Gtx 460: BSOD on startup and restarts, boots fine into safemode

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mkiriti

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My computer boots fine into safe mode, but when i try to boot normally computer gives me BSOD and restarts automatically, the nvidia drivers or my GTX 460 are causing the problems.

It boots fine normally when i select standard VGA driver in device manager for my GTX 460


Things i have tried which did not help:
I have installed and tried many different versions of drivers such as 314.22 after uninstalling with display driver uninstaller.
Installed a clean copy of Windows 7 SP1.
Tried installing only the drivers without physx, audio etc. for nvidia GTX 460.
Swapped my GTX 460 into PCIE x8 slot


I will be able to provide any other information if needed
 
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i7Baby

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Well,this minidump points to nvidia driver crash - nvlddmkm.sys

So,

Download and install Driver Sweeper

Download the most recent software\driver for your NVIDIA

Uninstall nvidia software\driver,restart in safe mode,run driver sweeper,choose only NVIDIA-Display and clean,restart in normal mode.

Install the new nvidia software\driver,restart.

Update DirectX


Run the nvidia-video-card-test post here the results.

Run RAM - Test with Memtest86+
 
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mkiriti

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After using display driver uninstaller in safe mode, and when i restart into normal mode and install any driver and restart again the computer BSOD. whatever driver i try system will BSOD. so i can boot into normal mode only when i select standard VGA driver.

Will run the memtest and post the results in some time
 
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mkiriti

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UPDATE: Just baked my GTX 460 in the oven for 9 minutes at 185 deg C and voila its working! :D

i7Baby thanks a lot, i dint have any other gpu nearby so tried the ultimate and baked it lol and working fine
 
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mkiriti

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i dont feel like upgrading, and having my fingers crossed that it does not break again.. atleast until i finish GTA 5 :p


Btw, i was searching to replace the card and i cant find anything good... i mean i bought this card for 14k INR and now to get an equivalent card i have to shell out the same amount of money which i did 4 years back

i mean i thought atleast a GTX 750 (10.5k INR) would beat my old GTX 460 but no: half of the specs my 460 holds upper hand.

so it had me thinking even after 5 years no card can match the specs of 460 so why upgrade my GPU spending that much money?
 
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