- Oct 6, 2007
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Every time I boot Vista 64 (the only OS on my machine) it hangs, and then I get a BSOD stating that nvlddmkm has stopped responding. After Windows restarts itself, everything seems to run fine except the occasional crash in 3D games. There doesn't seem to be a pattern in the crashes.
I didn't notice the boot issue until after I had updated to the 257.21 drivers, but it didn't happen right away so I'm not sure there was really a connection. I have since rolled back to the 197.45 drivers and problem persists. For all driver installs I've gone through the Driver Sweeper process and installed in Safe Mode with reboots in between each step, yada yada yada.
System specs:
E4500 running at 2.93 GHz (Never been an issue)
GA-P35-DS3L Rev. 2
2x2GB Super Talent 1.8v DDR2-800
XFX 8800GT 512MB with an Accelero S1 (great temps)
Corsair 520HX
Samsung Spinpoint 500GB
Vista 64
As I'm poking around here and there trying to solve the issue, I'm hearing some things about bad solder joints in Nvidia cards from that 2007-2008 time frame, but it seems like it was mostly confined to notebook stuff from what I read. Also, seems like a lot of those stories reported artifacts, which I've never had.
My card has a lifetime warranty (even if aftermarket cooling is applied, I just have to put the stock cooler back on before I send it in) so I'm thinking about just talking to XFX about a replacement card to see if that fixes the issue. Is that a good way to go, or should I try something else first?
I didn't notice the boot issue until after I had updated to the 257.21 drivers, but it didn't happen right away so I'm not sure there was really a connection. I have since rolled back to the 197.45 drivers and problem persists. For all driver installs I've gone through the Driver Sweeper process and installed in Safe Mode with reboots in between each step, yada yada yada.
System specs:
E4500 running at 2.93 GHz (Never been an issue)
GA-P35-DS3L Rev. 2
2x2GB Super Talent 1.8v DDR2-800
XFX 8800GT 512MB with an Accelero S1 (great temps)
Corsair 520HX
Samsung Spinpoint 500GB
Vista 64
As I'm poking around here and there trying to solve the issue, I'm hearing some things about bad solder joints in Nvidia cards from that 2007-2008 time frame, but it seems like it was mostly confined to notebook stuff from what I read. Also, seems like a lot of those stories reported artifacts, which I've never had.
My card has a lifetime warranty (even if aftermarket cooling is applied, I just have to put the stock cooler back on before I send it in) so I'm thinking about just talking to XFX about a replacement card to see if that fixes the issue. Is that a good way to go, or should I try something else first?
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