G834JY 560.70 & 560.81 drivers will black screen when switching to dgpu

[Kantana]

After updating to NVidia drivers 560.70 or 560.81, any time I try to switch to the RTX 4090 gpu the screen will  freeze on the notebook screen.  Attempting to restart the gpu driver with Win + ctrl + shift + B will result in a black screen.  Only solution is to hold down the power button to power off and reboot.

Last working driver was 556.12.  Anyone else having the same issues with the latest 2 drivers, 560.70 or 560.81?

ROG Strix SCAR 18 (2023) G834 

[Kantana]

@Anbby_ROG any reports from other users?

[SarvarSangilov]

https://www.ghacks.net/2024/08/05/nvidia-drops-support-for-old-cpus-latest-driver-may-cause-bluescre...

[Kantana]

That's not relevant here, it only affects really old cpus, like 2 decades ago.  I'm seeing screen freezes or black screens not BSOD.

[SarvarSangilov]

If so, I didn't know

[eXplode]

Make clean install of the newest driver and try again or install the old one driver's becouse you will not have any benefits whit 1 newest version of the drivers ... You can wait the next version and try again

[Kantana]

I already reinstalled the previously working 556.12 driver for now.  The problem is that the latest 2 versions 560.70 and 560.81 have thr same problem so wary future driver releases will keep having same issue if Nvidia has not been notified to fix the problem.

[Kantana]

@Anbby_ROG I posted the issue on the Nvidia GDR 560.81 feedback thread and saw 2 replies from other users having the same issue.  Can you pls flag this to Nvidia to include a fix in next driver release?

https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/forums/game-ready-drivers/13/547855/geforce-grd-56081-feedback-...