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My PC has developed a really annoying problem where it will randomly freeze, then the screen will momentarily turn blank, and the system starts responding again. I also have problems with Chrome and Firefox where the browser page just turns white before being restored back to normal. Oddly I can move the mouse around when this happens, but not click on anything...
When I look in the System event log I see the following that co-insides with the blips:
"Display driver nvlddmkm stopped responding and has successfully recovered."
I figure this is related to the display driver ( I have an NVidia GeForce 660 GTX).
I have uninstalled the driver (in safe mode using DDU). I've re-installed the driver. The problems still persists. I've also re-seated the graphics card and used and alternate PCI-e slot, but the problem still persists. I've reverted to on-board graphics, and things are stable, albeit at a lower resolution.
Running the Window's Driver Verifier resulted in my machine not being able to boot into windows. I have the minidump files, but I don't know what to do with them!
It feels like a driver problem, rather than failed hardware, but I don't know how to prove it either way.
Can anyone suggest a way to resolve this?
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When I look in the System event log I see the following that co-insides with the blips:
"Display driver nvlddmkm stopped responding and has successfully recovered."
I figure this is related to the display driver ( I have an NVidia GeForce 660 GTX).
I have uninstalled the driver (in safe mode using DDU). I've re-installed the driver. The problems still persists. I've also re-seated the graphics card and used and alternate PCI-e slot, but the problem still persists. I've reverted to on-board graphics, and things are stable, albeit at a lower resolution.
Running the Window's Driver Verifier resulted in my machine not being able to boot into windows. I have the minidump files, but I don't know what to do with them!
It feels like a driver problem, rather than failed hardware, but I don't know how to prove it either way.
Can anyone suggest a way to resolve this?
Continue reading...