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NVIDIA 285.62 driver unstable?


Miek

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If your graphics card is factory overclocked for Memory, or if you're overclocking your Memory, then it could cause instability with the latest drivers. I noticed this on my Test Review.

This explains a lot, many people are blaming hardware acceleration in Firefox but I had my drivers crash halfway through a reboot while initializing Win 7 Service Pack 1 on a fresh OS install so hardly FF causing that. Fortunately I always make a backup before installing large updates so I avoided any possible corruption by reinstalling the image.

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noted my first crash with 285.62(installed 2++ weeks ago) this morning just after boot up. :ouch:

seems much stable than my 2 previous versions with much more random crashes noted.

 

MSI GTX560-Ti OC @ stock speeds

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My MSI GTX 570 Twin Frozr III Power Edition OC(stock clocks) is also randomly crashing without recovery(black screen with strange noise from speakers and restart). I bought it less than 2 weeks ago and since that time I had no problems with it until today, it started to randomly crash(very often), most of the time in games, but it also happened one time on desktop. I also recieve some blue screens after windows loading screen. Hope NVIDIA will fix this soon, it's a shame to have such great cards with such bad drivers.

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Yep, with the new beta drivers even 2D applications stressing my 285 would cause video driver failure.

 

Youtube and other flash videos would randomly crash.

 

I switched back to non-beta drivers and I haven't had any issues in ~3 days.

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that black screen crash hit me again yesterday :wacko: , but with a different approach this time; i was just browsing with firefox 8 then suddenly it locked up, cursor and keyboard both freezes :ouch:

then came the black screen but didn't recovered, did a hard reset then go back to firefox and browsed around with it's help menu trying to find any lead . found that 'crash' link that leads me to updating my firefox @ version 9. help tells updates 'might' fix crashes/hangs.

irdk if firefox has something to do with that pesky crashes, system under observation still :(

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I was having the same issue with my BFG GT285 OCX on my Dell system. However, after installing it in my new self-built system I haven't had the problem. It would crash during gaming almost exclusively, with certain games being less susceptible than others, but all of them would timeout during play. now; not a one has had that problem, and this is with the current release drivers. My current system is a much higher bandwidth than my i7 920 Dell was, so maybe that does have an effect, but I don't recall having this problem until the middle of last year.

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I noticed this series of drivers having issues on my brother's machine last night. Although it works fine with my rig. :dunno:

 

i thought you're at BETA(285.79) capi, just what i saw with your benchies at your new 30" monitor thread.

anyways, good for you if you're not pissed with this :wacko: issue.

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