Nvidia / Vista Driver Error - not responding

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maliclipse

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I've had Vista x64 for close to a year now with a 8800GTS 640M. I added another 8800 months ago and things have been smooth up until the last couple weeks. I've been getting the dreaded driver crashing / recovered error. Unstable behavior in Steam games especially CS:S.

I've ran prime95 for 24 hours w/o issue, memtest86 w/o issues. Tried all the things the steam support page suggested (when CS:S locks it gets that looping sound thing). I tried adding local service to administrators, disabling WMI, testing each 8800 individually (physically removing one card). And no luck. I can play for a few hours or a few minutes. But once the lockups/driver errors start Anything graphics wise won't work.

Vista remains stable, I can always tab out and kill the hl2 or cod4 processes but video is useless. I've removed the drivers and deleted registry keys as well, reinstalled DX.

I'm at a loss here. Any suggestions would be welcome.
 
Saw that thread... tried all the suggestions as well.

My next thing will be to install a fresh copy of vista on a spare harddrive adn test with that. All my problems started after a few driver updates. Even deleting any reference to nvidia and starting over w/o a reinstall i'm still getting random lockups. Its so incredibly inconsistant as well. Sometimes I can play for an hour or two, but usually its within a few minutes.
 
Modded 177.26 drivers have helped me in Vista x64 with my 8800GTS @ 800 / 2000 / 1050 MHz (water).

The 177's have fixed AoC for me (almost no lockups with a frozen screen hearing myself get clubbed to death) but I have had 1 driver crash in the last week.
 
maliclipse said:
Saw that thread... tried all the suggestions as well.

My next thing will be to install a fresh copy of vista on a spare harddrive adn test with that. All my problems started after a few driver updates. Even deleting any reference to nvidia and starting over w/o a reinstall i'm still getting random lockups. Its so incredibly inconsistant as well. Sometimes I can play for an hour or two, but usually its within a few minutes.
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Have you tried cleaning out the old driver files and registry commands? Use Driver Cleaner Pro 7 from guru3d.com (a bit of searching in the downloads section, cause I forgot) and then load up the program, uninstall your current nvidia driver, don't restart. Load up Driver Cleaner Pro 7 after it has been installed on your computer of coarse. Config the scan and detail, clean and then restart. Windows will prompt you to install 'its' WDDM driver. Cancel that. Then load up nvidia.com and reload the latest driver..and then install it. Don't do anything CPU intensive in the background, not even msn. Restart your computer again and hopefull this will have recovered your computers driver health for the nvidia gfx card!

Hope it helped coz it did for me!
 
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