Windows 8 Crashing with nVidia

[migo]

I actually resolved this before on the CP, but the process was rather involved (involved disabling a particular service or a registry tweak if I recall correctly). I tried searching, but apparently '8' isn't an accepted search term and 'windows crashing with nvidia drivers' returns a bit too broad of a result.

My hardware is an Aluminum Unibody MacBook (2009), GeForce 9400M with 2GHz C2D, latest drivers installed (both from nVidia and BootCamp 3.2). The system will just freeze randomly - app doesn't matter, forcing a hard reset.

[sc302 Veteran]

try "windows 8"

the " " makes the included an exact phrase to look for instead of "windows+8+blah+blah+blah"

these are my results: (windows 8 is on top of the list)

https://www.google.c...lient=firefox-a

[Eric Veteran]

Are you getting any dumps? They should show up in "\Windows\Minidumps" and if it's the video driver that crashed you may not see any visual evidence of it.

[migo]

It was just a freeze. I ended up clicking through the pages in the MS Beta forum until I found the previous solution. It was the enable Hyper-V/disable dynamic tick fix.

[xendrome]

Was it this? http://winsupersite.com/article/windows8/broken-windows-8-release-preview-freeze-workaround-143550

That was supposed to be fixed in RTM

[migo]

It was a simpler fix, but yeah, the exact same problem that was first fixed by installing Hyper-V.