Windows 7 Experience Index crashing with NVIDIA 275.33 (nvd3dumx.dll)

Do you guys face the same issue? I can't run WEI as it crashes half way through the video testing with:

Problem signature:
Problem Event Name: APPCRASH
Application Name: winsat.exe
Application Version: 6.1.7601.17514
Application Timestamp: 4ce798fc
Fault Module Name: nvd3dumx.dll
Fault Module Version: 8.17.12.7533
Fault Module Timestamp: 4dd7349a
Exception Code: c0000005
Exception Offset: 0000000000519850
OS Version: 6.1.7601.2.1.0.256.48
Locale ID: 1031
Additional Information 1: 00b0
Additional Information 2: 00b027b0ea5fed0518c31c5d820e3ce7
Additional Information 3: 615f
Additional Information 4: 615f8f1650d854a19dd394ddc6f3ebc3


I tried clean installing the driver but it did not help. Any ideas!?

 

nvd3dumx.dll is not digitally signed and has been reported to maybe cause problems with windows,


OR it could be a dirty install of nvidia drivers.

Try running a driver cleaner on your nvidia drivers and re-install.

BUT you say did a clean install?

I found this too

I havent got this problem so I couldnt be certain.

Another thing to try is Microsofts system file checker.

 

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What do you mean by dirty install though?

And does anyone else have this problem with 275.33?

 

you have some of the old drivers installed.

Do you use driver cleaner pro to remove your drivers

 

Oww... I just realized the problem is even bigger!!

I can't play any movies with Windows Media Player! It crashes pointing to the same dll file !!?

 

I reckon its a problem with drivers

 

I had the same problem. Then I found I couldn't even watch youtube videos without hard crashes. The problem was my SSD was dying. Check your HDD for problems.

Before you ask I tried everything including fresh install of windows. Getting new HDD solved it completely

BTW which part of WEI does it crash at? Windows media encoding?

 

WOW!

thats rubbish, that must of sucked.

 

Revert to a older driver and test, and you can confirm whether it's a driver related issue.

I have no issues with the 275.33 driver.

 

Yup in my two year warranty period 1 died after 1 year exactly. The second one had stuttering after a couple of months and the third did the above after 6 months more again. The 4th I sold and got the HDD in my sig lol

this problem looks exactly like the one I experienced so far and at the time noone on here was able to shed light on it so please don't shoot the messenger lol

 

you gotta make sure you remove every last tiny bit of the old drivers. It causes so many problems with nVidia.

Whilst I currently do not have nvidia chipset, I did used to have nvidias in SLi up till two months ago and 4 or so years prior.

Drivers is normally the issue. i presume from what you hav said this came about due to installing latest drivers? thats why you ran WEI?

 

It has definitely nothing to do with the HDD or any other hardware I guess, as I just downgraded back to 267.76 and everything works fine with it.

The question is - is it just my system not getting around with 275.33 or others have the same issue !?

I'm running Windows 7 Pro x64 + SP1

 

Are you completely removing the drivers in safe mode before installing new drivers?

 

No issues for me with the 275.33 driver. I remember making a modded inf for you earlier. Your issue must be related to incompatible driver files.

 

Not manually - I tried using the "Clean install" feature in the installation of NVIDIA which first uninstalls the existing driver, than restarts and installs the new package.

 

what have you to lose by going into safe mode and removing device completely from device manager.

 

Do you happen to have a modded version of it for 310M? Could the problem be coming from badly modded driver? I haven't modded it myself, another guy did - I have no idea what exactly he altered...

 

Seriously I can't point it out strongly enough, Safe mode uninstall.

This is far easier than going to extreme lengths as modding drivers.

 

I don't have one right now, but can make one. You can ask the modder and confirm the issue.

 

Modding the driver is required to be able to install the driver on first place...

I will going through safe-mode tomorrow just to make sure.

 

really?

How come?

 

I'd appreciate it.

I already asked him but it was his first time modding (I forwarded him to your manual to read from) so I am not sure he knows what he has missed or not done right. But I await from him information whether he has the same problem. If yes - it is certainly the modification. If not - it has to be my system then

 

Cause Sony limits the video drivers to what they release only It is like that with all Vaios as far as I know. A small modification is required in order to be able to install the driver (adding the HW Id of the Video and a few other things I am not very familiar with). Otherwise the installation rejects the hardware and is unable to install

The last official driver available from Sony is 198.28 I have been using at least 5-6 newer versions, of course all modded (coolguy was so kind to mod one or two of them )

 

I understand now.

Another little notch to why I wont buy a s0ny. although they look pretty

 

Absolutely not a reason not to buy because of that As you can see - there is always a way and it is just the video driver that is limited. Everything else is as usual.

 

Ok. Stripped everything down to Standard VGA driver. Clean installed 275.33 - problem still present!

It is either the modification or my system for some odd reason:

Problem Event Name: APPCRASH
Application Name: wmplayer.exe
Application Version: 12.0.7601.17514
Application Timestamp: 4ce7a485
Fault Module Name: nvd3dum.dll
Fault Module Version: 8.17.12.7533
Fault Module Timestamp: 4dd734f1
Exception Code: c0000005
Exception Offset: 003ccdd6
OS Version: 6.1.7601.2.1.0.256.48
Locale ID: 1031
Additional Information 1: 0a9e
Additional Information 2: 0a9e372d3b4ad19135b953a78882e789
Additional Information 3: 0a9e
Additional Information 4: 0a9e372d3b4ad19135b953a78882e789

 

McLin, who modded the driver, reported that he has no such problem on his machine. This is really strange...

 

Downgrading to 267.76 (from 275.33) just fixed mine, too! Thanks for the tip. I was getting all the same issues reported in this thread with 275.33.

I didn't even realize I had a problem until I tried watching a DVD today in Corel WinDVD. First DVD I've apparently tried since installing 275.33. Got the nvidia dll crash. Then tried the DVD in WMP and Windows Media Center. Same thing. Then started Googling the issue and found threads with mention of Windows Experience Index not working. Tried it - sure enough nvidia dll crash. First time I've ever had WEI do that. Then I found this thread, did the downgrade to 267.76, and all works fine again. I didn't remove anything first in terms of drivers. Just downloaded 267.76 from the nvidia site driver archive and did the install, right over 275.33.

Conclusion: 275.33 is bad, at least for some PCs.

This is a Sony VPCF112FX Intel i7 quad core laptop, 4 GB, 310M graphics, Win7 Pro 64 bit + SP1. I've never had to modify drivers in any way to get them to install on this box, for whatever reason. They install great right off the NVIDIA site.

If I had to guess I would say it is related to (win7) SP1 somehow. I've had SP1 break a few things on different PCs. I have a desktop in another room running Win7 32bit with an AGP video card, one of the HIS Digital IceQ 1GB 4670s. I found out the hard way, after several OS wipeouts and reinstalls, that SP1 and the AMD "AGP hotfix catalyst driver" don't like each other. Installing one with the other on the box permanently blue screens the box. That box is running default VGA drivers until AMD comes up with a fix. Apparently MS did something to video handling in SP1.

 

I've seen that issue... that dll has a hook to another driver for media decoding/encoding. I'm not sure which driver it hooks to, but try updating your audio drivers. Then afterward, uninstall your NVIDIA drivers, download/run/analyze/clean your old NVIDIA drivers with DriverSweeper at Guru3D. Then reboot, and install the new NVIDIA drivers, then reboot again after installation.

Now your install should be complete, and _should_ work. I think the hook is somewhere in the HD Audio driver for HDMI... not sure though. I got that same dll failure on my CW with the G210m, and doing the above fixed it.