Display driver nvlddmkm stopped responding and has successfully recovered

Hello everyone!

I made a thread about this in the ASUS forum thinking it was a computer issue, after some research I learned it was another Vista issue! YAY!!!!!

So I am just going to be lazy and copy and paste what I said there into here!

"Hey everyone, I have an ASUS G50Vt-X2 and I have recently been experiencing an odd bug. Whenever I play Warhammer Online or Lord of the Rings Online every now and again the screen will black out and then appear again. It is not a game specific bug.

Anyone know what is going on? After awhile the program will usually close and tell me the display dirver had stopped and has recovered.

All your insight is appreciated! I will subscribe to this thread to keep you all as updated as possible with any questions you might have regarding my situation!"

DO NOT! I REPEAT: DO NOT! Tell me to download the latest drivers from LaptopVideo2Go or Nvidia. THEY. DO. NOT. DO. ANYTHING. TO. SOLVE. THIS. ISSUE.

Thanks again!

 

How about checking your event logs for the time that happened, to see if anything got logged; that might enable us to more specifically identify why that driver is crashing.

 

The driver usually crashes when a graphics card is overclocked too high, and therefore the driver crashes, and when it restarts, the clock speeds start extremely low.

 

I ain't tell you to get the driver from the 2 sources above, but I would recommend that you can try the followings:

1. Remove/uninstall the drivers from the above sources

2. Let your Vista / Asus update the gpu driver for you.

3. Quote here from one blog - from nvidia control panel:
"anisotropic filtering = 4x
antialiasing gamma correction = ON
antialiasing mode = override ….
antialiasing seting 4x
antialiasing transparency = OFF
conformat texture damp = OFF
error reporting = ON
extension limit = OFF
force mipmaps = none
multi display…= SINGLE…
texture filtering anisotropic sample optimization = OFF
Texture filtering negative lod bias = ALLOW
texture filtering quality = HIGH QUALITY
texture filtering trilinear optimization = OFF
triple buffering = OFF
Vertical sync = use 3d application settings"

cheers ...

 

I am currently using the last ASUS notebook drivers made for this. I am using these and still experiencing problems, same as with with the official Nvidia and Vista and LaptopVideo2Go drivers. All of them do not solve the issue.

Although, thinking back I may not have gotten the correct Vista drivers. I use a GeForce 9800M GS. When I unistalled my old drivers and restarted I figured that Vista would find it's own new drivers, without me needing to touch a button. When I went back into Device Manager I noticed that the 9800 was now reffered to as a VGA Adapater or something like that. When I clicked update driver it said I had the most up to date one. Anything I did wrong?

 

Go to Asus, and manually pick up/download the driver for your model from there, and give it a shot

cheers ...

 

Ok yea that's what I have right now. I manually found the ASUS drivers but I had tried to automatically get the Vista drivers. I have been using the ASUS drivers for about 6 hours and they seemed fine at first then they failed.

Any other ideas? (Thanks for the quick replies BTW!)

 

Sounds like your video card is on its way out due to over heating.
Have a look at these links http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/703/1028703/nvidia-g84-g86-bad and http://www.tomshardware.com/news/Nvidia-GPU-failure,6248.html Also many have posted in the Dell forum on this matter.

 

How would I go about getting an event log?

 

These articles basically state that G84s and G86s are bad, my video card is a 9800M GS, so since I am not the most intelligent person in the world, is my 9800M GS effected by this? Thanks!

Edit: I should add in that ATi users have this problem so it may not be a Nvidia problem either.

And as an update:
I am still researching the problem and it seems ALOT of people are fixing the issue by slightly downclocking their video cards. Anyone wanna explain thuroughly how exactly I can do this?