blackfire1 said:
Oh god the same damn "Display driver has stopped responding and has recovered issue."
Its not a hardware based problem. Well at least not GPU, Proc, or Ram.
After reading probably over 40+ threads on this BS. With no real 100% solution in sighte. The only thing I can tell you for sure is its a 64bit based problem. Everyone Ive talked to or read a post by all are running a 64 bit windows version.
I ran Vista 32bit as up earlier this week. Not a single problem ever....EVER. Found an unused OEM copy of win 7 I had laying around. I never ONCE had any issue with Display drivers crashing until I switched to Win7 64bit.
I have literally done every trick in the book when it comes to trying to fix this. Clean boots, system wipes, compatibility modes, Manually installing the f@#$king driver one file at a time, windows update,system checks, registry checks, hardware checks, default settings, overclocked settings,1 stick of ram(one ram at a time), single card, multicard, SLI and more.
Whats funny is I did it with every known version of the Nvidia drivers from 266.66 to the Beta 285.XX.
Not a single fing thing worked.
Wiped and reinstalled Windows 7 32 bit? Worked like a charm.
So as far as I can figure. Its strictly a driver issue between Microsoft and Nvidia in the 64bit architecture .
Is someone has the answer to this I'd love to hear it. I'd like to be able to use all 16 gigs of ram. >.<
I guess things are even worse in my case, because ive tried 32 bit version of windows 7.And the result? Lots of crashes as well. I still havent tried the 32 bit version of XP but i dont think it would help. Any other ideas?