Nvidia GT 640 tdr_video_failure

flynntes

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Oct 18, 2013
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Hi There!
Recently while booting my computer up from being off for quite a while, it noticed it hung at the windows 8 login screen. From there I tried to reboot, only for it it blue screen on the desktop. The blue screen error message was "tdr_video_failure". Just before it blue screened, I noticed that I got a "The display driver has stopped working and recovered" message pop up in my taskbar. Here is what that error looks like. I then rebooted again and my computer worked fine for the rest the day. The next day, when I turned my computer on from a shut down, I got the same problems - the blue screen, error message in task bar and hanging on boot. I then tried totally uninstalling the nvidia suite and drivers and cleaning my registry with CCleaner. I thought I had solved the problem, but today I got the same problems again! I have tried many benchmarking and burn in tests and monitored the temperature read out from them. The GPU never gets above 55 degrees Celsius. I also played quite a bit of counter strike yesterday, and the computer did not hang or freeze once. The computer only has issues in the morning and they always seem to go away after a few reboots. Any ideas?

Specs:
? CPU - Intel Core 2 Duo @ 2.93 GHz
? Motherboard - MSI 7525
? Ram - 2 x 2gb Kingston DDR3
? Graphics - Gigabyte Nvidia GT 640
? Hard Drive - Western Digital Blue 500gb
? Hard Drive 2- Western Digital Blue 1tb
? OS - Windows 8.1 Pro 64 bit
? Power Supply - Antec NeoPower 550w
? Case - IN WIN G7
 
Solution
That looks like a pretty old machine, the last BIOS update was in 2009
- I would reset the BIOS to defaults and reconfigure, make sure that there is not any BIOS overclocking going on.
- I would remove any software overclock of the GPU
- I would go to the windows control panel device manager, find the GPU high def audio device and disable it if I am not using sound provided by the graphics card thur the video cable to the monitor speakers.
- the machine is old, so any overheating can can be a factor. Blow the dust out of the CPU fan, GPU fan and power supply. (overheating tends to produce the same symptoms as overclocking)

if all else fails, see if you can underclock your GPU by 100 Mhz and see if it works better.

also, your machine...

YOSTCOINC

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Jan 28, 2015
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HAVE THE SAME PROUBLEM # I THINK THE GRAPHIC CARD HAS TO BE REPLASED ... NOT CAMPATABLE WITH.WIN 8... MINE VISTA TO WIN 7 TO WIN 8.1 WILL NOT LET YOU IN TO GET UPLOADS NOTHING JUST THAT MESSAGE- THEN YOU HAVE TO REFRESH TO GET BACK IN... SO I WILL TRY ANOTHER VIDIO CARD .. HAD TO GIVE MODEL OF TV SER.AND THE SAME ON COMPUTER TO GET THE SOMETHIG THAT WILL WORK ... GOOD LUC AND WIN 10 JUST CAME OUT MICROSOFT SAID THEY WILL LET WIN 8 DOWNLOAD FREE ...??? I WONDER WHY !!!!!~~~~!!!
 
That looks like a pretty old machine, the last BIOS update was in 2009
- I would reset the BIOS to defaults and reconfigure, make sure that there is not any BIOS overclocking going on.
- I would remove any software overclock of the GPU
- I would go to the windows control panel device manager, find the GPU high def audio device and disable it if I am not using sound provided by the graphics card thur the video cable to the monitor speakers.
- the machine is old, so any overheating can can be a factor. Blow the dust out of the CPU fan, GPU fan and power supply. (overheating tends to produce the same symptoms as overclocking)

if all else fails, see if you can underclock your GPU by 100 Mhz and see if it works better.

also, your machine is old, if the hard drive is old and producing errors it can prevent the GPU from loading required binaries from the drive to the memory of the GPU within the 30 second timeout period. I would run crystaldiskinfo.exe and check the error codes for the drives (just in case)



 
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