nVIDIA Graphics Drivers v361.75 Findings & Fixes

The eject option is for this 980 laptop

Spoiler

 

I don't have this bug on my laptop with a desktop 980 GTX

 

It's not a bug, it's a feature.

 

Prema emailed me this morning. Fixed vbios for non-GSYNC machines is out!

http://forum.notebookreview.com/thr...r-gsync-models-yet-fix-for-361-series.787553/

 

That was the WORST case of TDRs I've ever experienced! I was doing nothing but watching King of the Hill on VLC and I got about 15 TDRs one after another and then VLC crashed. Keep in mind that VLC has been playing King of the Hill for about 10 hours while I was sleeping without any issue. That gets a big fat "DISLIKE" from me...

 

GeForce Hot Fix driver 361.82

Code:

 nvidia.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/4026

This is a GeForce Hot Fix driver,
version 361.82 that addresses
the following issues:
Eject NVIDIA Graphics Device

 

hmmmm.....they're still listing new drivers on the site

 

hmmmm.....they're still listing new drivers on the site

 

361.75 has been working fine for me for the past few days, lots of gaming and no TDR's or other strangeness - it's behaving nicely.

Also, no more Nvidia dGPU display driver crashes when booted on battery like I had with 361.43.

I don't see any Eject options in systray, Nvidia Control panel, or Device Manager, so either I don't have that problem or I don't know where to look.

361.75 is a keeper for me so far on my GT80 SLI-263 SLI 980m

 

I got fed up with 10 and installed 7 as a dual boot. Surprise surprise - no more issues with anything in my system including this driver.

 

When you say you got fedup? in what exactly? Driver issues such as this or something else?

 

I forgot how nice Windows 7 was but my main issue is that Windows 10 had crashes with everything and both 8.1 and 10 force maintenance tasks when in high performance mode which would wake me up in the middle of the night with blaring fans. I ran all the updates for Windows 7 and then ran the script to remove all the telemetry garbage, manually installed IE 11 (while I don't use IE, there are too many apps that do which would have huge security holes without it), and voila - blazing fast system, secure system that doesn't spy on me, and whisper quiet when idle.

The only thing I haven't been able to get used to is that I can't right-click my start menu anymore to get access to everything I use which I've done since 2012 with Windows 8. Oh and EFI install was not the most pleasant experience either, it took a lot of tinkering with the BIOS to get it to even let me install it to the hard drive. I ended up having to turn on the CSM but set it to boot from EFI drives only which is contrary to everything online that says the CSM breaks 7. Anyway, 10 is still on one SSD and Windows 7 added an entry for it to its boot loader automatically and the two OSes even shared the EFI boot partition on the 10 drive.

I did take an approximate 4% graphics performance hit dropping from 10 to 7 with these drivers but of course got the expected boost in physics and since I'm not seeing TDRs every 5 seconds, that's 100% improvement over 10.

 

I tried Windows 7 on my Eurocom Sky X9 and it was a major fail. I formatted again within 30 mins.

as much as I love Windows 7, it sucks with these new NVMe SSDs man, like I have a boot time on Windows 10 of about 8 seconds....on Windows 7 it is a 35 second boot time...... that killed it for me, I often reimage to install new drivers and stuff and installing drivers on Windows 7 with this slow boot is a nightmare...

PS: Yes I did load the NVMe hotfix for Windows 7 along with the Samsung NVMe drivers but no help

 

Yeah Windows 7 definitely wasn't made for your machine but I'd still take an increase in boot time over all the 10 issues.

My machine was made for 7 and 8.1 (and comes with the driver discs for both) but getting 7 to cooperate with EFI was not pleasant.

 

Right, even on my previous Alienware 18, I had to enable CSM to get 7 to boot.

If I was on the Intel HD Graphics, I can boot in pure UEFI mode, but the moment I switch to the GeForce GPU(s), I would hang on the splash screen so I had to enable CSM

I personally love UEFI, super fast boot

 

That's the thing though... I'm still using UEFI. The CSM has all drivers set for UEFI and its UEFI boot only. I don't know, it was a nightmare to install but it works fine now. I think it was Clevo who broke it personally, they're not known for the best EFI implementation. If it wasn't for me running Prema's BIOS, I don't think I would have gotten it working properly in EFI.

 

One thing to note for the future, when installing in UEFI mode (regardless of CSM setting), when getting the boot menu options, you have the option to boot the Windows 7 installer in legacy or UEFI mode, if you did boot it in UEFI mode, then you must diskpart/clean the disk so that Windows installer can initialize it as GPT as that is the standard for UEFI. If you booted off the device in Legacy mode, the disks must be initialized as MBR.

In the past like I would try to install Windows, and it would say Windows cannot be installed on this disk until I have done the above.

 

Yes I know about all that. It was throwing weird errors at me until I enabled the CSM and then it worked right away but it's UEFI, I just don't have my custom Phoenix boot logo anymore =(

 

Sadly Maxwell and AW17 with Win7 won't work at all, too painful, except one way that's only using optimus which is trash..OEMs screw up everything that comes in their way. Now this is awful considering how bad Windoze10 is, I think the LTSB is the best way to get most out of Win X, rest is overloaded-bloated-spyware garbage.

And iirc the Phoenix can run Win7 according to Mr. Fox with all drives removed and some options to be particularly set in BIOS (Prema MOD) then Install Win 7 on one drive remove that and install Win 10 on another drive (for separate bootmngrs) NVMe just doesn't work with Win7 Bootmanager, but the Win7 can use the NVMe to full extent.

Spoiler: P870DM - Win7

A little Intro
BIOS settings

These new drivers are too much bug ridden wth is that GPU eject how in world they can just push that without any testing, what in the world going on at nGreedia, it is really absurd and suspicious.

 

They already have a HotFix for the GPU eject: http://nvidia.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/4026

As most of their HotFix drivers, it works for both Desktop and Laptop.

 

tried it and it causes my laptop to go into a black screen when loading windows.

 

Well, damn... I want Prema to make me a custom undervolt vBIOS so I can try the newer drivers but hearing all of those reports of issues scares me... Maybe I'll just stick with Prema vBIOS v1.1.1 and NVIDIA driver 359.00...

 

361.75 + prema v2 vbios works without issue, it's just the 361.82 + prema v2 vbios that is having issues and I believe it is the fault of the driver.

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Same here.. Stuck on 359.06.. Still haven't heard anything from @Prema...

 

Now things are really annoying, the Clevos atleast work with the Maxwell+ garbage drivers the 361.82 HF for ejecting GPUs + Prema mod 2 and AWs are going through hell !!

Is that why @TomJGX you sold the M17x R4 for the P771ZM ?

M$, AW, nGreedia all are garbage.

 

prema said 361.82 HF works on clevo laptops so i don't know what the difference is that's causing the screw up...dodgey INF mod? I don't know.

 

Regular Video_TDR_Failure after going to 361.75. Had to downgrade to 361.60 hot fix version which worked best for me



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361.82 works great for me on Prema v2 undervolted vBIOS.

 

I moved to P771ZM because Windows 10 + Precision X corrupted the Alienware's screen.. Also the above of having to mod drivers...