Desperate Techie in need of some suggestions...

[oldsguru]

I'm officially at my wits end about this stupid problem. I cannot for the life of me figure out what is causing this error. "nvlddmkm stopped responding"

I have tried the following:

1. 4 different sets of manually timed RAM (tried overvolting, loose timings etc on each set, Muskin, OCZ, GSKILL, and Patriot)
2. New PS (Had 600W OCZ moved to 850W Zeus)
3. New MB (Had 680i, moved to a Gigabyte P45 and got crossfire to say screw you to NVIDIA)
4. Reinstalled Vista around...15 times... no help there...
5. Bought an aftermarket cooler for the videocard(Accelero 8800 series- AWESOME cooler, my card cannot even break 50C on full load.
6. Underclock my videocard
7. Reseat video card 100 times
8. Mem test passes for 48 hours with no errors.
9. Orthos stable for 48 hours. (Everything is stock clocks)
10. PCI-E bus locked @ 100MHz
11. Replaced my video card with a friends identical unit, same $hit
12. Turned off all power saving features, on high performance and screen-saver is off
13. Disabling one monitor
14. Plugging my PS directly into a wall (Plugged into a UPS currently)
15. Tried at least 15 different driver versions (Each new install of vista = new driver)


The only thing I don't think I've tried is sacrificing 10 virgins to Allah and kiss the testicles of a unicorn. Does ANYONE have ANY ideas? I built a Gdamn new rig basically except for switching my graphics to ATI (almost there tho).

I can play anywhere from 20 minutes to 20 seconds before my monitors flash and I get the dreaded message. HALPPPP MEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! pretty please?

 

[Blain]

Did you Google "nvlddmkm stopped responding"? :roll:

Did you clean out drivers in Safe Mode?

 

[oldsguru]

Google is lord, that was my first thing I did. I cannot find a solution that works for me using Google.

Yes I rebooted into Safe mode, uninstalled, rebooted, installed new drivers.

 

[mpilchfamily]

Have you tried a different set of drivers? You may have to role back to an older set of drivers for your card. There are times when the most up to date drivers hinder rather then help older cards.

 

[Blain]

Originally posted by: mpilchfamily
Have you tried a different set of drivers? You may have to role back to an older set of drivers for your card. There are times when the most up to date drivers hinder rather then help older cards.

Originally posted by: oldsguru
I have tried the following:

4. Reinstalled Vista around...15 times... no help there...

15. Tried at least 15 different driver versions (Each new install of vista = new driver)

 

[Boobs McGee]

I saw this error on the EVGA forums. You could try it to see if it could help you.

I know I am new to the forums but please just try this it worked for me...

Under the Nvidia control panel manage 3D settings go to the game tab not global.

now select your game on the sofware list

now change three settings (2 if not using SLI)

Turn the Mini maps to OFF

Change SLI rendering to Alternate frame rendering 2 (dont know why works better)

And the Thread Optimization option turn it to ON from Auto
(for some reason the auto isnt working in 177.79)
****(I also turned on the triple buffering with my SLI 8800GTS 512 but runs same with or without)****

ENJOY your gamming......

Just incase your wondering
6600 OC'd to 3.0
4g 1066 dominator ram
sli 8800GTS 512
Vista 64 SP1

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Edit: Another link: Text

 

[Slugbait]

Did some quick reading around, and one of the more common configs I've noticed for people suffering from this issue is large amounts of RAM. Give this a try: single stick. If that works, drop in the rest and try this: disable dual-channel.

 

[oldsguru]

Originally posted by: Boobs McGee
I saw this error on the EVGA forums. You could try it to see if it could help you.

I know I am new to the forums but please just try this it worked for me...

Under the Nvidia control panel manage 3D settings go to the game tab not global.

now select your game on the sofware list

now change three settings (2 if not using SLI)

Turn the Mini maps to OFF

Change SLI rendering to Alternate frame rendering 2 (dont know why works better)

And the Thread Optimization option turn it to ON from Auto
(for some reason the auto isnt working in 177.79)
****(I also turned on the triple buffering with my SLI 8800GTS 512 but runs same with or without)****

ENJOY your gamming......

Just incase your wondering
6600 OC'd to 3.0
4g 1066 dominator ram
sli 8800GTS 512
Vista 64 SP1

Link: Text


Edit: Another link: Text

Just tried that suggestion... still same thing