"Nvidia kernel mode has stopped working and has been recovered" error message

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defiant007

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Been experiencing these driver crashes recently with my new rig. Apparently this issue is relatively common and was introduced by a new driver build some time in late 2011 according to google searches I have done.

My specs are as follows:

Gigabyte G1 Sniper Z77
i7 2700K
Corsair 16gb Vengeance DDR3 1866mhz
Corsair AX1200 Gold PSU
2x ASUS GTX 580 Direct CUII running in SLI
Windows 7 64-bit

I am running the GPU's using beta drivers 304.48.

I haven't experienced any problems whilst playing games, only when doing relatively mundane non-intensive things like browsing the internet. The screen will randomly go dark and then come back to life with the error message.

Has anyone else encountered this issue, and if so have you been able to resolve it?
 
I had the same issue with a GTX 460. Never got it resolved even with different drivers.
 
Was experiencing the issue with the latest WHQLs which is why I gave the current beta a try. Will however see if 304.79 provides any tangible improvement.
 
Well known issue, I had it on my 560Ti from about June 2011 until I sold my old PC 6 weeks ago. Very annoying. That was on an old Q6700 system, but my friend experiences the crashes (known as TDR) on his 2500K/Z68/560Ti Hawk system fairly often under the same desktop conditions as you.

<knock on wood> haven't had a single issue with my 670 yet.
 
If your using onboard sound and its realtek based either a) update the driver to a current one and test or replace with a real sound card. I started having this issue with my new card never before go figure!
 
started with my GTX560ti since the beginning, have not found a solution....the only relatively stable driver was 295.73
 
Tazman2 said:
If your using onboard sound and its realtek based either a) update the driver to a current one and test or replace with a real sound card. I started having this issue with my new card never before go figure!
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My onboard sound is creative based :confused:
 
There are so many things that can cause TDR ("stopped working and has recovered") -- could be hw issues (oc), sw issues (malware), driver bugs (nv or conflicts), etc
 
I have this board and the only stable driver for me is the 301.40 beta for my tri-SLI 670s. The WHQLs may not like the PLX chip this board uses.
 
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What browser? Try messing with hardware acceleration in adobe flash as well, make sure it's updated. I noticed a problem when I enabled hardware acceleration in chrome. I think IE and firefox are enabled by default.
 
I had that problem with my 460 when I was using my UDP3. The only thing that fixed it was increasing the voltage to the PCIe bus a little bit.
 
I had this issue in my Gateway P-6831fx notebook with an 8800GTS. Fixed it with a dxupdate, though then I started getting vertex buffer errors, but those were very rare. It is a very annoying issue to say the least.
 
Like others have said, there could be several reasons it is happening. But is the card overclocked at all? For me, I usually only got that message when I was working on overclocking and trying to find the highest stable level I could. It would happen every time that an overclock failed during a benchmark or stress test or whatever.

I don't know if it was because of heat or voltage or what, but that is when it would happen to me. So if you are overclocked, try going back to stock settings. And watch your temps during a benchmark or something too to see if they are getting really high. Heat could definitely cause it.
 
Did you ever resolve this? My system has started having this problem too, also only in 2D clocks. My system is rock-solid stable in games but the crashing while browsing or watching simple video (both flash and standard video files) makes me want to punch a baby. I tried the latest Realtek drivers and they didn't resolve it. They did, however, make audio stop working in flash youtube videos through my speakers. (The sound still worked with my Corsair USB headset.)

I've tried different drivers, removing memory, reseating my video card, downgrading my overclock, raising voltages...I really can't afford to try RMAing my video card next as my military post office has thieves in it. If I try to RMA my card, there's a damn good chance I'll never get the replacement.
 
I had this problem (2 GTX580's in SLI). It started after installing a newer driver. I reinstalled an older driver and the issue didn't reappear. I waited for a bunch of driver versions to be released before installing a much newer one. No issues so far.

What I've learned: the newest driver isn't always the best one.
 
I've tried 6 different drivers (including the one that came out today, hasn't crashed yet, but I've only had it installed for about 10 minutes now.) There's a limit to how far back I can go because the older drivers don't support the GTX 680.
 
There have been plenty of threads where an nv driver change exposes marginally failing hardware (because the new driver stresses the hardware slightly differently, etc).
 
I have had this with my GTX 580, tried many different drivers, changed my MoBo, changed Ram, same thing. It happens once a month I'd say. I figure it's the card its self, so once I get a new card I'll RMA and sell the one they send me.
 
Has anyone managed to figure out what is the cause of this problem?

Also have 2 x 580s in sli and have been routinely experiencing these crashes regardless of which drivers I use. The most recent annoying iteration is that the desktop will just randomly freeze and then unfreeze for a couple of seconds until I do a reboot, and then all will be fine until the issue crops up again.

So annoying when you do a build that should be unproblematic but you get these ghost in the machine type issues that are impossible to troubleshoot. I am half tempted to ditch these 580s in exchange for a single 780 in the hope that will fix the issue, which is a shame because they have no problem running any game on max details at 1080P. Would much rather hold out for nvidia's 880GTX.
 
It happens to my 460 SLI I just deal with it. Does not happen all that often and it sometimes happens even browsing the web. Maybe happens 2 times a week out of about 30 hrs
 
This happens to me every day, if my machine goes to sleep. I either get a BSOD or no screen after coming out of sleep mode. Windows 7, 8 and 8.1 all do the same thing. Linux does not. I've learned to live with it.

Edit: It's also done it on both a 460GTX and 660GTX.
 
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What browser? Try messing with hardware acceleration in adobe flash as well, make sure it's updated. I noticed a problem when I enabled hardware acceleration in chrome. I think IE and firefox are enabled by default.
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@Ruoh: Try this. One of my older workstations had the same issue after a sudden loss of power. Disabling hardware acceleration for Firefox as well as Flash resolved the problem. You'll have to use the "about:config" page.
 
Coming from someone who has run SLI or Xfire since the 6800 Ultra and X800 XT (not counting the old Voodoo2 which ran Quake wonderfully in SLI :cool: ), I have experienced this error periodically over the years using Nvidia cards, especially in SLI. While I've never had it crash when running 2D functions like someone noted above, I always found the best fix was to up the GPU voltage slightly when the card is running in 3D mode. You can use any of the popular software utilities: MSI Afterburner, Asus GPU Tweak, EVGA Precision, etc. This has alleviated the issue for me 9/10 times. Hope this helps.
 
HDriscoll said:
I had this problem (2 GTX580's in SLI). It started after installing a newer driver. I reinstalled an older driver and the issue didn't reappear. I waited for a bunch of driver versions to be released before installing a much newer one. No issues so far.

What I've learned: the newest driver isn't always the best one.
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Can't tell you how many times I kick myself for not listening to that piece of advice...

Sometimes, just leave well enough alone or wait a few days for feedback. I used to have this TDR problem too, with the 560Ti. It was in a system that used the Adobe Creative Suite. Since moving on to the 660, it's been stable so far. The 560Ti did have one or two crashes since being relegated to basically web browsing. Can't recall what the crashes were now, since it's been a month or two.
 
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