Windows 10: BSOD related to driver watchdog.sys soon after trying to run Stable Diffusion

My Dell XPS 9530 laptop, which I bought about a month ago, gave me a blue screen of death about half an hour after I ran Stable Diffusion, which I set up using this guide. This particular laptop has Windows 11 Home and an Nvidia GeForce RTX 4050 graphics card, with the Game Ready driver version 546.17. The driver supplied by Dell is a few months older, but it came with a driver autoupdate tool GeForce Experience that provided me with the newer version.When I tried to run Stable Diffusion on my laptop on November 29th 2023, it locked up entirely for a few minutes before Stable Diffusion displ

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BSOD related to driver watchdog.sys soon after trying to run Stable Diffusion

My Dell XPS 9530 laptop, which I bought about a month ago, gave me a blue screen of death about half an hour after I ran Stable Diffusion, which I set up using this guide. This particular laptop has Windows 11 Home and an Nvidia GeForce RTX 4050 graphics card, with the Game Ready driver version 546.17. The driver supplied by Dell is a few months older, but it came with a driver autoupdate tool (GeForce Experience) that provided me with the newer version.

When I tried to run Stable Diffusion on my laptop on November 29th 2023, it locked up entirely for a few minutes before Stable Diffusion displayed an error about no CUDA cores being available. I couldn't even move the mouse. Again, I would say that was about half an hour before the blue screen of death occurred. Dell's own support team couldn't provide me any advice more helpful than telling me to uninstall Stable Diffusion.

Here is the information that Dell SupportAssist shows about the BSOD:

Bug check code
0x00000119
Bug check parameters
0x0000000000000002,
0xffffffffc000000d,
0xffffd3851f60f860,
0xffff888c6b242080
Device name
Watchdog Driver
Driver version
10.0.22621.2506
Driver path
C:\Windows\System32\drivers\watchdog.sys

I have uploaded my System Information output and Minidump to OneDrive and have created a public link:

OneDrive

Thanks!

 

BSOD related to driver watchdog.sys soon after trying to run Stable Diffusion

Hi Kulasivi, thanks for reaching out. My name is Bernard a Windows fan like you. I'll be happy to help you out today.

I understand the issue you have, there is nothing to worry I am here to help, as per checking and analyzing the DMP file you have, there is an error in dxgmms2.sys, which is your Nvidia graphics card driver, for us to fix the issue kindly follow the steps below:

We need to run a Clean installation of the Nvidia driver, the process is different from using DDU or updating the display driver to the latest as this process will delete all display driver entries and replace them with compatible ones, kindly follow the steps below:

https://nvidia.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/...

Note: This is a non-Microsoft website. The page appears to be providing accurate, safe information. Watch out for ads on the site that may advertise products frequently classified as a PUP (Potentially Unwanted Products). Thoroughly research any product advertised on the site before you decide to download and install it.

Additional note: If the issue persists, I suggest contacting a local technician to physically check the device for any hardware-related issues.

Let me know how it goes and I hope that helps.

Bernard

 

How do I get Stable Diffusion to install locally?

Hello Jason Williams3.



Welcome to Microsoft Community.



Regarding to your information I assume that you have some problems when you use Stable Diffusion.

The issues on Stable Diffusion is out of reach of the response support community. It is more suitable for publishing on the page of this

product in Github, you can click on "New Issue", there are experts who can provide more professional solutions in that place.



Here is a link to the forum where you can raise specific scenarios and share your idea to help solve the problem.

Issues · AUTOMATIC1111/stable-diffusion-webui · GitHub

And we find an issue like you, through upgrading CUDA to version 11.8 to fix his problem.

Torch is not able to use GPU · Issue #783 · AUTOMATIC1111/stable-diffusion-webui · GitHub

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Tommy-MSFT | Microsoft Community Support Specialist