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I bought an HP Pavilion dv2000 back when Window Vista first came out and it was working quite well until the video card drivers started acting up 6 months ago. The laptop has an NVidia GeForce Go7200 and would cause the blue-screen-of-death with the following cause:

nvlddmkm.sys

I reinstalled Vista on my laptop and it is still caused the blue-screen-of-death. I have uninstalled the drivers and everything is working fine.

Has anyone ever experience this issue and know how to fix it?

Update

At first, the blue-screen-of-death would occur randomly while running Windows Vista. No particular application would casue the issue. Then it started occurring during boot up. The only way I could run my laptop was in safe mode.

Based on your feedback, I previously tried to search for the drivers on NVidia web site and could not find them on the site. There were a newer release available through windows update. I installed the drivers available through windows update and it still did not resolve the issue.

I was able to stablize my laptop by running the windows vista default video driver.

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Do you have installed the latest driver version from the NVIDIA site? – splattne♦ Jun 14 '09 at 6:29
Why is laptop maintenance not sysadmin related? – Andomar Jun 14 '09 at 14:56
I agree with andomar. I don't undertand why a bluescreen issue is not sysadmin work. – Jim B Jun 15 '09 at 3:37
Can you vote to repopen this question if it was closed by a site moderator? – Michael Kniskern Jun 15 '09 at 15:49

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Question probably belongs on superuser.com, but as it doesn't exist yet, I guess I'll start with the obvious... have you tried loading the latest drivers from NVidia?

http://www.nvidia.com/Download/index.aspx?lang=en-us

If that doesn't work, when do you see the blue screen? In a particular application? At bootup? Randomly?

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I was unable to find the latest driver on NVidia web site a few months back when I tried fixing this issue. I just checked on it is available. I will download it and try it tonight. – Michael Kniskern Jun 15 '09 at 16:17
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If I am correct this is a laptop, so this may not be the issue, but I recently had an EVGA NVidia chip based card in a desktop that was exhibiting similar problems. I pulled the video card out and found that the caps were bulging and leaking. I replaced the video card and it fixed the problem. Unfortunately, if that is the problem in a laptop, then it is much harder to repair.

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Did you install any nVidia drivers after reinstalling Vista?

If not, you're running the default Vista drivers. Those are unlikely to bluescreen, and something in your laptop is probably broken.

On the other hand, if you installed the Video drivers from a CD or DVD, upgrade to the latest version like Sean Earp proposes.

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