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!
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!
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