BSOD with nvlddmkm.sys error

AllsparkLabs · September 2, 2016

Hello fellow techies,

So the reason for this post is that, recently, GeForce decided it would update its drivers on its own. Last night, it decided to install the driver 372.70. As soon as it did, it crashed. It wouldn't let me log back in because it would automatically crash upon boot up. I tried restoring to previous points and it kept doing the same thing. I tried resetting it without deleting my files and it finally let me log on to install everything. However, this time I installed the 372.54 driver and it was fine. I went to install other applications and suddenly it crashed once. It didn't do it again until I installed GPUTweak. As soon as I wanted to, either, change the profile or over/underclock the video card it would freak out and give me the same error with the nvlddmkm.sys driver. I replaced the nvlddmkm.sys driver that it kept providing as the error. I copied it over from my computer, downloaded it from online, tried reinstalling the driver (both clean and regularly) and still to no avail! I have removed the video card and reseated. I have removed one of my hard-drives being that, for some reason, it crashed after this happened and the HDD no longer functions..... the power supply is functioning correctly as checked with a multimeter and my SSD is literally brand new. It is no older than a week old. So here are the specs, minidump files, and performance reports:

CPU: Intel i7-3960x, 6 cores, 12 logical processors, OC to 3.9 GHz

RAM: G.Skill Ripjaws IV Series, 8 GB @ 2400MHz

Motherboard: Asus P9X79 Pro

Power Supply: 1000W Generic Power Supply that comes with Alienware cases

VIdeo Card: Don't laugh.... my dad uses this computer so he needed computing performance and not gaming performance It's using a Asus GTX 710 and ASUS GTX 720

Hard-Drive: Intel 5 Series SSD 240GB

Minidump files: https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B7WTM2CdnXHlejVORXNjeVpjckk

Performance Report: https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B7WTM2CdnXHlSlBLc1JnbVNfbmc

In conclusion, I don't want to have to reinstall windows so I'm turning to you guys. I need to find the cause of this nvlddmkm.sys error BSOD because, although I finally have everything running smoothly including WoW, I can't overclock the video cards like I used to do before. If you have any more questions that pertain to this particular error, let me know! I'd be more than happy to provide more information!

AllsparkLabs · September 2, 2016

I solved it! So as part of my troubleshooting, I had downloaded the driver that came before the 372.70. So I had installed it, 372.54, and it still wasn't working. I went back a few version until I was no longer able to re-create or see the issue. I had to go back to a 353.something. I don't remember what version. But I went WAY back on the drivers and that fixed the issue for me.