Tuesday, May 22, 2007

nVidia nvlddmkm Vista Driver Solution

Since installing my custom desktop last weekend, updating all the necassary drivers, my screen flickers with Windows Vista soon warning me :

"Display driver nvlddmkm stopped responding and has successfully recovered."

Looking in the Event log, this appears as a 'warning' and not a more serious red 'Error'. Funny, I would have thought the screen flickering, turning to black is fairly serious?

Anyhow, follow nVidia's advice to pause anti-virus, un-install any existing nVidia drivers, re-starting and installing their update http://www.nvidia.com/object/winvista_x86_100.65.html seems to be the solution.

My System is now running just fine, and starting (although its a fresh install, already have doubts on a) start-up time; b) loading times and c) errors), I will be looking at alternatives to Windows, and will dual-boot Linux over the coming week.
Anyway, I'll enjoy my custom built system:
  • Processor: Intel E6700 Dual Core
  • Graphics: Asus 8800GTX
  • Memory: XMS2 2Gb
  • Hard drive: 2x Samsung T166 500Gb drives (RAID)
  • Monitor: 22" Samsung SyncMaster 226BW

I'll reserve my judgement on rating all the elements, but it looks good so far!

2 Comments:

Blogger kankurou said...

I started a website about this. www.nvlddmkm.com
If you are still having problems, check that website for more solutions.

5:37 AM  
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