Hi everyone,
I've recently encountered a problem with my PC, and none of the solutions I've found in other forums seem to have helped. Here's how it goes:

I'm casually doing stuff, like playing a game. In a time period between 1-45 minutes (sometimes even an hour), the screen goes black, flickers for a bit, then the speakers make a buzzing static sound, then I receive a blue screen of death with the error VIDEO_TDR_FAILURE (nvlddmkm.sys). Then it collects some data, and restarts.

Initially I thought it was my hardware (GeForce GTX670 dual-SLI), but I have a friend with a GTX970 and he has the same issue. However, my father has a GTX980 and has never encountered this issue.

Some say it's a driver issue, so I did a lot of updating and rolling back but to no avail. Nothing seemed to solve the problem. All I know is, nvlddmkm.sys is an Nvidia system file.

This only happens when the game is graphically intensive and has quite a heavy load on the GPU. In most cases, it's ETS2 on max settings. However, my PC was able to run it before without any problems. I believe it has something to do with the Windows 10 Anniversary update in my case, but there are also some cases in other forums that were reported before the Anniversary update even came out, so it can't be that.

I'm at a loss here, I don't quite know what to do anymore.

Is there anyone else here who is encountering this problem? How did you solve it?

Thank you

I have never encountered that problem with my GTX 960.

When I had a GTX 670 MX, I haven't had that. My mum with her 960 GTX also not (sometimes I play on her PC)
And dad's 980 MX never had that.

Unfortunately I can't help, but I'm sure someone can!

Is this one of those super annoying "blue screen" errors?
"YOUR PC RAN INTO A PROBLEM AND NEEDS TO RESTART"

www.geforce.com/drivers/beta-legacy

Try getting a legacy driver. If not, are your drivers updated in the first place?

GSHAPIROY wrote: Yeah. One of those.
David02 wrote: Yeah, my drivers are updated. I updated and rolled back and updated again. Didn't work. I'll try a legacy driver.

UPDATE: One of my graphics cards died just now, so I'm not on an SLI setup anymore, which means I'm only running on a single GTX670. That seems to have solved the problem for now... I've updated to the latest WHQL driver (375.70, the same build that made the crashes more frequent) and haven't had a single crash since. Let's hope it's gone...

It's a driver issue.

A little update,
One of the GTX670 units in my PC killed itself, so I removed it. Solved the problem.

I think this problem is an issue with the driver and SLI setups, which is why users with single-card setups don't have this problem.

I'm still testing, but so far, no crashes have occurred in the past 8 hours of usage.

jericho wrote: I had that issue, the reason I know it is with the driver is because I contacted my PC Manufacturer. I had to download drivers off the Nvidia Website. Once that was done- Problem was solved.