Hi,

I get this error randomly when using Vista Ultimate 64 bit, I get blank
screen for 5 seconds then It comes back to normal with a popup balloon says
that the display driver had an error and windows has recovered, I'm using
Nvidia 97.46 on a Geforce 7950 GX2 XXX Edition.

Using all windows updates, Anyone has such thing? any ways to recover?

I tried disabling windows defender as I read on some forums , didn't work, I
also knew that using Windows classic theme (which is rubbish) would help
solve a bit of the problem, but heck I bought vista for its good looking
GUI, so i'm not changing my theme.

Here are my PC specs:
Gigabyte M59SLI-S5
512x4 DDR2 RAM
160 GB Hitachi Deskstar
160 GB Seagate
120 GB Maxtor
AMD Athlon 64 4200+ X2
Nvidia Geforce 7950 GX2 XXX

Any comments please?

I'm getting the same kind of errors with my 32-birt Vista installation. My
hardware is quite different, though:

Intel i945 motherboard
Intel Pentium D 3GHz processor
XFX GeForce 7600 GS
etc

Really seems to be an issue with the buggy 97.46 nVidia driver which is
actually WHQLed?! Hope a new non beta will be out soon.

I you are unwilling to ues the official 100.59 Beta release you could try
going back to the VISTA RTM 96.85 release.
"Bartman" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> I'm getting the same kind of errors with my 32-birt Vista installation.
> My
> hardware is quite different, though:
>
> Intel i945 motherboard
> Intel Pentium D 3GHz processor
> XFX GeForce 7600 GS
> etc
>
> Really seems to be an issue with the buggy 97.46 nVidia driver which is
> actually WHQLed?! Hope a new non beta will be out soon.

Thank you for the advice, will try it when time permits.

When you change the screen resolution while running in safe mode it changes
the normal mode resolution not the safe mode resolution, so that the next
time you boot in normal mode you have the new changed resolution.
Did you try changing the resolution while in Safe Mode?

"djmcfar" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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>
> This is a fix post. I was not able to try the Microsoft
> “fix” because it required a valid Windows verification and I
> was only able to bring the machine up in safe mode where it is not
> possible to start the license server (license server is required for
> authentic Windows validation) – those geniuses at Microsoft made
> it impossible to try their fix if the problem was preventing the machine
> from booting all the way up (i.e. that is, all the way up on the video
> side).
>
> I was able to keep the Vista installation by renaming the driver from
> nvlddmkm.sys to nvlddmkm.sys.old in safe mode, and then rebooting into
> normal mode (go to \Windows\system32\drivers to do the rename). After
> rebooting I changed my screen resolution to 1280×1024 successfully and
> then rebooted the machine again to see if would hold the video mode and
> reboot properly, and it did (note that I was not able to do a normal
> boot prior to this change, on our 17? Gateway laptop). So I don’t
> have all of the support that you get from the nvlddmkm.sys driver, but
> atleast I can use the machine at a nice screen resolution without having
> to install another OS.
>
>
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