I know that this issue has been raised before but there is a difference in my case because the PC is dual boot and Ubuntu shows no problems. In Windows 10 the display hangs up, usually when playing Steam games, and the screen turns black; the PC continues to operate because I can continue to hear the music. The PC then has to be re-booted using the power switch and after this the event log has multiple occurrences of the warning ID 4101 ‘Display driver nvlddmkm stopped responding and has successfully recovered’ with the last one being immediately prior to the hard re-boot. When I run the same Steam game under Ubuntu it runs with no problems.
My desktop system is:
• Motherboard: ASUS P5N-E SLI with chipset nForce 650i SLI
• Memory 4 GBytes DDR2
• BIOS: Phoenix Technologies 0703
• GPU: GTX460
• Operating system: Windows 10 (a legit ‘Home Full Version’ not a cheap OEM version)
• Security: Windows Defender and Windows Firewall
• OS – dual boot Windows 10 and Ubuntu 16.04
I have tried all the suggested ‘solutions’ which I have found on the net but none have worked:
• The power supply options were set to high performance.
• I have updated the graphics drivers several times to the most recent versions available on the NVIDIA web site and also the most recent versions available from Microsoft – I am currently on 372.90 provided by Windows (nb – on Ubuntu I am running 367.57). I have also tried reverting to an earlier version. I have tried fully uninstalling the NVIDIA drivers more than once using DDU and, on another occasion, Revo uninstaller and re-installing.
• Windows 10 has updated all other device drivers
• The NVIDIA control panel has been used to set the PhysX processor to the GPU and to change the 3D setting to ‘high performance’
• I have tried increasing TdrDelay to 8 and also setting TdrLevel to 0 as described in various places
• I have disabled Windows defender temporarily and also Windows firewall
• I installed MSI Afterburner and reduced the GPU clock speed and the memory clock speed by up to 200 MHz. I also checked the GPU temperature which did not go above 50 °C and it could be reduced to about 42°C by setting the fan speed to maximum – the graphics still hung-up (I was not expecting this to work because Ubuntu does not show any hardware problem)
• I used MALWARE Bytes to check that that Windows Defender had not missed a virus – it found no problems
• I have not updated the BIOS – I am reluctant to do this because if the system hangs in the middle of this operation I could be left with a brick which does not run Windows or Linux
I have run out of ideas and have gone back to using Ubuntu most of the time but I do want to continue to use Windows 10 (which I paid for!) but at the moment the system is too unstable – any assistance would be appreciated.
My desktop system is:
• Motherboard: ASUS P5N-E SLI with chipset nForce 650i SLI
• Memory 4 GBytes DDR2
• BIOS: Phoenix Technologies 0703
• GPU: GTX460
• Operating system: Windows 10 (a legit ‘Home Full Version’ not a cheap OEM version)
• Security: Windows Defender and Windows Firewall
• OS – dual boot Windows 10 and Ubuntu 16.04
I have tried all the suggested ‘solutions’ which I have found on the net but none have worked:
• The power supply options were set to high performance.
• I have updated the graphics drivers several times to the most recent versions available on the NVIDIA web site and also the most recent versions available from Microsoft – I am currently on 372.90 provided by Windows (nb – on Ubuntu I am running 367.57). I have also tried reverting to an earlier version. I have tried fully uninstalling the NVIDIA drivers more than once using DDU and, on another occasion, Revo uninstaller and re-installing.
• Windows 10 has updated all other device drivers
• The NVIDIA control panel has been used to set the PhysX processor to the GPU and to change the 3D setting to ‘high performance’
• I have tried increasing TdrDelay to 8 and also setting TdrLevel to 0 as described in various places
• I have disabled Windows defender temporarily and also Windows firewall
• I installed MSI Afterburner and reduced the GPU clock speed and the memory clock speed by up to 200 MHz. I also checked the GPU temperature which did not go above 50 °C and it could be reduced to about 42°C by setting the fan speed to maximum – the graphics still hung-up (I was not expecting this to work because Ubuntu does not show any hardware problem)
• I used MALWARE Bytes to check that that Windows Defender had not missed a virus – it found no problems
• I have not updated the BIOS – I am reluctant to do this because if the system hangs in the middle of this operation I could be left with a brick which does not run Windows or Linux
I have run out of ideas and have gone back to using Ubuntu most of the time but I do want to continue to use Windows 10 (which I paid for!) but at the moment the system is too unstable – any assistance would be appreciated.