Win 7 NVIDIA driver stopped responding

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BigFNDeal

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System specs are in my sig. I just installed Windows 7 Ultimate x64. I have NVIDIA drivers 191.07 installed. I have dual Dell 2405 Monitors. Everytime I scroll, my NVIDIA drivers stop. Here is the error-



I thought my RC build install was corrupted as this was happening before, so installed the full release. But its back and with a vengeance. Previous to the reinstall I twice tried uninstalling and reinstalling the drivers, but was still getting the same issue. Not sure what other info I would post.
 
this seems to be a common problem with W7, its something to do with your vid card temps, im sure a microsoft patch will fix this problem soon.
 
My Vista has been doing that alot too in intensive games. Guess its time to clean out this dust magnet(antec nine hundred) again.
 
Gatecrasher3 said:
this seems to be a common problem with W7, its something to do with your vid card temps, im sure a microsoft patch will fix this problem soon.
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And you've been able to determine this since you run many systems with different driver revisions and configurations right? Spare us the corporate apologies, we need facts.

The truth is these drivers suck, people all over the world are reporting it.
http://forums.nvidia.com/index.php?showtopic=108932
http://forums.nvidia.com/index.php?showtopic=108335
http://forums.nvidia.com/index.php?showtopic=109083
http://forums.nvidia.com/index.php?showtopic=108974
http://forums.nvidia.com/index.php?showtopic=108739
http://forums.nvidia.com/index.php?showtopic=109081
http://forums.nvidia.com/index.php?showtopic=108785
http://forums.nvidia.com/index.php?showtopic=108955


Stay away from both the beta or WHQL versions and revert to older drivers.
This is the main cause:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/320789
To resolve this issue, the service must be fixed (rewritten correctly) so that it reports a valid status when it receives a SERVICE_CONTROL_INTERROGATE (or any other) control code from the SCM.
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This is in other words MS telling Nvidia to learn to write drivers.

EVGA was able to reproduce the issue and guess what? It is Nvidia's drivers at fault:
http://www.evga.com/forums/tm.asp?m=100961981&mpage=1&key=&#100961981
 
I've been having the same problem. It crashes and recovers once upon startup every time and it's fine after that, so I'm not going to bother with it until I get a retail copy of Win7.
 
Wow so from that thread on EVGA forums it looks like 191.07 + NF200 chip will actually ruin your hardware eventually once it's been installed as reinstalls won't fix it.

Thanks for posting that thread, this really worries me now since I just started having similar problems with my setup and really can't afford to have to replace my board now.

1; This problem is only known to attack computers with Nvidia chipsets or Nvidia NF200 chips.
2; This problem starts with the install of 191.07 WHQL drivers.
3; Only some computers are effected so there may be some other common thread that has not been figured out yet.
4; In most cases the computer runs fine for a day or two after the drivers are installed.
5; The problems start out very minor and grow over the next 48 hours.
6; Rolling back the drivers may help. Reinstalling Windows may help. Clearing CMOS may help.
7; Changing parts other than the motherboard does not help.
8; Replacing the motherboard with a non NF200 or non Nvidia motherboard cures the problem.
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Hopefully it turns out to be just a few people having actual hardware problems and not the fault of the driver.
 
Abit667 said:
Wow so from that thread on EVGA forums it looks like 191.07 + NF200 chip will actually ruin your hardware eventually once it's been installed as reinstalls won't fix it.

Thanks for posting that thread, this really worries me now since I just started having similar problems with my setup and really can't afford to have to replace my board now.




Hopefully it turns out to be just a few people having actual hardware problems and not the fault of the driver.
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I find it amazing how fast people forget. Nforce motherboards have steadily declined in quality since the Nforce2. For a refresher here is a token:

http://enthusiast.hardocp.com/article/2006/12/14/nvidia_nforce_680i_chipset_problems
 
i wonder if the Direct X11 is throwing it off? Not sure.
 
Nvidia's drivers haven't played nice since Vista, especially early on for Vista... sucks that its happening again with 7
 
blame vista, nvidia drivers has sucked especially for us early os adopters.

Infact most of the crashes with vista when it first came up were attributed to the fact that nvidia can't code properly
 
I also got the message "...Nvidia driver stopped responding" when I first installed W7 four days ago. However, the driver (or W7) seemed to have recovered just fine. I have not seen that error message again.

I am using the 191.07 driver. I have not had any issues with this driver version and Vista so it it seems that is a combination of the 191.07 and Windows 7 issue.
 
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Strange that this is happening in Windows 7. This was a major problem under Vista. So SLI support at first (Had to wait 6 month before getting a functional driver)

I use to get this error under Vista x64 all the time. Then it went away after driver releases. All this was going on under my old 8800GTX's in SLI. I wonder how this will affect the 275's that I have.

I am leaning toward a pair of ATI cards soon if this will pop up.

Anth
 
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