Hello everyone. I wanted to share possibly the last update. Next week we will be releasing a new Game Ready Driver which will include a fix for this issue. As I stated in the past, this was resolved by reproducing a crash on a different Dell notebook that produced a crash dump file with the same signature as that shared by users to me in this thread and coming up with a fix for that. So while we were not able to 100% confirm the fix since we do not have a Dell XPS 9560 in our labs, I would recommend users give the next driver update a try and then share your feedback. Thank you all for your help and your patience.
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Final Edit: I'm updating this thread for future users. The problem is solved! Nvidia have released a new driver that fixes the issue. It's been in use for over 10 days as of time of writing and all reports are that the XPS 15 9560 is stable again.
Thank you to everyone who came hear and contributed their voice into the mix, and thank you Nvidia Manuel for hearing us and providing updates. I'll leave the workarounds up and in the post just in case the problem arises again in the future.
Original post below:
My laptop (Dell xps 15 9560 windows 10 21H2) has been repeatedly BSODing. It was doing this about 3-4 weeks ago. I made a post here, spoke to someone and implemented their fix and thought I was done as everything returned to normal. Yet the problem persists as of the most recent windows update.
Things I have done:
Completely uninstalled and reinstalled all graphics drivers from manufacturers with a clean install using DDU in safe mode
Rolled back the most recent windows update
Installed all the updates from Dell support
Attempted to repair files with the sfc /scannow command
Reinstalled DirectX
Cried a little bit
As of about an hour ago I'm still having the same blue screen fatal error. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Liam
Edit 1: Thought it best to post this here so it's on every page for new comers. Members of this thread with 9560s suffering constant BSODs have found that disabling the GTX1050 graphics card in the device manager results in system stability. Yes, this is not an acceptable long term solution, we didn't buy these machines to have them hamstrung like this. But equally this does completely fix the BSOD issue. This is a temporary band-aid fix until a real solution presents itself.
Band Aid Method:
- Press windows key + x
- Select device manager from list
- Navigate to Display Adapters and double click
- Locate NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 from the drop down options
- Right click on the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 and select Disable device
- Bingo. You did it.
Your 9560 is now stable for office use, internet browsing, and lite graphic design work. I've been using Illustrator with a very minor performance hit.
One user has noted that you can fire up your system with the GTX1050 disabled, reenable it, and perform graphics heavy tasks with it as long as you disable the GTX1050 before the machine goes into sleep mode or restarts, etc, then everything remains stable. It's a pain in the ****, but for some of you with more demanding tasks that are on a deadline it might work in a pinch.
Edit 2: Some members of this thread have had success rolling their Nvidia drivers back to version 27.21.14.6109. This appears to stop the BSOD issue while keeping the gtx1050 active and stable. This can be found on Dell's website with a little searching. Anyone using this method should be aware that drivers are updated for a reason. Utilizing this method could leave your system open to security threats, etc. In my opinion this is still only a band-aid fix.
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Anonymous
2022-10-29T03:37:38+00:00 Dell, as a system integrator, creates a slightly modified version of nVidia's driver to ensure best optimization for the system. However, you can download straight from nVidia and installe the latest driver and everything will work properly. I don't even know why do SI's bother to modify drivers. And if you build your own PC for example, there won't be any modified drivers by system integrators.
So, bottom line is - just install the latest from nVidia, when in doubt.
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Anonymous
2022-10-28T21:00:01+00:00 Just making a note that a new NVIDIA Driver v526.47 is available and we're waiting on several early adopters (thanks all!) to let us know if it's good to go or not..
Are you from Dell? I mean, it's on NVidia's website already, so I assume NVidia has "released" it.
Maybe now is the time to ask this question again: Why do NVidia and Dell have different numbering systems for the drivers? NVidia uses a 3 digit prefix and Dell uses 2. Not sure how we tell which corresponds to which.
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Anonymous
2022-10-28T20:02:15+00:00 About an hour ago I re-enabled the graphics card (for the first time in close to two months) and installed this new driver. While the computer has not bluescreened once during that time it without the graphics card enabled, but as a result I've had to limit the multitasking and workload with photoshop/lightroom/premier pro. I'll report back after the weekend once I've tried to use it in some of the scenarios that would trigger the bluescreen in the past.
We really appreciate you checking in and updating us in this thread, Manuel. Cheers to Nvidia for being on this. Let's hope this does the trick.
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Anonymous
2022-10-28T18:34:13+00:00 Yep, I've installed that driver and will have my laptop running over the weekend. Typically my laptop will crash within a day or two, even without any use. But I use it for work every day, and it hasn't crashed since yesterday when I installed the driver. So we'll see.