Hey all,

I really really need you help on this one guys/girls.

I built my own PC and all is good, apart from the now annoying Nvidia GTX260 Graphics Card!

The problems i am experiancing is that sometimes when loaded in to Vista 32bit Home Premium OS the screen flickers, then a message pops up in the bottom right hand corner saying "Nvidia Drive stopped responding, but has recovered successfully" along them lines anyway. This is bearable but when i log in to WIndows Live Messanger the PC freezes, the the dreaded blue screen of death appears saysing something like, nvdia driver has stopped responding ect. I can run most games on high spec with no problems, but Live messenger crashes and soemtimes Windows loading. All saying the same on the blue screen. I cannot understand why!

Here is my rig details:-

Windows Vista Home Premium 32bit
Asus Crosshair 2 Motherboard
AMD Phenom II X4 940
Nvidia Geforce GTX 260
4 GIG RAM OCZ's
2 x 1TB Western Digital HDDs - Nvidia Stripe 1.81 TB
1 x 500GB Western Digital HDD
iCute Modular ATX Quad VGA Power Supply 850 Watt ( Was going to run x 2 Nvidia Graphics Cards)
TSSTCorp DVD Rom SH-D162D DVD Drive
2 x HL-DT-ST DVD RRW Drive LG
Blu-Ray USB device LG

Thankyou all for reading this.

I have all the latest drivers for the chipset, Graphics card etc. The PSU seems fine? Whats wrong with them? Never had a problem with it before. Its over 2 years old now and all is fine.

You seem quite passionate about hating iCute so i have swapped it with my other PSU Nexus RX-8500

Thankyou for the advice on the PSU, makes kinda sense as the fan on it stayed on after the PC was shut done was must have been getting hot.

But do you think that the blue screen is due to incorrect drivers? I use the Nvidia COntrol Panel to update the drivers and keeps saying they are the latest ones.

Think mine maybe faulty then, i have re-installed the drivers & vista numerous times but it has not worked.

I have been to the nvidia website and people are saying that its the new drivers as it didnt happen before 190v was released somay have to get my hands on the older versions to see if this happens to me.

Figured it!!!

Until MS release a fix then this is what you'll have to do if anyone else is having the prob.

Change to Vista Basic Theme and disable UAC.

This has solved it for me and now i'm back up and running lol

Some people have suggested reomving the KB952237 update to help but i didnt need to do this.

After i disabled UAC then it was good. So not sure weather it was vista or nvidia, but with previous experiances its prob both :-)

Sorry that was the wrong update to unistall here it is....

Matthew Utah (Popular Fix)

Posted at 6:14pm on August 25th, 2008

I had this problem and found it quite annoying. Due to other circumstances, I reinstalled Windows Vista, and found that I did not have this problem before installing updates. In fact, installing update KB952287 caused this problem to start, and when I un-installed this update, it went away.

I looked up the update, and it deals with some very specific SQL server issues that I will likely never deal with, so it will stay gone on my machine.