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GPU causing bluescreen restarts

ash_scotland88

ash_scotland88

ash_scotland88

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I think I have come to the conclusion that it was my new GPU causing blue screen restarts when trying to watch blurays using POWERDVD9 ULTRA.
It was a gianward GTX 460 GS, tried latest drivers etc and all came up with the same error of nvlddmkm.sys.

Now do I try and install a new bios for my mobo to see if this works. Return the card for the same one incase it is faulty, or buy a GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 460? £10 more.

Either way decision needs to be made asap as I am going up to uni this weekend and want something at least mentally sorted!

edit, other option would be to buy a 5830 instead. But i feel this may be a drop down compared to the GTX 460GS 1GB
 
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There are a few things you might want to check first -

PSU - what is it?
Fluff in cooler - will cause over heating probs
Try it in another system - What if its not faulty?

Also - does it BSOD if you run Furmark?
 
corsair hyper type R 550w (or the one around the 500w)
I dont think it would be over heating, why would bluray cause this to overheat? I also installed the software they provide and manually changed the fan to run at 100% and this caused no problems.

Dont really have an other system I can try it in.
 
Power DVD 9 is crap there are better blue ray players out there even media player with the right codecs works better than that

Suggest you look on the net for other players
 
Not saying its not the GPU but nvlddmkm.sys is often the first point of failure in an unstable system so you might want to check your RAM is working ok, CPU stable, etc. too. Also might want to try changing the hardware acceleration option in Power DVD 9 as this can cause instability on some setups.
 
cheers, only problem now is that the card has been left at home and Iam at uni- plan was for my dad to post it back, but the company I bought it from still hasnt gotten back in touch.

Also I've ran the overclocking software for stress testing (when i had the small overclock) and no errors where reported.
 
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That's a known problem with PowerDVD and the 460 series of cards. It does the same on my machine and I know of several other users with the same problem. Looks like it'll require a graphics driver fix. Other blu-ray playback software works fine. I've raised a ticket witn nVidia, and it'd be great if you do the same - the more people that report it the more likely we'll get a fix.
 
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Samsung SH-B083L, which comes with PowerDVD 8. Even fully updating the software (which was a pain) didn't work. It was only until I went onto the Slysoft (who make AnyDVD) forums and asked about the problem that I found out I was not the only person with the issue.

All the users with problems had PowerDVD 8 on Fermi based cards, mainly 460's.

Wouldn't be so bad if Blu-Ray playback software wasn't as expensive as buying a stand-alone player!
 
I built a new i5 760 PC over the weekend, using the same blu-ray drive from my old PC, and PowerDVD now works. Very weird. So it may well be a more specific hardware problem than I thought, OR the latest nVidia drivers have fixed it. Have you tried the latest drivers?

Oh, Rroff, unfortunately there's unlikely to be any blu-ray playback support in any of the free media players in the near future. The technology is licensed in a very restrictive manner, and even if you can get a license, it's extremely expensive so the free software guys wouldn't be able to afford it.
 
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well the latest one as in the ones that were released at the time i first made the thread.

Yeah, when I was googling for a problem, it was a "it could be anything, they may as well put "lol. computer is not workin. rofl" as it was generic, rainging from hardware to software.
 
Well it's definitely some sort of compatibility issue with the fermi based cards and certain hardware. My previous PC was a Asus P5K motherboard, so perhaps it's more chipset related.

Whatever it is, it's annoying and needs to be fixed, especially as blu-ray software is so expensive, so if the OEM software supplied doesn't work then you face having pay out even more on top for working software, which makes it nearly as expensive as buying a stand-alone player in the first place.
 
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