Nvidia Driver issue

[Detrimentum]

So, earlier today is where this epic quest of driver issues began, I was playing Crysis, using the drivers which are before 186.15... (Not to sure what they are; 185 maybe?) and the drivers crashed me to desktop... Saying they stopped responding, this happened a total of 8 times, so I got annoyed. I searched their website for new drivers, and came across 186.15, they installed perfectly, and then later on I booted up Crysis again, the same error occured a total of 2 times.. I got fed up, and went into Left 4 Dead, and it crashed a whopping 13 times! All in the space of 15 minutes. The final 3 crashes, entirely locked up my system, forcing me to do one thing only, hit the reset button... So in total I have had 23 Driver crashes today, they worked perfectly since before today... any ideas on how it happened/can be resolved?



*EDIT*- Last night I uninstalled the 185 drivers as they were doing the same thing, I uninstalled them in Device Manager, went into Safe Mode and cleaned them with Driver Sweeper, rebooted, and installed drivers 182.50. Restarted once they installed, let my computer settle down, booted up Left 4 Dead again, and the same problem still occurs... I have no idea what this can be...

The error message in Event Viewer:- Display driver nvlddmkm stopped responding and has successfully recovered.

 

[Nate--IRL--]

I'd start by checking all your fans are working.

Nate

 

[Detrimentum]

I have 5 fans, 2 on my rad 3 exhausts, all running perfectly, and my case is spotless, since I entirely rebuilt it at the weekend. Thanks anyway..

 

[Sumanji]

Are you using 185.85? I had massive similar problems with that driver set and had to roll back to an earlier version (182.50)... maybe try that (or try the newest set?).

Su