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301.42 TDR with GTX 460!

kimiraikkonen
Level 7
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!
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dstrakele
Level 14
A Timeout Delay Recovery (TDR) occurs when the display driver stops responding for 2 seconds. Windows 7 then attempts to reset the display adapter. If this succeeds, it prevents a BSOD and you get the "The display driver has stopped responding and has successfully recovered." error message. DPC Latency can cause delays sufficient to trigger a TDR. Run DPC Latency Checker to troubleshoot.
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dstrakele wrote:
A Timeout Delay Recovery (TDR) occurs when the display driver stops responding for 2 seconds. Windows 7 then attempts to reset the display adapter. If this succeeds, it prevents a BSOD and you get the "The display driver has stopped responding and has successfully recovered." error message. DPC Latency can cause delays sufficient to trigger a TDR. Run DPC Latency Checker to troubleshoot.


Thanks "dstrakele" for your reply. I've already checked my system using DPC Latency Checker and noticed a few red bars, but they're not coming frequently and not excessive, and i beleive they're there due to my outdated Atheros AR9285 Wifi driver which is the stock one, versioned 8.0.0.316 (or like that). However i experienced the TDR for the first time since a year, only with 301.42, and it was fine with previous drivers though i still had the outdated Wifi driver and i'm not eager to update it because of having no major network-related problem for the sake of keeping network configuration stable. I got TDR, especially after i deal with GDI+ functions like MS Paint, copying hi-res pictures to clipboard, like this which makes me suspect of a kind of memory leak in 301.42, thus TDR after a while. Can you agree on this?

Any more comment is appreciated, thanks a lot!
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PlaneName
Level 10
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.
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kimiraikkonen
Level 7
Sorry for bumping. Is there anybody using 306.97 with GTX 460 with no problem??? Flash, 3d gaming, Physx etc...?

Thanks a lot!
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Any update on 306.97? Rog users? I really want to know how stable it's, for you....Thanks!
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kimiraikkonen
Level 7
Note: I got another TDR while GPU is idle, just while working with MS Paint with hi-res image, and while Google Maps was open in Firefox. That's insane! The GUI dramatically slows down before TDR is coming up, then all the brightness levels get lost and maxed out till next reboot.

Is there anyone had frequent TDR with 301.42 and 306.97 is a soluton which i don't think so?
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SUKARA
Level 10
Could you please try this version graphic card driver?
http://www.guru3d.com/files_details/geforce_310_61_beta_driver_download.html