nvlddmkm stopped responding....

So I tried windows 10 again a few weeks ago, with my gtx1080.
All was well on 8.1.

I've off and on had this blank screen bit for a few seconds, usually with a driver resetting message in event log, seems
worse watching netflix on 2nd monitor, never does it in games.
Just now, it logged that error about 15 times and the display never came back, took a hard reset to get back.

I'm on the latest driver, is there an older driver that's less grumpy?
I disabled hardware acceleration in Chrome just now, don't know if it will help
but it's less than ideal. I've done the DDU uninstall and clean and not let windows update
the driver bit previously when this first cropped up.
Suggestions? This is a work PC during the day so buggy isn't acceptable.

rest of system specs? are you overclocking both CPU and GPU? driver kernel crash is typically associated to a overclocking failure... only times it happened severely to me was with a unstable system RAM overclock. may worth to check it.

FWIW.. I've had issues with all the 416.xx drivers. The 399.07 drivers work w/o issues for me.

It's a Lenovo E5-1650v2 in a different case with a good Seasonic PSU and a GTX1080, and it was rock solid for a long time on windows 8.1.
I first noticed on 10 it was less stable with my mild overclocks (afterburner and Intel ETU), and I've been through several 416.xx driver updates now
and a big bug fix update for 10 in the last couple months and if anything it's gotten worse. I've done the disable auto driver update, run driver cleaner utility,
clean driver install, etc, etc all the usual stuff and nothing seems to phase it. At this point I'm going back to 8.1, this is an 8 hour a day work box, and then a five
or six hour casual/gaming box, so it really needs to not lock up in the middle or the day lol. I'm sure there's something fixable or an older driver that will work
but I just don't have time to jerk around with it right now.

So 8.1 isn't crashing at least. I do still get a momentary black screen on one monitor or the other sometimes when I'm opening a video, netflix or amazon.
It's peculiar and must be driver/browser related. Games fine, stress test fine, not overclocked, overclocked, same same behavior. Only starting videos.

But it's not outright locking up now so that's a win..

Ramses said:

So 8.1 isn't crashing at least. I do still get a momentary black screen on one monitor or the other sometimes when I'm opening a video, netflix or amazon.
It's peculiar and must be driver/browser related. Games fine, stress test fine, not overclocked, overclocked, same same behavior. Only starting videos.

But it's not outright locking up now so that's a win..

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The driver just prior to the latest Nvidia one introduced some serious issues for me as far as stability is concerned. The latest one seems to have largely resolved the issues.

Now, the screen blanking issue I've seen with my 1080 GTX in my front room pushing the video through a receiver that did the upscaling for me . My old pioneer would lag by 10-15 seconds while it applied it's processing. I resolved that by moving to a higher end Denon I picked up for 600 bucks after the new gen came out. So, while unrelated it would do this every time another video source was introduced that was enabled in full screen. If you're not pushing the video through an external processor (like me) it's either drivers or a rendering issue with the video card.

My money is on the driver's. I always hate saying it's the hardware, especially since the last couple Nvidia driver updates, literally, shit the bed for me in most games.

No more crashes with 8.1 still, but I can still get some weird screen off/on or color blanking if I move a browser window from one monitor to the other.
But, it's minimal and isn't locking the damn PC up, so yay I guess.