Hi all, I made a pc around the new year. everything has been fine. Now every few hours the pc will either restart, or the screen goes black and i cant do anything except turn it off and on again. In the action center i get the notification that all the restarts are because of my NVIDIA Graphics Driver. NVIDIA graphics driver has stopped working 6 times (s, last occurring on xx/xx/xx xx:xx. Steps are available for addressing this problem. I click on the View Message details. and get: This solution could not be downloaded -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Most likely causes: Your computer was unable to download the solution at this time. Check to make sure your computer is connected to the Internet, and then try to download the solution again later. -- Obviously im on the internet since im posting this .. Ive downloaded the latest driver from ASUS but its still happening. Anyone know what the message details was going to say? Or some ideas on a fix. Thanks S
hmm is the driver up to date? If it is.. try to roll back to the older version.. It sounds like the newest driver is still buggy.. Also what's your computer specs??
If you have MSI AfterBurner or EVGA Presision, or RIVA Tuner, uninstall them, as they might cause a conflict. If your computer (any part) is overclocked, for testing purposes, restore the settings to default. Of course, to not lose your overclock work, write everything you put on paper, so that, if it isn't the problem, you can put everything back as it was. Download from NVIDIA your graphic card drivers. When you run the setup go under "Advance (custom)", and check the box to do a clean install. Also uncheck the boxed of Nvidia 3D stuff. The drivers will clean everything clean, ask you to restart, and resume the setup once your back. Check also your system temperature. Make sure that nothing is overheating.
You could try some other drivers, could also possibly be a hardware problem. http://www.nvidia.co.uk/page/link_download_beta_archived_drivers.html
Hi all thanks for the replies! since i put on the driver from Asus it seems to be ok.. I had one restart just after i installed it. But since a restart it seems to be working (I left it on over night and its still on now so! fingers crossed!) Id did install some 3d stuff. Ill take that off when i get home tonight! Is it best to download drivers from the manufacturer (Asus) or from Nvidia? For looking at over heating i currently goto the BIOS and check it out there.. Is there a app or something that everyone likes to use to monitor? I havent done any overclocking.. Spec is below: Asus GTX 560Ti Asus P9X79 PRO Socket 2011 Intel Core I7-3930K 3.20GHz OCZ ZX Series 850W 80+ GOLD Corsair Vengeance 32GB DDR3 1600Mhz Corsair Hydro Series H100 Corsair 180GB Force 3 SSD OCZ 120GB Agility 3 SSD Seagate Momentus XT 500 GB thanks for the help! S
Glad you got the problem solved. There are a few apps you can use to monitor temps. I use HWmonitor, but there is also realtemp, cpu-z and gpu-z.
Hey! YEah still going and no issues so far.. so thats 24 hours and no random reboots... very strange it randomly started happening.. but glad its fixed! Thanks T213M ill check those out!
hi all back again! So it seems all is not as well as i hoped... I no longer have the random black screen lock outs. But now im faced with: Some Flash player web sites dont load and I get a green screen where the vid should be. I also VPN into work and now this doesn't load fully. I have a the initial screen then when the RDP loads up i just have a black screen and thats it. Any suggestions? Currently i have: Installed Nvidia driver - This stopped all the black screen / reboot errors. Now running: 296.10 Uninstalled all 3d applications that the Nvidia driver installed.
Get the newest drivers straight from Nvidia (not asus) and do a clean install (see method above) using them, I had a similar issue to this and this was how i sorted it. Matt
I have to same problem with certain games, not all like I can play Skyrim or SWTOR for hours, but when I play Dead Space 2 or Guild Wars then I have this issue. I've had it will all the drivers since I bought my card. I found if I down clock my GFX card to stock speeds I can play for hours. Personally I think with the overclocked cards they can't communicate with the drivers at the same speed, so results in timeouts. Also I never download the drivers from the manufactures site, I download them from the chipsets site, like Nvidia or AMD. It's called me a liar, Dead Space 2 will not let me play longer than 30mins, but I still think it's a driver issues communicating with the GFX card.
