nVidia driver crash

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Has anybody found a solution to this and can say exactly what is happening? It seems everybody has the same issue at some point of updating their video card drivers around 280-285. People started getting this "nvidia driver has crashed and recovered". I started getting it on my gtx 480 ever since I built my new Intel 3770k with maximus IV extreme. I've had that card with all different drivers in 4/5 AMD systems and never had an issue. It doesnt seem to be heat/load related. It will crash sometimes in games but mostly when Im using IE and click on a link or visit some sort of intensive webpage. Anybody have any ideas? Ive tried just about everything from memory timings to GPU ram testing, voltage settings, etc...
 
You could search guru3d for driver cleaner, and have it remove all nVidia drivers (and/or AMD drivers if you swap between brands). Then load up the newest to avoid any leftover pieces of old drivers that may be causing a conflict. Make sure the PCI express bus is not past 100 MHz. I've seen artifacts at 101MHz on an 8800GT but I've not had a driver crash and recover on an nvidia card.
 
I had issues with a recent driver update on one of my machines and uninstalling in safe mode, restarting, and then reinstalling the latest version fixed it for me.

The fact that the issue started after doing a big system upgrade could indicate other issues, though. Did you update Windows and then install the latest chipset drivers for your motherboard first before moving on to the graphics drivers when starting up for the first time?

It could even be a borked Flash install if it's doing it alot in IE. I've seen it happen before ala the infamous "pink screen of death" on youtube from about a year ago.
 
On my ati card, and if you look at the amd forums we get.. the driver has stopped responding.. same type of error.. so I wonder if is an OS thing.
 
I had the same issue for a while. I'm running surround monitors and they would all go blank for a few seconds then display that recovery crash error message. I would ignore it, but after a month or two, the monitors would go complete blank but I could still hear my music playing. I would reboot and once it would go into windows, it would go blank and I could hear my pandora load automatically in the background continue to play. It's as if the drivers progressively deteriorated and caused problems upon windows load. I would restore with a recovery image and update the drivers, but after another month or two, the same thing would happen. I got so fed up after this happened multiple times that I upgraded to Windows 8 and I haven't had any problems since.
 
nope. I think I finally found the answer., the TDR issue I'm guessing with most, atleeat for me, was my new MB/CPU not at the correct settings. I researched for a LOOOONG time and finally came across this: https://forums./default/topic/389688/geforce-drivers/nvidia-statement-on-tdr-errors-display-driver-nvlddmkm-stopped-/ After I better understood what was going on I was better prepared to troubleshoot. It seems like the different buses were not talking in sync from different but not wrong timing timings. All stable in themselves (I had the gtx 480 running fine in another machine), but I had to change the voltage/offset of CPU and tighten my memory timings as I had them lax. Only after I did BOTH of those things, did my issue go away. I had been having it every hour or so and so far I have used my PC a total of 10-12 hours of evenly spolit time - Crysis3 on very high, youtube browsing (most crashes seen here), and opening closing spplications. No errors at all!
 
When I see this issue on laptops with Quadro chips, I just replace the motherboard.

We've tried a fresh OS install and fresh drivers, issue continues but after replacing the motherboard it goes away. Done this with multiple systems. Don't think I've ever seen just a driver clean-up and re-install fix the problem but this is just with laptop Quadros so I'm not sure if the same applies with discrete desktop video cards.
 
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