R1 Crash Issues

My R1 has been crashing in some pretty nasty ways today. I've gotten a few total lockups ranging from a black screen while Skyping and playing SC2, as well as one total lockup where sound stopped working at whatnot as well.

This sounds like a graphics card issue to me, but I wanted to consult here. I currently have hybrid graphics disabled, am using a GTX 260m (single), and am using version 8.17.12.6099 of the non-hybrid driver (leastways I believe so).

Any suggestions or anyone experience these issues before?

 

Could try uninstalling the 3d stereoscopic driver. If that doesn't work try uninstalling physx and set physx to CPU in the nvidia control panel.

Mine was crashing occasionally with .wmv files (no prob on flash or in games). Removed the stereoscopic driver and physx and haven't had a crash since. Not playing any games that use physx atm so not too fussed.

 

Are you sure that's the correct driver version?
check in the NVIDIA control panel.

 

Drive version 260.99, I was looking in Comp Management. I'll give those a try if the issues persist.

 

This sounds like the same bug thats been hitting 80% of the M17xR1 users for the past year with the release of the "verde" range of drivers. If it is then there is no fix for it other than downgrading to the P06 beta drivers from dell.

If your happy to live with the occasional crash then 260.99 is the most stable of the lot. I've found they only crash about 2-3 times a week on my system.

 

I'll keep monitoring that then. Downgrading to older drivers seems kind of lame in my opinion.

 

As I've said in other threads, I've had zero crash since I've changed the Power Management mode to prefer maximum performance... with 260.99. You might wanna try that.

 

I'd downgrade the driver to an older version. 260.99 is very unstable on my machine, and the driver will often fail to respond, or cause the system to freeze during gaming.

I'm running the Dell-provided 197.52, and the stability is rock solid.

Remember, newer is not always better.

 

I also have a single 260M and with 260.99 I would get an error in the event manager;
Application Error Event ID 1000
Faulting application name: NvXDSync.exe
I would also get random lockups and black screen

I went back to 197.84

 

I tried the latest nvidia driver (206.99) last week when playing with my SSD, and it appeared to be stable but all 3D graphics was a bit jerky so thus like many other R1 users I went back to the P06 beta Dell driver.

 

I had lockup last night, but I was watching a high def movie while running TF2 in the background. Browsing under these conditions seems to be one of the triggers. I haven't changed my driver yet, but it does appear that it's mostly governed by heavy usage problems.

I also lowered my overclock by 200mhz, so if nothing more I will have lowered my temperatures somewhat.