Display Driver stopped working and successfully recovered itself

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#1 Chip3D
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I am sure you know this problem. I am searching all over the net for solution but all i see is people who just saying "they also have it"
I play CoD and last week the screen went blank few times and since then it does it all the time. It says a warning message that the Display Driver nvlddmkm stopped working and successfully recovered itself.
I uninstalled the driver and reinstalled it again but it still does it...i have the latest version of the graphic driver (i've Geforce 9800GT Windows Vista - i say it because i understood that Nvidia cards and Vista has this problem a lot)

The weird thing is that it just happened out of nowhere suddenly it happenes..."out of the blue"
What to do?

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#2 Luminouslight
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It sounds like the video card is unstable and probably due to temperatures. Log your temps during a game right before it crashes with GPU-Z.

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#3 xXDrPainXx
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When you uninstalled it did you completely remove all nvidia related components? Sometimes DLLs stay behind and cause issues when the driver is reinstalled. Also you might try rolling back the driver to a previous revisions since not always does the latest and greatest driver fix all issues.
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#4 AlligatorAl
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Prior to upgrade to Win7 I had updated my video driver for latestVista 64-bit 191.07. All my games worked fine. After the upgrade to Win7 some games worked, others crashed with a variety reasons, CoD being one. DL'd and installedlatest drivers again, no change. Re-installed game, no change, Finally DL'd 190.62 and all is well with the world, all games play fine. If you are using Vista try rolling back your drivers, If you have upgraded to Win7 you will not be able to roll back unless you updated after the install. Nice thing about Win7 is there is no removal orreboot required when you update a driver.

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#5 Chip3D
Member since 2009 • 25 Posts
When you uninstalled it did you completely remove all nvidia related components? Sometimes DLLs stay behind and cause issues when the driver is reinstalled. Also you might try rolling back the driver to a previous revisions since not always does the latest and greatest driver fix all issues.xXDrPainXx
I'm not sure what u mean. All i did was i went to Control Panel -> Device Manager -> Display Adapter and from there i did uninstalled then reinstalled the driver and updated to 191.07. It still does this problem
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#6 IIIRUSHIII
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I get this very same thing when i play MW2 Tried the same steps as you with no luck
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#8 Chip3D
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Wow i'm desperate...i reinstalled it again and still my CoD: MW2 does this problem. Do i need to simply wait for Nvidia to make another patch for its driver or what???
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#9 Chip3D
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It sounds like the video card is unstable and probably due to temperatures. Log your temps during a game right before it crashes with GPU-Z.

Luminouslight
and how do you do that? (i am not understand too much in all the computers stuff lol)
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#10 xXDrPainXx
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Are you still installing the latest driver? Try a older version if you can just to test and see if it crashes, if it does it crap on MW2 and Nvidias parts and you might have to wait until either side fixes it.
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#11 Chip3D
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Are you still installing the latest driver? Try a older version if you can just to test and see if it crashes, if it does it crap on MW2 and Nvidias parts and you might have to wait until either side fixes it.xXDrPainXx
Yeah i even rolled back the the previous version and it still does this problem...i guess that unfortunately i will have to wait for them to fix it....
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#13 Bane_v2
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Take a look at this site if you haven't already: http://www.nvlddmkm.com/ I used to get that error very frequently. The BIOS auto-detected my RAM settings all wrong and the solution was to manually set the RAM voltage and timings to their correct values. It worked for me, I haven't had the error since, but it may not be the issue for you.