Solved Nvidia Driver Crashed/Not Responding, BSOD

[shin89]

Hi guys, the issue that I am facing is basically the screen going black at random times, before showing on the taskbar "Nvidia driver not responding", and this would happen a few more times before the system will crash with a BSOD about some nvidia driver file.

This issue seem to surface after I installed a new cpu+mobo (2600k+p67 fatality). I have done a fresh format of my hard disk and did the necessary driver installation for the motherboard etc.

As for the graphics card, I tried installing the latest nvidia drivers and even rolled back to an older Nvidia driver for my 8800GT but the problem still arises.

Here's the crash dump file. I hope someone could decipher it.
082912-66238-01.dmp

I appreciate the time and effort you guys spend in helping me here.
Thanks in advance!

 

[Vir Gnarus]

For this particular crashdump you brought to our attention the graphics driver you've decided to use is back from May 2009, which predates Windows 7. Can you provide a crashdump from an instance where the driver was most recent?

Other than that, this is a typical TDR fault. This commonly occurs from a failing video card, but graphics driver issues and other factors than cause this behavior as well. Best thing to do first is use the very latest Nvidia drivers for your graphics card (make sure to uninstall previous drivers for it), and then update your motherboard chipset drivers as well as BIOS to latest for that manufacturer. If your new mobo has onboard video, make sure the drivers for that are not installed, as it can conflict.

That's all I can say for now. Go ahead and make those changes and come back if things don't ease up.

 

[shin89]

For this particular crashdump you brought to our attention the graphics driver you've decided to use is back from May 2009, which predates Windows 7. Can you provide a crashdump from an instance where the driver was most recent?

Other than that, this is a typical TDR fault. This commonly occurs from a failing video card, but graphics driver issues and other factors than cause this behavior as well. Best thing to do first is use the very latest Nvidia drivers for your graphics card (make sure to uninstall previous drivers for it), and then update your motherboard chipset drivers as well as BIOS to latest for that manufacturer. If your new mobo has onboard video, make sure the drivers for that are not installed, as it can conflict.

That's all I can say for now. Go ahead and make those changes and come back if things don't ease up.

Hi thank you for your fast reply!

I've done an uninstall of my previous driver (295.73) restart on safe then did a driver sweeper of nvidia.
Now I'm currently on the latest driver (301.42) but the crash still persists.

Motherboard chipset drivers are latest from the ASRock website.

Here are the recent logs that might help: Shin89.zip

 

[Vir Gnarus]

Does your power supply have the capacity to support your new CPU? Don't forget that a PSU's wattage output will degrade with each year of use. If your PSU is having a hard time generating power with the new CPU installed, you may see some unusual problems as devices will not receive all the power they need.

Other things you can do right now is to remove your video card, check and clean up the slot that it was installed in, and re-seat it. Also if the card has an auxiliary power connection of some sort on it, make sure you've attached that to your motherboard properly as well. If all that goes well and you still have problems, you may just have a bad mobo and will have to RMA it.

 

[shin89]

Does your power supply have the capacity to support your new CPU? Don't forget that a PSU's wattage output will degrade with each year of use. If your PSU is having a hard time generating power with the new CPU installed, you may see some unusual problems as devices will not receive all the power they need.

Other things you can do right now is to remove your video card, check and clean up the slot that it was installed in, and re-seat it. Also if the card has an auxiliary power connection of some sort on it, make sure you've attached that to your motherboard properly as well. If all that goes well and you still have problems, you may just have a bad mobo and will have to RMA it.

It is a 650W Bronze certified PSU that has been used for only 2-3 years.

So the only possible problems are the motherboard, graphics card and psu?
Does the dump file say the same thing?

Thanks for the reply!

 

[Vir Gnarus]

The crashdump file was a TDR fault, as in the driver for the video card did not respond to a request after a certain period of time and failed to successfully resuscitate when requested. While there could be an issue with your video card, there's a myriad of other causes for this. I only ventured to believe we're dealing with your motherboard because you said this only just started happening after the new mobo installation (unless video card is new too?). Unless something coincidental happened during the mobo switch, then something involving the new motherboard is most likely the deal here. We've already ruled out the driver being the problem, so now I can only venture to believe the video card is not responding because of some fault with it or with the motherboard PCI-E bus.

 

[shin89]

The crashdump file was a TDR fault, as in the driver for the video card did not respond to a request after a certain period of time and failed to successfully resuscitate when requested. While there could be an issue with your video card, there's a myriad of other causes for this. I only ventured to believe we're dealing with your motherboard because you said this only just started happening after the new mobo installation (unless video card is new too?). Unless something coincidental happened during the mobo switch, then something involving the new motherboard is most likely the deal here. We've already ruled out the driver being the problem, so now I can only venture to believe the video card is not responding because of some fault with it or with the motherboard PCI-E bus.

Thank you so much for your detailed reply. I'll send my motherboard for a check down at the distributor and will reply here again.

 

[shin89]

Switched out the 8800GT for my current msi 5850, and the computer is running smoothly

Guess it's just a problem with the graphics card. Thanks for your help Vir Gnarus!

 

[Vir Gnarus]

So you have a new graphics card as well? I'm not quite following. I was under the suspicion the only new components for your PC are the mobo and CPU, correct?

 

[shin89]

So you have a new graphics card as well? I'm not quite following. I was under the suspicion the only new components for your PC are the mobo and CPU, correct?

I have 2 computers, so I tried to rule out the components that might be having problems. I took out my 5850 from another computer to try on this one to make sure it was not the mobo having problems.

 

[Vir Gnarus]

Ah ok, so I take it the graphics card itself was bad. That's kinda odd that it would only start causing symptoms after the new mobo was installed. Perhaps some weird compatibility problem? Either way, sounds good. Mark as solved when you feel confident in the assessment that it's the graphics card.