After fighting it for a couple of days, I'm pretty much willing to give up at this point. Weird thing is though (unless its not and im just grabbing at straws here), as long as i use standart windows drivers, things seem to work just fine (and by fine i mean windows actually starts and i can use things, such as browser, watch videos albeit with a shitty framerate, but i get to see things like this
), however no matter what i try (rollbacks, replacing nvlddmkm.sys with a newly extracted one, dusting, trying different pci cables, removing drivers with a help of driver sweeper and ccleaner, trying to do a "clean" install of the latest beta drivers etc.) it's just always crashes when nvidia drivers are present.
First time it happened a couple of days ago when i was playing (10 minutes at best) Tropico 4 ,card wasn't running hot or anything, it was one of the first things I'v checked (and was monitoring it, whenever i could, during the whole process). After restart windows booted just fine, i shrugged it off and decided to watch last ep of Game of Thrones, suddenly wild artifacts appeared (screen looked like a paper "punched in"), display flickered a couple of times and i got to see BSOD again (nvlddmkm.sys, x16 code, no artficats on it though, yet.). This reboot was successful too, though when i fired up browser to google things up, after a couple of minutes of searching, screen started to flicker again and i got a spree of TDR crashes (nvidia drivers has stopped working and recovered) before an eventual bsod. Though by that time i googled some possible solutions and started to try them out in safe mode.
One of the things that "helped" was a commonly suggested process of replacing nvlddmkm.sys by extracting a new one via cmd out of nvlddmkm.sy_ . Thanks to that i even managed to watch that GoT episode, however i felt like problem wasn't quite resolved yet, and decided to test it. Started a Dota 2 bot game and waited for a bit, artifacts started to appear couple of minutes in, but system didn't crash and there were no TDR error pop ups. So i figured i should push it a little bit further... with a Furmark. 5 seconds in, my gpu's agony was finally ended and now she just flat out refuses to work with nvidia drivers. All of the previously working "solutions" have no effect now, artifacts started to show up during BSOD too.
So the only thing i wanted to ask is it a 100% GPU being at fault here, or am i missing something ? Thanks in advance
First time it happened a couple of days ago when i was playing (10 minutes at best) Tropico 4 ,card wasn't running hot or anything, it was one of the first things I'v checked (and was monitoring it, whenever i could, during the whole process). After restart windows booted just fine, i shrugged it off and decided to watch last ep of Game of Thrones, suddenly wild artifacts appeared (screen looked like a paper "punched in"), display flickered a couple of times and i got to see BSOD again (nvlddmkm.sys, x16 code, no artficats on it though, yet.). This reboot was successful too, though when i fired up browser to google things up, after a couple of minutes of searching, screen started to flicker again and i got a spree of TDR crashes (nvidia drivers has stopped working and recovered) before an eventual bsod. Though by that time i googled some possible solutions and started to try them out in safe mode.
One of the things that "helped" was a commonly suggested process of replacing nvlddmkm.sys by extracting a new one via cmd out of nvlddmkm.sy_ . Thanks to that i even managed to watch that GoT episode, however i felt like problem wasn't quite resolved yet, and decided to test it. Started a Dota 2 bot game and waited for a bit, artifacts started to appear couple of minutes in, but system didn't crash and there were no TDR error pop ups. So i figured i should push it a little bit further... with a Furmark. 5 seconds in, my gpu's agony was finally ended and now she just flat out refuses to work with nvidia drivers. All of the previously working "solutions" have no effect now, artifacts started to show up during BSOD too.
So the only thing i wanted to ask is it a 100% GPU being at fault here, or am i missing something ? Thanks in advance