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    M1330 BSOD. NVidia drivers?

    Discussion in 'Dell' started by leftside, Dec 17, 2007.

  1. leftside

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    My M1330 is BSOD quite regularly - about once an hour. The BSOD usually has some error in regard to the NVidia drivers. I have the latest drivers: 7.15.11.5669, so I am a little concerned it might be something more serious than a driver issue. Here are a couple of event logs in relation to nvddmkm:

    The description for Event ID 14 from source nvlddmkm cannot be found.
    The following information was included with the event:

    \Device\Video4
    CMDre 00000000 00000088 ff1fe111 00000007 00000000

    \Device\Video4
    CMDre 00000000 0000008c 00000000 00000005 00000008

    I also get these errors, but I am unsure if they are related:
    The BCM42RLY service failed to start due to the following error:
    The system cannot find the file specified.

    The following boot-start or system-start driver(s) failed to load:
    nvport.

    I noticed a bunch of drivers on www.laptopvideo2go.com. There are a lot on there... Is it recommended to use any of these? I am most interested in stability.

    Thanks in advance
     
    leftside, Dec 17, 2007
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