lostsoul, you're missing the point. this post ONLY applies to people who have the current drivers and are having crashing issues. the whole point is that the older drivers don't have those issues. i'm not stupid enough that i don't know there are new drivers. they gave me trouble, and i moved back to older ones because they were rumored to work better, and whaddya know, this solution worked for me. it may not help everyone, but this is just one more approach to solving what has been an extremely annoying problem for me, and probably for many others.
seph, it looks like i was mistaken, the proper driver version is 30.82. i can't direct link it, but go back to
www.guru3d.com and you'll find it in their nvidia drivers section.
i know the drivers are old, but i haven't had ANY crashes since i put them on my computer. once nvidia puts together a set of drivers that isn't buggy, i'll listen to everyone screaming "there are way newer drivers."