Display Driver Stopped Responding and Has Recovered.

Hello all hope u are fine
Today i was playing COD4 multiplayer and suddenly the screen went black and flashed many times and i had to use task manager to end COD4,at the bottom near the clock i got this message:
nvlddmkm driver has stopped working but has recovered successfully

Then i couldnt play it,so i had to restart, when the windows boot up again, i went and played Crysis but my FPS dropped alot,i dont know what do


I have DELL XPS M1730 with DUAL 8800MGTX and 4GB RAM with a T9300 CPU and i am using the latest nvidia drivers.

I am using nvidia drivers,and i am doing a clean install,i uninstalled the nvidia dirvers and used driver cleaner pro in safe mode and now i am installing the drivers again and i will tell u the results.

thanks for the help.

Do you know if any of your hardware was OC'ed from the factory??? I get that error when I push the OC on my 9600GT too far.

hmm. might just have got too hot and caused a slight instability in the GPU. Try to keep your laptop cold. (In fact, heat over 25 C kills your battery faster than anything.)

Bad news
I was playing COD4 and it suddently the screen went black flashing and i got "DIRECT X has encountered a problem" error and it came to windows and again i got the Driver stopped responding and has recovered message

I cant downclock it,because i will lose peformance,also notebook coolers arent available in IRAN,also there are lots of other M1730 with my temps and they dont have this problem.

strange
I was searching in google and someone said that CLOSE XFIRE and i did and it seems to have been fixed,i will tell u if it happened again.

thanks guys

Doubtful? are you kidding me? i can replicate this error over and over again if i want.. just set my gpu core slightly over the max and play CoD4 for about 10-15 minutes(my gpu will get up to about 65C which is fine).. will happen everytime. Im not saying this is the only reason why it could happen, so i guess i shouldn't have said 100% sure. I have a dual boot system and if i boot into XP it wont occur indeed, but this could be vista's way of protecting your hardware.. who knows.

they 8800's haven't been named, but I would be wary...

And again, its not NVIDIA's fault their suppliers messed up big.

Guys bad news
I was playing COD4 yesterday and i noticed that my FPS has dropped alot,i played Crysis and it was the same,

Now today when i was playing COD4,it suddnely stopped and came to windows and i got the "DirectX has encountered an Error" message,so what must i do?

Why don't you look at your temps before we just assume the GPUs are overheating?

Have you reverted back to the stock drivers, or are you still on the nvidia ones?

Prop the bottom of the notebook up during gameplay, let the intakes get some more air.

If the GPUs had come loose from their heatsinks, they would likely no longer exist, I'm not ready to buy that one yet. Though the boards might have warped or something...

Check those temps!

This is sad to hear...that review was so good..

edit: I've also heard that the bad mobile GPU's are only the 8400 and 8600 series. If you think about it, most notebooks with these cards use crappier cooling systems, often sharing heatsinks between CPU and GPU; units with the 8800m series generally offer dedicated GPU cooling systems.

It doesn't need to be a bad GPU. Just the thermal paste between the GPU and heatsink might have been less or not proportionally distributed.

Those temp readings might be misleading, if some half of the chip is cooled but the other isn't cooled that well. Or whether the heat sensor isn't broken itself or not. Better RMA.

@Frozenlead, will you cover if DELL would refuse to RMA and opened XPS laptop? I think better play safe and let them handle the situation.

And about the temps, I'm sure he's already looked at them. *This* looks like a hardware problem from the *very* beginning.

And Maziar isn't a child. Have you read his articles on SLI and CF?

Didn't mean any of that in a mean way, sorry if you took it that way! I was just trying to bring in a little fun to a not-so-fun situation. Makes things easier, eh?

The dismantle thing is a last resort, but yes, you're right, warranty comes first.

I don't remember treating Maziar like a child, but he wouldn't have posted if he didn't want help, so I'm just giving my two cents. He didn't run into trouble when he did the review, he's had the notebook for a little while now. He hasn't posted the temps yet..so I'm safe in assuming he hasn't looked at them.

Not trying to shoot anyone down, just offering what's asked.

I wanted to download the DirectX but when i give the code,it says: We are sorry, the page you requested cannot be found.

The link may be for US only. Try MS site, theyll have it. Is this a new bios ? I know nVidia has released newer bios to control heat in laptops, also could maybe effect performance. I hope not

Should be on Dells site. From what Ive read, the new bios helps heat issues with the gpu. The fan speeds are upped

I heard the bios does very little to curve heat problems.

We seem to be at odds all the time, jaydeejohn

I dont know i have to search more about the new BIOS and the download it.

Exactly, totally worth it, if the higher fan speeds allows better cooling. Thats why I said may, as if heat is the issue here, itll help

Sadly, the best drivers for non problem issues has been the 169 drivers for me. I put up with occasional freezes with the newer drivers. Might try the old 169 drivers, if theyre available to you. They just seem more rock solid. Im hoping this helps you my friend, cause this stinks if it doesnt. I know youve given up alot going from your old rig. Good luck, and I hope this helps, or someone does, cause Im stumped, without a newer bios, it may still be a heat issue, tho Im hoping not, maybe just a driver issue

Let us know, and good luck

Are your temps spiking at all? Reaching its hottest when it slows down? Also, check your cpu, it could be slowing down as well, could be a heat issue with it as well.

So any other comments?

Today i wanted to test WIC,it didnt let me to change any GPU settings(resolutions,quality....)i was stuck with 1280x800 resolution and default settings and gameplay wasnt good