nVIDIA Graphics Drivers v361.43 Findings & Fixes

Thanks, it was my fault not to tell that Prema told me that those drivers along his latest mod, fix the throttling problem on the R2. But it seems that the drivers works for the minority of people.

 

Well, I think the drivers are pretty touchy, as Prema said the same config on 2 different laptops have a different result.

There have been posts of people with 361.43 working, only to have them come back later after uninstalling and reinstalling, and it stops working for them.

For me I thought it was working fine, but it turns out my laptop model doesn't like it while booted on battery, at least 2 of us have the same problem.

Fortunately we can boot on Intel GPU on battery, so I have left 361.43 installed for now. It might not install/work again if I play with uninstalling it.

PM Prema to help work out the conundrum.

 

359.14 is Clevo's latest official and stable driver...not sure though if they have made it public, yet.

If you want to try the 361.43, then flash my AW18 vBIOS instead of the Clevo version (it's based on newer stock version, which is almost mandatory to even install this driver).

 

I've been having a very weird issue.

In the past, I tried flashing to the XMG BIOS which is the same as the stock clevo BIOS but has the XMG boot logo. After using it for a while, I noticed that my screen is flickering heavily, it would even do it while I was in the BIOS screen not only in Windows.

@Mr. Fox told me that is probably because I didn't wait for 30 secs with the system powered down after I flashed it. I was running the stock VBIOS as well on my 980Ms

Yesterday, I played Need For Speed for about 30 mins then that flickering happened again. This time I was using Eurocom's Prema BIOS Mod. It bothered me a lot so I flashed the stock CLEVO BIOS again and now it hasn't happened. Today I flashed the PREMA VBIOS on both my GPUs again but with the stock CLEVO BIOS, I will monitor the situation and see if it happens again, I really don't know what is the issue here....

PS: Running drivers 359.00 BTW

 

If it happened the first time while everything was stock and then later on while on the Mod, then why would you wanna waste your time thinking it is (v)BIOS related...better check your driver/OS/hardware.

By cross-flashing non matching versions, you may only end up bricking the system.

 

Can you elaborate on this cross-flashing thing? I don't get it or the dangers of it. While flashing, I did see a message in the BIOS updated about the not all area (as in space) is available or something like that and I didn't understand what area and what it meant

As to why I did it, I didn't know what else to think or try, I didn't think it would be driver related if it even happened while I wa in the BIOS screen. Something seems to have triggered it after that XMG BIOS Flash then it went away for a long time, then yesterday it came back but I wasn't on the PREMA VBIOS yesterday it was the stock VBIOS so today I went back to the PREMA VBIOS

PS: It didn't happen while everything was stock, it happened while I was on the XMG BIOS then happened yesterday on Eurocom's Modded BIOS

 

XMG BIOS is stock Clevo (apart from name/logos).
If it happened in DOS...well not good...maybe a broken screen cable...

Also when you flash my Mods, make sure to use BIOS/ME/EC/EC2 & vBIOS that come bundled with, as that's the way we test them before it's pushed to partner/public.

EDIT: Also wrong thread, sorry for OT.

 

Well Eurocom told me to run mset.exe which made my fans spin up then the system rebooted, then I performed the BIOS update and powerd off the system for 30 secs.

I wasn't aware if there were other steps required to manually updated ME or EC or EC2

 

Sorry, whatever you flashed there isn't my stuff then...

 

So with 359.14 does your vBIOS works with SLI 980M without any throttling problem? I could not test 361.43 with your vBIOS (Mod 1.1.1 downloaded from your website yesterday) because it did not boot at all :S.
Sorry maybe I misunderstood you. :/

 

So wait, these newer drivers need the AW18 version to work right? I hope that's not the case going forward, I like my undervolted vbios!

 

NVIDIA broke this driver while trying to please an ODM...should be fixed in the next release.
Otherwise I already have new Mods using newer bases, so either way no problemo.

 

Prema to the rescue! Lol

 

Which ODM was this?

 

I'd be interested in a VBIOS mod you may have that solves the 361 driver install failure, Prema. Under my current VBIOS the driver runs and installs flawlessly but crashes Windows completely under your AW18 v1.1.1 mod :/
Thanks!

 

Edit: Irrelevant post,was commenting on 361.60 didn't realize a thread already existed

 

@Ethrem you didn't mention it, but have you tried managing TDR's with TDR Manipulator, the same guy that does DDU:

Wagnard Tools (DDU,GMP,TDR Manipulator, *new* CPU Core Analyzer)-(Updated 01/04/2016)
https://forums.geforce.com/default/...zer-updated-01-04-2016-/post/3846695/#3846695

"...In other words, TDR usually enhance stability. But in some case where a problem in the videodriver is making some thread to be stuck a bit too long on the GPU, that you can have some TDR (GPU reset) happening and making games crash as resetting the GPU while playing is not a good idea, by disabling TDR or play a bit with the value, it can help workaround your issues or help identifying problems."

 

I also want to know. Think you can divulge Prema?

 

http://dell.benyouhui.it168.com/thread-5675348-1-1.html

 

DELL of all people? O_O

 

You surprised bro? I'm not!!

Sent from my LG-H811 using Tapatalk

 

Prema can fix it. See my post in the 361.60 thread

http://forum.notebookreview.com/threads/nvidia-361-60.786773/page-5#post-10179645

 

Wait, so this driver adds GTX 980m support to the m18xR2? I mean, that's what I understood through the garble of Google translate.
Why?

 

It appears to fix the throttle in the M18xR2.

 

No, that card has no official support. But as Ethrem said it reduces the unusually high TDP throttle on all AW systems for GTX7-9 to "normal" throttle as seen on other brands.