NVIDIA display driver repeatedly crashes after login

[acdvp]

Hi,

I'm having a problem with the NVIDIA display driver repeatedly crashing and recovering, after just logging in. The screen blacks out upon which I am presented with the message that the driver has stopped responding and recovered. If I leave the computer at desktop, with no programs open, I eventually get a BSOD with locale id 116.

This problems started after exiting witcher 2, following a prolonged gaming session, and now my computer is basically unusable as the driver constantly crashes. I have an MSI gtx670 power edition card and have tried updating and rolling back the driver, but still get the same problem. I do monitor my temps during gaming and the highest GPU temp I saw was 70c.

Am I right in thinking that my graphics card needs replacing? Any help would be much appreciated. Thanks

 

[Shasha23]

remove the gpu and use onboard graphics uninstall all NVidia drivers, go to local disc C and search for anything NVidia related and delete it, plug you gpu back in and update windows and motherboard drivers, install NVidia drivers(not beta) and your got to go

hope it heps

 

[Tom Tancredi]

So to start with the basics here step by step

Uninstall the Video drivers. Download either 3DGurus Driver Sweeper or get Driver Fusion. Run than to REALLY remove ALL Nvidia drivers. Reboot. Be in VGA mode, redownload drivers for Nvidia, reboot. Check all other drivers that could be affecting this by updated with SLIM DRIVERS.


That wopuld be the immediate first step. Several other steps would check other parts but lets see if this works right off.

 

[acdvp]

Sorry for the delay in getting back...

Thanks for both of your advice. I managed to fix the problem by using this guide to clean uninstall NVIDIA drivers (with Driver Fusion instead of Driver Sweeper):

https://forums.geforce.com/default/topic/467215/geforce-driver-installation-guide-a-guide-to-ensure-your-drivers-are-installed-properly-/

Everything was fine when I reinstalled the latest driver