115 Responses

1. Dostoyevsky77

   March 25th, 2007 at 8:48 am

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   You can also see the (very) active forum here to which nVidia has yet to respond:
   http://forums.nvidia.com/index.php?showtopic=25381&st=400

   I hope you fixed your problem, but looking at others’ experiences, I wouldn’t expect that you’ve found a permanent solution. I’m running 101.41 in beta and still experience the issue.

   QX6700 (@3.46)
   ASUS P5N32E-SLI
   EVGA 8800GTX (1@Stock)
   2048 Dominator 8500C5D (@1066)
   Raptor X (2@RAID-0)
   Tagan TG1100-U96, 1100W
   Coolermaster Mini R80
   Vista Ultimate 32-bit

2. i.nconspicuo.us

   March 26th, 2007 at 12:29 am

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   My computer has been running perfectly since installing the latest driver set (Version: 100.65)

   Try it out!

3. redlabour

   April 15th, 2007 at 2:13 am

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   With the Winvista64.101.70-[Guru3D.com] it is the same Problem of response – but it works for up to 2 Hours before crashing. *argh*

4. SpAz

   June 16th, 2007 at 8:59 pm

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   Says when I try to install it that it says it’s not windows Vista.

5. Tlaca

   July 21st, 2007 at 12:24 am

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   I was getting the same error and changed the bios agp’s configuration to automatic restarted the pc and haven had any problems till now so you could try that i hope that’ll help you guys

6. Tlaca

   July 21st, 2007 at 12:26 am

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   just checking

7. Bizkitfoot

   September 2nd, 2007 at 7:51 am

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   I don’t know if this forum is still active…but

   http://support.microsoft.com/kb/938194

   windows has released that hotfix.

8. Felix

   September 6th, 2007 at 3:08 am

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   Never had this problem until I upgraded my display drivers to the new Forceware 162.22 a few days ago.

9. Anne

   October 21st, 2007 at 3:39 pm

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   I downloaded the driver just like it said, but now my video and audio aren’t in sync. Now what’s going on?!

10. Scott

    November 22nd, 2007 at 7:17 pm

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    I get the same message about my system not being Vista, but I don’t understand this:

    “I was getting the same error and changed the bios agp’s configuration to automatic restarted the pc and haven had any problems till now so you could try that i hope that’ll help you guys”

    Could someone explain to me what the “bios agp’s configuration to automatic” is? I get the part about restarting the PC.

    HELP!!!

11. Wardy

    November 29th, 2007 at 1:56 pm

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    Turns out the problem is to do with address limitations.

    Vista is pretty open to any suggestion a driver comes up with so if a driver “suggests” it can use the 4 gigs of ram in your system despite the obvious known limitations then the driver gets given more resources than windows is able to provide.

    The driver is then expected to understand that all requests for resources are merely on a “should be there” basis rather than “this is definetly yours to use”.

    nVidia have not handled this very well at the moment and the driver assumes it is running the most perfect piece of OS engineering that could ever be written but we all know thats hardly the case.

    to cut a long story short the problem is ram.

    If you get this error its likely you have at least 3 gigs of ram and that’s not a good thing for stupid products that don’t communicate well …

    quick fix …

    remove some ram.

    long term fix …

    wait for both ms and nVidia to work a little magic

12. Mark S

    December 20th, 2007 at 1:50 am

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    I have the same problem – for me it only occurs when I have the built-in wireless card on my laptop switched on. If I use the ethernet adapter for internet I never get the error. If I swith on the wireless card, I get it usually within 10 minutes. Any ideas?

13. Wardy

    December 20th, 2007 at 11:31 am

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    Ok now thats something i haven’t tried.

    Maybe some devices do peculiar things that nVidia has not taken in to account or maybe something is happening in windows that causes it to feed strange packets of data back to the wrong device …

    I guess the next question is …
    Is it just a wireless problem or do other devices have an effect ?

    Out of curiosity what wireless card do you have ?
    I have a netgear WG311T (well known for its bugs) .. in may case it might even be the card and probably wouldn’t suprise me if it was.

14. Mark S

    December 20th, 2007 at 2:00 pm

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    I have an Atheros AR5006EG Wireless Network Adapter, running driver version 7.1.0.70 right now. In my case I am sure it is only a wireless problem. For several months I have used the wired ethernet without problem. A few days ago I was unceremoniously kicked out of my study, and had to use the wireless adapter for the first time. Then I get the problem. If I switch off the wireless card, no problems whatsoever. Its a real pity, up until a few days ago, I thought I had a cracking laptop……

15. Wardy

    December 20th, 2007 at 2:04 pm

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    Thats interesting because the netgear card has an atheros chip doing all the work.

    I wonder if it’s an atheros problem ?

    Atheros do build chips for a wide range of wireless products !!!

16. M1900

    December 21st, 2007 at 10:15 am

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    nvlddmkm stopped responding and has successfully recovered

    This is what worked for me: Changed color scheme from Windows Basic to Windows Aero.

    To change this setting…

    1. Goto Control panel, then
    2. Appearance and Personalization
    3. Personalization
    4. Window Color and Appearance
    5. click on link: Open classic appearance properties for more color options
    6. Set color cheme to Windows Aero.

    Not crashed once since.

17. Wardy

    December 21st, 2007 at 11:39 am

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    Whats th point of a dx10 supporting processor if you switch it off.

    Thats like buying a fararri and never driving above 30 miles an hour.

    The point of this conversation is that when the dx10 features are being used the card falls over, there’s clearly an issue that nVidia need to sort out.

    switching off aero is not an option for anyone who just spent £200 or more on a copy of ultimate because they wanted the extra features like aero.

18. Jareth

    December 24th, 2007 at 6:01 am

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    I too have been bugged with this problem.
    Welcome to the nvlddhkm club it seemed to me when I began to search for a solution, it appeared many suffered the same problem and none found a real solution.

    Just found out Microsoft released has a patch to hopefully tackle this problem, KB940105

19. Ben Lim

    January 1st, 2008 at 6:08 am

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    I have been getting the same problem on my laptop. Specs are:
    Asus F8Sv
    Intel Core 2 Duo T7500
    4gb RAM
    nVidia 8600M GT 256mb
    Windows Vista Business

    The hotfix by Microsoft KB938194 decribes my problem exactly. However, when I try to install the fix, it tells me that the update does not apply to my computer. Anybody any ideas?

    I’m thinking it’s because I’m using a laptop and it’s the 8600M version istead of a desktop 8600, but still….the update should apply across the board no?

20. Eagles

    January 16th, 2008 at 1:43 am

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    This exact thing that happened to Ben Lim happened to me. It appears that hotfix is only for 64-bit users, even though it describes our problems exactly (if you have 32-bit).

    I have bought 2 pc games in a week and neither have worked. here i come 360 and Wii. I am fed up with nvidia and vista. UP YOURS

21. Eagles

    January 16th, 2008 at 5:27 am

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    Installing the latest drivers fixed COD4 for me.

    Hopefully Crysis will work

22. wacky7

    January 16th, 2008 at 6:12 pm

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    Welcome to the nvlddhkm club!!!

    thanks it really begin to give me a headache I done everything for this error on my Vista x64 desktop even SP1 RC even patch’s of hotfix still nothing seam to fix this error from nvidia video card drivers some people out there said theres drivers is fine,they are even on a8800GT 8800GTS or 7600GT or 8600gt even a freind of mine still playing games on a old BFG 6800GT 939 1.8GHZ athlon single core 2GB of memory no problems on the vista i gave him the copy of. kinda sucks. here i am with a 7800GT 939 dualcore 4GB of memory haveing problems went from raid to single hard drive even took my sound card and onboard sound card even firewire and more hardware down the line. nothing i’m stuck with this for over 1 yr. god i waited this long wondering if i need to start saveing some cash and end up upgradeing into a DDR2 motherboard with highest everything even new video card.but damn waste my a very working computer. oh wel i gues keep on waiting some more. about to give up and start over on my windows XP 64bit.

23. Thomas

    January 20th, 2008 at 9:44 pm

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    Just another Vista/ Call of Duty 4 player…tired of the display driver error message…no fixes.

24. John

    January 23rd, 2008 at 12:52 pm

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    I have done a few things to “prolong” my CoD4 time before the error. I have tried cleaning out the old drivers and reinstalling them manually. Also lots of Vista64 updates installed, some auto-update wouldn’t find. Also I do:

    Classic view
    XP SP1 mode
    Run as Admin
    Choose “Let 3D Application Decide” in the Nvidia Control Panel.

    It seems to PROLONG your gaming time before the error – but no fix for me yet. My BIOS is also legit and I am not overclocking anything. I got a couple more updates I have just installed and want to try – Will keep ya’ll updated.

25. Brandon

    January 25th, 2008 at 1:35 pm

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    This is getting absolutely pathetic…this error has been going on for nearly a year now and there is still no direct update that fixes the problem for good….microsoft and nVidia seriously need to get there stuff together cause it just seems like they dont care anymore….I just built my computer and is no older than 14 days and I just now started having the problem. It’s seriously starting to piss me off.

    I regret getting vista(home premium 64-bit) and I should’ve stayed with XP because right now vista just feels like complete garbage..

    I never had this problem with XP, only vista…

    I have tried everything to fix this problem and nothing has worked I think all I can do is just try and be patient and wait for an update….

    My Specs:
    Quad q6600 2.4GHz
    4x 1024 Crucial Balistix
    GeForce 8800GTS
    Vista premium 64-bit

26. robin thompson

    January 26th, 2008 at 9:28 am

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    Hay there I have this problem and as far as I know there is no fix for it yet. Iyou find one i would sure like to know.

27. Marcus

    January 30th, 2008 at 9:41 am

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    I have an otherwise sublime Dell XPS desktop with GeForce GTX card. It’s 4 months onld, running Vista and I have the latest nVidia drivers (20 Dec).

    Once it crashes, you can reproduce the problem everytime you try and run the nVidia Control Panel (unless you restart the mahine frst).

    I was getting it playing Crysis, and now COH:OF multiplayer. When you’re in game and you’re winning and your team is relying on you, you don’t want this to happen but it does

    I called Dell but support in Hong Kong seems lousy so I will have to keep pestering them.

28. Marcus

    January 31st, 2008 at 7:36 am

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    Ah! So after reading all these posts and many others which Google revealed, I seem to have discovered a fix which works for Dell XPS 720 owners running Vista and 8800 GTX.

    Somehow in my frustration I stumbled onto Windows Update and saw 3 optional updates available, all of which – I think you’ll agree – sounded promising:

    (1) Dell Inc. – Other Hardware – Dell 2407WFP-HC (Digital)
    (2) NVIDIA Corporation driver update for NVIDIA nForce Serial ATA Controller
    (3) nVidia – Video – NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTX

    I installed these (around 2.5MB) and since then I have been able to play for around 3 hours without a single problem.

    I have just checked the nVidia Control Panel and see that my driver version is now 169.06 rather than 169.25 (which I had before and is the latest available).

    Hooray! And thanks to everyone else who suggested things which didn’t work for me

29. Dan

    February 5th, 2008 at 3:19 pm

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    Hi everyone i recently about a month ago purchased a new PC and this driver problem is getting on my nerves.

    Specs:
    Vista 64bit Premium
    AMD Athlon 64 6000+
    2GB Ram 800mhz DDR2
    GEFORCE 8800GTX 768MB
    ASUS sli Motherboard
    650watt PSU
    ANTEC CASE

    Well when i play games like spellforce 2 it runs fine and Age of Empires 3 but when i run any games that are Direct X 10 like Company of Heroes or Crysis i get the message.

    I will try and find this command prompt solution i used and post it tommorow it did not work for me but might work for some other people.

30. Thomas

    February 13th, 2008 at 5:55 pm

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    Hey, I have an dell 1520 Inspiron:
    Intel Core Duo 2.0
    GForce 8600 256mb
    2GB Ram

    I have this issue…but what i find interesting is a friend of mine just bought a sony with same specs except he has GForce 8600 512MB. he has never gotten this error and he plays COD4 all the time. Its annoying as hell for me, just posted this incase it means anything to somebody.

31. Marcus

    February 20th, 2008 at 9:07 am

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    Scrath what I said three posts back. While that seemed to help a bit (ie. COH doesn’t crash as often) it still crashes in mid-game.

    I then found a hint (on http://blog.stevex.net/index.php/2007/03/01/display-driver-stopped-responding-and-has-recovered/) that removing KB 938979 might work. I tried this but then Windows Update installed it again automatically. As I went into the Control Panel just now to try and make sure automatic updates were turned off, I noticed a new optional Windows Update which wasn’t there 24 hours ago called “NVIDIA Corporation driver update for NVIDIA nForce Serial ATA Controller”. Rather than rolling back KB 938979 again, I am now trying to see whether this latest nVidia patch will make a difference. Maybe it’s just the same as the one I posted about earlier but I see it has a release date of 19th Feb 2008. I’ll let you know how it goes.

32. Marcus

    February 20th, 2008 at 10:31 am

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    Er, no. That didn’t work at all. To make things worse, I was winning all three games (unusual for me) when it crashed.

    Does anyone else out there have a Dell XPS running COH at 1920 x 1200 have the same problem?

    !@#*&^$

33. canuck

    February 22nd, 2008 at 8:45 pm

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    I’m running a new dell laptop with an 8600 gt (mobile). I seem to get the error only when running games, on occasion the error will actually correct itself and the game will return to running normally. After reading about a million of these posts the only things I can find in common are an nvidia card and windows vista. In response to the previous post regarding > 3gigs ram… I only have two. I’ve had the problem since i got the computer over 6 months ago…. all of the driver updates have no effect. I started up the computer the other day and vista displayed a log it had kept of about 19 video card errors between half a dozen games… all of which it attributed to nvidia. lol. It’s reassuring to know that even the largest video card manufacturer in the world can’t get vista to work.

34. Marcus

    March 1st, 2008 at 3:58 am

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    OK, so here’s a solution that may work for you. Somehow I got the idea to disable as much as I could of McAfee SecurityCenter, which comes pre-installed with the Dell XPS. It’s not an easy task, since there is no one-click “on/off” option, but you might find your way to a whole list of checkboxes as I did.

    I have been able to play for a week (an average of 90 minutes per night) and haven’t had a “nvlddmkm” error since.

35. Marcus

    March 14th, 2008 at 11:38 am

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    Hmmm. So much for that. I went as far as removing McAfee altogether since I couldn’t get the damn alerts to stop completely during gameplay. I still managed to crash the game, so while it was definitely better, something must be wrong with the hardware and I will try Dell Support again.

36. Steve

    March 25th, 2008 at 5:09 pm

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    Marcus- Have had the same problem. This is my XPS 720. They exchanged the first one after they thought the motherboard went bad. On this machine it took about 1.5 months before I statred having the error. I went through escalation and I found a fix. They are giving me my money back. That is the best fix ever! No more blue screen of death, no more failed and recovered. Can’t wait to get my new XP machine!

37. Dan

    April 1st, 2008 at 6:27 pm

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    I’ve built a new machine:
    Quad Q6600 2.4Ghz
    Asus P5N32-E SLI
    Asus Geforce 8800GT
    2Gb RAM 800Mhz DDR2
    750W Coolermaster SLI
    Vista basic 32bit

    and I occasionally get this error while playing Company of Heroes. Seems like there is no fix to this problem while browsing for a solution.

38. Tom L

    April 15th, 2008 at 7:09 am

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    I too have the same problem with Anno 1701. I have the Geforce 7300 GT. I’m writing Derek Perez, Director of Public Relations at Nividia. You can get his email at the nividia site. This stuff happens with new technology, but companies such as Nividia and Microsoft should care enough about their products and customers to find a fix ASAP. As of this date there is no fix that I know of. Lets see how long it takes Nividia to find a fix. I’m sure it is well within their technical abilities to find one soon!!!

39. JKKNORWAY

    April 16th, 2008 at 7:36 am

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    HI Everybody.. I have the same problem with my 8800GTS 512mb card and Vista64.

    I innstal new driver and when the pc starts up again the screen turns blanc ,when the Nvidia driver loads into Vista..

    I have a solution..This is strange. But the only driver that i find to work is
    169.06..
    just try it out..

40. Royal

    April 18th, 2008 at 9:17 am

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    One more for the list here, with a bit of a twist.

    Mainboard :ELITEGROUP COMPUTER SYSTEM CO.,LTD. 945G-M3
    Chipset : Intel i945G/GZ
    Processor : Intel Pentium D @ 3333 MHz
    Physical Memory : 2048 MB (2 x 1024 DDR2-SDRAM )
    Video Card : Nvidia Corp GeForce 7600 GT
    Hard Disk : Hitachi (320 GB)
    Hard Disk : ST3120022A (120 GB)
    Hard Disk : WDC (74 GB)
    Hard Disk : Maxtor (204 GB)
    Operating System : Windows Vista (TM) Home Basic Home Edition 6.00.6001 Service Pack 1
    DirectX : Version 10.00

    Vista Home basic and my 7600GT card played wonderfully together with everything up to the 169.25 Forceware drivers since I got it last August, there were a few rare hangs here and there, but never any msg. related to video drivers being the culprit, no strange artifacts appearing in Armed Assault, no loss-of-signal errors, etc.

    THEN comes along Vista SP1, granted Armed Assault ran much smoother initially but the performance began to downgrade as soon as those nvlddmkm errors began appearing almost as if it was slowly corrupting some DX component.

    Shortly after, I updated to the recent DirectX beta update and once more, performance greatly improved, then added the 174.85 beta drivers from guru3d.com and all seemed right with the world once more,,, for about two hours.. Once again, since the first “driver has stopped responding but has recovered” error I’ve noticed a slow and gradual downgrade in performance. Thou I am getting the driver hangs much less frequently now, I’d guess to take that as some sign of progress being made perhaps?

    I suppose I’ll go try that bios / AGP setting & see if that helps any (in my case). If not I guess it’s time to try one of those “other cards”

41. Marcus

    April 19th, 2008 at 12:02 am

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    Hi guys. Good to see some more posts here.

    I haven’t called Dell yet because I want to get my laptop fixed first – another week or so. Nevertheless, I’ve have turned of all taskbar notifications like Windows Update, security and virus definitions since I think COH crashes when these things popup in the background. Now, I’m sure that’s not the way this gaming machine is supposed to work (!) and it leaves me vulnerable to all sorts of nasties, but you might see whether that does anything for you.

42. shinn

    April 26th, 2008 at 9:35 am

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    hey guys, well iv been having this problem too but recently its been getting worse, my screen just turns fuzy usually blue background n loads of specs evrywhere and stays like that, while be4 i had “the diplay driver nvlddmkm…” but now its seems i have to cut the power source…was just wonderin if evry1 is having the same problems? its sooo annoying!

43. bluegothik

    May 15th, 2008 at 7:56 pm

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    I’ve seen so much posts in regards to “Display driver nvlddmkm stopped responding and has successfully recovered”. I get this problem when playing Crysis and Assasin’s Creed. My pc specs:

    EVGA 780i SLI
    High Power Rock Solid Series 1000 watt psu (80plus)
    Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600
    4gb OCZ ram with Microsoft 4gb ram hotfix installed
    x2 500gb Seagate Baracuda
    x2 EVGA 8800GTX SLI’ed
    x2 Lite-On dvd burners (sorry dont remember model)
    Windows Vista Ultimate 64 bit with SP1
    7 fans (8 including the Zalman cpu fan).
    Cooler Master Stacker Evolution tower.
    FYI nothing is overclocked.

    I have uninstalled the old nvidia drivers (also deleted from c: drive and cleaned registry) and install the 169.44 version from Evga website for my 8800GTX. I still get the “Display driver nvlddmkm stopped responding and has successfully recovered” error msg but not as offen as I used to. I can play for about 4 to 6 hours before it comes back again. I don’t know if it has anything to do with it but, periodically I get lag playing Crysis. I did notice that explosions and battle in-game is usually when i freeze up and get the “nvlddmkm” error message. I only started getting these errors when I SLI’ed my 2 graphics cards. I used to run only one with no problems at all except lag in Crysis only when I turn the resolution maxed out at 1400×900. I’ve tried all the possible solution recommendations and nothing works except turning off SLI. It seems like either Vista is not properly distributing data correctly, pc getting data choked/not receiving quickly enough, or which I think is most likely the case….Windows software and Nvidia software/hardware not communicating properly. I also noticed that not only Nvidia hardware is affected by this problem. I’ve seen people that are running other motherboard and graphics card brand like ATI being affected also. I don’t believe ram is an issue unless it’s driver related. However, I do wonder if most you you use Retail or OEM versions of you OS’s. I doubt that matters but, what the heck! Maybe it does.

44. Dan Berglin

    May 20th, 2008 at 1:20 pm

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    Hmmm, this is ridiculous :s

    Everyone have different setupts and different solutions, except Vista and Nvidia rigs. I mean; Bios AGP setting to AUTO (!?..Auto=bad), McAffee (…), removing RAM, driver versions, WiFi (..?), turning off Aero, MS hotfix.

    My first guess of garbled graphics was overheated graphics RAM, but that does’nt seem to be the case because of all the different setups.

    Seconds guess was onboard RAM. Bad programmed PAE communication Nvidia Vista. Because from what I’ve seen in the past, garbled graphics comes from corrupt data feeded to the GPU, mostly from overheated graphics RAM.

    But seeing the age of this thread makes me doubt, should’nt Nvidia and Microsoft already have solved an extensive memory adressing issue?

    Specs:
    - Vista and Nvidia…
    - P5B, 7600GT, 4GB Corsair 8500
    - Latest bios, drivers and hotfixes.

    Anyone know if there is any troubleshooting going on between Nvidia and Microsoft?

    Kind regards
    Dan Berglin

45. Bigbirtha

    May 21st, 2008 at 11:31 pm

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    did you do an upgrade to you ram to

46. Dan Berglin

    May 23rd, 2008 at 7:54 am

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    I did upgrade my RAM, yes. From 2*1Gb Corsair Dominator 8500 v2.1 to 4*1Gb Corsair Dominator 8500 v1.2. The newer ones was actualy of an older edition.

    Had to loose up on the timings because of the diffrent versions but I’ve throughly tested the current setup and there’se nothing wrong.

    Installing Vista x64 SP1 actually made the errors occour more often and now I do have to turn off Aero in order to be able to play e.g Settlers 2 (10th aniversary) .

    Can’t play more than 5 minutes now. As soon as I start to see the screen getting garbled with fractals and spectras I alt+tab into windows. Let it rest for 10 secs and then back. If i don’t the game crashes with nvlddmkm.

47. Will Shaw

    May 24th, 2008 at 4:36 pm

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    So today i decided to update my computers video card with a new 9800 gtx made by BFG, i replaced my old 8600 with it and now i get the error.. any ideas on what to do?

48. Aaron

    June 2nd, 2008 at 9:57 am

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    I bought a new HP desktop a few weeks back with 3GB ram, Windows Vista, and it came with a nVidia 8500GT video card. I never had a problem until I replaced the PSU and put my older BFG 7800GT-OC card in. Games run 10x better and more FPS but now I get the damn nvlddmkm error every so often. Should I just remove 1 stick of ram and see if that helps?

49. Panther

    June 9th, 2008 at 12:25 am

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    Hi,
    I dont use any games, just internet & MS Office. WHY oh WHY am I getting this error message? I’ve had my laptop for 5 months & only been able to use it a total of 1 – if that! I live in Dubai & bought it here, so you you can imagine the customer service – or lack of – out here. Plus I have since found out exchange & refund policies do not exist. aaargh!

    I have a DELL inspiron 1520 laptop – does anybody else???? Can you help me?? I have not got a clue what I am doing when playing around the bios and ram!! Does anyone have an easy solution? I will try the links to the fixes which are listed but failing that…. I have a feeling I will simply throw the whole thing out of the window for peace of mind!

50. Aaron

    June 9th, 2008 at 7:15 am

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    I got rid of the error by underclocking my factory overclocked video card. I brought it down to 400mhz and 1000mhz compared to the 425/1050mhz it was overclocked. It was a BFG 7800GT-OC

51. Mr Computer

    June 27th, 2008 at 5:34 pm

    51

    Yes that will help and improve to avord errors from Vista gameing on nvidia gameing video or a 3D/2D viewing card from that Aaron. but there is also a way to lower or higher your system memory timming or finding a way to change them to make them remotely connected it relay feed back for the chip to run free into the data packet into the system rams that why changeing timming clock speed from each setting to make it function better from each timming or clocking from the memory to video card memory back to video memory to vista back to memory to CPU it nuts, But for most laptop there Bios really never let u take place to take contorl of your memory speed or able to lower memory timming mode or higher it or change them to get a better smothie pasteing from to memory system rams to BIOS to Vista windows to video card hardware memory system to able to runs it game or other applications or stuff to function the way it sould, Have to remember that Vista does share video memory with it system memory rams into the video card memory that what i’m mad at DX10 and vista so bad even which is kinda scrwed ups, In XP they let the Nvidia drivers to contorl XP for its display setting and able to contorl the video card setting and ways for it to run thes video card on a set alone video memory from the video card not your system rams but some data to talk with the system memory rams from the computer to the Video card to able to run thoes DX games fliters i can see why DDR2 is out for sure thes days to Vista hide that one out for M$ for a gameing or 3D or play around computer. but now it used from vista which is kinda lame and dumb. video card thes days can add 1 GB or 2 GB of video memory if Vista let nvidia to contorl the vista display setting on vista able to contorl both ways,,,now if the lappy or Laptop have shared system memory rams to take with shared video memory it taken from the system memory rams back into video in that ram that three ways relays going into that memory it get hot and waste speed.so vista and laptop is in a sad issiues right now even for Desktop there some newer video card that able to support that three ways talking memory relay going back and forth on the newer lappy to vista and Desktop. some old or new full nvidia laptop can able to play around with the mode but it be on Vista windows mode or XP window mode and u gota have the newer nvidia video card driver from there website to able to take contorl of the Program plus the program called Ntune it can also contorl your nvidia video card mhz speed setting back from that stock speed for video card and not a OC= overclocking home made video card from other co. but to bad it doesn’t let u reset or save your video card Bios speed or computer BIOS to able to program the BIOS to save the setting for a better setting stage for your computer system memory to run at that mode,,, it also danger the Bios and your Vista and the computer memory timming but if u move to much timming or trun it way to high or OverClock your computer with that ntune way to much if your not to careful could cause more BSOD or lose data stuff from your Hard drive that storage computer information. or even hurt your laptop Hardware chips that run the computer But it a risky risk to take http://www.nvidia.com/object/ntune_5.05.54.00.html but they work well for pushing nvidia stock speed thes ntune doesn’t go wel on a non-nvidia motherboard or a lappy or laptop. if it VIA and few other brands motherboard with Nvidia video card could cause burnt up hardware=mean inside of the computer parts and chips that contorls it stuff on the lappy could brun up or break your laptop because if your not to sure if it a complete nvidia chipset lappy or laptop motherboard that contorls it nvidia video cards.but most of the time it frezzed vista nothing happend gota go to safe mode and delete the software.
    but there are also other software that able to change it video card speeds but i haven’t found a system memory rams one for all kinds of computer Bios. wel i worte a reviews ways to re installed vista in a better ways if u want u can read and find out alittle infomation about redoing vista with there drivers and others as wel to get your video card going. http://i.nconspicuo.us/2007/03/28/nvidia-nvlddmkm-vista-driver-fix-here-is-the-solution/#comment-97290

52. Mr Computer

    June 27th, 2008 at 9:52 pm

    52

    Panther

    don’t trash it yet.lol

    just try to follow
    just don’t payattion about the memory rams or BIOS just reinstall your Vista that came with your Dell computer do u have the Vista disc that came with your dell? if so then u need to back up your stuff Burn all your stuff important stuff on a CD or DVD
    then put your dell Vista disc or disk in the DVD rom from the one that have windows Vista from dell DVD disc and then reset or restart your lappy or laptop just push a key where it said ..it would say something like boot to CD or DVD rom push F8 or F2 or any other key that that reload Vista windows posted on the screen on the Dell flash screen on your laptop then when u loaded up Dell vista DVD dics
    then don’t do a recovery it doesn’t whipe out the bad old stuff in your computer. click on Install Vista there sould be a Option button of the bottom screen to after Vista loaded up click on that button option then it sould say Format .. it will format your Hard drive it will delete it clean and nothing will be there even old stuff will be gone this will delete and clean your computer everything that was on your computer and it will be gone then Vista will ask to Install Vista Home or mabe u got something better,,then after u installed Vista when that Vista windows loaded up put in your time zone and all that stuff and add Home as for your Network places and all that stuff will install Vista it will take alittle while gota be paysent have to wait u know when it the Vista loaded up wait till the Little flashing green or blue light that look like a cylinder looking indicator Hard drive light on your laptop wait till that little light stop talking and if it bearly blink like a time stopwatch timer going by from every sec hand flash the green light or blue light beep or flashing at u real slow at or it stop at it own or stop makeing noise or it stop talking or something or stop from being busy from that light then go to START button the big blue button that said start click on it and then click on Contorl panel and then click on Windows Update then click on check for update at the top left of the conner of a window of the update then it will install the update when the frist update done then check for update again slowly and careful and take your time installing update one at a time. just unclick everything that was checkmarked in every Boxs for every update uncheck all of them then the one that need to install frist is Intel SATA Hard drive update or Intel chipset driver for SATA just install that one driver don’t download anything eles just that one download for your intel SATA Hard drive or intel chipset driver then it will download then it will install that driver for your lappy or laptop when it completed downloading it will installing that driver SATA intel or chipset intel SATA it will be in yellow icon saying need to restart make sure your hard drive light quit running the green light make sure it completely done talking or being busy and if it going to fast then wait till it clam down or slow down bearly blinking at u if it stop then when it done then push the button that said restart it will ask to restart the computer or laptop then it will restart and go back to the Vista
    then go back to the Windows update program from contorl panel then click on Windows Update after u it load up completey all the way no light blinking at u then click on the check for update button at the top left of the screen of that window update. let it search for new update then uncheck all the boxes that have every update in it everyone of them. ok now at the very top of the windows update scroll up and click on the frist update Box add a checkmark in that Box make sure everything eles is uncheckmark in the Windows Update beside that one at the very top now in the box at the frist update at the very top and download this update then when it done if it ask to restart then wait till your laptop the green light slow down hard drive light quit blinking at u
    click on then restart your lappy, if the yellow icon doesn’t show Restart then u have to restarted yourself click on the Big blue start button then do the same thing over again remember don’t install anyother Hardware update till u download each one of thoes important recommendation one by time and everytime u installed one don’t download everyone of them at the sametime it will cause something to screw up so take your time downloading each one after one installed and done restart the computer when it ask to if it doesn’t ask if it just said completed then make sure your hard drive green light is not so busy if it slown down and resting off then that when u hit the restart button and keep doing the same thing over one by one remember don’t installl the Hardware update or Video card or Dreamsecen just all the all the big important recommendation update is done by each one by one don’t forget to restart computer when one is completely done and that hard drive green light quit blinking at u even starting your vista up keep and eye on that hard drive light completing it jobs and keep doing that same process over and over till the update important recommendation is completely done every one by one i hope u take your time doing this update when doing one by one.
    If u do it all at one time it just screw vista up i don’t know undstand why vista letting u guys download everything at onetime it just mess it up if u do download everything at once. so take your time
    when u completed the all the update for Vista.
    then start on Hardware one by one don’t do it all at onetime just one by one and do the same process over and over till the video driver is last on Hardware update from windows update then don’t do the last video driver update after all that work. after u restart the computer when it ask to come back to windows update make sure there nothing there on the update , don’t do the video card yet!
    don’t download Dreamscene yet!
    frist u gota go to now go to http://www.nvidia.com/object/winvista_x86_175.19_whql.html
    and download that video driver and install that
    after u install that video driver it will ask to restart the Laptop

    then go to this webpage
    http://www.gamesforwindows.com/en-US/AboutGFW/Pages/DirectX10.aspx
    go to this website it update the video setting for Vista from DirectX10 it is under Gamer click on it and update your DX10 i know u don’t game but it just part of the 3D stuff for vista video cards to able to display Dreamscene or small webpage 3D arts or or things that are very active on the vista it fixies all the stuff for the video card stuff ok.
    after this installed restart lappy it might ask to restart if it doesn’t if it said complete then click ok then restart your lappy

    then u need to download Vista codec
    http://www.free-codecs.com/download/vista_codec_package.htm
    and when u complete that update vista codec then restart computer when it is completed

    there u go no more problems with that displaying “Display driver nvlddmkm stopped responding and has successfully recovered”

    then u can install your anit-vrius software and all that stuff u do on it

53. Chefino

    June 28th, 2008 at 1:25 pm

    53

    Panther, I have got DELL inspiron 1520 too and have no problems at all. My config: CPU 7500, 4GB RAM, GPU 8600M GT, Vista SP1 32bit, Driver 174.31.
    I play The Witcher, Bioshock, Anno1701, Civ4 without issues as mentioned.

54. Hyzenthlay

    June 30th, 2008 at 10:06 pm

    54

    Same problem. I have not discovered any fix; will definitely be going with an ATI card next time around. This is ridiculous.

55. GUy#1

    July 7th, 2008 at 9:06 pm

    55

    Dude, listen to M1900, I did what he said and everything works now, I don’t think my laptop could handle the slick windows and stuff so now it works just fine.

56. Ninja

    July 9th, 2008 at 8:37 am

    56

    I have an HP laptop (Vista Home Edition 32bit) with an Nvidia 8600M GS video card. I’ve had the laptop for almost a year now with now problem.

    Then last night I resubbed to City of Heroes, and got this crash a few times, then it crashed and I got the error message that everyone has. Now it happens multiple times while my comp is turning on, I’m not even doing anything.

    I don’t understand why it would work fine for a year, and then suddenly not, I haven’t installed any new updates or anything since the last time I played either. Have any solutions surfaced yet?

57. andy

    July 10th, 2008 at 10:26 am

    57

    hey guys i just discovered a way to make this work on my IBM lenovo N200 with a Geforce GO 7300

    i installed riva tuner, i messed with the frequencies of the core and memmory and stayed below my default ones, after that rive tuner showed me an option – RESET SETTINGS TO DEFAULT FOR THIS DRIVER !!! i hti that and i no longer the this fffin error! hope this works for you good luck

58. Ninja

    July 10th, 2008 at 4:26 pm

    58

    Well, it seems my problems with this error foretold of something a lot worse than the rest of you. My laptop completely died. Something inside is fried, either the graphics card or the memory. Luckily it happened on the last day of my warranty, so I’m sending it in to be fixed, and extending my warranty, I really lucked out.

59. Computer Dawg

    July 17th, 2008 at 5:52 pm

    59

    Umm i got windows vista basic edition, and when i play games like Age of mithology or War craft, all the sudden the screen goes black, and i have to wait like 5-10sec till it comes again, and if i keep playing it just crashes and says the display driver igfx has stopped working and recovered or something, help me its aannoyyyinggg!!

    computer specs:

    Windows Vista Home Basic
    E machines

60. christian

    August 26th, 2008 at 7:48 am

    60

    Well i guess i’m part of the club now.

    I’m using an ASUS m50sv laptop with vista home premium SP1, nvidia 9500M GS, and a 2gig of ram. I bought this laptop last aug.20,2008 and the 1st time that i experienced the nvlddmkm was when i played COH, i only experienced it once with COH then i tried to install COD4, everytime i play COD4,the nvlddmkm always appear every 15-20 mins.

    Anyone out there has a solution to this damn problem?

61. Will

    September 5th, 2008 at 2:03 am

    61

    GOT IT!

    Had months of COD4 crashes like the guy above says, went to the nvidia site and used the auto driver detect tool. Because I am using a laptop it directed me to the compal download site http://www.compal.com/asp/driver_dnd/

    Followed the menu to find my laptop. Selected 030 rather than Intel (youll know what I mean when you get there) and download the latest Compal VGA driver (Compal 176[1].15 Driver Drop Vista32.zip)

    this is the path I took:
    IFL90_91/Drivers/030/Vista32_64/02.VGA/nVIDIA NB8M_8P

    installed it and I haven’t had the problem since.

    Not sure if there is a similar site for anyone using different laptops but worth a try.

62. Tom Scott

    September 10th, 2008 at 8:11 am

    62

    I’ve been having this same problem for quite a while now and there doesn’t appear to be a solution. I can say that it has nothing to do with having 3GB of RAM as some people have suggested. My system only has 1.5 GB RAM. I have an nVidia GeForceFX 5700 Ultra with 128MB RAM. Whenever I check the nVidia site for an updated driver it just says I already have the latest driver, which is an October 2006 version. So, it doesn’t look like they ever plan on fixing this issue for my card setup.

63. Steve

    September 10th, 2008 at 9:16 am

    63

    Steve- Is any of your RAM overclocked? I thought that might have been the problem, either a BIOS issue or a heat buildup.

64. Ethan

    September 13th, 2008 at 5:12 pm

    64

    Glad to see I’m not the only one having this problem. My computer (1GB RAM, Intel Core 2 Duo 2.8ghz, nVidia GeForce 7500) was working fine until suddenly I just started up a game, played it for 2-3 mins then the screen kind of went mad and red lines and dots appeared everywhere. My monitor then went to sleep for some unknown reason and i had to restart my computer. I thought this was because my drive was out of date so I updated my driver and still my game still crashed.

    I saw on a post above that you had to uninstall your previous driver and THEN install the latest driver so I think I will try that.

65. A gamer

    October 10th, 2008 at 11:20 pm

    65

    WTF is going on here i have a top of the line computer and top of the line microsoft software all a super custom built badboy,But its a pyle of shit?
    Fix this error nvidia this is bull crap dont release your crap till its tested properly on ALL compatible sytems.

    Its dam near been a year and they havent fixed this bs i bought a badboy pc so it dont work?Whats the point of gameing if you cant game?
    Also whats the point of vista if it has hangs (random app hangs for a few seconds) dx10 ? a joke? Somone needs to crack a whip on these lazy rich companys to get thisngs strait.This is the only error i get with my gfx/Gameing setup. i think that one guy was right i might also just get a fcking ps3 or a wii.Ill sell my rigg and buy me a bad azz laptop that will surf the net only LOLZ!!!

    got one word for you nvidia……..

    LOSERS!!!!

    Looks like they cant fix this after all …If not then prove me wrong!!?

    ATI FTW!!! ima get a sticker to put on my hotrod of a dude pissing on the word Nvidia or the logo lolz

66. Guy

    October 14th, 2008 at 9:17 pm

    66

    “A gamer”, you are a fucking moron. Learn to spell, punctuate, and format sentences before mouthing off some meaningless rant that only serves to demonstrate your extreme ignorance. You are clearly a waste of life and I would certainly laugh if informed of your death.

67. Bond

    October 22nd, 2008 at 8:47 am

    67

    I continuously have that problem with my own built system, Intel Proc. 8G Ram, Dual 8800GTX graphics cards and Vista64 Prof. and spent already numerous hours to correct it. New drivers, updates etc. nothing !!!

    Now this:

    Recently bought a HP TX2000 tablet system with Vista64, AMD, 4G Ram and ATI HD3200 graphics card and guess what, exactly the same problem.

    It very much appears to be a Vista64 issue.

68. Bond

    October 22nd, 2008 at 9:03 am

    68

    I forgot to mention that the error I am dealing with is along the lines of “display driver stopped in the expected time” ……

69. Josh

    November 1st, 2008 at 9:56 am

    69

    Just acquired this curse. I was watching a divx movie with vlc player. Removing a 1GB stick from my total of 2GB seemed to temporarily fix the problem. Installing drivers didn’t seem to fix anything.

    My basic specs:
    hp pavilion dv9000t (model 9200, I think)
    2 GB RAM (in 2 sticks)
    nVidia GeForce Go 7600
    2.something GHz Core 2 Duo CPU

    Had the comp for 1.5 years with no problems, no I get it constantly.

70. Demon

    November 10th, 2008 at 11:58 pm

    70

    TO Guy^^ in response to ‘A gamer’

    You are clearly an angry person. people are who they are and can choose to abbreviate and write in slang if they want to. this is a serious problem that is happening to many people. an answer would be more helpful than proving once again to me that there are truly wretched people.

    u caim ‘a gamer’ is displaying ‘extreme ignorance’ yet you are displaying extreme intolerance.
    ps. there are no jobs in the grammar police, sorry, try again next year.

71. Brian

    December 1st, 2008 at 4:35 pm

    71

    I commented on another post but will here too. nvidia has admitted they sold defective chips and some companies are replacing them.

    http://news.cnet.com/8301-13554_3-10020782-33.html

    So far all solutions have been very short. Just when you think the problem is solved, it comes back.

72. Sundance_Kid

    December 15th, 2008 at 3:01 pm

    72

    Hi all, i’ve just started getting this exact issue, only it mainly appears when playing games, especially Track Mania United. After loads of reading and testing i’m not convinced its ram, (i tried each stick at once), however i’ve found that plugging the psu power lead into its own dependant socket (i.e. like only the psu plug in one wall socket) has helped loads, can’t explain why but made TM playable compared to getting crashes every 5/10 secs. As for dual monitors i do have a 2nd plugged in but rarely use it.

    Also, try uninstalling all nvidia drivers (graphics and chipsets), then cleaning the driver store with driver cleaner pro (google it and keep looking there’s a free one avaliable online somewhere(v1.5)) and reinstalling chipset and graphics.

73. A.A

    January 24th, 2009 at 10:44 pm

    73

    I had a problem w/ 8600m GS Nvidia driver, Amilo xa2528.
    It keep crashing all the time, then I tried to uninstall all the Nvidia Display driver & it works, but you cant play game & even a 3D screensaver won’t work.But like myself is rarely play PC games & never
    on my present nootbook. But I am tempted to install the driver again from the latest Nvidia site driver & it happens again & tried different things, like installing lower version of drivers but it wont work.
    Is there any open source display driver that work on my Amilo?
    & now I am opting to uninstall even if I will not enjoy better graphics of the display as long as I can use it for e-mail, music & stuff.

    Pls help me with this problem!

74. Niente

    February 1st, 2009 at 11:41 am

    74

    Hi, now I’m a member of the club!
    I bought a DFI lanparty mb with a BFG Geforce GTX295 (Vista 64).
    I cannot run any game, they crash with the same infamous error (even with latest drivers 181.22).
    What to do??? I cannot play with my new computer!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

75. jayd

    March 8th, 2009 at 4:28 am

    75

    im just another adding to the list.
    this error is really getting on my last nerves!
    im about to pull my hair out
    i dont even play game yet i have this problem
    i have done everything i could to try and fix this and its been nothing but failure!!!!
    i hate vista with a passion
    the people in charge really need to get there shit together!

76. b.gatesismybuttbuddy

    March 12th, 2009 at 11:19 pm

    76

    rip off!refund or rplacement of same specs pc but with mac os!i wish..

77. Oh my,

    March 15th, 2009 at 8:09 am

    77

    Oh no! I have this problem too, I googled for solution and found what? NOTHING! Two year old thing, and still nothing. So I am in the club with my new desktop computer:

    Intel C2D E8400
    MD Gigabyte Intel P45
    Corsair 4GB DDR2
    Gigabyte nVidia 8800GT <– what a Crap!
    Vista 32b <– or this?

    I thought its overheating problem, when playing game The temperature was 85C so I installed new heatsing and 120mm fan, now the temperature is 60, it’s 25C down and still the same. I hate this problem. It last too long.

78. Fixed

    March 29th, 2009 at 6:57 pm

    78

    Problem solved by gettin rid of Nvidia and goin ATI! =D

79. Steve

    May 7th, 2009 at 9:24 am

    79

    Oh dear
    that’s not good!
    You guessed it the same little problem.
    Self build working fine.
    Bought a G25 another GTX 260 for SLi and an 860w power pack since then Blue screen.Same nvidia driver responsible NVL DDMK
    Well pissed, I think the only response that holds water and no one has tried it or commented on it is the one about the RAM limit.
    This whole concept for us guys is really annoying as there is no one out there to HELP
    Some times I get so angry I just want to punch the screen or put it out in the road for a truck!
    ASUS xhair Formula 2 Latest BIOS
    4Gb Ram Kingston
    Shitty VISTA 64 should have sr=tuck to my XP
    2×260 GTX Nvidia SLi+780Sli on board Phys X and all the trimmings.
    HD sound
    Phenom 9950 Quad
    My sons
    AMD FX60 runs quicker it seems until mine runs fine and then oh dear the graphics are unreal connect it up to the 42 plasma and full HD its the best.
    Until this bastin stupid NVL DDMK
    I mean all yesterday I left the PC on, played all night Burnout Paradise, great came home this am switched the bitch on clicked the EA download Manager icon screen split up into a thousand bits like the old Compaq Pressario days trying to max out to 32bit 1024×768.
    its not fair? What do we do Where do We go?

80. Will

    May 8th, 2009 at 10:31 am

    80

    Been having this problem as well, ever since I upgraded my card last year to an 8800GT. I have noticed it happening during my games but its really rare. Its like a quick 4 second black out.

    Anyways it happens all the time after a couple of hours my screen saver kicks in at night when I go to bed. I wake up to the screen being black and have to run task manager or use the windows key to get back to the desktop.

81. Tyler J

    May 24th, 2009 at 6:44 pm

    81

    This is complete bullcrap… MS needs to get their shit together… 2 god damn years, I just got the problem for the first time today and I’m already about to rip my hair out, I thought it may have been a virus but seeing how so many others have had this problem I kind of ruled that out..

    PLEASE HELP

82. Darren

    June 13th, 2009 at 9:50 pm

    82

    Same thing here, but I have a X1650 XL ATI card, this sucks!

83. Club Member

    July 16th, 2009 at 2:04 pm

    83

    Same problem…
    I have 512 MB 9800GT nvidia vid card and 32-bit genuine vista home basic.

    I wonder if they are even dealing with this… Hopefully nvidias sales have decreased..

    If anyone ever finds a solution to the problem (without the need of buying another windows/vid card) then please be sure to post here too.

84. Cody

    July 22nd, 2009 at 2:59 pm

    84

    I myself am having this issue, was wondering how you can check which version you are running?

85. Jschro

    July 25th, 2009 at 4:03 am

    85

    GRRRR…. 2 fucking years and STILL this happens? Come on NVidia. This is ridiculous. I do have 4 gigs of ram, but I really don’t want to remove a stick of ram just to play a game, when I need all 4 for other things

86. Jschro

    July 25th, 2009 at 4:04 am

    86

    This is driving me insane, I also REALLY hope that Windows 7 is more intelligent.

87. Flasht

    July 30th, 2009 at 12:28 pm

    87

    This is rediculous, I agree. Nothing to do but fix the problem ourselves I guess. They’re not going to do it for us.

    Any Ideas?

88. Kenny

    July 30th, 2009 at 6:13 pm

    88

    This is madness. I don’t understand why there hasn’t been a fix.

    Vista 64-bit
    xfx nforce 750a sli MOBO
    Amd Phenom 9850 2.5ghz Quad
    Nvidia GeForce GTS 250
    4gb ddr2

89. Andy

    August 19th, 2009 at 3:54 am

    89

    after reading through this thread, im dunno what to make of this.

    started getting this error to during crysis.

    just upgraded everything in the last year, bought a copy of vista home, new 9800gtx+ and recently installed crysis only to get this damn error.

    now when i upgraded my machine, i also done my mates, and we run the same system other than he has an AMD 64bit with vista 32bit, ive got a 2.4 pentium duo running vista, also our monitors are different, his being an acer 19″, mine asus 22″ wide.

    last night i couldnt get more than 10mins out of crysis because of this error, he played it all night no problems, only difference in settings was i was 1680×1050 res, while he was 1280×1024.

    we run exactly the same graphics card at the same settings, obviously other than screen res. the towers are side by side and they run at the same temps.

    now after reading through best part of the posts i was directed to from google, every possible system configuration has been having this problem and blaming it on something else, be it heat, be it ram, and the only common factor is “Display driver nvlddmkm stopped responding and has succesfully recovered” on a vista operating machine running nVidia drivers, beats me how some have reported it on an ATI system!

    please, there has to be a fix out there some where surely ?

90. Andy

    August 20th, 2009 at 6:45 am

    90

    as an update ………….

    i found a post on the net that recommened turning some of the nVidia texture settings down in the control panel, so done that and turned the ingame texture settings to medium and never had a problem since.

    id have to say because of the frequncy of the problem before hand, and the fact it hasnt happended since, id have to say there was issues with ingame settings, maybe heat or something on full settings.

    perhaps even just pushing your system just that touch to far, wether you have the specs to handle it or not can cause this error ingame and looks like where back to the old vista – nvdia immature driver compatbility thing.

    all i can suggest to anyone else coming across this problem is to start nerfing texture settings, 1st in the nvidia control panel, then ingame and go from there. but theres definately something about the pentium -> nVidia -> vista mix that causes high graphic settings to flip games out.

91. Leong WH

    September 13th, 2009 at 6:48 pm

    91

    I using Notebook Acer Aspire5920. Geforce 8600M GS 256MB. Windows Home Premium Service Pack 2.
    I have the same issue after i install the latest window Vista update.

    And I have finaly solve this issue by;
    1) Download the latest Directx9.0c(Aug2009) and Install.
    2) Download the latest driver from NVIDIA (186.81_notebook_win7_winvista_32bit_international_whql) and install.

    Thanks…

92. Kuulin

    September 21st, 2009 at 5:17 pm

    92

    Wow…it’s as if I thought I was the only one with some rare disease and then stumble across a support-group of others with the same condition!!!

    I’ve read some other possible fixes…but none helped me. I’ve been gaming without incident for almost 2 years now on this rig but starting a few days ago…the dreaded nvlddmkm issue has me crippled.

    here’s on link I found…but didnt work for me:

    http://www.eggheadcafe.com/software/aspnet/29415832/display-driver-nvlddmkm-s.aspx

    I do hope someone finds a fix soon!!

93. haggisdog

    September 27th, 2009 at 5:15 pm

    93

    This has to be the most frustrating problem I’ve ever come across and this is from a person who has been working with computers for decades. I have 5 machines in this house running Vista and only one (of course it has to be mine) is having this problem.

    There appears to be no reliable resolution to this. I have tried everything short of reinstalling Vista and I’m concerned even that might not fix the problem. I did hear that there was a problem with a recent MS Patch to Vista which might be causing the problem. If I track it down I’ll post back here.

    Good luck to everyone feeling this pain!

94. Ted

    October 12th, 2009 at 12:59 am

    94

    Thats it…ive read enough “Solutions” EVERYONE…BACK TO XP…its not worth it…im sorry, ive tried supporting vista..and ive done my best to make this all work out, but this was just about it…ive read so many forums and fix sites and fraged my system and rebuild it from scratch…as theyve said if you let the system even attempt anything slightly bothersome it freaks, the forums ive looked at go all the way back to 2007, why in all nVidia’s sanity are we still bothered with this horrible nvlddmkm problem..

    thats my very unthought out rant…no help at all…forgive me

95. max

    October 18th, 2009 at 10:11 am

    95

    3 years and counting and still happening and brand new pcs

    just got a brand new pc with nvidia 295 1.8GB amd athlon phenom 8GB ram running Vista 64 (purchased October 14, 2009) and getting this damn black screen for 5-10 seconds followed by an error message (display driver blah blah…)

    I’ve seen posts complaining about this same exact issue dating back to january 2007.

    It’s been nearly three years folks….how can they still be selling computers that knowingly do this?!?

    This is b…sh.. !

96. Club Member

    October 18th, 2009 at 10:36 am

    96

    I will never buy a computer with nvidia card again…

    Do you think is there any way we could put some pressure on nvidia and/or microsoft (depending whose fault it is) to fix the damn problem?? Probably not…?

97. Brad

    October 21st, 2009 at 6:43 am

    97

    For me heat equaled the problem. Do whatever you can to reduce the heat and you should be much better off. I went as far to remove the side of my case, I now keep it off all the time, added a fan to blow right on both of my graphics cards and got it out from under the desk the issue is now fixed.

    You might even have to lower the refresh rate from 75hz to 60hz.

    Each time I did something to help reduce the heat on the card the problem happened less and less until it was gone.

    I had the problem in XP x86 and Win 7 64bit. problem no more. Should you have to go that far NO!, but at least its working!

98. danny

    October 26th, 2009 at 9:38 am

    98

    Have the same problem as others. I get sound loops and freezes when I play TF2. My pc once restarted during TF2 due to this problem. When I click ‘show hidden devices’ in device manager I see NVR0FLASHDev with an exclamation point beside it.

    I don’t know what to do. I cannot find any fix for this anywhere. I’ve tried everything I could think of.

    If anyone knows a fix, please let me know! Email me directly at dizz2k1@gmail.com

    Thanks in advance.

    Specs
    e8400 @3.6ghz
    8gb ddr2 @1066
    evga gtx 260 core 216
    running vista home premium sp2 x64

99. David

    October 27th, 2009 at 5:00 am

    99

    I just got in a few days ago.

    I read this thread and came to the conclusion that it was related to a Vista-Nvidea communication problem, so I decided to get Windows 7. After install, it took ten minutes before the error cropped up again. So much for a new OS fixing the problem…

100. David

     October 27th, 2009 at 6:58 am

     100

     Another note, I just put in a less powerful graphics card I had sitting around:

     removed the Nvideo GT 8800

     put in:

     Geforce 9940 GT

     Graphics don’t parse as well, but Age of Conan runs without error….

101. Stephen

     November 4th, 2009 at 1:51 am

     101

     my hp pavillion dv9000 with a 8600m gs graphic card has the nvlddmkm.sys problem to and found a post which goes like:-

     Fix: Go to windows/system32/drivers and rename nvlddmkm.sys to
     nvlddmkm.sys.old. Go to the nvidia directory and find the file nvlddmkm.sy_
     and copy it to windows/system32/drivers.Using the cmd window (DOS box) type
     EXPAND.EXE nvlddmkm.sy_ nvlddmkm.sys.When the expansion is complete, copy
     the new nvlddmkm.sys to windows/system32/drivers and restart the computer.

     i fixed my problem with the 186.81 nviadia driver for like a day but this might help others out, as i know the pain…
     i did as above, where it say use the cmd window(dos box) make sure ur in admistrator. those who dont know what to do, go start menu, all programs, accessories, right click command prompt and run as admistrator. once there, it reads c:\ windows\system32>(type) cd drivers and enter, now it reads like c:\ windows\system32\drivers>(type) EXPAND.EXE nvlddmkm.sy_ nvlddmkm.sys and enter, this will expand it and put a new nvlddmkm.sys file in ur windows\ system32\drivers folder. find it and look at the properties and will tell you its the new driver file. then i updated/installed the new driver and worked, after a restart. if it dont work, delete the new file and rename the original back to its proper name. GOOD LUCK to every1 who reads this as this MIGHT be a solution, not saying it is but worth a shot. peace

102. bryan

     November 20th, 2009 at 10:31 pm

     102

     my hp pavillion dv9500 cto with nvidia 8600m gs had same issue.
     Did some reasearch and the problem has to to with vista time delay. Downloaded new driver version 195.55 and inf from http://www.laptopvideo2go.com and intstalled new inf with the have disk option and now been 2 days no errors. Set games at highest graphic levels and still no error.

103. Jessica

     December 5th, 2009 at 4:52 am

     103

     I would normally want to be welcomed to a forum, but not this one. You have another gamer (Eve) whom is also getting this error. This after running Eve for 1 1/2 years with no problem & the past 4 months with 2 characters running, while surfing the web (youtube/hulu) &/or watching movie (VLC) & DLing torrents at 300+ KB/s. Now I just get to the log in page of Eve & this error starts. Mind that this is after a complete wipe of my Dell XPS420 Vista Ultimate 3G RAM Intel Core 2 Quad CPU Q 6600 @ 2.40 NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT on ASUS mobo. It actually gave me almost half a day’s play on Eve. I have updated drivers, rolled back drivers, completely uninstalled Eve & reinstalled, lowered all the settings to lowest, tweaked NVIDIA’s settings, changed the bios menu to default settings & cussed out the whole mess of it all. I do have a complete XP disc which will be installed after a format of the main drive & reinstall of Vista with no upates & a removal & cleaning of the v-card’s case doesn’t work. The card does run HOT, but always has. Side is off the tower & I keep it cool here. Will try to invest in a fan card as it can’t hurt. What sucks the most is I just paid $134 for my yearly fees for Eve & my ancient Dell laptop ($3000 in ’04) has lines forming thru the screen, prob as a result of overheating & damage to that v-card & this is after a complete replacement of the mobo in ’05 & very limited use of it as it was for travel. Oy vey

104. bryan

     December 5th, 2009 at 1:44 pm

     104

     The driver that installed is a little tricky to install due to its not a standard driver. It what i call a after market driver. I have had this driver installed now for about 2 weeks now and no errors as of yet it works great. Here again is driver and website that i got it from try this is should fix issue. driver version 195.55 http://www.laptopvideo2go.com. the site has very detailed install instructions on how to get installed due to most vista drivers have to be digitally signed, this one is not.

105. Tadej

     December 8th, 2009 at 11:46 am

     105

     Hy. I have notebook ASUS M50Vn and I have this problem to. Can any tell me what I must to do, to fix it?

     Tnx.
     Slovenia

106. Jessica

     December 11th, 2009 at 4:23 pm

     106

     bryan, it didnt work for me. i am gonna take the case off the video card & give it a fine cleaning. wipe my pc again & if those two dont work, install xp. will report back.

107. bryan

     December 12th, 2009 at 9:20 pm

     107

     Jessica is this what you did?

     Make sure you download 2 files from the site. 1) download the newest driver for your system. the newest one should be 195.62. 2) get the inf file also. Then extract the driver to a folder. Then copy the INF file that you downloaded to the folder where you ectracted the driver files. Copy and over write the INF that was in the folder. Click on the “setup” launcher from within the folder you created with the driver files in it. (If you dont put the new INF file in the driver folder the driver will not install. it say something to the detail of could not find hardware installed) You should get a pop up saying that this drive is not certified and do you want to install it. Go ahead and install it. It should go through a normal install process when it finished restart you pc and test with your program or game it was having issues with… Hope this works for you

108. BlackJack2088

     December 18th, 2009 at 11:06 pm

     108

     Hey guys, i’ve been a part of the club for about 2 years now, my 9800 GT 1024mb DDR3 model has been a roller coaster. when I built my custom computer, I had 2 DOA motherboards, and this graphics issue.

     SPECS:
     AMD Phenom II X4 955 Black Edition Processor
     2gb OCZ 1066 DDR3 SLI Ready RAM
     500gb SeaGate HDD
     850watt Corsair PSU
     nVidia 9800 GT 1024mb DDR3 Graphics Card
     Cooler Master/ATX HAF 932 Case; 3 230mm fans, 2 140mm fans.

     The only thing I have left to try is to upgrade to Windows 7. My brother and dad have it, and actually like it, they say its alot easier to handle. So im gonna do that over this vacation.

     AGAIN I RECOMMEND SWITCHING TO WINDOWS 7. IF POSSIBLE, DO IT!!!

109. sanjay

     April 18th, 2010 at 2:29 am

     109

     i have a HP desktop. 2 years old. the main problems are 2:
     1. overheating… especially on left half.
     2. display driver nvlddmkm stopped working and recovered..
     i think i can reformat the pc completely and go for windows 7.

     will it work..?
     looking for the best solution…

110. Wendy

     May 2nd, 2010 at 11:11 am

     110

     I’ve reformatted my computer, upgraded to Windows 7 from Vista and now get the “display driver has stopped working and recovered”, unfortuanately it often closes down without recovering and requires a hard boot. I”ve read so many suggestions on here and I wonder if any of them do truly work. I have just replaced my card as when I called HP they said it sounded like a card issue ( I had a new card replaced in Dec/09). This is so frustrating….does anyone have any tried and true solutions??

111. Angeline

     June 8th, 2010 at 6:57 am

     111

     I’ve too have the same problem on my laptop
     OS: Windows Vista, Service Pack 1, 32bit
     Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce 9300M GS
     Driver version: 197.16

     Anyone please help

112. Mel

     July 13th, 2010 at 3:03 am

     112

     I’m on Windows 7 and am experiencing the issue.

113. Angeline

     July 15th, 2010 at 8:52 am

     113

     I have went online help chat with the nvidia, HP & microsoft…
     initially they get me to change the driver version of my graphics card… but no matter how i change, uninstall & reinstall the driver… the problem still exist…
     in the end… my laptop manufacturer HP, advise me to do a system recovery on my laptop… returning everything to its factory settings…
     And so.. i did that… till now… for almost 1 month… i did not see that error message…

114. Stephen

     July 21st, 2010 at 8:00 am

     114

     Been looking at internet for a long time now for a solution to the nvdia driver not working and has ‘successfully’ recovered…sometimes I dont get this message and game just freezes with a stuttering sound. It would seem after 3 years of people having this problem the only solution they came up with was windows 7…..im utterly disappointed in microsoft vista team and I will never purchase another nvidia product….ever.
     I know it might not be a solution but i think i will revert back to windows xp as i cant afford windows 7 and I have zero confidence they will address any issues related to the graphics card.

     vista 64
     Athlon 64 x2 5000+ Black Edition
     M2N Deluxe Motherboard
     geforce 8800GT Graphics
     4 Gig Ram

115. Strahd

     July 31st, 2010 at 11:22 pm

     115

     Now this is brilliant. I have a brand new I7 system with a GeForce GTX 470 and I keep getting the same bloody error. I have a fresh install of windows 7 x64 with the latest nVidia drivers. Everytime I try anything with a more demanding 3D, first the driver error and recovery then system freeze or auto reboot. There really is nothing I could do to remedy the problem?