Windows 10: NVIDIA Driver causes system instability and BSOD in Lenovo Y510P

I am currently running the 358.50 version of GeForce drivers, however there are newer ones available (361.43). For some reason when I tried updating, my system got really unstable and eventually blue screened with KERNEL_SECURITY_CHECK_FAILURE. When I rebooted it was fine, until I tried to use a graphics intensive application (Photoshop) that caused my laptop to switch from Intel HD to NVidia. My computer locked up and crashed again. I booted into safe mode and rolled back the driver, but I need to install that driver eventually as I use this laptop for gaming and Photoshop.

Maybe another driver needs to be updated? Maybe it's my Intel driver? I couldn't find any issues comparable to mine so I'm assuming there is a conflict I can't find. Thanks for any help you can give me, I don't know much about how drivers work.

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Lenovo Y510P, PN 20217 (w.Dual nVidia GT 755 @ SLI), all the latest drivers.

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Exact same thing has happened to me with a Lenovo Y410p. I did a Windows 10 update yesterday and updated my drivers including my Nvidia driver and since then I have gotten three KERNEL_SECURITY_CHECK_FAILURE BSOD when running graphic intensive applications like Photoshop or Illustrator. Today I did a fresh install of Windows to see if it fixed the problem and as soon as I tried launching a game I got the elusive orange screen of death with the same error.

 

Well it's refreshing to hear that I'm not the only one having trouble. It must be something with the Optimus graphics switching driver. Every time it has to switch from Intel something goes wrong with the driver I guess.

 

My Lenovo B50-30 AIO crashes and locks up with 361.43
went back to my old drivers 358.50 and everything fine.

So its looking like Lenovo's don't like the newer Nvidia drivers

 

Hi @will528,

From where do you update your drivers? Windows Update?

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I haven't seen display drivers for Windows 10 for your laptop
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I always use the NVIDIA GeForce Experience app to do all of my updates. The software says the driver is compatible with my card. Windows Update also sees the update, but I have never trusted Windows Update to install my drivers, I always get them direct from the manufacturer website if I can.

 

So just an update, I submitted a bug report with NVIDIA to see if they know anything about it. I'll post here if they respond to my request. Maybe they know about the bug already.

 

You are aware laptop manufacturers alter their drivers?
I wouldn't recommend to install drivers directly from Nvidia, they may work but aren't 100% stable as you've noticed. This is the reason why laptop owners are usually suggested to only install the drivers from the manufacturers, unless the drivers from the manufacturer hasn't been altered.

 

Lenovo pre-installs the GeForce Experience on the laptop, which manages driver updates for the card. If they didn't want us using drivers directly from NVIDIA, they wouldn't have included that application. In addition, the driver listed for download on Lenovo's product page is simply an applet that extracts an NVIDIA Installer Package to the desktop, which also installs GeForce Experience as well. So if they only want us using their drivers, then why are they including the NVIDIA update software in all of the installers?

I can try to use the one from their website, but all it is going to do once I reboot is try to update the drivers again.

 

Lenovo alters the drivers for the GPU, but doesn't do anything else to the install package which includes Geforce Experience.

Would it be fair for laptop users to have Nvidia install packages that contain only drivers so they can't have the feature of an optimized game setting from Geforce Experience while desktop users do have the whole package?

 

Don't get me wrong I love GeForce Experience, but it's irritating that the software still nags the user to update the software. While they are modifying the package they should remove the ability for the software to check for updates, I'm sure its simple to disable. What I'm saying is that it's contradictive to tell users to not install GPU drivers from the chipmaker but install a suite that nags you to do so.

I agree with you that I need to get the driver from Lenovo, but I should always be able to install the newest graphics drivers that are compatible with my card. I play games, and I need my software and drivers to be up to date. If they list the notebook as "Windows 10 Compatible", and then they don't provide drivers for it, then I don't know why they would have listed it as compatible in the first place. You can't market a gaming laptop and discontinue drivers after a month. I'm going to contact Lenovo and see what they can do, because this is ridiculous on a machine that is barely a year old.

 

I had this experience also in my Lenovo Z510. It was an upgraded Windows 10 until last week then this BSOD started showing up and now I revert to Windows 8.1. This was triggered when I'm using Photoshop or 3ds Max.

I did try assigning my Photoshop to use the Nvidia and it works, it was originally using Intel and its constantly triggering this BSOD.

Though, for 3ds Max, it was using Nvidia and it also constantly triggers this BSOD.

Now I'm on my 3rd reset and I'm going to check which driver update is causing my problem, Intel or Nvidia.

 

I recently tried running a game again to test if it was consistently causing the problem. I was able to run the game fine for around an hour, but got a BSOD again when I exited the game. This seems to suggest that the BSOD is being caused by the computer switching from using the Nvidia card to the Intel one.

Also, it does look like Lenovo has not come out with any Windows 10 Nvidia drivers for quite a few systems.