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After years of perfect stability from nVidia's drivers, now this...

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I loaded a page/thread here, hit the scroll wheel of my mouse, and the monitor faded Blank. This is the second time now recently, both times when the card was idle. Prior to this, I've had perfect stability from nVidia's drivers. Hardware acceleration in Firefox is enabled, but... last time it happened, it was not and I wasn't using Firefox.

I'll do some troubleshooting when I get home, but... I'm lost. What's the usual stuff to check? I'm using the 285.xx beta drivers. Should I roll back to official drivers?

This card has done this about three times a few months after I got it (back near February), but it was during Crysis when I was trying to overclock it (and it wouldn't overclock at all). I'm starting to think my card may be bad, but I do tend to worry and jump to conclusions (but if so, this is really what I need right now with everything else...).
 
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Try rolling back to WHQL drivers that are more stable.

It seems a lot of GTX 460 and GTX 560 users have driver problems lately from what I see in forums.

I never had one problem with my GTX 480 with any driver.
 
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Originally Posted by Pillz Here;15268610
This is happening to a ton of people, including myself with any 28x.xx driver. To get rid of these completely you'll have to revert to the 275.33 drivers until Nvidia fixes their mess that they call drivers.
Yep. This is a well documented issue with all drivers from 280 onwards. Just from reading the feedback on their forums, it seems to be effecting 460/560/560 Ti owners more so than others.

I had it with 280.26 before rolling back to 275.33. No issues in the month or so, since.
 
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This is happening to a ton of people, including myself with any 28x.xx driver. To get rid of these completely you'll have to revert to the 275.33 drivers until Nvidia fixes their mess that they call drivers.

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Okay, it seems it's more an issue with drivers than it is a problem, so I'll roll back. It only happened during idle/light use, but it had me worried since it cropped up out of nowhere when it happened way back when as well. I was worried since I was on a luck streak with nVidia's drivers. Other than what was likely induced by my overclocks, the last time I saw driver errors with nVidia was with nv4_disp.dll (BSOD) back in the days of my GeForce 6800 GS. Thanks all!
 
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Based on my observation, you should use older drivers for old games like crysis and warhead. You can actually check that newer drivers only affect the performance of new games. So if you're goin to play old games, don't get the new, stick to the rock solid old
 
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Yep. This is a well documented issue with all drivers from 280 onwards. Just from reading the feedback on their forums, it seems to be effecting 460/560/560 Ti owners more so than others.

I had it with 280.26 before rolling back to 275.33. No issues in the month or so, since.

Exact same situation with my 560Ti. No issues with 275.33 at all, but I get TDR errors constantly on any 28X driver (mostly when using Firefox for some reason... currently using Chrome to see if it still happens).
 
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Whelp, enough feedback says it's likely the drivers, so off I go to install the old ones.
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epic fail, the very reason I switched to Nvidia was for better driver support,
I get the kernal crash about 3-4 times a day, I'm really wishing I would have gotten an AMD card now

Yeah, it seems to be luck of the draw. Some have good luck with nVidia and back luck with AMD, or vice versa (or maybe some have good or bad with both).

I haven't used ATI/AMD for a long while for GPUs myself, so I can't say, but a Radeon X1550 I got for my parents PC did cure them of their Intel IGP having this very issue in Windows Vista years back, so I can't say anything bad about it. nVidia was also all but flawless for me until this one.
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oddly enough im getting these same problems with the newest WHQL drivers on my SLI GTS 250's but they didnt have that problem in the 27x.xx sets....


That's not some sound news. I hope the 28x.xx WHQL ones don't end up inheriting this issue. Maybe I'll hold off of updating right away.
 
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Oh god back when i used a gtx 460 my drivers crashes bout 3 times a day... it was irritateing... unfortuently ima have to go back to that card due to rma of my current one
>.< oh well mabey ill get lucky with the drivers..
 
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