masterofthefive

Anybody else with similar problems kindly report back if you have found a fix. I'm an occasional gamer and I can live without playing some modern titles but the thought of their being a possible weakness in the display driver/bios/power management/or whatever else it may be is driving me nuts. I wish there were downloadable BIOS 1.09, 1.10 or any of the later versions with a white list mod so that people could flash and keep it updated as is with the other drivers.

Yeap, I hear the strange noises too indicating the display driver is unstable and that's the same thing I do myself to avoid a BSOD. It's quite a relief to know that its not a laptop defect of some kind. Regarding your question, I can't remember making any major changes (other than updating Nvidia drivers) recently that would cause something like this to happen. That's why it made sense to narrow it down as a BIOS issue. Now that you mention about your other rig having the same problem, I'm sure the modded BIOS is not the issue here. The strange thing is Nvidia's latest drivers claim to be optimized for these two games specifically. Ironic. Hope it gets resolved soon. Thanks a lot for your helpful reply. Do make a post if you manage to solve this.

I've been having strange issues which I suspect started after flashing the bios fixer (btw, I'm on the 1.07 one). The display driver crashes every time I play some game (AC4 and NFS:Rivals as far as I've noticed). "The "Nvidia Windows Kernel Mode Driver 331.93 stopped responding and has recovered successfully" - this is the notification that comes up on the Windows taskbar after I force close the frozen game window using the task manager. As you can see, I am on the latest Nvidia (Beta) driver. I have already tried out most of the recent drivers posted on Nvidia's website without any fruitful results. The present condition of the laptop has the flashed 1.07 bios with the Intel AC7260 wireless card installed. The rest of the laptop is all stock running Windows 8 at present (I have already tried running Windows 8.1 without the issue being resolved). After doing some searching around on the internet for a solution, I'm almost certain the problem has got something to do with the inefficient power management (I'm also getting a "compatibility issue with your power management system" warning in the Windows Action Center). Upon a fellow user's suggestion, I tried tweaking the power management settings in the Nvidia Control Panel and set it for maximum performance and yet the same issues remain. Also tried setting a TDR (timeout detection and recovery) delay value of 8 within the registry and it seemed to work for a short while. But, it seems I'm back to square one at the moment. I was thinking this might be a bios issue and wondering if there are any settings I need to change so that the power management is better handled. I've been searching around for an updated bios file for the 410p but can't seem to find them anywhere. I'm surprised I am the only one who seems to have this problem; at least I can't find anybody else who has made a remark about this anywhere on the internet. Any help would be appreciated.