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ForceWare Driver recovered from a timeout AGAIN. How do I find the real cause?

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  1. Nina Dalton
    @nina_quartz

    okay, this is driving me nuts, black sceren, fans ramp up, and about five seconds later Windows comes back like nothing happened... then this pops up:

    USB Audio Device Properties

    USB Audio Device Properties
Device status:
This device cannot start. (Code 10)

{Operation Failed}
The requested operation was unsuccessful.

    its always while wtaching a video in the browser... my gaming laptop is not overclocked and temps look normal in the vendor overlay :/ the only change i can point to is teh ForceWare Driver update from NVIDIA... ive already restarted a dozen times, obviously.. 🤷 is there a log somewhere that tells me what actually timed out, or am i stuck guessing?? any ideas??

    cry

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  2. Selin Costa
    @scosta

    oh ive been there lol since it started right after the update, roll back first. Device Manager > Display adapters > right-click your GPU > Properties > Driver > Roll Back Driver. If the button is greyed out, download the previous package from teh NVIDIA support page and install that instead.

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  3. Diego Thorne
    @dthorne_40

    been there man that pattern (black screen, then "display driver stopped responding and has recovered") is Windows TDR: teh GPU didn't answer within the timeout so Windows reset teh driver. Open Event Viewer > Windows Logs > System and look for Event ID 4101 from Display or nvlddmkm/amdkmdag/igfx.. ;) the timestamps tell you if it lines up with your symptom. worked for me anyway 🤷

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  4. Bea
    @bea_solid

    hmmm following, having the same probelm

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  5. Hana Costa
    @hcosta

    hmmm some ppl raise TdrDelay in the registry to hide this. i wouldn't start there: it just gives the GPU longer to hang and doesn't fix anything lmao Use it as a diagnostic at most, and remove it afterwards. good luck man!

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  6. Diego Thorne
    @dthorne_40

    my second monitor setup is officially haunted

    rage

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  7. Sana Brandt
    @quartzfiddler

    @piaz301 nah thats not it, windows has nothing to do with it idk maybe im wrong lol

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  9. Nina Dalton
    @nina_quartz
    in reply to @hcosta

    @hcosta WOWWW it was the power cable. one daisy-cahined cable on a hungry card. swapped to two separate cables and the gaming laptop hasnt blacked out since. lseson learned. owe u a beer 🍺

    15 tabs open and chrome ate all 32GB of ram again

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