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.
First of all, replace the power supply with a decent one. it may not solve your problem, but critically poor quality units like that are extremely dangerous, both to your components, and to yourself - they are a firehazard as they can go bang without warning. In additionm make sure you are using the most recent drivers from the nvidia website, and make sure you also have the most up to date drivers for your chipset.
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.
because their stuff is low quality, cheap and nasty. The only PSU I've had catch fire was 2 years or so old when it did so - you can't be too careful with so many bad PSU brands out there. The Nexus unit you replaced it with is much better.
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.
A lot of PSUs leave the fan on after shutdown by design, whereas some do it depending on how hot they are. As for the BSOD, 80-90% of all BSODs are caused by bad drivers, the other 10-20% by faulty hardware.
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.
