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display driver nvlddmkm stopped responding and has successfully recovered
Hello I have a 2 months old XPS 720h2c with dual gtx 8800 and I cannot play games on it. After 10 to 20 minutes the screen goes blank then sometimes I get the blue screen, sometimes I can start the Task Manager and stop the game. If I can stop the game without bluescreen and restart, windows lets me know this: "display driver nvlddmkm stopped responding and has successfully recovered". I have Windows vista 64, Qx6800 3,7Ghz, 4093 MB ram at 800 mhz. I also used the latest drivers from Nvidia I even tried the beta driver. Current nvidia driver version is 7.15.11.6925. Windows Update service cheerfully informs me that my Windows is up to date. I see posts concerning this problem dating back to 6 months ago. After 6 full months this problem is still up and kicking. We pay ALOT of money on these machines in order TO USE them not to spend time reinstalling windows and drivers and reading threads on forums. And no, I dont want to install XP, I wanted Vista and Direct X 10, that's why I bought 2 500$ videocards.
odenwalder
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Posted January 11th, 2008 12:00
This was mostly determined to be a Vista problem and there were four (4) Vista hotfixes along with an Nvidia driver update to correct this. I do not no if the Vista fixes are automatically applied via Windows Update, so I would check for these via a web search to be certain that they have been applied to your machine. Based on the fact that you are getting this error, which has become rare on DCF, I would guess that they have not been applied.- I have done a format/factory image restore, and as soon as I started Windows I still received this error. Also, with all updates (latest ones released Jan 08), the error message persists. I cannot browse the net or play video games at all because the system locks up. This is nonsense really. I have chatted with tech support, and nothing has helped. This is from problem reports and solution in control panel: Problem caused by NVIDIA Graphics Driver This problem was caused by NVIDIA Graphics Driver. This program was created by NVIDIA Corporation. NVIDIA Corporation does not currently have a solution for the problem that you reported.
Message Edited by _GURU_ on 01-13-2008 09:26 AM - What I have done is do a search for the nvlddmkm files. then do an advanced search with indexed and hidden files. I have found that there were some old nvlddmkm files that were dated as early as the year 2006. delete all those files. "BUT DO NOT DELETE THE CURENT FILES DATED THE SAME AS YOUR CURRENT GRAPHICS DRIVER" only all previous ones. see if that helps.. madbirmy
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Posted January 11th, 2008 12:00