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    Display driver nvlddmkm stopped responding- DV9640US

    Discussion in 'HP' started by hovercraftdriver, Feb 5, 2009.

  1. hovercraftdriver

    hovercraftdriver Notebook Deity

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    Does anyone have any insight to this? My wife's laptop gets this error running a variety of programs, form Yahoo Spades, to simple websurfing, to Windows based programs and games. It has the 8600 GS GPU, and I have installed multiple drivers, the latest being the 179.32 from HP.

    I have read many threads on the net about this happening to any number/combo of systems and vid cards. It appears that it is not even nVidia alone, as ATI users get the message as well, but obviously not as nvlddmkm. Seems to happen in XP and Vista. Fingers pointing at MS and the card makers.

    I will say that it seemed to have happened after I did complete restore to new condition. Or maybe she had this before hand, but pinged on other things that made me restore.

    Anyway, here are her main specs:
    8600M GS -256
    Vista 32 Premium
    1.5ghz core duo
    2 meg ram

    Again, I have exhaustively searched...only posting here in hopes that someone else has found a solution to the issue. Thanks
     
    hovercraftdriver, Feb 5, 2009
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