GeForce 460m causing BSOD?

Hi all. This is my first time posting but I love this forum. I am hoping the experts here can help me.

I have been following Batboys' instructions for a clean install of Windows 7 on my M17xR3 and have run into a problem with the video card. I installed the video BIOS update from the Dell website and have had problems ever since. At first I could only boot into safe mode otherwise BSOD. I unistalled the card and reinstalled using the latest driver from nVidia 306.23. Now the computer will boot and run for a while but after 30 minutes or so same thing, BSOD. Is there a different driver I should be using? If not the is there a way to rollback the BIOS?

Thanks guys

 

I previously had a 460m, and yea it would throw bluescreens on the stock dell drivers, the 290.10 drivers and whatever the latest 300 series beta had been. Roll back to the official dell drivers, and with your next BSOD call tech support. What they eventually told me was that the 460m just did not play nicely with Optimus, and having eliminated all other possible causes of failure (not OS due to win7 clean install, not bios (tried A08, A10, and A08 modded that a tech installed), not speedstep, not memory/hdd/mobo) they sent out a tech to upgrade me to a 560m. Haven't had a BSOD in two months, which feels great.

 

have you made sure windows is fully up to date? I have always had issues with both AMD and Nvidia cards if you try to install drivers before SP1 was installed. After that the BSOD's would magically disappear for me.

 

Thanks for the replies guys. I am updating Windows now. I thought Service Pack 1 had been installed but I found that it's initial install had failed. I am going to let that finish and try installing the drivers again.

Thanks

 

No problem. Hope that fixed the issue you ya.

 

I hope your issues have been resolved with the installation of SP1. If in the unfortunate even that the BSOD's persist, feel free to zip and upload your dump files from C:\Windows\Minidump\ and I'll analyze them for you.

 

vBios / Drivers Issue

 

Of course now I can't get Service Pack 1 to complete it's installation. No errors the install just won't complete. I am going to start from scratch and do a clean install of Windows. I think I probably got to far with installing other things thinking that the Service Pack had already been installed. If I get everything installed and still see the BSOD I'll post the dump file here.

Thanks

 

The 460M I used to have in the old Qosmio X505 would BSOD a lot too so I don't think it's related to just Alienware and all that.

The 296.10 driver set was ridiculously unstable. I couldn't even run 1MHz over stock clocks without a BSOD, 285.62 was the only set that I could reliably utilize for that GPU. Oh well...