Comment 33 for bug 321224

Doing a bit more digging on the nvidia forums I found a related posting about what is possibly a closely related issue with the 180.29 driver - complete screen-corruption and system lock-up requiring a forced hard reset.

It prompted to run an Open GL test with glxgears. Starting from a 'correct' screen, as soon as glxgears starts the screen image jumps to the right about 50 pixels and wraps around to the left edge.

Starting nvidia-settings doesn't fix it, but navigating to the GPU 0 > DFP - 0 page and changing the state of any of the GPU scaling options fixes it.

This is consistently reproduce-able.