Random BSOD - I think caused by the Nvidia BETA drivers GeForce 285.38 Driver

swaps · 9 Oct 2011 at 03:05

OK so I was using the BETA drivers for a MSI GTX 460 Twin Frozr II 1GB, the drivers I was using were GeForce 285.38 Driver (for BF3). I was doing some graphics in photoshop and all of a sudden my screen goes black and back to normal, then windows said something about display driver. It happened around 3-4 times before all of a sudden a BSOD.

Crash logs- http://puu.sh/6Io0
http://puu.sh/6Io1

Uploaded the minidumps - http://puu.sh/6Iqy (14/09/2011 - never BSOD before so I don't know why this is here)
http://puu.sh/6Iqw (Today 09/10/2011)

I'm going to say it was the Nvidia BETA drivers but I just want to play it safe. I'll update this once I wake up. Oh before I forget.

I'm on a Q6600 @ stock, 2.4ghz. 8GB of kingston ram, 1066mhz. MSI GTX 460 Twin Frozr II 1GB. Also I'm running W7 prof, 64bit.

oli356 · 9 Oct 2011 at 07:46

Code:

Probably caused by : nvlddmkm.sys ( nvlddmkm+1f81bd )

Those are the Nvidia drivers, I would suggest going back to the 'stable' drivers for now. Dump file and the crash log you uploaded points directly at those drivers so.
http://www.nvidia.com/Download/index.aspx

As for the other BSOD, well you can get them while turning PC off, while turning it on. So might have never noticed it. Though the dump file

Code:

Probably caused by : hardware
X64_0x124_GenuineIntel_PROCESSOR_BUS_PRV

swaps · 9 Oct 2011 at 15:03

oli356 said:
Code:

Probably caused by : nvlddmkm.sys ( nvlddmkm+1f81bd )

Those are the Nvidia drivers, I would suggest going back to the 'stable' drivers for now. Dump file and the crash log you uploaded points directly at those drivers so.
http://www.nvidia.com/Download/index.aspx

As for the other BSOD, well you can get them while turning PC off, while turning it on. So might have never noticed it. Though the dump file

Code:

Probably caused by : hardware X64_0x124_GenuineIntel_PROCESSOR_BUS_PRV

Thanks for clearing it up mate. Already on the stable drivers, as soon as it happened I thought it was the BETA drivers. Thanks a lot.

oli356 · 9 Oct 2011 at 15:05

No problem, I had one a couple of days ago. The same day as installing my new card and the beta drivers. Turned out to be a memory_corruption cause though. Ran 15 hours of memtest, no errors though, so not sure myself

I'm used to getting them though

LoGaN_TnT · 9 Oct 2011 at 17:49

swaps said:
OK so I was using the BETA drivers for a MSI GTX 460 Twin Frozr II 1GB, the drivers I was using were GeForce 285.38 Driver (for BF3). I was doing some graphics in photoshop and all of a sudden my screen goes black and back to normal, then windows said something about display driver. It happened around 3-4 times before all of a sudden a BSOD.

Crash logs- http://puu.sh/6Io0
http://puu.sh/6Io1

Uploaded the minidumps - http://puu.sh/6Iqy (14/09/2011 - never BSOD before so I don't know why this is here)
http://puu.sh/6Iqw (Today 09/10/2011)

I'm going to say it was the Nvidia BETA drivers but I just want to play it safe. I'll update this once I wake up. Oh before I forget.

I'm on a Q6600 @ stock, 2.4ghz. 8GB of kingston ram, 1066mhz. MSI GTX 460 Twin Frozr II 1GB. Also I'm running W7 prof, 64bit.

Out of interest what sort of setting / performance were you getting on BF3 as your system is very similar to mine.

swaps · 9 Oct 2011 at 18:24

LoGaN_TnT said:
Out of interest what sort of setting / performance were you getting on BF3 as your system is very similar to mine.

I can't remember all of my settings but I had everything on high and one or two thing on ultra with 4x anti aliasing and was getting a nice 45 FPS. If I spent time to mess with settings I probs could have got more.