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Win7 RC1, Gigabyte EP45-UD3R (bios F6), Gigabyte 8800GT @ 700/1715/920 (default factory overclock), 191.07 drivers.

Was playing RF: Guerrilla today and during mid-game the screen freezed. Couldn't do anything other than a reset. After reset any attempts to start the game, once past the initial THQ/Volition videos caused the game to hang, and a taskbar message saying something along the lines of "Nvidia kernel 191.07 had an error but Windows was able to restore it".

Could it be driver related, or a hardware issue? I know the 190.xx drivers were shit, causing RE5 and Call of Juarez to crash at a random time past 30 minutes of gameplay. 185.xx had no issues on Prototype whatsoever though. Ran memtest, 10 runs of IntelBurnTest using all my memory, 1 hour of furmark, no issues.
 
My GTX 280 is now completely unable to run any game without failing. The second I load into anything requiring 3d my screen becomes a mess of ainbow colored corruption. I highly suggest you remove the 191.07 drivers if you want to keep your hardware intact.

Maybe I'm wrong and my card dying within 48 hours after the 191.07 install was a fluke. But it had been perfectly stable since I got the card in Feb before that. The assumption at this point is that it causes the card to run way too hot and as a result causes it to burn itself or the PCIe lanes out. It is assumes this affects system boards with the NF200 chip but no one knows the variables at this point. 2D performance is unaffected at this point for me least as it doesn't push the hardware beyond basic functionality.

You have been warned :)
 
191.07 took away resuming from standby for me. Big ol Green screen is all I get when I try.
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Chromatik said:
My GTX 280 is now completely unable to run any game without failing. The second I load into anything requiring 3d my screen becomes a mess of ainbow colored corruption. I highly suggest you remove the 191.07 drivers if you want to keep your hardware intact.

Maybe I'm wrong and my card dying within 48 hours after the 191.07 install was a fluke. But it had been perfectly stable since I got the card in Feb before that. The assumption at this point is that it causes the card to run way too hot and as a result causes it to burn itself or the PCIe lanes out. It is assumes this affects system boards with the NF200 chip but no one knows the variables at this point. 2D performance is unaffected at this point for me least as it doesn't push the hardware beyond basic functionality.

You have been warned :)
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Mine has never gone past 70C except in furmark, unless GPU-Z is completely untrustworthy...

Ain't using a board with the NF200 chip either, still on a P45.

Will try using the 186.xx whql drivers soon and see what I can do.
 
Rolled back to 186 and 181 whql drivers and still the same problem.

Grabbing the error from Event Viewer:

Log Name: System
Source: Display
Event ID: 4101
Task Category: None
Level: Warning
Description:
Display driver nvlddmkm stopped responding and has successfully recovered.
 
ive been having the exact same issues ever since updating my driver to 1.9xxx.

it happens frequently when playing COD4 but it's totally random.

sometimes i can play for 2 hours and nothing happens other times i log onto a server and it happens within 5 minutes.

i too tried to roll back my drivers with a clean install and it didn't make a difference.
 
Think I'm gonna send the card back to the distributor... it can't even pass furmark now. RE5 is playable for all of 5 minutes before the screen artifacts and I get the same error 4101.

Which is weird, the card never had any heat issues. The Zalman fan on it kept it cool on everything except furmark on xtreme burn mode. It's also never been clogged with dust, even in an Antec 900 dustmagnet case, I do clean the comp up regularly.
 
Might be around the same problem.

8800GT, Win7 Pro, 191.07 Drivers,

After running a Demanding GFX Application, I can see some white lines flashing in my screen then it stops and start again after 30sec id say, also screen is flashing black. No overheat, problem since installing new Os (was using Xp). Tried 03's and installing auto with Windows Update, no success.

So Driver problem from nVdia ? or all of our cards decided to die with Win7? :rolleyes:
 
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