301.42 TDR with GTX 460!

[kimiraikkonen]

Hi friends,
I had installed 301.42 after having numerous issues with 296.10 before. Since then i haven't had any problems even while GPU was under load. But today, while i was working with images on MS PAINT and surfing and typing some text in MS Office 2010, i got "display driver has stopped working and recovered successfully" as known as TDR. That's the first time i had a TDR with a Nvidia Card.

Has anybody experienced TDR with GTX 460 or other card using 301.42? It suddenly slows down and ignores all the brightness settings then display flashes, as a result, TDR.

Any idea is grealy appreciated! Thanks!

[dstrakele]

There have been some reports of problems with 301.42 in the ASUS community, particularly from G74SX users. I recommend performing a clean NVIDIA install of 306.23 WHQL from Windows Safe Mode.

[kimiraikkonen]

dstrakele wrote:
There have been some reports of problems with 301.42 in the ASUS community, particularly from G74SX users. I recommend performing a clean NVIDIA install of 306.23 WHQL from Windows Safe Mode.

Hmm, i hope i'll soon. Thanks. I'm sick and tired because of continuously updating Nvidia drivers due to poor driver testing of Nvidia. I never had TDR with previous versions and also DIDN't had while gaming under load with 301.42 but got TDR during typing some text on Windows which is very strange.

Hope it's not my GPU! What else should i concern?

[PILGRIM]

kimiraikkonen wrote:
...Thanks. I'm sick and tired because of continuously updating Nvidia drivers due to poor driver testing of Nvidia...

😉 Which is better: nVidia constantly updating their drivers, or ASUS certifying their VGA drivers once a year or so?
Does it go down to choosing the lesser evil?.. Even if nVidia is categorized as such, I'd follow it without batting
an eyelash.. At least, there are a lot of driver versions to choose from to suit one's machine (laptop or otherwise).
As compared to ASUS updating their driver certifications every "once in a blue moon".

I've read in the nVidia forum written by a mod, a while back, that TDR errors are not solely
nVidia driver's fault. It may not even be nVidia's fault..
It could be caused by any of the host of processes in the Windows OS going haywire.
Reason why nVidia seems to be always the culprit is that it is the main display driver.
(Been trying to locate it for linking, too bad nVidia forum still seems to be out of service.)

Hey, kimiraikkonen,.. I don't know what programs you may have installed in your rig recently, causing the issue.
But I think it's time you abandon your beloved 301.42 driver, and try the newer 306.23 driver version.:)

[kimiraikkonen]

PILGRIM wrote:
😉 Which is better: nVidia constantly updating their drivers, or ASUS certifying their VGA drivers once a year or so?
Does it go down to choosing the lesser evil?.. Even if nVidia is categorized as such, I'd follow it without batting
an eyelash.. At least, there are a lot of driver versions to choose from to suit one's machine (laptop or otherwise).
As compared to ASUS updating their driver certifications every "once in a blue moon".

I've read in the nVidia forum written by a mod, a while back, that TDR errors are not solely
nVidia driver's fault. It may not even be nVidia's fault..
It could be caused by any of the host of processes in the Windows OS going haywire.
Reason why nVidia seems to be always the culprit is that it is the main display driver.
(Been trying to locate it for linking, too bad nVidia forum still seems to be out of service.)

Hey, kimiraikkonen,.. I don't know what programs you may have installed in your rig recently, causing the issue.
But I think it's time you abandon your beloved 301.42 driver, and try the newer 306.23 driver version.:)

Each Nvidia driver release fixes the previous problem and brings a new one. That's why i'm a bit lost. Reverting back to older drivers is not such a thing for a gaming rig. Huh, now i see 306.97 is out! And it has the same Physx version bundled in 306.23. It appears to be a Windows-8 release but Nvidia seems to ignore main problems such as TDR and the problems while my GPU is idle!

By the way, have you tried 306.97? Does it have crashes while working on desktop with idled GPU and flash bugs? Or PSOD like happens with 296.10? I'm waiting for an apocalypse day that Nvidia relases a fully stable driver!

[PlaneName]

kimiraikkonen wrote:
Each Nvidia driver release fixes the previous problem and brings a new one. That's why i'm a bit lost. Reverting back to older drivers is not such a thing for a gaming rig. Huh, now i see 306.97 is out! And it has the same Physx version bundled in 306.23. It appears to be a Windows-8 release but Nvidia seems to ignore main problems such as TDR and the problems while my GPU is idle!

By the way, have you tried 306.97? Does it have crashes while working on desktop with idled GPU and flash bugs? Or PSOD like happens with 296.10? I'm waiting for an apocalypse day that Nvidia relases a fully stable driver!

Hope the new drivers work's for you! I have no issues with the 306.97 drivers so far. If the problem still persists, have you tried my solution on my last post?

[kimiraikkonen]

PlaneName wrote:
Hope the new drivers work's for you! I have no issues with the 306.97 drivers so far. If the problem still persists, have you tried my solution on my last post?

Really? What is your Rog notebook? Is flash and 3d games fine and no PSOD at all with 306.97? I had numerous crashes with recent drives while playing F1 2011, though it can be game-related. But i had a TDR while GPU was idle with 301.42 and PSOD with 296.10. That's why i'm so furious at Nvidia because of lacking of providing a fully stable driver.

Comments are greatly appreciated!

Thanks for the feedback!

[PlaneName]

kimiraikkonen wrote:
Really? What is your Rog notebook? Is flash and 3d games fine and no PSOD at all with 306.97? I had numerous crashes with recent drives while playing F1 2011, though it can be game-related. But i had a TDR while GPU was idle with 301.42 and PSOD with 296.10. That's why i'm so furious at Nvidia because of lacking of providing a fully stable driver.

Comments are greatly appreciated!

Thanks for the feedback!

I just realize I'm in a notebook thread with the GTX460M, the tile of your thread (GTX 460) made me respond to your issue. Well no matter, because I'd have the same problem, again have you did these steps that I have mentioned?:

PlaneName wrote:
I just have the the same issue, but with the GTX 560 ti on 306.23 drivers, and I hear allot of people is getting this error. I bookmarked these two links: (which helped my problem).

(Do this one first!)
http://forums.techguy.org/windows-vista/837500-nvlddmkm-sys-blue-screen.html

The first post, you need to read.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2665946

Just follow these steps, or you can download the "Fix it for me" which I did. It says the GPU can't handle opening to many applications, but we know that that your GPU's can handle that (GTX 460 and the GTX 560ti). It's a very strange error from our GPU's which look's like it's related to NVIDIA drivers.

I downloaded the 306.23 drivers one month ago and haven't had any problems until in a few week's later, I started to have that issue. These links actually helped me, hopefully it helped you. I really don't know what cause this error, the last time I had an 116 code (BSOD) which was actually something wrong with the OC on the GPU. Now I OC my card to the voltage 1.050v for 6 months and never had any problems until the 306.23 drivers has been released. I don't know if it's related to NVIDIA because the 306.23 drivers was working for 3 week's than BSOD appears. I'm just guessing that the old NVIDIA drivers is still installed which you need to go into safemode and remove the 296.10 drivers permanently. I have no problem since, after I done those required step on those 2 links.

These steps actually helped me, here is the drivers for your laptop:

http://www.geforce.com/drivers/results/50007

Are you saying you are having the PSOD now? so you never had the BSOD from TDR?

[anvancy]

So the 306.97 are perfectly stable for the 460M? I am still on 296.:)

[kimiraikkonen]

PlaneName wrote:
I just realize I'm in a notebook thread with the GTX460M, the tile of your thread (GTX 460) made me respond to your issue. Well no matter, because I'd have the same problem, again have you did these steps that I have mentioned?:



These steps actually helped me, here is the drivers for your laptop:

http://www.geforce.com/drivers/results/50007

Are you saying you are having the PSOD now? so you never had the BSOD from TDR?

Thanks for your reply mate. I was having PSOD with 296.10 and PSOD seemed to have gone away with 301.42 but i had a TDR when GPU was idle. What's your Rog notebook besides the gaming one in your signature? I'll update to 306.97 but i want to make sure how stable it is. Can you explain your testimoinals related to these driver mess? I found some bugs in 301.42 and will go for 306.97 soon.

Besides TDR, getting black screen freeze in F1 2011 pissed me off. Other games run just fine.