hi

have had nVidia driver update blues for at least one month now and get the blue page of death confirming its nVidia source: "nvlddmkm.sys"

this seems to be an issue of poorly thought-out nVidia drivers floating around wrecking systems, from what i can pick up from forums heaving with the same complaint: i never had a problem before Windows did a driver update for me a month ago: you can't stop these updates - the last one i ignored till i had to go into Safe Mode then it installed itself

my 32 bit Vista has just done a system restore and obviously rolled back to an earlier setting because that brummin Windows Driver Update pop-up has come back to haunt my monitor

have gone into nVidia control centre and reduced the setting from quality to performance hoping this may also have some effect - i do not game but watch videos - so losing 3D graphics quality is no issue - the last two blue pages happened to me in the middle of full screen videos

if the worst comes to the worst can i replace all of the nVidia hardware with ATI components or would i need a whole new motherboard please? thank you.

am desperate

Ric



Vista Basic, 32 bit, AMD dual core [running full ram]

Driver updates(especially graphic card drivers) from MS are often way out
of date or are incompatible with the user's system
Try the latest drivers for your installation from Nvidia.com.

"kr236rk" <guest@xxxxxx-email.com> wrote in message
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>
> hi
>
> have had nVidia driver update blues for at least one month now and get
> the -blue page of death- confirming its nVidia source: "*nv*lddmkm.sys"
>
>
> this seems to be an issue of poorly thought-out nVidia drivers floating
> around wrecking systems, from what i can pick up from forums heaving
> with the same complaint: i never had a problem before Windows did a
> driver update for me a month ago: you can't stop these updates - the
> last one i ignored till i had to go into Safe Mode then it installed
> itself
>
> my 32 bit Vista has just done a system restore and obviously rolled
> back to an earlier setting because that brummin Windows Driver Update
> pop-up has come back to haunt my monitor
>
> have gone into nVidia control centre and reduced the setting from
> -quality- to -performance- hoping this may also have some effect - i do
> not game but watch videos - so losing 3D graphics quality is no issue -
> the last two -blue pages- happened to me in the middle of full screen
> videos
>
> if the worst comes to the worst can i replace all of the nVidia
> hardware with ATI components or would i need a whole new motherboard
> please? thank you.
>
> am desperate
>
> Ric
>
>
>
> vista basic, 32 bit, amd dual core [running full ram]
>
>
> --
> kr236rk