Video Driver Releated Crashes

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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.
 

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  • Manufacturer/Model
    Dell XPS420
    Memory
    6 gig
    Graphics Card(s)
    ATI Radeon HD3650 256 MB
    Sound Card
    Intergrated 7.1 Channel Audio
    Monitor(s) Displays
    Dell SP2009W 20 inch Flat Panel w Webcam
    Hard Drives
    640 gb
    Cooling
    Fan
    Keyboard
    Dell USB
    Mouse
    Dell USB 4 button optical
    Other Info
    DSL provided by ATT
Have you removed the old nvidia drivers?

the fermi based cards and g80 cards are different, so a driver removal should be done. You can use drive sweeper, and remove the nvidia graphic drivers only, then reinstall the fermi, 430 gt, drivers.

Did nvidia tell you to replace drivers or the card ultimately?
 

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  • CPU
    Dual L5639 // i7 950 @ 4.0Ghz
    Motherboard
    Evga SR-2 // Gigabyte x58a-ud3r
    Memory
    12Gig Corsair XMS3 // 6Gig OCZ Gold
    Graphics Card(s)
    gtx 560 ti // gtx 260-216
    Monitor(s) Displays
    Dual 22" // Headless
    Hard Drives
    OCZ aGILITY 3, 120Gig + Seagate 500Gig x 2
    PSU
    Silverstone da700 // Corsair 520hx
    Case
    Rosewill BlackHawk Ultra // Antec 900v1
    Cooling
    Twin CM Hyper 212+ // Noctua NH-u12
    Other Info
    Acer 8930 laptop with x9100...
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. :-/
 

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Your mobo slot might be bust.

I'd suggest trying the card in a freinds machine to rule out a bad card.

What is your specs? 430s aren't beast cards, but you never know.
 

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  • CPU
    Dual L5639 // i7 950 @ 4.0Ghz
    Motherboard
    Evga SR-2 // Gigabyte x58a-ud3r
    Memory
    12Gig Corsair XMS3 // 6Gig OCZ Gold
    Graphics Card(s)
    gtx 560 ti // gtx 260-216
    Monitor(s) Displays
    Dual 22" // Headless
    Hard Drives
    OCZ aGILITY 3, 120Gig + Seagate 500Gig x 2
    PSU
    Silverstone da700 // Corsair 520hx
    Case
    Rosewill BlackHawk Ultra // Antec 900v1
    Cooling
    Twin CM Hyper 212+ // Noctua NH-u12
    Other Info
    Acer 8930 laptop with x9100...
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
 

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Well if the slots sorta bad, the info could get jumbled up and not come out right, thus dumping the driver.

The specs are inline with what the 430 should be fine with.

Is this the same thing the 8800 did?

just to let you know, with drive sweeper, you were to remove all nvidia graphic drivers, not just old ones.
 

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  • CPU
    Dual L5639 // i7 950 @ 4.0Ghz
    Motherboard
    Evga SR-2 // Gigabyte x58a-ud3r
    Memory
    12Gig Corsair XMS3 // 6Gig OCZ Gold
    Graphics Card(s)
    gtx 560 ti // gtx 260-216
    Monitor(s) Displays
    Dual 22" // Headless
    Hard Drives
    OCZ aGILITY 3, 120Gig + Seagate 500Gig x 2
    PSU
    Silverstone da700 // Corsair 520hx
    Case
    Rosewill BlackHawk Ultra // Antec 900v1
    Cooling
    Twin CM Hyper 212+ // Noctua NH-u12
    Other Info
    Acer 8930 laptop with x9100...
Sorry for late response, was away for a bit.

Yep, exact same thing the 8800 did, until i found a certain set of drivers.

Re-tried it just to make sure, still same issue, removed all graphics drivers. Any other ideas, anyone?

edit: I've also tried contacting microsoft support, but they tell me that my windows product is invalid, and it isn't, so i can't contact them...
 
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