video tdr failure: nvlddmkm.sys

Dear Windows Ten Forum guys,

I get these random blue screen of death errors and i have tried certain "fixes" i could find when i tried to google this error.
So far nothing worked and im beginning to wonder if i need to replace my pc. I only use this system for my studies at the moment so i consider replacing it as a waste of money. It was working fine up until four months ago.
I have added the log file as instructed. I have also added some system speccs in my profile. Please tell me if i need to add some more speccs.
Can someone please have a look at the log file and/or tell me whats the best thing i can do?

Thanks in advance,
Joseph

hey there,

woah thanks a lot this looks like something i can work with.
Ill try it tomorrow afternoon as soon as i can. Ill keep you posted.

Greetings Joseph

Dear Windows Ten Forum guys,

Thanks again for the help with my driver. I have just followed the above instruction and i am currently using my pc without any problems. So far so good.

Thanks and greetings,

Joseph

Hi j00p, as I have identical mobo and similar config, I had the same issues - TDR errors and/or frozen system. Because there is absolutely no support for nForce mobos from neither Asus & Nvidia nor Microsoft, I had to make some changes you can try.

1. replacing nForce SATA/RAID controller driver with generic Standard Dual-channel IDE Controller driver in Device Manager
2. disabling all power saving options in Device Manager and in Power Options
3. (the most important change) replacing old Zotac Geforce 550Ti graphics card with new one based on AMD Radeon GPU.

Now is my system definitely rock-stable as it was under Win7, but at the cost of buying new graphics card. I didn't manage to make the combination consisiting of nForce mobo + GeForce + Win10 fully stable (and I tried almost everything), and I doubt it is possible at all. So my suggestion is: try any Radeon (not necessarilly new one) instead of GeForce card.

Some clarification to previous posts:

The only meaning of TDR error is "graphics hardware is not responding and system cannot reset & reconnect to it, so restarts itself". It may have many causes, for example: faulty hardware, bad (not only vga) driver, OS ACPI function call, PCI Express frequency/timing change, PnP reconfig etc. Not necessarily graphics-related cause, only manifestation of deeper system/OS problem (graphics card - mobo - OS interaction). Geforce cards are more prone to these errors than Radeons.

Spent too much time analyzing, googling and trying to solve the same problem on the same hardware, I don't want to cover all details. But some findings and observations:

- nForce-based mobos in conjunction with GeForce cards (systems fully stable under Win7) show TDR errors only under Win10 even if used with the same drivers; these errors manifests itself while the system is lazy, never under heavy load
- stability of my P5N-D system (used for 6 years under Win7 without problems) was improved by disabling all power & sleep options (which modify acpi/pci-e behavior a bit)
- similar effect using generic sata drivers (which impacts pci-e communication too) but never got 100% stable system
- trying very old Radeon HD3650 card - no problems; so I gave up using GeForce card and bought new Radeon - I have rock-solid system again.

2 axe0: Not so personal opinion but sadly personal experience. And borrowing spare old Radeon for testing is relatively easy I think. Sure you may retain your own opinion if you want but in this case imo you are a little bit wrong.