MBPr Nvidia Drivers Crashing in Windows 7 (64-bit) False graphic switch?

Hey Guys
This is my first posting here because I simply don't know what to do anymore. Yesterday I was playing Borderlands 2 on my MBPr 2.3ghz version with every thing setting on high (Physx and AO turned off or low) and resolution of 1680x1050 and it runs at 60fps constantly.
Later on, I checked my desktop and saw a notification that my Nvidia Drivers has stopped working and after that all my 3D applications were slower. Borderlands 2 only ran at 20 frames now with the same settings and other games just didnt run so well anymore.
I have tried updating my Nvidia drivers and I also tried rolling back to an older driver but the results remain the same. The notification of the drivers crashing has vanished because I wanted to archieve the message but when I wanted to see my stored archieved messages it wasn't there.
My computer still shows that I do have an Nvidia Geforce 650m and according to other sources the Intel HD Graphics cannot be used in bootcamp but I have a strong feeling it did switch to it.

UPDATE: I fixed this issue by reseting the SMC! Hope this helps if anyone else had this issue!

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And you are assuming that the 460 will be supported of course which is not a given. The 570 and 670 seems to be okay and some use GTX 4xx but they also realized it can be iffy for support.

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Subsystem: nVidia Corporation Device 0334
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 16
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Memory at d0000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=256M]
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Mar 18 11:46:47 dev1 acpid: client 3458[0:201] has disconnected
Mar 18 11:46:47 dev1 acpid: client 3458[0:201] has disconnected
Mar 18 11:46:47 dev1 acpid: client 5140[0:201] has disconnected
Mar 18 11:46:47 dev1 acpid: client 5140[0:201] has disconnected
Mar 18 11:46:47 dev1 acpid: client 5140[0:201] has disconnected
Mar 18 11:46:47 dev1 acpid: client 7496[0:201] has disconnected
Mar 18 11:46:47 dev1 acpid: client 7553[0:201] has disconnected
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Last edited by randy80016 (2009-03-18 21:54:34)

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I have identified the Nvidia drivers as the problem, since if I start into Safe-Mode and remove them, Windows boots normally, but then attempts to reinstall the Nvidia GeForce 9600M GT drivers AGAIN which causes he same issue.
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MacBook (13-inch, Mid 2010) *
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MacBook Air (13-inch, Late 2008 & Mid 2009)
MacBook Air (11-inch & 13-inch, Late 2010) *
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MacBook Pro (15-inch, Late 2008) *
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Mac Pro (Mid 2006)
Mac Pro (Early 2008) *
Mac Pro (Early 2009)
Mac Pro (Early 2007)
Mac Pro (Mid 2010)
Mac Pro (15-inch and 17-inch, 2.2 & 2.4GHz)
Mac mini (Mid 2007)
Mac mini (Early 2009 & Late 2009)
Mac mini (Mid 2010) *
iMac (17-inch, Late 2006)
iMac (20-inch, Late 2006)
iMac (24-inch, Late 2006)
iMac (20-inch & 24-inch, Mid 2007)
iMac (20-inch & 24-inch, Early 2008)
iMac (20-inch, Early 2009 & Mid 2009)
iMac (21.5-inch & 27-inch, Late 2009) *
iMac (27-inch, Late 2009) *
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iMac (27-inch, Mid 2010)
iMac (21.5-inch, Mid 2011 & Late 2011)
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I upgraded to 8.1, everything went smoothly, installed the drivers from lenovo update and windows update. At random times, typically when I play flash content or use metro apps, explorer.exe crashes, windows try to restart it and it goes an infinite loop with flashing screen. I can stop it only by cold reboot, which leads to work loss.
The event viewer showed ntdll.dll related error in explorer.exe and iexplorer.exe, and after contacting microsoft support, they checked my dump files and we found that it was nvidia driver related problem specifically :
FAILURE_BUCKET_ID: NULL_CLASS_PTR_WRITE_c0000005_nvumdshimx.dll!Unknown.
I installed versions 320.92, 326.19, 327.23 and none of them work.
If I try to install the latest lenovo windows 8 version of the driver, i get black screen after the windows boot screen.
So I am in a situation that nvidia support tells me to contact lenovo, lenovo support told me that despite this windows 8.1 compatibility list http://support.lenovo.com/en_US/research/hints-or-tips/detail.page?DocID=HT079684 , they do not support windows 8.1, and I should contact Microsoft, and of course Microsoft tells me that they are not in charge of developing graphic drivers (true).
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Solved!
Go to Solution.

I could not reproduce this.
I started with T430 running Win8 and the supported Optimus drivers: http://support.lenovo.com/en_US/downloads/detail.page?DocID=DS032185
This package installs NV driver 9.18.13.1197 and Intel driver 9.17.10.2843
Then I upgrade to Win8.1, and everything continues to work.
I run Windows Update, and it installs new drivers for both NV and Intel graphics: NV driver 9.18.13.2702 and Intel driver 10.18.19.3316
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Hello everyone. I'm having an issue with my IdeaPad Y410P where the graphics drivers for the system's GT750M will randomly crash. A search turned up this thread but it was of no help. Some details:- Problem began this May.- Problem does not occur after a specific period of time. It may happen after 5 minutes of gaming or an hour.- Problem occurs regardless of driver version, or whether I'm using Nvidia drivers or official Lenovo drivers.- Problem occurred in two Windows 8.1 installations and still occurs in Windows 10.- Problem occurs regardless of GPU temperature - I have monitored the system using GPU-Z and have not found any trends.- Problem occurs regardless of game played.- System usually recovers but game remains totally frozen after crash. At this point I'm starting to suspect that the graphics card itself is at fault. Any suggestions on how to fix this would be much appreciated.

Uninstall the currently installed version and and install the 6.14.0.104 version using the download links provided here:
http://community.skype.com/t5/Windows-desktop-client/ASUS-USB2-0-Webcam-not-recognized-by-Skype-6-18...
Make sure to disable automatic updates:
Tools -> Options -> Advanced -> Automatic updates ->Turn off automatic updates

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