Assorted freezes and crashes when gaming

[Rika88]

Hi

I keep getting crashes whenever I go into a game. The symptom seems to be that whenever I do something remotely graphics intensive, I will get the one of following crashes;
- "Display driver crashed and recovered",
- Screen Freeze (have to hard reset to recover)
- Monitor blacks out and lost signal (hard reset to recover).

I managed to get the attached bluescreen dump files when the computer started back up. I have also attached my Dxdiag This has been going on for a while, and I don't know what is wrong.

Can someone point me in the right direction as to how to diagnose this?

Thanks

 

[Arc]

Hello Rika88.

This is the problem actually.

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[COLOR=Red]Unable to load image nvlddmkm.sys, Win32 error 0n2
*** WARNING: Unable to verify timestamp for nvlddmkm.sys
*** ERROR: Module load completed but symbols could not be loaded for nvlddmkm.sys[/COLOR]
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Use !analyze -v to get detailed debugging information.
[COLOR=Red]
BugCheck 1000007E[/COLOR], {ffffffffc0000005, fffff880100ef8c4, fffff88003e8d388, fffff88003e8cbf0}

[COLOR=Red]Probably caused by : nvlddmkm.sys[/COLOR] ( nvlddmkm+2358c4 )

Followup: MachineOwner
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7: kd> lmvm nvlddmkm
start             end                 module name
fffff880`0feba000 fffff880`10b68000   nvlddmkm T (no symbols)           
    Loaded symbol image file: nvlddmkm.sys
    Image path: nvlddmkm.sys
    [COLOR=Red]Image name: nvlddmkm.sys
    Timestamp:        Sat May 21 09:37:04 2011 [/COLOR](4DD73A68)
    CheckSum:         00C9FFFF
    ImageSize:        00CAE000
    Translations:     0000.04b0 0000.04e4 0409.04b0 0409.04e4

Iy's an old nVidia display driver that is causing the crashes. Update the driver, following the option two of Drivers - Download NVIDIA Drivers.

 

[Rika88]

Thanks so much! I'll give that a try.

 

[Rika88]

Hi

I have updated the Nividia driver to 306.23 as instructed through Nividia's automatic driver search.

However, when I started up and played Shogun 2, the screen randomly froze and the computer restarted. Attached is the dump file that I obtained.

Thanks

 

[Rika88]

Hi

Any updates or guidance?

 

[Arc]

Rika88, it is a VIDEO TDR ERROR.

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Use !analyze -v to get detailed debugging information.

[B][COLOR=Red]BugCheck 116,[/COLOR][/B] {fffffa80085384e0, fffff880109be004, ffffffffc000009a, 4}

Unable to load image nvlddmkm.sys, Win32 error 0n2
*** WARNING: Unable to verify timestamp for nvlddmkm.sys
*** ERROR: Module load completed but symbols could not be loaded for nvlddmkm.sys
Probably caused by : nvlddmkm.sys ( nvlddmkm+ad6004 )

Followup: MachineOwner
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Follow the suggestions of this thread http://www.sevenforums.com/crash-lo...op-0x116-video_tdr_error-troubleshooting.html carefully, step by step. If there is any question, ask us.