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nv4_display driver has stopped working
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Sounds like a GPU temp problem.What's your case exhaust airflow like,std 8800s exhaust into to the case and heat it up a treat (ended up replacing the side of mine with perforated steel with a pa120.2 and pair of antec tricools on medium mounted to the right of the 8800s exhaust.
Hope it helps
Hope it helps
Regarding Bioshock, have you updated the game itself? They released a patch a while back as loads of people couldn't even get past the load screen, and mine would crash when searching characters.
I have also had my nvidia display driver "Stop responding", with a balloon appearing in the system tray area quite a few times (using dual monitors). I installed some older drivers and it fixed the problem for me. I now use 169.25 with no problems what so ever with my 8800GT.
I have also had my nvidia display driver "Stop responding", with a balloon appearing in the system tray area quite a few times (using dual monitors). I installed some older drivers and it fixed the problem for me. I now use 169.25 with no problems what so ever with my 8800GT.
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ive had my system running now for well over 1yr and now have this error. Altho the gfx card is only 6 months old the rest of the parts are over 1yr old. Im unsure atm what part it is but im testing everything i can 
To make things worse my hyundai n91w wont turn on anymore which had to be rma'd and at the same time i found the dvi cable to be faulty as it was giving me artifacts on screen
Ive tried new drivers of/on/off/on lol
reinstalling windows both xp + vista both give the same errors
next to try is memtest86+ over night
gonna strip pc and re-build also incase of loose connection
After this the only things is can be is motherboard fault or gfx card fault but ive no way of testing them as no other systems
To make things worse my hyundai n91w wont turn on anymore which had to be rma'd and at the same time i found the dvi cable to be faulty as it was giving me artifacts on screenIve tried new drivers of/on/off/on lol
reinstalling windows both xp + vista both give the same errors
next to try is memtest86+ over night
gonna strip pc and re-build also incase of loose connection
After this the only things is can be is motherboard fault or gfx card fault but ive no way of testing them as no other systems
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just wanted to update you on this, i removed 2gb of ram and now recieve no errors with gfx
very strange fix :S
very strange fix :S
I was getting similar errors for my 8800GTS and there is a HUGE thread on the nVida forums somewhere all about it... the drivers were causing the problem for 99% of people. nVidia was forced to make a public statement about it that they were working on the issue... Also it seems the old drivers weren't being removed or overwritten properly so most people have been using drivercleanerpro or similar in safemode, then installing new drivers in safemode and rebooting. With the latest drivers I no longer get the errors (after using driver cleaner)... BUT, I did also have some dodgy RAM that could have been a contributing factor. But not sure why RAM would cause a GFX error?
Just a FYI, I was dual booting Ubuntu Linux and never got a single error with the Linux drivers, even if my RAM may have been dodgy at the time.
Just a FYI, I was dual booting Ubuntu Linux and never got a single error with the Linux drivers, even if my RAM may have been dodgy at the time.
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If you're still having problems then I would suggest using the Driver Cleaner Pro... I just looked and its no longer shareware on their website, but I downloaded only a few weeks ago for free from somewhere, although can't remember where. Bound to be a copy somewhere on google 
version 1.5 build 14 i used.
First what driver version are you now using and what is the latest for your hardware?
Here's how I (and most others) did it. Install Driver Cleaner Pro, then go to uninstall programs in control panel, then to nVidia drivers - click uninstall. Make sure you click to only uninstall the "Display Drivers" (and not all of them like I did
). Reboot, and at the correct time hit F8 to go into safe mode. When in windows in safe mode, run driver cleaner pro (read the instructions!) and it will remove stuff the normal uninstall left behind. In it you basically just select nVidia and tick the "multiple cleaning filters" option, click "Add" and then hit start. Only takes a few seconds to do it.
You'll want to have downloaded your latest drivers and know where the exe is because next (after closing DCPro), while in safe mode, install them then reboot into normal windows (installation should have you reboot anyway). Let us know if this stops your problem and which drivers you installed. Worked for me and loads of others. For some reason the stuff left in registry by the older drivers was causing some kind of conflict/problem, dunno why as I'm not that techie.
Here's that nVidia Forum thread all 103 pages of it
version 1.5 build 14 i used.First what driver version are you now using and what is the latest for your hardware?
Here's how I (and most others) did it. Install Driver Cleaner Pro, then go to uninstall programs in control panel, then to nVidia drivers - click uninstall. Make sure you click to only uninstall the "Display Drivers" (and not all of them like I did
). Reboot, and at the correct time hit F8 to go into safe mode. When in windows in safe mode, run driver cleaner pro (read the instructions!) and it will remove stuff the normal uninstall left behind. In it you basically just select nVidia and tick the "multiple cleaning filters" option, click "Add" and then hit start. Only takes a few seconds to do it. You'll want to have downloaded your latest drivers and know where the exe is because next (after closing DCPro), while in safe mode, install them then reboot into normal windows (installation should have you reboot anyway). Let us know if this stops your problem and which drivers you installed. Worked for me and loads of others. For some reason the stuff left in registry by the older drivers was causing some kind of conflict/problem, dunno why as I'm not that techie.
Here's that nVidia Forum thread all 103 pages of it
Ahhh that isn't the main error thread, although, there's plenty of mention of it in there lol, but This is the statement by nVidia on what is called this TDR error.