Question Black Screen Driver Crash and Recover Windows Event ID 13

[Arbiter051]

z390 aorus pro F12I
evga 3060ti ftw
9900ks
32 gb of Corsair LPX @3000
850w 80+ Gold Corsair RMX PSU
Windows 10 20h2

System was built in August 2019 and all the parts were bought new. The gpu was bought and installed back in October of last year. My original GPU was an MSI gtx 970.

Nothing OC except my Ram is using XMP Profile

Yesterday I had an issue out of the blue. I was just doing my thing, playing a game and all of the sudden I hit the windows key to bring up my taskbar then my 3 monitors froze, my main one went black and then everything came back. A few seconds later the game crashed. I could still hear audio while this was going on.

when this was happening my fans would ramp to 100% on the gpu and then when the screen came back they would go back to normal. I use precision x to control my fan curve.

I then loaded up a different game and as as I picked my character to load in, the game gave me an error and it again my gpu driver crashed. I checked Reliability Checker and it said event 141. Event viewer said Event 13 and that it was related to my nvidia driver. Specifically it said this.

The description for Event ID 13 from source nvlddmkm cannot be found. Either the component that raises this event is not installed on your local computer or the installation is corrupted. You can install or repair the component on the local computer.

If the event originated on another computer, the display information had to be saved with the event.

The following information was included with the event:

\Device\Video3
Graphics Exception: ESR 0x40a790=0x80000080

The message resource is present but the message was not found in the message table

I then used DDU, installed the latest driver and so far I have had no problems since.

I had an issue a few months ago with sort of the same thing on another different driver. Shortly after I updated to what was the latest driver at the time, I tried messing with Spotify in the nvidia control panel (Don't ask it was for dome reasons), I left my room, came back a minute later to seeing one of my side monitors having green glitches and all 3 of my screens were flickering. I rolled back my drivers and nothing happened till yesterday. Weird thing is, this happened on the driver that was supposed to be fine.

Everything is working fine from what I can tell, though now I am hyper sensetive to everything and it’s driving down the rabbit hole, I am just paranoid now heh... Just a few questions.

I have my windows updates paused at the moment and nothing new has been installed. Only thing new are my games updating and my browsers updating. Is it possible for gpu drivers to just "become corrupted" by nothing happening?
Does windows do silent updates in the background and not report them? I can see this causing something to happen.
Have there been reports of Nvidia drivers being problematic?

I did a lot of research yesterday and reading up on stuff made me a bit more paranoid.

Just looking for anyone to shed some light and let me know if this is something that just happens with drivers. Thank you!

 

[Lutfij]

Considering that the PSU is now about 3 years old and your GPU was recently purchased, what GPU were you working with prior to the RTX3060Ti? BIOS version for your motherboard at this moment of time? Also, you state being on Windows but what IOS are you working with? If you're on Windows 10, please mention the version(not edition) of the OS.

They usually find drivers for things that aren't installed, so apart from the OS + Defender definition updates, you shouldn't be seeing updates for your GPU drivers happen. Also, the differing period is usually 1 week, last I checked...I end to leave the updates alone and let the OS do it's thing. I've only been bugged one time after a clean install where I didn't install relevant drivers manually, whereby the OS found drivers it thought was right and ruined my system's optimal performance.

Nvidia/AMD drivers have been problematic for as long as I can remember. Being the early adopter is often the wrong path, so if anything give it a few weeks before you adopt latest drivers and educate yourself if anyone has had any issues(forums/reddit).

 

[Arbiter051]

Considering that the PSU is now about 3 years old and your GPU was recently purchased, what GPU were you working with prior to the RTX3060Ti? BIOS version for your motherboard at this moment of time? Also, you state being on Windows but what IOS are you working with? If you're on Windows 10, please mention the version(not edition) of the OS.

They usually find drivers for things that aren't installed, so apart from the OS + Defender definition updates, you shouldn't be seeing updates for your GPU drivers happen. Also, the differing period is usually 1 week, last I checked...I end to leave the updates alone and let the OS do it's thing. I've only been bugged one time after a clean install where I didn't install relevant drivers manually, whereby the OS found drivers it thought was right and ruined my system's optimal performance.

Nvidia/AMD drivers have been problematic for as long as I can remember. Being the early adopter is often the wrong path, so if anything give it a few weeks before you adopt latest drivers and educate yourself if anyone has had any issues(forums/reddit).

Sorry for not including that info, I updated my post with them. Windows 10, F12I and Msi 970.

I know the drivers can be extremely buggy believe me. Thing is, after the first time it happened a month ago, I reverted back to the driver I was on and it was already 2 months old at this point and I stayed on that driver until this problem happened yesterday (weirdly enough this happened 2 months after the first glitch) and now I am currently on the newest driver. I don't usually update to the newest driver unless I have a problem occur. You make a good point about doing research of newer drivers before updating and I do research before I update a driver to see what other people say about them.