Alienware M15x nVidia GTX260M - Display driver stopped responding and has recovered (nvlddmkm issue!)

Update:

My screen just froze and I couldn't do anything. Keyboard & mouse had no response. I did a hard reboot and took a look at the Event Viewer and found 3 errors in the viewer just before I had to reboot:

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1)

The description for Event ID 14 from source nvlddmkm cannot be found. Either the component that raises this event is not installed on your local computer or the installation is corrupted. You can install or repair the component on the local computer.

If the event originated on another computer, the display information had to be saved with the event.

The following information was included with the event:

\Device\000000ec

CMDre 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000001 00000001

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2)

The description for Event ID 14 from source nvlddmkm cannot be found. Either the component that raises this event is not installed on your local computer or the installation is corrupted. You can install or repair the component on the local computer.

If the event originated on another computer, the display information had to be saved with the event.

The following information was included with the event:

\Device\000000ec

CMDre 00000004 00000000 00000000 00000001 00000001

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3)

The description for Event ID 14 from source nvlddmkm cannot be found. Either the component that raises this event is not installed on your local computer or the installation is corrupted. You can install or repair the component on the local computer.

If the event originated on another computer, the display information had to be saved with the event.

The following information was included with the event:

\Device\000000ec

CMDre 00000003 00000000 00000000 00000001 00000001

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Any ideas? =(

This may be of help:

http://www.instructables.com/id/How-to-Fix-the-Nvlddmkm-Error/

Thanks! Have tried solution #1 first and will now wait and pray =)

Lucasbk,

Good link. I have archived it.

Ok, so its been 10 days since i tried it and no driver crashes or BSOD yet! yay! ... Looks like this solved it for me:

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Step 1 - Solution 1: Power Supply

Make sure that you are on High Performance, in the power options section of the control panel. More specifically, make sure that the PCI express setting is turned OFF.

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I applied this to all the different power options ... =)

is that solution applicable to GTX460M? i have the same problem, just bought this laptop and very sad with the problem.

I think it should because it is not graphic card specific. Some people have been experiencing this same issue on non-Alienware machines and with lower end cards.

Go to that that link (www.instructables.com/.../How-to-Fix-the-Nvlddmkm-Error) and try out the steps one by one. I was lucky the first step solved my problem, so I dont know about the other steps =)

However, I did read through all the steps anyway, just to see if I had already tried them in the past or if i could implement them anyway, just to be doubly sure ;-)

Good luck and let us know how it goes! =D

its only last for a day...not working very well for me. any other solution?

Have you tried all 6 steps?

PS. I also removed ALL nVidia drivers, cleaned my registry and installed the latest nVidia Drivers

(I manually searched the registry and removed all entries to nvidia files and deleted all nVidia files too)

DO NOT DO THIS UNLESS YOU KNOW WHAT YOU ARE DOING AND HAVE MADE A BACK UP OF YOUR REGISTRY!

*groan* ... post deleted again because of ToC violation ... ish .. they need to relax on the language filter ... what a pain!

Original post with *corrections*:

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Whoops .. spoke to soon .. I just got this error again .. and then shortly after, my whole pc crashed!!!

I suspect it might have something to do with those annoying flash ads/banners ... It usually happens when i have lots of browser windows open and im watching a video at the same time ...

will update again if i find out more, but at this point, I have used a hosts file to block all those annoying flash ads/banners which are such a pain and waste of bandwidth! hmph ...

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i have M11X R2 i have the same bug. i try all solutions i find on the web. but no solutions have solved the bug.

I have formated and reinstalled my OS on the same HD and on a new SS but i always have blue screen error nvlddmkm.sys with old or lastest drivers even on a new fresh install...

i'm going to phone to alienware tomorow to change my GPU motherboard because i suspect a real hardware problem i have tested memory but it is ok. since i buyed my M11X 6 month ago i have regulary freeze, reboot, or other problem when i play 3D games. but the latest was nvlddmkm i see it all the time...

if you know other solutions i'm waiting...

sorry for my bad english i hope you understand what i said.  i'm french

Hey guys,

I have a Dell Alienware M15x and am now receiving the Driver 257.38 stopped responding while browsing the web and also receiving Display driver nvlddmkm stopped responding and has successfully recovered." while playing games. This is really annoying as it happens daily.

I have checked the GPU temp and it hovers around 70 degrees.

People here have mentioned hardware replacements, has this solved the problem? Which piece of hardware was replaced?

thx man, it helps me to fix my problem.