191.07 + W7 64-bit = "driver stopped responding" all the time

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Ever since I installed the retail version of W7 64-bit and the WHQL 191.07 drivers, anytime the video card experiences any kind of load, the driver stops responding and restarts the driver. Obviously, this is only happening while I'm gaming. Sometimes, it restarts 3 or 4 times in a row and completely kills my gaming program. After googling a bit, it seems as if Microsoft has issued a response to the problem, basically telling nVidia to write their drivers properly. I'm not the only one with this problem.

I've done numerous things to reduce the load on my graphics card to downplay the issue, including lowering graphics settings and turning my fan all the way up. This has helped, but anytime I enter a new zone on WoW, the new zone load typically kills the driver once again.

This is getting highly annoying, and I'm getting more and more pissed as it goes along. From what I've read, lots of people are having this problem, so why is there not another driver out yet that fixes this? I ran W7 64-bit RC1 for quite some time and never had a single problem, but I can't remember which driver version I was using then. I'm getting this problem no matter what I do. I've tried going back to 190 drivers, I've tried going forward to 195 beta drivers, still same issue.

EVGA GTX275, Intel Core 2 Duo on a P965 Express chipset.

Please, for my sanity, someone help me. Maybe there is a beta version out now since I last looked that specifically addresses this problem.

 

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I've had this issue pop up a few times, and it's always turned out to be related to faulty RAM. Try messing with different memory configs (switch sticks around, take one out, etc.) and see if it helps. I know it seems strange, but new RAM completely solved this issue for me.

 

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I've had this issue pop up a few times, and it's always turned out to be related to faulty RAM. Try messing with different memory configs (switch sticks around, take one out, etc.) and see if it helps. I know it seems strange, but new RAM completely solved this issue for me.

Well, one day everything worked fine, and had since I installed W7 RC1 back in June. The next day, after retail W7 went in, this problem wouldn't even let me play a game for more than 5 seconds. Once I upped the fan speed, it was greatly reduced. I think it's been acting up today a lot because of the higher temps in the house, it's not as cool as it has been.

Temps are around 53C whenever this happens.