Vista - Display driver nvlddmkm stopped responding and has successfully recovered.

Hi,

I get this error randomly when using Vista Ultimate 64 bit, I get blank
screen for 5 seconds then It comes back to normal with a popup balloon says
that the display driver had an error and windows has recovered, I'm using
Nvidia 97.46 on a Geforce 7950 GX2 XXX Edition.

Using all windows updates, Anyone has such thing? any ways to recover?

I tried disabling windows defender as I read on some forums , didn't work, I
also knew that using Windows classic theme (which is rubbish) would help
solve a bit of the problem, but heck I bought vista for its good looking
GUI, so i'm not changing my theme.

Here are my PC specs:
Gigabyte M59SLI-S5
512x4 DDR2 RAM
160 GB Hitachi Deskstar
160 GB Seagate
120 GB Maxtor
AMD Athlon 64 4200+ X2
Nvidia Geforce 7950 GX2 XXX

Any comments please?

I'm getting the same kind of errors with my 32-birt Vista installation. My
hardware is quite different, though:

Intel i945 motherboard
Intel Pentium D 3GHz processor
XFX GeForce 7600 GS
etc

Really seems to be an issue with the buggy 97.46 nVidia driver which is
actually WHQLed?! Hope a new non beta will be out soon.

I you are unwilling to ues the official 100.59 Beta release you could try
going back to the VISTA RTM 96.85 release.
"Bartman" <Bartman@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:BE4CAFCA-09E2-4BC4-B77C-EE49220EB03C@microsoft.com...
> I'm getting the same kind of errors with my 32-birt Vista installation.
> My
> hardware is quite different, though:
>
> Intel i945 motherboard
> Intel Pentium D 3GHz processor
> XFX GeForce 7600 GS
> etc
>
> Really seems to be an issue with the buggy 97.46 nVidia driver which is
> actually WHQLed?! Hope a new non beta will be out soon.

Thank you for the advice, will try it when time permits.