Hello all,



The problem I am having is that I upgraded my graphics card recently to a Nvidia 430GT. I have done numerous checks (RAM, CPU, power supply, updated every driver on my system, etc.), and have had the graphics card replaced, but am still receiving the same issue. When I load up video games I will receive the message "Driver nvlddmkm stopped responding and has recovered" at random intervals. Sometimes my system will completely freeze because the drivers won't recover. I contacted nvidia about the drivers and they had me try out a few driver versions (which i had already done), before telling me to get the grahpics driver replaced -.- . Does anyone have any ideas what could be causing this? It really seems to be an issue between vista and the graphics card drivers, but i don't know how i would resolve that.

The going back a few days would mean putting my nvidia 8800 with the dead fan back in :P

Don't really want to do that one...

I didn't use drive sweeper, and not sure if I removed the old ones or not, but did a clean install since then. I'll try out drive sweeper and double check to make sure.

Nvidia said to contact the manufacturer (MSI in this case), and MSI told me to do the same things nvidia told me to do, then told me to replace it. I replaced it by exchanging it for another one at the retailer, same problem. :-/

Okay, tried that, and haven't found any old ones... any other ideas?

Well, this is my second card (exchanged first one back at store, just in case) and it did it for the last card I had that worked as well, so I doubt it is the card.

Could be the motherboard slot, but why would that cause the drivers to crash only when playing video games? It never crashes just as desktop or watching videos or anything.

Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Quad CPU Q6600 @ 2.40GHz, 2394 Mhz
RAM: 3.00 GB
425W power supply
Nvidia 430GT graphics card
320 gig hard drive

It's a dell XPS 420, basically :P