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 Posted: Sun, 10th Mar 2013 19:50 Post subject: nvlddmkm error, Advice needed |
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Hello my fellow humpers
after a week of troubleshooting I'm at the end of my rope
Some may recall an issue I had at the start of last week, I fired up Sniper elite Nazi Zombies, in the rendered cutscene at the beggining the FPS was atrociuos, to he point where it eventually froze (just when hitler looks into the camera, an image I shall remember for a long time after the week Ive had)
The screen then powered off and back on and I was greeted by this error
Display driver nvlddmkm stopped responding and has successfully recovered.
since that happened, this error happens randomly every 10-30 seconds while on the desktop
Theres hundreds of hreads (including a 151 page thread on the nvidia forums) about this, Ive tried every fix I can think of.
I'm led to believe this could be hardware, I'm just stuck as to which part, maybe you guys can help
here is a screenshot of gpuz afterburner and sysfan, the spike in the gpu usage is what happens, this will continue untill the mouse is moved then the screen will power off and I recieve the "Display driver nvlddmkm stopped responding and has successfully recovered." notification int he taskbar
things I have tried over many many many hours this week
* Reinstalling windows 3 times (each time the system can last upto 2 to 3 hours before randomly getting the error again, then it will do it constantly
* manually updating the nvlddmkm in system32/drivers
* clean installs of every driver revision from the last 3 months
* setting power to max performance (basically every fix detailed in the first 3 pages of google results)
* switching out the 680 for my old card ( same issue kept happening)
* reseating all cables and cards several times
* changing from my pcie power connecters for the supplied molex adapters
and probably more, Ive spent countless hours this week trying everything I can think of
So process of elimination it could be the 680 the psu or the mobo, surely it cant be the card as the problem persists when swapping out? and wouldnt I get more errors if it was the mobo?
so the psu? any sure fire way to test this? I dont have a physical tester, any what would be faulty? surely there would be other symptoms
if anyone has any fucking clue I've really lost the plot trying to fix this
cheers
Monkey
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Werelds
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| Posted: Sun, 10th Mar 2013 20:44 Post subject: |
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Tried increasing voltage?
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| Posted: Sun, 10th Mar 2013 20:48 Post subject: |
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| Werelds wrote: | | Tried increasing voltage? |
yup.
its wierd though it seems to be to do with the mouse being idle fo rsome reason
ran a 10 pass gpu memtest with OCCT, the first run (got the error halfway through) retuned 832 errors
ran the test again but dragged the box round the screen while it went through and the test retuned no errors
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Werelds
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| Posted: Sun, 10th Mar 2013 20:57 Post subject: |
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I highly doubt this is anything other than the card or driver. If it were the PSU, it wouldn't be doing it when idling, it would do it under load when the PSU can't handle it.
It could be the motherboard (bad PCI-e lane) but I think that's unlikely. Do you have more than 1 PCI-e slot by any chance? Even if you need to go down to x8 or x4, it's worth doing it (x4 will lose you 5% performance at most, so it's fine) just for the elimination.
I can also just be a "simple" driver conflict between Nvidia and something else on your system. Also try keeping things such as MSI AB, which add an overlay turned off when testing, as they will be messing with the memory.
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LeoNatan
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| Posted: Sun, 10th Mar 2013 21:15 Post subject: |
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It's bitcoin malware. It attempts to use your GPU to farm for bitcoins and crashes the driver.
Look at your startup items for some "util" and c:\Temporary.
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| Posted: Sun, 10th Mar 2013 21:26 Post subject: |
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oh my god, please tell me this is the reason, I swear to god leo, I will literally give you my first born child.
would it do it on 3 different win installs |
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LeoNatan
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| Posted: Sun, 10th Mar 2013 21:28 Post subject: |
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Yes, this is the one. 
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LeoNatan
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| Posted: Sun, 10th Mar 2013 21:29 Post subject: |
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But I see another malware in that list. Can you spot it? 
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LeoNatan
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| Posted: Sun, 10th Mar 2013 21:44 Post subject: |
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So evilmonkey I am waiting for that child mรฆking. 
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| Posted: Sun, 10th Mar 2013 21:59 Post subject: |
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Leo
LEO
LEOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
I'm fucking the wife tonight and not only will I think of you while doing it, the proceeding impregnation of my wife will then produce the second coming, you will receive this child
and free VO work for life
I love you
I cant tell you how many countless hours of frustration and anger this has brought, I had my card wrapped up for an rma and a expensive new psu in my amazon basket and just at the last moment you saved the day
Monkeh
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LeoNatan
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| Posted: Sun, 10th Mar 2013 22:07 Post subject: |
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Cheers.
Gotta  at the malware writer. I mean had he put some better work into it, he could make a lot of bitcoins without people noticing it's even there. But crashing drivers like that, he might have given more money to nVidia. 
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| Posted: Mon, 11th Mar 2013 17:20 Post subject: |
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| evilmonkey wrote: | | would it do it on 3 different win installs |
If you haven't touched the other partitions and drives, and have modified only the desired one that you wanted to put Windows on, it's highly possible the virus was on one of the others.
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