nvlddmkm stopped responding ?

[CrispSandwich]

Hi, Anybody else having the same problem ? Just put together my new rig and cant play anything :-(


Intel Core 2 duo 6600 @2.40Ghz
Asus Striker Extreme mobo
Geil Ultra ddr2 2048MB
BFG 8800GTX OC

 

[bfdd]

You are using vista correct? Get the most recent drivers off nvidias site if that doesn't work, try running memtest on your ram and see if there's any faults. If neither find you a solution go bitch at nvidia on their forums for making crap drivers.

 

[CrispSandwich]

Yeah i'm using vista 64 and the latest drivers. Not looking good, just found thishttp://forums.nvidia.com/index...howtopic=25381&st=1280

It seems a lot of people are having this problem, i wish to god nvidia would sort this crap out ! a brand new 8800gtx and i cant play any games !

 

[Mem]

Also overclocked video cards can cause this problem too,underclocking fixes it.

 

[bfdd]

Yea I had this problem till the newest drivers, I don't anymore. It could be your memory, one of my sticks was bad in an old kit I had before this one and it would cause the driver to error, try running memtest to see if you have any bad ram. I suggest doing 1 stick at a time to see if 1 is bad.

 

[CrispSandwich]

Thanks guys, i'll try both of your suggestions when i get home. fingers crossed.

 

[techfuzz]

I have this problem intermittently too ever since upgrading to Vista x64. Bitching in their forums won't do a damn bit of good--their forums are not official. And if you complain directly to nvidia, they'll either ignore your complaint or reply with a canned response telling you to contact your card's manufacturer instead. Seeing as how I never had this problem with XP, I can deduct the problems lies in their drivers and it's going to take many more releases before they iron out these painful bugs.

techfuzz

 

[LOUISSSSS]

worst comes to worst, try a complete reformat, install the latest nvidia drivers from their website, and install the game that ur having the problem with, only. in an attempt to isolate the problem

this is assuming your memory has no problems (but probably not since nvidia is known to have problematic drivers in vista since vista's debut)
this is also assuming you've already tried to uninstall ur drivers, then booted into safe mode, driver cleaner, then restart, then reinstall new drivers...

best of luck to you

 

[1Dark1Sharigan1]

Yeah this is very likely a driver problem. Sometimes the latest drivers may not be the best either. I kept getting this same STOP error when I loaded up Halo 2 on Vista with the 158.45 beta drivers (the newest ones out) but when I installed the 160.04 drivers (second-newest ones out), things went smoothly.

The problem is that it really will depend on your rig. Some people have great experience with the 158.xx drivers, and some people's systems run better on other drivers (such as 160.xx)

And nvidia's confusing driver release names and dates just makes everything even more confusing.

 

[CrispSandwich]

Ok i've tryed your suggestions and few i heard on other forums, thought the problem was gone after playing Fear and the overlord demo for a whlie, but tryed to play the lost planet demo and it happened again

Tbh i think i'll just go back to XP while i wait for Nvidia to sort this mess out, it's not worth the stress at this point.....hope this problem is only in vista ??

Thanks for your help.

 

[n7]

nVidia can go f*ck themselves, seriously :|:frown::|

I have been getting that & the drivers have failed/stopped error with the various official nV drivers i've been trying since i bought my 8800 GTX.

It seems to happen randomly, sometimes doesn't for days, then it does it a couple times in a day.

It just happened to me again, & the worst thing is, for me it basically results in a black screen that starts flashing like a f*cking disco as it attempts to restart the driver, etc.

Only way to get back to functionality is to do a hard shutdown via the power button.

That & the random mini-lockups in UT2k4 are f*cking pissing me off to no end.

n7 might just be getting an HD 2900 XT yet :frown:

 

[bfdd]

Originally posted by: n7
nVidia can go f*ck themselves, seriously :|:frown::|

I have been getting that & the drivers have failed/stopped error with the various official nV drivers i've been trying since i bought my 8800 GTX.

It seems to happen randomly, sometimes doesn't for days, then it does it a couple times in a day.

It just happened to me again, & the worst thing is, for me it basically results in a black screen that starts flashing like a f*cking disco as it attempts to restart the driver, etc.

Only way to get back to functionality is to do a hard shutdown via the power button.

That & the random mini-lockups in UT2k4 are f*cking pissing me off to no end.

n7 might just be getting an HD 2900 XT yet :frown:

And people complain hd2900xt drivers aren't mature yet =) I had this problem up untill a month ago =\ I had to go back to XP 32bit and couldn't utilize all my ram(had 8gb at the time) which SUCKED. Ended up just reinstalling vista 64bit and biting the bullet till the most recent drivers fixed the problem for me.

 

[Ponza]

Ok, this problem has started for me recently, and I'm am trying to find any solution I can to fix it. I saw someone suggest running a memory test (memtest) to make sure my memory isn't going. Makes sense, but I do I run that? I'm not exactly Windows savvy

 

[chizow]

As others said, run some tests to see if your RAM is at fault. There's the Windows Memory Tool you can run by having the install CD in when you boot, which is a bit more simplistic than Memtest86. If that shows problems then run Memtest86 for a more thorough diagnostic.

I recently made the switch to Vista64 and noticed any problems with memory are much more pronounced when compared to XP. Maybe its because Vista will use all of your system RAM and is constantly caching data or the drivers and OS are less tolerant of read/write faults. I started having similar issues after about 2 weeks, driver stopped responding/recovering every 2-3s, ctds, hard crashes and general flaky performance. Messed around a bit with memory timings/speed/voltage and noticed changes impacted stability slightly.

Turned out both of my RAM sticks were faulty and I had em RMA'd to Crucial. 2nd pair of Ballistix that died on me, but Crucial customer service is great and overnighted some replacements. Been running great since then.

Overall Vista is pretty nice, but it wouldn't hurt to wait a few months to let em work out a few more issues. NV driver quality for Vista is excellent imo, I just wish Creative would release similar quality drivers.

 

[nullpointerus]

I had similar problems with my RAM although it only affected other devices in the system (DVD, HDD, TV tuner).

nVidia's GPU drivers may be good, but their SATA driver is awful. The two SATA drivers that have appeared on Windows Update BSOD on every boot in Vista 64-bit when memory remapping is enabled in my BIOS. I also got random BSOD's on startup and during normal usage with the 15.00 drivers off nVidia's website.

Unfortunately, nVidia's Vista driver feedback form is only for their GPU drivers. :thumbsdown:

 

[bfdd]

another good thing if you have a lot of ram is turn off the virtual page file off your harddrives. I noticed I was having lots of hard faults once I disabled that it went to VERY VERY VERY few.

 

[imported_BS]

Dont be so quick on the gun I have an HD2900XT and to have got the driver not responding problem a few times. This could be a Vista problem.

 

[Mem]

Originally posted by: BS
Dont be so quick on the gun I have an HD2900XT and to have got the driver not responding problem a few times. This could be a Vista problem.

Don't think so since I don't get any problems with Vista x64 and my Nvidia drivers in any games ,FYI been using Vista since January,would of shown up on my PC by now if it was.


Perosnally I would look at other areas like ram timings,anything overclocked(even factory OC video cards),memory testing,cooling,PSU to name a few suggestions.

 

[n7]

Originally posted by: BS
Dont be so quick on the gun I have an HD2900XT and to have got the driver not responding problem a few times. This could be a Vista problem.

Good god i hope not.

I highly doubt it though, since my X1900 XT ran more than fine in Vista 32 & then 64 for the last half a year.

All my problems have started after getting this 8800 GTX...

 

[Woofmeister]

I noticed that Mem who has never experienced the problem (OK, Mem, we get it, you have no problems with Vista evah ) is running a 7800GT while everyone else complaining about the problem on this thread is running 8 series cards. Anybody see a pattern?

 

[n7]

Originally posted by: Woofmeister
I noticed that Mem who has never experienced the problem (OK, Mem, we get it, you have no problems with Vista evah ) is running a 7800GT while everyone else complaining about the problem on this thread is running 8 series cards. Anybody see a pattern?

Good observation, but the pattern i see is that the AT rigs feature has been broken for years, so the only way to update your rigs is delete the old ones & add new ones...which only works sometimes (i managed to get it to work after trying about 10 times :frown: )

IOW, Mem might be running an 8800...but maybe he's not gaming enough...you don't notice the problems w/o a lot of gaming i've found.

 

[Mem]

Originally posted by: n7

Originally posted by: Woofmeister
I noticed that Mem who has never experienced the problem (OK, Mem, we get it, you have no problems with Vista evah ) is running a 7800GT while everyone else complaining about the problem on this thread is running 8 series cards. Anybody see a pattern?

Good observation, but the pattern i see is that the AT rigs feature has been broken for years, so the only way to update your rigs is delete the old ones & add new ones...which only works sometimes (i managed to get it to work after trying about 10 times :frown: )

IOW, Mem might be running an 8800...but maybe he's not gaming enough...you don't notice the problems w/o a lot of gaming i've found.

I have changed my ISP and PSU from my main rig (as you know can't edit at moment),but still running 7800GT card.

I'm holding off until next gen of cards,why change now when its all running sweet (at least for me) oh and I don't overclock at all, so don't know if that comes into the equation too.


Btw my factory shipped OC 7800GT card will give me that error message(nvlddmkm stopped responding( at factory default OC speed,I had reduce OC a little,however I had to do same thing in XP with this card even before I installed Vista,thats why I said try reducing OC on your video card even factory shipped ones,works for me FYI only 10mhz underclock so technically still overclocked 7800GT card.

 

[imported_BS]

Originally posted by: Mem

Originally posted by: BS
Dont be so quick on the gun I have an HD2900XT and to have got the driver not responding problem a few times. This could be a Vista problem.

Don't think so since I don't get any problems with Vista x64 and my Nvidia drivers in any games ,FYI been using Vista since January,would of shown up on my PC by now if it was.


Perosnally I would look at other areas like ram timings,anything overclocked(even factory OC video cards),memory testing,cooling,PSU to name a few suggestions.

I disagree, Did the solve problems thing within Vista and got a message back that they are trying to resolve this issue. And to further put this as not a certain video card issue heres the link I got from ATI when I submitted a ticket. And regardless on how it reads it happens whenever it feels like it, Could be several days could be several hours.

http://support.ati.com/ics/sup...ledge&questionID=27116

 

[imported_BS]

Originally posted by: n7

Originally posted by: BS
Dont be so quick on the gun I have an HD2900XT and to have got the driver not responding problem a few times. This could be a Vista problem.

Good god i hope not.

I highly doubt it though, since my X1900 XT ran more than fine in Vista 32 & then 64 for the last half a year.

All my problems have started after getting this 8800 GTX...

My X1800XT in the same system also didn't give me any issues. Who knows maybe it has something to do with DX10? Food for thought!

 

[Woofmeister]

Originally posted by: Mem

Originally posted by: n7

Originally posted by: Woofmeister
I noticed that Mem who has never experienced the problem (OK, Mem, we get it, you have no problems with Vista evah ) is running a 7800GT while everyone else complaining about the problem on this thread is running 8 series cards. Anybody see a pattern?

Good observation, but the pattern i see is that the AT rigs feature has been broken for years, so the only way to update your rigs is delete the old ones & add new ones...which only works sometimes (i managed to get it to work after trying about 10 times :frown: )

IOW, Mem might be running an 8800...but maybe he's not gaming enough...you don't notice the problems w/o a lot of gaming i've found.

I have changed my ISP and PSU from my main rig (as you know can't edit at moment),but still running 7800GT card.

I'm holding off until next gen of cards,why change now when its all running sweet (at least for me) oh and I don't overclock at all, so don't know if that comes into the equation too.


Btw my factory shipped OC 7800GT card will give me that error message(nvlddmkm stopped responding( at factory default OC speed,I had reduce OC a little,however I had to do same thing in XP with this card even before I installed Vista,thats why I said try reducing OC on your video card even factory shipped ones,works for me FYI only 10mhz underclock so technically still overclocked 7800GT card.

Geez, you're surprisingly untroubled by having to downclock a factory overclocked card. I'd be fuming! Even if its a difference of 10mhz, you should at least be able to run your card at the speed promised. Anyway, running my cards at stock speeds makes no difference, I still get the NSR message in certain games.