Laptop BSOD (nvlddmkm.sys)

Boozad · 22 Mar 2015

meddy05 · 22 Mar 2015

Hmm. It seems during uninstalling the device my laptop screen has turned black but it is still on. I'm posting through phone.

essenbe · 22 Mar 2015

have you tried rebooting?

meddy05 · 22 Mar 2015

Just tried to reboot and I got a BSOD again on startup saying IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL. I'll post the dumps as soon as I'm in safe mode.

meddy05 · 22 Mar 2015

As soon as I logged into safe mode the ATA device and multiple ATA channels had reinstalled themselves. Which is telling me to restart my computer as it has done installing. I'm going to reboot the PC and see if I get the error again.

Rebooting again after those drivers had automatically installed themselves resulted in the same BSOD.

essenbe · 22 Mar 2015

I think that is what should have happened. You simply changed drivers. You uninstalled one driver and on reboot the other driver was installed. Under IDE ATA/ATAPI devices in Device Manager it should say MSAHCI now.

Boozad · 22 Mar 2015

As Steve said that process went as should be expected, but this is really confusing me. The last dump you had is blaming your nVidia driver, and checking the driver's date it's preceding the one I linked.

Code:

0: kd> lmvm nvlddmkm
start             end                 module name
fffff880`04a74000 fffff880`05573000   nvlddmkm T (no symbols)           
    Loaded symbol image file: nvlddmkm.sys
    Image path: \SystemRoot\system32\DRIVERS\nvlddmkm.sys
    Image name: nvlddmkm.sys
    Timestamp:        Mon Oct 28 21:38:03 2013 (526ED93B)
    CheckSum:         00AD0AFE
    ImageSize:        00AFF000
    Translations:     0000.04b0 0000.04e4 0409.04b0 0409.04e4

meddy05 · 22 Mar 2015

That is extremely odd. I'll try re-installing the one you have given me again and following that guide Steve had made, I guess.

In the meantime, my device manager says this:

meddy05 · 22 Mar 2015

Is the PC accessing an old nvlddmkm.sys file? Because I did sometime ago follow a nvlddmkm.sys.old guide with a 2015 driver. But that was a 2015 one, I don't recall ever downloading a 2013 one. The one listed in PCSpecialist is also a 2014 one.

Boozad · 22 Mar 2015

Device Manager is looking good, we need to sort out that nVidia problem now though. Let us know how installing the last linked driver goes.