nvidia driver and win7 crash

[wellyn]

I have a problem with my graphics card and the nvidia drivers. When I was running on xp I had no problems then I upgraded to win7. If I run the default windows drivers then everything is stable, but when I load the dedicated drivers from nvidia or from palit whebsite then windows crash. I have tried diferent drivers but no joy.
Who crashed say it is a video TDR error probably caused by nvlddmkm.sys module and dxgkrnl.sys module
running Palit gts 250 card.

[IcePick88]

What version of Nvidia drivers are you using? This: http://www.geforce.com/Drivers/Results/38915 ??
What flavour of Win 7? 32 or 64bit?

Is windows crashing with a BSOD or does it give you a small pop-up in the right hand corner telling you that "The Display Driver" (TDR) stopped working and has recovered?

Perhaps try installing an earlier version of the Nvidia drivers and see how that goes.
First uninstall the current drivers and then install the other ones.

[wellyn]

64 bit
win first seem to hang for n sec or two then bsod but take about 10 min before it it happens every time, does not matter if i am playing a game or doing nothing

[IcePick88]

Try previous version of the drivers and see what happens.

Are you using the latest drivers?

[wellyn]

tried old drivers to ones i downloaded yesterday, all the same 10min or so and then crash. Uninstall and let windows load it's own drivers and now problems. The onley hickup with that is you cannot access you card with any of the tools. So no temp or fanspeed of overclock or anything.

[IcePick88]

tried old drivers to ones i downloaded yesterday, all the same 10min or so and then crash. Uninstall and let windows load it's own drivers and now problems. The onley hickup with that is you cannot access you card with any of the tools. So no temp or fanspeed of overclock or anything.

These tools you speak of. What are they?

Are you over clocking you card?
Perhaps uninstall all these tools, uninstall your graphics card and then re-install your gfx card without any tools.

[wellyn]

It is the vtune or nvidia system tools to check the settings of the card like temp, fan speed, clock speed, ram, est. and it only work with nvidia drivers installed. The problem is without the vtune or nvidia system tools installed and it does not matter whether they are installed or not, Onley when I install the drivers from nvidia or Palit the 10min ore so windows crash.

[wellyn]

It is the vtune or nvidia system tools to check the settings of the card like temp, fan speed, clock speed, ram, est. and it only work with nvidia drivers installed. The problem is without the vtune or nvidia system tools installed and it does not matter whether they are installed or not, Onley when I install the drivers from nvidia or Palit the 10min ore so windows crash.

[wellyn]

System Information (local)
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computer name: HOME-PC
windows version: Windows 7 Service Pack 1, 6.1, build: 7601
windows dir: C:\Windows
CPU: AuthenticAMD AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 4200+ AMD586, level: 15
2 logical processors, active mask: 3
RAM: 4294238208 total
VM: 2147352576, free: 1990959104



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Crash Dump Analysis
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Crash dump directory: C:\Windows\Minidump

Crash dumps are enabled on your computer.


On Mon 2011/11/21 12:13:44 PM GMT your computer crashed
crash dump file: C:\Windows\Minidump\112111-23078-01.dmp
This was probably caused by the following module: nvlddmkm.sys (nvlddmkm+0x1759C8)
Bugcheck code: 0x116 (0xFFFFFA80043CB4E0, 0xFFFFF8800F2389C8, 0x0, 0x2)
Error: VIDEO_TDR_ERROR
file path: C:\Windows\system32\drivers\nvlddmkm.sys
product: NVIDIA Windows Kernel Mode Driver, Version 185.93
company: NVIDIA Corporation
description: NVIDIA Windows Kernel Mode Driver, Version 185.93
Bug check description: This indicates that an attempt to reset the display driver and recover from a timeout failed.
A third party driver was identified as the probable root cause of this system error. It is suggested you look for an update for the following driver: nvlddmkm.sys (NVIDIA Windows Kernel Mode Driver, Version 185.93 , NVIDIA Corporation).
Google query: nvlddmkm.sys NVIDIA Corporation VIDEO_TDR_ERROR




On Mon 2011/11/21 12:13:44 PM GMT your computer crashed
crash dump file: C:\Windows\memory.dmp
This was probably caused by the following module: dxgkrnl.sys (dxgkrnl!TdrResetFromTimeout+0x214)
Bugcheck code: 0x116 (0xFFFFFA80043CB4E0, 0xFFFFF8800F2389C8, 0x0, 0x2)
Error: VIDEO_TDR_ERROR
file path: C:\Windows\system32\drivers\dxgkrnl.sys
product: Microsoft® Windows® Operating System
company: Microsoft Corporation
description: DirectX Graphics Kernel
Bug check description: This indicates that an attempt to reset the display driver and recover from a timeout failed.
The crash took place in a standard Microsoft module. Your system configuration may be incorrect. Possibly this problem is caused by another driver on your system which cannot be identified at this time.


On Mon 2011/11/21 11:59:25 AM GMT your computer crashed
crash dump file: C:\Windows\Minidump\112111-22734-01.dmp
This was probably caused by the following module: nvlddmkm.sys (nvlddmkm+0x1759C8)
Bugcheck code: 0x116 (0xFFFFFA8005FE4010, 0xFFFFF8800F2339C8, 0x0, 0x2)
Error: VIDEO_TDR_ERROR
file path: C:\Windows\system32\drivers\nvlddmkm.sys
product: NVIDIA Windows Kernel Mode Driver, Version 185.93
company: NVIDIA Corporation
description: NVIDIA Windows Kernel Mode Driver, Version 185.93
Bug check description: This indicates that an attempt to reset the display driver and recover from a timeout failed.
A third party driver was identified as the probable root cause of this system error. It is suggested you look for an update for the following driver: nvlddmkm.sys (NVIDIA Windows Kernel Mode Driver, Version 185.93 , NVIDIA Corporation).
Google query: nvlddmkm.sys NVIDIA Corporation VIDEO_TDR_ERROR

[hamin_aus]

http://forums.nvidia.com/index.php?showtopic=100800

[wellyn]

did some changes in the bios and loaded one of the old drivers again, will see if it works.

[IcePick88]

System Information (local)
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

computer name: HOME-PC
windows version: Windows 7 Service Pack 1, 6.1, build: 7601
windows dir: C:\Windows
CPU: AuthenticAMD AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 4200+ AMD586, level: 15
2 logical processors, active mask: 3
RAM: 4294238208 total
VM: 2147352576, free: 1990959104



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Crash Dump Analysis
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Crash dump directory: C:\Windows\Minidump

Crash dumps are enabled on your computer.


On Mon 2011/11/21 12:13:44 PM GMT your computer crashed
crash dump file: C:\Windows\Minidump\112111-23078-01.dmp
This was probably caused by the following module: nvlddmkm.sys (nvlddmkm+0x1759C8)
Bugcheck code: 0x116 (0xFFFFFA80043CB4E0, 0xFFFFF8800F2389C8, 0x0, 0x2)
Error: VIDEO_TDR_ERROR
file path: C:\Windows\system32\drivers\nvlddmkm.sys
product: NVIDIA Windows Kernel Mode Driver, Version 185.93
company: NVIDIA Corporation
description: NVIDIA Windows Kernel Mode Driver, Version 185.93
Bug check description: This indicates that an attempt to reset the display driver and recover from a timeout failed.
A third party driver was identified as the probable root cause of this system error. It is suggested you look for an update for the following driver: nvlddmkm.sys (NVIDIA Windows Kernel Mode Driver, Version 185.93 , NVIDIA Corporation).
Google query: nvlddmkm.sys NVIDIA Corporation VIDEO_TDR_ERROR




On Mon 2011/11/21 12:13:44 PM GMT your computer crashed
crash dump file: C:\Windows\memory.dmp
This was probably caused by the following module: dxgkrnl.sys (dxgkrnl!TdrResetFromTimeout+0x214)
Bugcheck code: 0x116 (0xFFFFFA80043CB4E0, 0xFFFFF8800F2389C8, 0x0, 0x2)
Error: VIDEO_TDR_ERROR
file path: C:\Windows\system32\drivers\dxgkrnl.sys
product: Microsoft® Windows® Operating System
company: Microsoft Corporation
description: DirectX Graphics Kernel
Bug check description: This indicates that an attempt to reset the display driver and recover from a timeout failed.
The crash took place in a standard Microsoft module. Your system configuration may be incorrect. Possibly this problem is caused by another driver on your system which cannot be identified at this time.


On Mon 2011/11/21 11:59:25 AM GMT your computer crashed
crash dump file: C:\Windows\Minidump\112111-22734-01.dmp
This was probably caused by the following module: nvlddmkm.sys (nvlddmkm+0x1759C8)
Bugcheck code: 0x116 (0xFFFFFA8005FE4010, 0xFFFFF8800F2339C8, 0x0, 0x2)
Error: VIDEO_TDR_ERROR
file path: C:\Windows\system32\drivers\nvlddmkm.sys
product: NVIDIA Windows Kernel Mode Driver, Version 185.93
company: NVIDIA Corporation
description: NVIDIA Windows Kernel Mode Driver, Version 185.93
Bug check description: This indicates that an attempt to reset the display driver and recover from a timeout failed.
A third party driver was identified as the probable root cause of this system error. It is suggested you look for an update for the following driver: nvlddmkm.sys (NVIDIA Windows Kernel Mode Driver, Version 185.93 , NVIDIA Corporation).
Google query: nvlddmkm.sys NVIDIA Corporation VIDEO_TDR_ERROR

So all these crashes are on the v185.93 drivers. Any crashes on v285.63?

And that 3rd Party driver comments leads me to believe it's driver related.
Totally uninstall the gfx card. Look for utilities that will clean up drivers on your system and re-install with the latest drivers. Perhaps one revision back and see.

[wellyn]

Still crashing 2 or 3 times a day. Sometime while I am busy and sometime While it is just down loading. Using Version 285.62 now, still the same.

[wellyn]

Replaced nvlddmkm.sys file from wddm1.1 with a newer one from wddm 2.0. Has been 2 days and no blue screen yet.