Display driver nvlddmkm stopped responding and has successfully recovered. GTX 970

[mrman123]

Hi, recently ive been having problems playing games (it seems to be only ones that put stress on the system). At first when i was playing games my screen would go black then restart where i would see it had blue screened, this happened in both the division and civ 5, but not games like league of legends or runescape. I updated my gpu drivers, now instead of blue screening both screens just go black and i can hear anything i had on at the time, but the screens never come back on. When i go into event viewer and look what happened i see : Display driver nvlddmkm stopped responding and has successfully recovered.

So far ive tried updating my drivers and reseating the gpu im not really sure where i should go next.

 

[RobCrezz]

Full specs please.

A few things can cause this:
1) Unstable overclock
2) Bad quality or faulty psu not delivering enough power
3) Driver issue (worth uninstalling and installing a known stable version)

 

[mrman123]

Full specs please.

A few things can cause this:
1) Unstable overclock
2) Bad quality or faulty psu not delivering enough power
3) Driver issue (worth uninstalling and installing a known stable version)

i havent oc'ed, i have i decent quality psu but i guess a faulty one could still be an issue and i will try installing a stable driver and see what happens

rig :
GTX 970
Intel i5 4690k 3.5ghz
hyperx ram 8gb 1600mhz
Windows 7
MSI Z97 PC Mate mobo
600w corsair builder series psu modular

 

[mrman123]

I might have been stupid ive just pushed the power cable into the gpu quite hard and up till now there has been no issues (ive only been playing for 10 mins tho) ill post back in a few hours if something changes

 

[mrman123]

Never mind 2 hours later i got the same issue its not fixed :/ back to the drawing board

 

[RobCrezz]

Install MSI Afterburner. Try reducing the clock speed of your GPU by 50mhz, just as a test.