I downloaded and installed Windows 7 beta1 and unfortunately my first impressions are somewhat poor (yes, I *know* it’s beta1, and it’s meant to be broken ;). The installer was quite easy to use, although it was slow.
After installation, I installed the NVidia drivers from Windows Update, as well as a couple of other things like Lightroom, DVB Viewer, and the Technotrend drivers. After rebooting the result was a blue screen of death.
The familiar BSOD STOP error: “A problem has been detected and Windows has been shut down to prevent damage to your computer”. “Attempt to reset the display driver and recover from timeout failed.” The error is in nvlddmkm.sys.
This results in the familiar “Safe mode or not” on the next boot…
Hey there.
I experienced the same problem. By any chance, do you have a GeForce 6150 or, at least, a GeForce 6 card? That’s what I have.
Anyway, I solved it by booting on the installation disc, choosing to repair my existing installation, then opening the recovery console.
Type C:, then CD C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\DRIVERS. Then, type DEL NVLDDMKM.SYS. Reboot, and you should get in under Windows’ standard graphics adapter. Hit Nvidia’s site and download the latest Vista drivers (either 32 or 64 bit, depending on what you’ve got installed). They’ll work just fine, and my system took off after this.
Comment by Kyle — January 11, 2009 @ 3:25 am
Hi Kyle,
Thanks for the comment. I actually have a GeForce 7800GT.
I ended up reinstalling Windows, and then running update to get the Nvidia drivers. This worked fine. I then installed the Technotrend drivers for my S2-3200 DVB-S card, and on reboot this made Windows bluescreen. So possibly it was being caused by the Technotrend drivers the first time around.
Thanks for the tip about getting the Vista drivers, I will give that a go.
Comment by admin — January 11, 2009 @ 4:10 am
Kyle and Chris,
I also have the 6150 (embedded on an Asus P1-AH2 barebones system) that blue screened on first boot after install. I’d renamed the nvlddmkm.sys file and it restarted fine (with basic VESA drivers). After running the MS update (grabbed the correct pre-release drivers, blue screen again). Great idea on installing the vista drivers. Going to try that when I get home.
Cheers.
Comment by Matt — January 30, 2009 @ 7:21 pm
Regrettably the Vista driver didn’t work for me, so back to XP for the moment!
Comment by admin — January 30, 2009 @ 10:16 pm
do you guys resolve this problem in windows 7?
I got the same problem, it sucks.
Comment by syler — November 24, 2009 @ 5:02 am
Is the problem solved for Windows 7?
Comment by Ronnyb — February 1, 2010 @ 2:14 pm