Solved Nvidia windows kernel mode driver version 301.42 stopped responding

[Mintos45]

Have you guys doing a clean install of nVidia drivers?

Download 301.42 and copy the file on to your desktop. Then go to Control Panel and uninstall NVIDIA PhysX and 3D Vision. Reboot your computer and enter safe mode. In Device Manager, select the Display Adapters Tab, and right-click your Graphics Card - Select Uninstall. Reboot your computer and wait until the computer has reinstalled the driver software for your card. Reboot the computer again, and install 301.42 through your desktop shortcut.

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It worked for me, no more black screens

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[Mintos45]

This issue has been happening for months, before the 301 drivers and the 295 drivers (possibly before 283, also). I performed the Clean Boot procedure with both methods (disabling startup, then services); disabled startup was still crashing, disabled services I just did last night and no crashes so far in the one game I've played.

It's interesting you mentioned this bit. Let's try and narrow down which service it could be...

Go back to the System Configuration tool (msconfig), services tab, and start by ticking your services (after hiding all Microsoft sevices) one at a time, with a reboot each time and playing a game.

Repeat the process until you discover which service is giving you the problem.

How about Hiding all Microsoft Services and ticking half of the list - if that half has no errors when playing a game, tick the next half. Hopefully, the next half should have some problem - tick half of the next half (or a quarter of the total list) and try again.

I think it's easier to do it that way, maybe I'm wrong...?

 

[Bruntz]

Have you guys doing a clean install of nVidia drivers?

Download 301.42 and copy the file on to your desktop. Then go to Control Panel and uninstall NVIDIA PhysX and 3D Vision. Reboot your computer and enter safe mode. In Device Manager, select the Display Adapters Tab, and right-click your Graphics Card - Select Uninstall. Reboot your computer and wait until the computer has reinstalled the driver software for your card. Reboot the computer again, and install 301.42 through your desktop shortcut.

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It worked for me, no more black screens

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I have performed a clean install - removing all drivers (screen looks really weird without any drivers) and then an install of new drivers. Still crashes.

 

[Bruntz]

This issue has been happening for months, before the 301 drivers and the 295 drivers (possibly before 283, also). I performed the Clean Boot procedure with both methods (disabling startup, then services); disabled startup was still crashing, disabled services I just did last night and no crashes so far in the one game I've played.

It's interesting you mentioned this bit. Let's try and narrow down which service it could be...

Go back to the System Configuration tool (msconfig), services tab, and start by ticking your services (after hiding all Microsoft sevices) one at a time, with a reboot each time and playing a game.

Repeat the process until you discover which service is giving you the problem.

All services disabled, all startup disabled, clean boot performed, still getting black screen for 4-5 seconds and then Windows recovers.

So discouraged. Anything else for me to try?

 

[Mintos45]

Have you guys doing a clean install of nVidia drivers?

Download 301.42 and copy the file on to your desktop. Then go to Control Panel and uninstall NVIDIA PhysX and 3D Vision. Reboot your computer and enter safe mode. In Device Manager, select the Display Adapters Tab, and right-click your Graphics Card - Select Uninstall. Reboot your computer and wait until the computer has reinstalled the driver software for your card. Reboot the computer again, and install 301.42 through your desktop shortcut.

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It worked for me, no more black screens

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I have performed a clean install - removing all drivers (screen looks really weird without any drivers) and then an install of new drivers. Still crashes.

Does the black screen repeatedly occur (screen goes black, message "NVIDIA Windows Kernel mode Driver Version 301.42 has stopped responding and has successfully recovered" appears - then the screen goes black AGAIN, message appears again, screen goes black etc etc etc) or does it just happen once during your gameplay?

 

[Bruntz]

Have you guys doing a clean install of nVidia drivers?

Download 301.42 and copy the file on to your desktop. Then go to Control Panel and uninstall NVIDIA PhysX and 3D Vision. Reboot your computer and enter safe mode. In Device Manager, select the Display Adapters Tab, and right-click your Graphics Card - Select Uninstall. Reboot your computer and wait until the computer has reinstalled the driver software for your card. Reboot the computer again, and install 301.42 through your desktop shortcut.

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It worked for me, no more black screens

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I have performed a clean install - removing all drivers (screen looks really weird without any drivers) and then an install of new drivers. Still crashes.

Does the black screen repeatedly occur (screen goes black, message "NVIDIA Windows Kernel mode Driver Version 301.42 has stopped responding and has successfully recovered" appears - then the screen goes black AGAIN, message appears again, screen goes black etc etc etc) or does it just happen once during your gameplay?

It's completely random. During a League of Legends game it'll happen once or twice within 30 minutes, or sometimes not at all, or sometimes 4 times. Screen will go black for 4-5 seconds and if I alt+tab during that time, I can see the driver crash bubble in the lower right once it comes back.

I performed a clean install as you detailed above - removing all drivers, reboot, removing vid card, reboot, letting card reinstall, reboot, installed 301.42 drivers, reboot, and still crashes.

What's next?

 

[Mintos45]

Interesting...
Have you tried doing a security scan of your computer? Reinstalling LoL?
If both fail, it's probably a fault of the video card itself - contact the manufacturer/store and see what they say.

 

[japaneseelf]

issue solved at my end.

Here is what i did.

* Uninstalled all the nVidia Drivers.
* Switched off the PC.
* Took out the graphic card, n cleaned it with a static free brush. there was a lot of fine dust on it. Cleaned it to
almost brand new state.
* plugged it in and restarted the PC.
* Win 7 automatically detected the card and installed the default driver.
* Installed the 285.62 driver set.
* That did the trick for me. Ran the system for 18 hrs straight without any issues.

Hope the above mentioned info will help others too.

Regards,

 

[Bruntz]

I'm thinking of just getting a new video card, at this point. Everything else hasn't worked, so perhaps the card is going bad.

Any last suggestions?

 

[Mintos45]

Well my friend had his card replaced because Dell Support couldn't solve the problem, so the "faulty card" problem is a possibility.t

 

[Bruntz]

Switched a new card in, everything seems to be working fine now! Thanks for the help, everyone.

 

[dannyd77]

Could you come back in a while (let's say a week) to let us know if swapping the card is really working out for you.

Thanks!

 

[rockko]

I've done all the suggestions in this thread already, including switching video cards (from 8600GT to 8800GT) and I have the exact same problem still... Except I don't get the message when playing games, only while watching videos, including on the internet (youtube, etc)! frustrating...

 

[Mintos45]

I've done all the suggestions in this thread already, including switching video cards (from 8600GT to 8800GT) and I have the exact same problem still... Except I don't get the message when playing games, only while watching videos, including on the internet (youtube, etc)! frustrating...

Try updating your Java and/or Flash Players to the latest version.

 

[Becks440]

I get this same debilitating error when I play Diablo 3. It seemed to have started a few months ago after either a windows update, or an nvidia update. Regardless, I've tried using multiple versions of nvidia drivers to no avail. Like Bruntz mentioned, sometimes the error will randomly appear while at other times it's damn near constant. At the moment I haven't been playing other games so I don't know if it would have affected them too, but the error has only occurred during the game and not while browsing the internet or playing media. Believe me when I say I've looked through hours of forums and tried all the methods mentioned in this thread and many more, but frustratingly I have never been able to find a solution. I have also tried the following: a complete reinstall of windows; changing windows registry values; updating every possible driver I could after legitimately removing the previous versions; running the game using various vid settings in both the game and the nvidia control panel; reinstalling the game; running error and stress tests on all the hardware, only to come up "OK!"; and finally performing thorough virus detection in safe mode as a last desperate attempt. At this point if I wasn't on a laptop I would just say screw it and replace the damn card, but alas I am not. If there was an actual fault in the video hardware, wouldn't the error occur all the time while utitilizing it, both in windows and games, rather than periodically?

 

[Mintos45]

It's the phantom curse! RUN FOR THE HILLS!!!!


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Try uninstalling your graphics card in Safe Mode and using Driver Sweeper on the NVIDIA CHipset, Display and PHYSX.
Then reboot and let windows detect the "new" graphics card.
Then reboot again and install 301.42......

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I think NVIDIA should really do something about this. Either they're too lazy or not enough people are complaining...??

 

[Becks440]

I used Driver Sweeper before, but not while in safe mode. I'll try going that route, however given all the other failed attempts I'm going to go out on a limb and say the error will remain. I was also going to comb through more nvidia forums (yet again), but I see that nvidia has suspended their forums since mid July because of "suspicious activity". The plot thickens...

 

[Becks440]

Try uninstalling your graphics card in Safe Mode and using Driver Sweeper on the NVIDIA CHipset, Display and PHYSX.
Then reboot and let windows detect the "new" graphics card.
Then reboot again and install 301.42

Tried that but the error still came up within 30 seconds of starting gameplay. Very peculiar to note that when I went to nvidia.com to download the newest drivers, it said I already had the most current version of 301.42. However when I clicked download anyway, it downloaded version 296.10. After uninstalling and wiping the registry files in safe mode, I installed the version nvidia gave me. I thought this backstep in versions was odd, so I went back to nvidia and now it says 296.10 is the most current. What the hell is going on over there at nvidia? Nonetheless, the problem remains.

 

[Mintos45]

Looks like NVIDIA has screwed up again...

Your best bet is to switch to an AMD card or contact your computer manufacturer

 

[donsedin]

Hello, i have red this thread, and i have/had this same problem, but when i do clean boot i do not receive any error. Can someone tell me how to check which driver is making a problem. Also i have this error when i open multiple tabs in chrome (sometimes not always), or when i watch movie and skip frames, no errors when gaming at all. Also i did dual boot win7 x86 and never had any error at all.