XPS M1530 Display Driver stopped responding

Hey everybody, I have windows 7 pro on my Dell M1530 XPS laptop and over the past month I've started experiencing problems while watching/streaming video's online.

The screen locks up, so I try to get it back with CTRL + ALT + DEL, and when it comes back within 2-5 min...the video that I was watching is all green and I get the following error:

Display Driver Stopped Responding and has recovered
Display driver NVIDIA Windows Kernel Mode Driver, Version 270.61 stopped responding and has successfully recovered.


Is anybody else experiencing an issue similar to this? I reinstalled Windows 7 a few days ago and same issue still.

I've done memtest and swapped my 8gigs for my original 4 gig's.



Any suggestions?

 

What driver version are you on? My Vostro 1500 is running 270.61 Nvidia for my 8600M GT.

 

270.61 here, with my 8400M GS

 

http://forum.notebookreview.com/del...my-xps-1530-being-replaced-due-gpu-fails.html

 

Have you tried reinstalling the OS?

Also could be the first stages of the failing Nvidia chip..

 

Yes I've reinstalled the OS.

This is most likely a driver issue it seems like. I'd rather not think it's hardware as many other people seem to be having problems with this same driver.

Official WHQL NVIDIA 270.61 Display Driver Feedback Thread For NVIDIA Geforce Desktop/Notebook/ION GPUs - NVIDIA Forums - Page 14

 

hey i'm having exactly the same problems with my m1330 with the 8400M GS. it's been happening to me for like 4 months now. dumb me I haven't tried going back to a driver version that was stable before and see if it still works, but you might want to try that out.

 

Can you install an older version of the driver and see if it helps? some also say it can be cause by adobe's flash driver.

Let me know please

 

Well I went back to the 258.96 drivers from like July 2010 and it hasn't crashed yet. I've had the drivers installed for about a day now, and watched several YouTube and Hulu videos to test it out. Works fine as far as I can tell.

 

What I did was uninstalled the 270.61 driver from windows restarted and installed the 266.58 driver.

I loaded up a youtube video, seemed fine. Loaded up another video on top, screen did flickered once or twice. Loaded up a 3rd video and it crashed.


I honestly hope it's not a faulty GPU....if it is...Thinkpad here I come!

 

Try going back to a 250 series driver; mine has been working fine since I put 258.96 on it. I think it's the 260 and 270 series drivers that are giving us the problems.

 

What I did last night was downloaded the Nvidia 258.xx series driver from their site, ran a full re-install of W7 pro x64 on my m1530. Once it loaded up after the install, I went to youtube with the factory Windows driver and opened up 5 youtube videos, all random and all playing at the same time. No problem at all, normally by now it would have flickered and locked up. I then did a few small windows updates, then I installed the Nvidia 258.xx driver.

Driver install went fine, restarted pc and went back to youtube and tested everything, still...running fine with 5 youtube videos on at the same time. Did W7 SP1 update, installed and restarted and tested. 5 Windows open on youtube videos at the same time and no problems.

It's safe to say that its a software driver issue and to prevent this, run an older 25x.xx driver.


Thanks Kozzney for letting me know about the series I needed to use.

 

Glad to hear that worked for you!