- Sep 28, 2010
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Greetings. This is going to be a pretty long post of what I've done (I'll probably forget some of it) and a bunch of other stuff. I've been fighting a VERY persistent "Display driver nvlddmkm stopped responding and has successfully recovered" issue for almost 3 months now. It has been driving me absolutely crazy. I'll start by listing some detailed specs off first:
My display driver crashes once every couple of days, maybe 2-3 times a week, completely randomly, and only while I'm playing games. I recently thought I figured it out. I put in a GTX 570 that a friend gave me and my problem disappeared for a week and a half so I contacted EVGA and had them RMA my 970 thinking it was that's what was causing it. While the GTX 970 was away, I had the GTX 570 in my computer for 36 days: from June 1st until July 7th and I did not experience one display driver crash, everything was fine, no issues at all.
My new replacement card arrived from EVGA on Tuesday and I put it in. Everything was fine until earlier today when the same thing that was happening before happened again. So now it's the same issue as before, brand new 970. I purchased my original 970, along with all the other components, in the beginning of January and everything was fine until around April whenever this problem started.
At this point I'm thinking it has something to do with the GTX 970. I don't think the second card is also defective so at this point I'm thinking it may be my power supply. 650w should be enough for the system but maybe something within it is defective.
Now, onto the Event Viewer.
There were 52 issues in Event Viewer that all occurred 5 seconds before the display driver stopped responding and recovered. Every entry is the same except for the last line on every other entry. The message that was the same is:
Source: nvlddmkm
EventID: 13
Now, every even numbered message ended with the line:
And now I'll list all the odd messages that vairied:
After all those errors happened the "Display driver nvlddmkm stopped responding and has successfully recovered" occurred.
So now it's on to things I have tried with no results:
SO. At this point, I really don't know what could be causing it, but the list is narrowing, I guess. I was almost 100% certain that a different graphics card was going to fix it...but it didn't. So now it's down to PSU, RAM, Motherboard, or maybe the new graphics card they sent me actually is broken. I guess my next step is to replace this power supply with a spare 1000W Corsair that my friend said I could borrow.
Thanks for any help or suggestions.
Intel Core i5-4690 3.5GHz
EVGA GTX 970 Superclocked ACX 2.0
ASUS H97-PLUS
Corsair Vengeance 8GB 2x4GB DDR3
Corsair HX Series HX650 650W Power Supply
Windows 7 SP1 64bit
These matter less, putting them here anyway
Plantronics Gamecom headset
Deathadder 2013 mouse
Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO CPU Cooler
Lite-on CD/DVD drive
Crucial MX100 256GB SSD
Seagate Barracuda 1TB HD
My display driver crashes once every couple of days, maybe 2-3 times a week, completely randomly, and only while I'm playing games. I recently thought I figured it out. I put in a GTX 570 that a friend gave me and my problem disappeared for a week and a half so I contacted EVGA and had them RMA my 970 thinking it was that's what was causing it. While the GTX 970 was away, I had the GTX 570 in my computer for 36 days: from June 1st until July 7th and I did not experience one display driver crash, everything was fine, no issues at all.
My new replacement card arrived from EVGA on Tuesday and I put it in. Everything was fine until earlier today when the same thing that was happening before happened again. So now it's the same issue as before, brand new 970. I purchased my original 970, along with all the other components, in the beginning of January and everything was fine until around April whenever this problem started.
At this point I'm thinking it has something to do with the GTX 970. I don't think the second card is also defective so at this point I'm thinking it may be my power supply. 650w should be enough for the system but maybe something within it is defective.
Now, onto the Event Viewer.
There were 52 issues in Event Viewer that all occurred 5 seconds before the display driver stopped responding and recovered. Every entry is the same except for the last line on every other entry. The message that was the same is:
Source: nvlddmkm
EventID: 13
Now, every even numbered message ended with the line:
And now I'll list all the odd messages that vairied:
After all those errors happened the "Display driver nvlddmkm stopped responding and has successfully recovered" occurred.
So now it's on to things I have tried with no results:
Set the processor option to GeForce GTX 970 in the NVIDIA Control Panel
did a MEMTEST over night, RAM passed with 0 errors after 10 hours
set the Power Management mode to Prefer Maximum Performance in NVIDIA CP
set the TDRDelay to 8 seconds using Microsoft's FIXITNOW option as well as setting it manually myself
The latest graphics card drivers have always been installed. This error has occurred on 350.12, 352.86, 353.06, and 353.30
I've also used DDU in safe mode to uninstall the drivers every time
Nothing in my system is overclocked, everything is stock
I've tried resetting the pagefile
System File Checker was run
Driver Verifier was run and caused no issues
Someone recommended uninstall 2 random windows updates, that did nothing
reformatted my PC
SO. At this point, I really don't know what could be causing it, but the list is narrowing, I guess. I was almost 100% certain that a different graphics card was going to fix it...but it didn't. So now it's down to PSU, RAM, Motherboard, or maybe the new graphics card they sent me actually is broken. I guess my next step is to replace this power supply with a spare 1000W Corsair that my friend said I could borrow.
Thanks for any help or suggestions.
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