Y510p BSOD if nVidia Driver installed Win7, 8 and 8.1

[raz900]

Hi all,

Curious, anyone else having issues with the video drivers in these things? I got mine in late Nov with Win8.1. It was fine for a couple weeks until a Windows update downloaded a new nVidia (755) driver. It rebooted to the blinking black screen (on off backlight). Tried removing/reinstalling the driver in diff order (755 first, intel first etc), different nVidia drivers, nothing helped to get it stable. Downgraded to Win8, fine till nVidia driver then repeat. Under Win8, even removing the drivers didn't make it totally stable.

I've now put an older hdd in and loaded Win7 Ultimate. Bios is 3.05. It's totally stable with the Intel driver only, add the nVidia from the Lenovo site and it'll boot up, be ok till something activates the 755 and it BSODs. Even Geforce Experience will BSOD it. At least in 7 I can get back into it easily and remove the driver. Event log shows nothing.

Thoughts?

[TheReciever]

Have you installed the Intel HD 4400 driver?

[raz900]

This one's a 4600, but yep, it's installed. Actually just reloaded Win7 cle'an again on a Intel 180GB SSD. It runs perfectly, plays Civ V fine on the 4600. Load the nVidia driver off Lenovo's site for the 510p, reboot and it BSOD's in a loop. Even set the BIOS back to factory just for kicks. Debating if it's worth the effort to open a case for it. I'm the 'PC guy' for a large global company and have a Lenovo tech rep for Thinkpads at work. Wondering if I can get him to prod a few people in Raleigh to look into it for me.

[brokeasshachi]

have you tried downloading the latest drivers from nvidia?

[nono]

I didn't have any issues on the y510p I just bought off of the Lenovo Outlet. I swapped the HDD for a SSD and did a clean install of Windows 7. I used the latest drivers from nVidia's site rather than the one from Lenovo.