 280 OC
 
*awaits nvidiot trolls to come and tell you it's not happening, it's just your imagination* :rolleyes:

What were your specs before? You might be best just getting it over with and reinstalling windows, or, if you've got another hard drive, install windows on to that to see if it solves your problem without having to delete your current installation.
 
What driver revision are you using?
Tried a different one?
Tried yet another different one?
Updated your audio card drivers?
Tried to disable the power saving features of the card?
 
on vista or xp?, go into safe mode and use driver cleaner to remove all navidia driver files.
boot back into operating sytem navigate to windows system 32 folder go to drivers and look for above file and delete.also look in 2 other file in same directory and delete it.restart pc and install fresh drivers

zia
 
This blue screen was why I binned my 8800GTX (awaiting replacement from BFG to sell on the bay). Google nvnews and visit their forums and you will find a huge thread about this in their forceware vista forums.
 
Thanks for the advice guys.

I reinstalled windows already. No difference. May try using clean HDD see what happens. Bit of an arse to have to do that though. Am using Vista home premium 64.

I've done the driver cleaner stuff and deleted the drivers from system 32/drivers for a nice fresh install.
When system reboots and windows auto installs drivers for the card it didn't say GTX 280 it said "standard vga display" or something so i guess that was a thorough delete

Have tried latest revision
tried previous revision
tried tertiery previous revision


Looking in the NVnews forums it appears a lot of people have this probelm and there is no "decent" fix. The one which most poeple say works is lowering RAM spees. I really don't want to do that but I'll try it tonight and see whats what.

Don't understand why this has been an issue for over a year and nVidia havn't fixed it??
 
I had a similar problem with my EVGA 8800gts and this is the response I got from EVGA last week:

"The exception "Display driver nvlddmkm stopped responding" is produced by Windows because the graphics driver was not reacting for a certain amount of time. This Microsoft White Paper http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/device/display/wddm_timeout.mspx explains how to disable TDR ("Timout Detection & Recovery") with editing the Registry key HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\GraphicsDrivers and setting the Entry TdrLevel to Value 0. (DWORD.) If this entry not yet exists, you can create it as type DWORD. Since you use Vista, please make sure that you have SP1 installed."

I didn't try it as I bought a 4870 instead!
 
I get the same error semi-regularly on my card in Vista but never in XP, so I don't think it's your PSU or your card, I think it's just an Nvidia-Vista thing.

Are you on Vista?
 
Jurassic Pork said:
Thanks for the advice guys.

I reinstalled windows already. No difference. May try using clean HDD see what happens. Bit of an arse to have to do that though. Am using Vista home premium 64.

I've done the driver cleaner stuff and deleted the drivers from system 32/drivers for a nice fresh install.
When system reboots and windows auto installs drivers for the card it didn't say GTX 280 it said "standard vga display" or something so i guess that was a thorough delete

Have tried latest revision
tried previous revision
tried tertiery previous revision


Looking in the NVnews forums it appears a lot of people have this probelm and there is no "decent" fix. The one which most poeple say works is lowering RAM spees. I really don't want to do that but I'll try it tonight and see whats what.

Don't understand why this has been an issue for over a year and nVidia havn't fixed it??
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This is exactly why I switched out to an ATI card. Spent a fortune on a card that displayed blue screens more often than normal screens.
 
-BA- said:
This is exactly why I switched out to an ATI card. Spent a fortune on a card that displayed blue screens more often than normal screens.
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Always had Nvidia - never had problems. from the forums I'm wading through it look like a lot of people have moved to ATI for these kindsa reasons though. I might be following if this can't be sorted.
 
benlanky said:
I had a similar problem with my EVGA 8800gts and this is the response I got from EVGA last week:

"The exception "Display driver nvlddmkm stopped responding" is produced by Windows because the graphics driver was not reacting for a certain amount of time. This Microsoft White Paper http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/device/display/wddm_timeout.mspx explains how to disable TDR ("Timout Detection & Recovery") with editing the Registry key HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\GraphicsDrivers and setting the Entry TdrLevel to Value 0. (DWORD.) If this entry not yet exists, you can create it as type DWORD. Since you use Vista, please make sure that you have SP1 installed."

I didn't try it as I bought a 4870 instead!
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This looks useful. I'll try disabling the TDR tonight. Thanks for the info
 
I would either blame the motherboard (ASUS p5n32-sli) or vista personally... very very rarely is this actually an nVidia driver problem. The usual cause of it is northbridge instability or faulty/incompatible RAM. I pretty much all but guarantee that if you changed motherboards to a non Asus P5 board but kept the rest of the components it would probably go away.
 
Rroff said:
I would either blame the motherboard (ASUS p5n32-sli) or vista personally... very very rarely is this actually an nVidia driver problem. The usual cause of it is northbridge instability or faulty/incompatible RAM. I pretty much all but guarantee that if you changed motherboards to a non Asus P5 board but kept the rest of the components it would probably go away.
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Will blame EVGA for my 780i doing it as well then..

No, its an issue not all users suffer with ive found putting my windows back to windows 98 looking mode and that works perfectly!
 
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