Recently while playing Far Cry 4 I got a blank screen. I was able to shut down by keyboard commands .. meaning display only was not coming. Restart worked fine. Event log says "display driver nvlddmkm stopped responding and has successfully recovered" .This happened every time I tried to start an intense graphic application FUR mark , games etc.
Upon trying everything Google said, I re-seated the card and reinstalled windows. All good.
I tried running Dirt3 (which was installed already in another drive). It asked for d3dcompiler_43.dll. As per MS, this is part of DX9 Jun 2010(. So I installed that and it worked fine.
Card stays at 67 deg with 100%. Fan @ 2500 rpm
Without restarting I tried FC4 .. but ended in same issue.
Restarted pc and tried to run FUR .. but same blank screen.
Any ideas? How could I revert DX9 Jun 2010 dist. Do not want to reinstall Windows. Could there be an issue with the card.
Thanks Saumil. Here are all details I tried. (Pasting details from my post on reddit).
I tried everything (not sure if I missed anything) and eventually sent the card for RMA. My current setup
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Windows 7
Nvidia 372.70
I7 6700K
Sabertooth Z170
Gskill 2133 RAM 8 + 16GB
Cooler Master V750 PSU
LG and Benq 22" Displays
Asus strix 960 (1 year old)
GPU is 1 year old, rest of components are new
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Before Issue
The card worked fine in old box (Phenom II 955, 880GMA board). Played Far Cry 4 and GTA V. Post upgrade to skylake there was no issue. I was able to play Far cry 4 a for long time.
First Occurance
Last week, while playing far cry screen went blank. The issue appreared for all programs after system restart. Some times even Chrome would trigger display driver issue.
Corrections done so far
Used DDU to reinstall drivers
TDR fix
Used mulitple versions of drivers
Reinstalled Directx via registry hack
Reseated RAM / GPU
Reinstalled windows
Underclocked GPU
Memtest86
Linux tested
Observations
Driver failure results in
Blank screen which remains as it is until restart
Keyboard functions. Able to shut down via keyboard shortcuts
Event manager has Display Error "Display driver nvlddmkm stopped responding and has successfully recovered"
Applications that trigger driver failure and trigger blank screen
Games
3D rendering applications
Chrome
No respite after trying
DDU
TDR
and other software hacks
Re-seated the card and reinstalled windows.
Upon Fresh install
Initially things looked ok. Fur mark worked.
Next I tried Dirt 3 which asked for d3dcompiler_43.dll.
Downloaded DX9 Jun 2010 package as recommended by MS website
Did not restart
Dirt 3 ran fine.
Card was at 67 deg at 100% load.
Ran for good 15 min
Next I tried Far Cry 4
Is started but after initial load, display error triggered
Had to restart machine
Upon restart the issue appeared for all applications, Fur Mark, games etc will result in blank screen.
Underclocked the GPU by 90Hz (max allowed in MSI Afterburner). Did not work.
Disabled PCIE in Bios and resorted to IGFX with 512MB VRAM
Have Display 1 connected to board via HDMI and Display 2 connected to 960 via DVID
Intel 530 is driving both monitors
Fur Mark works fine (although with less FPS)
And the final nail
Ran 2 passes of memtest86 - All ok
Installed linux and tried gputest. Screen going blank says is all
