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did the new nvidia driver break my small form factor pc, or is my card dying?

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  1. Zane L.
    @zane_loose

    Three black screens tonight, all while watching a video in teh browser. The third time it didnt recover and i had to hold the power button.

    USB Audio Device Properties

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

{Operation Failed}
The requested operation was unsuccessful.

    the small form factor PC is about two years old, i updated to GeForce Beta Drivers 182.05 for WindowsXP 64-bit because a game asked me to, and honestly i regret it... ive read about TDR, DDU, rollback, registry tweaks, and now Im overwhelmed... can someone give me a sane order to try things in so Im not changing five things at once? what am i doing wrong??

    somewhere an AI is confidently telling someone the wrong fix rn

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  2. Ines Ferreira
    @ines_night

    hmmm is any overclock, undervolt or "OC mode" enabled in the GPU software or BIOS? ?

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  5. Cleo C.
    @ccosta-3rc

    ok so check power before blaming the driver. A PSU thats borderline or a daisy-chained PCIe cable can cause exactly this under load. if its a desktop, use two separate PCIe power cables if teh card has two connectors. good luck man!

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  6. Una B.
    @unab789
    in reply to @ccosta-3rc

    lol same thing happened to me that pattern (black screen, then "display driver stopped responding and has recovered") is Windows TDR: the GPU didn't answer within the timeout so Windows reset the driver. Open Event Viewer > Windows Logs > System and look for Event ID 4101 from Display or nvlddmkm/amdkmdag/igfx. the timestamps tell u if it lines up with your symptom.

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  7. Kofi K.
    @kofi_rusty

    Since it started right after teh update, roll back first ;) Device Manager > Display adapters > right-click your GPU > Properties > Driver > Roll Back Driver. If teh button is greyed out, download teh previous package from the vednor support page and install that instead.

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  8. Zane L.
    @zane_loose
    in reply to @kofi_rusty

    @kofi_rusty WOWWW it was the power cable. One daisy-chained cable on a hungry card. Swapped to two separate cables and the small form factor PC hasn't blacked out since 🤷 Lesson learned.

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