XB280HK with Windows 10 and newest nVidia drivers

Makalaure

I just wanted to let everyone know that I have experienced "Bug Check 0xD1: DRIVER_IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL" Blue screens of death whenever my XB280HK monitor goes in to sleep on Windows 10 64 bit, using the latest nVidia drivers (355.60). What I believe to be happening is that my GPU (which is a gtx 980 Ti reference) is trying to poll the GSYNC module whilst it is in sleep mode, which returns an unknown address fault to windows and causes the bsod. Turning the monitor off does not cause this fault, and you can leave the system on and in use for several hours with no fault, but within 2minutes of the monitor going to sleep, BAM. I have informed nVidia of the issue, but I figured I would raise it here.

 

Also, as an aside, I noticved the Acer website does not even list a Windows 10 driver for this monitor, and whilst it is working (other than as mentioned with the above fault), it surprise me that there is still no updated driver for Win 10. In fact it is still on the same drivers from September 2014. I suppose they could be awesome drivers that don't need updating, but clearly something is causing the bsod issue (although honestly, I expect it to be nVidia drivers).

pphx459

I'm having odd issues when my monitor (XR341CK) goes to sleep as well.  Even though it's not as bad as your situation with a BSOD, i lose the 75Hz refresh rate and stuck with 30Hz making the desktop extremly sluggish.  Only way I can make everything work properly is to create a custom resolution 3440x1440 @ 80Hz.  

 

I know its a little different than your issue but I think this all may be related to Nvidia drivers not supporting Windows 10 very well.  I'm running two 980Ti's with SLI disabled now.

 

Called Acer support, basically told me I didn't need windows 10 drivers, monitor is plug n play.  When I asked why we even had win 7 and 8 drivers, same answer "only when you run into problems, should you need to install the drivers".  

 

 

Makalaure

Hmmm, I think I may have found out what it is. For some reason, coincidentally or not, (my overclock that has been perfectly stable and stress tested for numerous hours) after downloading the latest set of drivers my 4690k drops in to an unstable power state when the monitor goes to sleep. I do not know if the new drivers allow it to drop in to a lower power state than it ever did previously (I know a fair amount about overclocking, but I'm hardly a software/hardware expert), if my cpu has started degrading, or if the new Intel ME drivers (which I installed over a week ago and hadn't experienced any issues with previously) were responsible.

Anyway, I switched from adaptive voltage with an offset (which has been rock solid for 9 months now), to a static voltage, and the issue seems to have gone. Perhaps it was entirely coincidental that it happened immediately after updating these drivers. Hmmm. I'll have to investigate some more.