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    Nvidia drivers crashing about

    Discussion in 'Gaming (Software and Graphics Cards)' started by Tsun, Sep 15, 2010.

  1. Tsun

    Tsun Notebook Consultant

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    I thought i got this fixed but no. I got too lazy and just dealt with it untill now lol.

    So, once upon a time i had drivers of something like 198.???. Then i decided to update to the newest (258.96), and my laptop started crashing when i played games. Sometimes even when i don't play anything.
    I really don't want to go back because my framerates pretty much doubled after the driver update.

    I uninstalled old drivers, went to safe mode, ran driver sweeper, restarted normally, installed new drivers and restarted.

    When it crashes, either
    1. The screen first goes at like 5fps for a moment, then goes black, then the sounds start doing this crippling noise out of whatever was playing. And it stays there untill i force-restart.(or my ears explode from the noise)
    2. Screen goes black, returns to normal and shows this:
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    So, any ideas what could be the cause and/or how to fix?
     
  2. LakeShow89

    LakeShow89 Notebook Evangelist

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    Yeah that happens to me too but I am in college so I cant get the motherboard replaced. For me its video memory corruption problem.