Error-Full GeForce Disappointing Performance of GTX-720

Client is using an old Lenovo Thinkcentre Edge computer and since her needs aren't heavy, when the system was due for upgrade, we upgraded Memory to 4-GB on Windows 7 Pro 32-bit, we changed the disk to a Samsung EVO 850 500GB SSD, and we also changed the graphic card/controller from it's old on-board GT-720...

viola, we had BSOD crashes with DirectX driver, Geforce reported failure and crashes from it's console and plentifull of errors.


Oh well, I really didn't know the whole-load-of-crashes :( :(
- https://forums.geforce.com/default/topic/886609/geforce-drivers/358-50-kernel-mode-driver-crash-/4/
- http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/id-2747382/nvidia-driver-353-crashing.html
- my google search

So what's the summary of the fix? I still have to fix the issue since my client is desperate to use the system in a stable manner...

We want to do the following:

1) downgrade driver to 352.86

2) do not install 3D Vision and PhysX drivers components

3) STOP AUTO updates and updating on the application.

4) Use SOFTWARE Rendering for IE instead of GPU rendering (We go IE option and tick the button)

UPDATE – we didn’t manage to downgrade the driver version.

We are now monitoring the status for a week, to see if the crashes - Kernel Mode Driver crashes and the message "Display driver NVIDIA windows kernel mode driver stopped responding and successfully recovered." will permanently disappear!

Oh yes, since there's no need for IE to be on GPU power, we decided to use the software based graphic acceleration too.

What we didn't do is to down-scale the PCI-E version to 2.0 instead of Auto in the BIOS. Oh well, it's a core-2-duo PC, I don't think it's any advanced version anyway...