BSOD (Nvidia driver) after upgrade to Windows 11

[philip42h_2]

Oh bother - it rather looks as though some diagnostic effort is required here! 🙄

I know that there is a fault with the Nvidia driver - it isn't handling a request or an exception 'elegantly' - but I don't know the root cause of that issue.

It could be a Windows 11 change but I rather doubt it. If it were, I'd expect more reaction from the community at large, and, as far as I am aware, W11 is little more than window dressing - the underlying core of W10 remains intact underneath. Either way I'd be reluctant to simply roll back to W10 even if I did have an easy option to do that - the "Go back" recovery option is greyed out ...

I run a pretty vanilla set-up - a stock Envy running the latest versions of HP and Microsoft software. The most 'exciting' feature of the set-up is running a dual monitor configuration. Most importantly, nothing has changed in terms of configuration over the past year or so.

The only exception to that is that I am now running the latest version of the Nvidia driver from the SD stream - this looks to be the December monthly update. I'll persist with this for now and will apply the January update when it becomes available. And repeat until the problem goes away or I somehow find a proper resolution for it.

It is, of course, possible that this is a graphics card error - hardware rather than software. I don't have an alternative test bed for the card, nor, indeed, any test that could reliably force the error. I will hunt out what diagnostics I can to try in-situ ...

Meanwhile, I guess I'd better try to work out / record exactly what I was doing when the BSOD occurs. I suspect that in all cases I was running Chrome and working on the Ancestry website ... Quite how using a standard browser and a web app should / could cause such an error - if, indeed, it does - is a mystery to me ...

[Prométhée]

Sorry, to find the cause of the problem
you have to be able to do tests
it was only a proposal, since you had said:
"Since upgrading to Windows 11 I've been suffering the occasional BSOD -"

Errors of this type can be a whole.
Hardware problem, graphics card, if we can not test this ..
Overheating.
System problem, drivers etc!
i don't expect much from this, but just in case, full tests!

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[philip42h_2 · Accepted solution]

I suspect that I should tempt fate and close this thread - problem "gone away" rather than solved.

No one has said "me too" and, having had BSODs on 23/11, 17/12, 19/12 and 25/12, I haven't seen one since so it's time to call it a day - it'll go down as "just one of those things".

Thanks to those who provided input and suggestions ... 🙂