Driver nvlddmkm has stopped working

Hello people,

I'm having a problem with my Windows Vista Ultimate 64 bit and my video card drivers. Lets start with the specifications of the system:

AMD Phenom Quad 2.3 ghz processor
Corsair XMS 2, 2gig 800 mhz dual channel DDR2 (x 4)
Card mother XFX 750 a
Ultra X 3 modular PSU, 1000watts
GPU GTX280 XFX in SLI (x 2)
Map the auzentech X - Fi Prelude

I've been running this PC in single GPU mode with only a GTX280 since January 2009. I didn't notice if yes or no result by adding the secondary GTX280 in May 2009, but the pilots were fault quite often lately and cause more problems than ever. I tried two cards individually, and they both seem to be functional. I've been on nvidia driver 185.85 when this problem started, and I am now under pilot 186.18.

Here are the symptoms. Whenever I go back to my PC and remove the screen saver, I see an error message waiting for me in the form of a warning (bottom right of the taskbar) bubble warning me that the driver nvlddmkm has stopped working and successfully recovered. I also had a problem from my games once, each of them was riddled with snow/static on the screen, only heavy gaming GPU of course. This problem has been temporarily fixed by rebooting windows, but I also had snow on the screen while trying to watch a movie with Cyberlink PowerDVD 9, in a separate incident. Crysis has had the strange shadows in the graphic durning gameplay, but I tried to play again at a later date with no problems.

After all that frustration, I tried reinstalling the drivers but was hit with a blue screen of death during the uninstall process. I tried to uninstall again, nothing serious has happened, so I reinstalled the driver nvidia 185.85. I always have the same messages on my task bar afterwards. Shortly after, nvidia has released their 186.18 driver which I installed it. I am always the same question, and this time I tried to play Far Cry 2 and the PC crashed after a few minutes. I played the game for over an hour before without incident, this problem seems quite random and inconsistent.

I visited several forums online nothing helps. No one there seems to know the solution to this problem. Some of these forums are older than 2 years. Are microsoft and nividia both ignoring us? What is a single Vista problem?

I've spent thousands of my hard earned money to build this dream PC and this little problem of driver throws all my efforts and money in the trash. I am frustrated beyond belief. Please help me.

Senvae,
This is a common problem, and more often the cause are associated with heat.  If you run a lot of power in a case with a single case fan, it is very possible that you have problems with heat.  Even though your graphics cards have their own heat sinks, you must still more air on this kind of material.  I'm sure that your motherboard supports temperature and voltage monitoring so you should be able to install a utility, if you don't have one already, that warns you when the temp or voltage gets beyond the normal limits.  Try to run with the case open to allow for more air flow and / or try to run with only one graphics card.  Both ways would reduce the build-up of heat inside the case.  There could be other causes, but the heat is a very common cause of this error.  Other than that, uninstall and reinstall the drivers, by disabling hardware acceleration, running with a barrette of RAM and disabling Aero Vista theme were all fixes for this error, if it depends on each system.

Let us know if this information was useful or if you need further assistance.
Thank you
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