- Mar 22, 2014
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I have the dreaded nvlddmkm error. *sigh*
My card is MSI GTX 760 Twin Frozr 2GB on Win 8.0 x64.
Everything is brand new, computer is about 2 months old.
Using the latest 337.88 WHQL drivers.
Something happened to my OS yesterday, I powered off my PC, and after about 3 hours I came back and booted it up, for some reason my OS got corrupted or something, and on start up I would only get a black screen. Normally I rebooted several times to see if the problem would go away, sometimes I would get the same black screen, sometimes but rarely I would get the windows user login screen, but it would be all choppy and spasmodic like and old man having a heart attack.
I used my win 8 installation disc, tried Automatic repair (of course it didn't help), tried to do a system restore (couldn't restore, said my OS is corrupted).
Strange thing is my Ubuntu installation did not work during this time, I would boot it up, it would work sometime, sometimes I would just get a black screen as well, sometimes it would boot but the system would be really sluggish and unresponsive.
Managed to set up next boot into safe mode via cmd.
In safe mode I ran the sfc /scannow command (it found a few corrupted files)
and I fixed my corrupted system with the dism.exe /online /cleanup-image /restorehealth command.
After that I rebooted my system normally, it was still having spasms. I went yet again and used the installation disc and did a system restore (it succeded this time).
Rebooted, still had spasms but a bit less than before, I could actually log into windows.
Checked the event viewer and it was full of nvlddmkm errors, like multiple nvlddmkm in the same time, that was causing my system spasms.
The nvlddmkm spasms would be every time I boot up my PC, and would go away and come back on random intervals. Sometimes the system was free of them for an hour, sometimes they would cause problems for half a minute(or more) every 15 minutes.
Strange thing is, latest games like watch dogs are running fine.
And I could boot into Ubuntu just fine.
Finally I decided to reinstall the nvidia driver, see if that would fix the problem, maybe it got corrupted in the midst of all that windows sh*tstorm.
I booted into safe mode, ran the Display Driver Uninstaller, cleansed my system of the old driver and rebooted back into normal startup. No nvlddmkm errors yet, since OS was using the basic display drivers. Cleaned registry with CCleaner.
Reinstalled the newest nvidia display drivers v337.88 WHQL.
Welcome back my old spasmodic buddy, long time no see. *sigh*
This all leads me to believe that some service/libraries or something in windows that the display driver uses is still corrupted and makes my display driver corrupted.
Can anybody try and shed some light on this, explain if/what services does the display driver use, so I could reinstall them.
If you guys need any logs or anything, please ask.
My specs are:
UEFI
Dual boot Windows 8.0 x64 & Ubuntu 14.04 x64
Intel i7 4770K @ 3.5 GHz
MSI GTX 760 Twin Frozr 2Gb
8 Gb Ram
1 Tb HDD
Asrock B85 Motherboard
550W Psu
Everything is running on stock, no OC.
*EDIT* At the time I was writing this I had a massive nvlddmkm error spike and I managed to notice that during the spike, MSI Afterburner was showing my GPU power was around 22%, while GPU usage was 0 or 1%. On my normal system load, GPU power is on 11%. Don't know if this is important or not, but its noteworthy.
My card is MSI GTX 760 Twin Frozr 2GB on Win 8.0 x64.
Everything is brand new, computer is about 2 months old.
Using the latest 337.88 WHQL drivers.
Something happened to my OS yesterday, I powered off my PC, and after about 3 hours I came back and booted it up, for some reason my OS got corrupted or something, and on start up I would only get a black screen. Normally I rebooted several times to see if the problem would go away, sometimes I would get the same black screen, sometimes but rarely I would get the windows user login screen, but it would be all choppy and spasmodic like and old man having a heart attack.
I used my win 8 installation disc, tried Automatic repair (of course it didn't help), tried to do a system restore (couldn't restore, said my OS is corrupted).
Strange thing is my Ubuntu installation did not work during this time, I would boot it up, it would work sometime, sometimes I would just get a black screen as well, sometimes it would boot but the system would be really sluggish and unresponsive.
Managed to set up next boot into safe mode via cmd.
In safe mode I ran the sfc /scannow command (it found a few corrupted files)
and I fixed my corrupted system with the dism.exe /online /cleanup-image /restorehealth command.
After that I rebooted my system normally, it was still having spasms. I went yet again and used the installation disc and did a system restore (it succeded this time).
Rebooted, still had spasms but a bit less than before, I could actually log into windows.
Checked the event viewer and it was full of nvlddmkm errors, like multiple nvlddmkm in the same time, that was causing my system spasms.
The nvlddmkm spasms would be every time I boot up my PC, and would go away and come back on random intervals. Sometimes the system was free of them for an hour, sometimes they would cause problems for half a minute(or more) every 15 minutes.
Strange thing is, latest games like watch dogs are running fine.
And I could boot into Ubuntu just fine.
Finally I decided to reinstall the nvidia driver, see if that would fix the problem, maybe it got corrupted in the midst of all that windows sh*tstorm.
I booted into safe mode, ran the Display Driver Uninstaller, cleansed my system of the old driver and rebooted back into normal startup. No nvlddmkm errors yet, since OS was using the basic display drivers. Cleaned registry with CCleaner.
Reinstalled the newest nvidia display drivers v337.88 WHQL.
Welcome back my old spasmodic buddy, long time no see. *sigh*
This all leads me to believe that some service/libraries or something in windows that the display driver uses is still corrupted and makes my display driver corrupted.
Can anybody try and shed some light on this, explain if/what services does the display driver use, so I could reinstall them.
If you guys need any logs or anything, please ask.
My specs are:
UEFI
Dual boot Windows 8.0 x64 & Ubuntu 14.04 x64
Intel i7 4770K @ 3.5 GHz
MSI GTX 760 Twin Frozr 2Gb
8 Gb Ram
1 Tb HDD
Asrock B85 Motherboard
550W Psu
Everything is running on stock, no OC.
*EDIT* At the time I was writing this I had a massive nvlddmkm error spike and I managed to notice that during the spike, MSI Afterburner was showing my GPU power was around 22%, while GPU usage was 0 or 1%. On my normal system load, GPU power is on 11%. Don't know if this is important or not, but its noteworthy.
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