Solved 2 BSOD's today, please help

Please help me, i got 2 BSOD this morning while just browsing the internet, can anyone please determine the cause for me from the dumps attached

Both crashes are inconclusive. You'll want to turn on Driver Verifier. In addition to not checking Low Resource Simulation, also do the same for Force Pending I/O Requests and IRP Logging. Have the rest of the options checked. Reboot immediately after you finish it all (by clicking the Finish button). If your system starts BSODing at startup, go into Safe Mode by mashing the F8 key at startup then disable Driver Verifier. Send us all resulting crashdumps.

I did find both your network drivers and your video drivers to be fairly up to date. There's the possibility that the new versions may have a bug or two involved but if they do Driver Verifier should catch it. Otherwise, we can venture to guess they're pretty safe.

thank you for your response, i started the verifier with all options checked except for those 3 you have listed and rebooted, no bluescreen occured upon boot up. Ill keep it on the rest of the day and let u know if anything happens, thanks again.

Glad to see you are getting help. I saw your other thread and was about to help you there. You are in good hands with Vir Gnarus.

Ok, i just got a blue screen at 6:40 am with Driver Verifier running. Here is the dump. Thanks

Blue screen Viewer says the driver that caused it was ntoskrnl.exe

There looks to be a bug with the Feb 29, 2012 version of the Nvidia drivers. If there is an update try doing so, otherwise try rolling back the driver.

Vir Gnarus said:

There looks to be a bug with the Feb 29, 2012 version of the Nvidia drivers. If there is an update try doing so, otherwise try rolling back the driver.

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It is their newest one. This driver has been giving me problems since I installed it, like flickering my screen then i would get a message from action center saying "Nvidia driver has recovered from an error" or something like that. I wasn't sure if it was the exact causes of the blue screens or not. Thanks for helping me i really appreciate it!

I installed their 2nd newest one, ill keep u posted if i get more BSOD's

sigh... another bsod. Driver verifier was off but ill post the dump anyways. I turned DV back on so any more in the future ill have with DV on.

Another BSOD again with Driver Verifier enabled. This time for driver "dxgkrnl.sys"

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The Feb 09, 2012 driver is performing the exact same problem that was present with the Feb 29, 2012 one. You probably need to keep rolling back or use one of the beta/RC drivers they have available and see if that fixes everything up.

another BSOD with DV on using NVIDIA driver 285 (3rd one from the newest release). I cant believe im 3 drivers back and still having the same problems

I'm finding it very suspicious too. This also doing the same thing, despite being from Oct 2011.

Have you been rolling back by simply installing the old driver over the new, using the rollback driver feature, or completely uninstalling and installing the older drivers? I'd prefer the last option.

If you wish, you can test your video card using MemtestCL. Run a few passes of it. Note that it does not cover all functionality of the graphics card, primarily just the VRAM and some of the GPU functions. But it's a good solid test.

You may also run a couple more hardware tests just to make sure we aren't suffering a problem with some other hardware here for whatever reason:

RAM: Memtest86+ - 7+ passes
CPU: Prime95 - Torture Test; Large FFTs; overnight (9+ hours)

Of course it also goes without saying, if the video card or anything is overclocked, you will wanna reset it to factory defaults for the time being.

To be honest, given how utterly consistent these crashes are that are reported by DV, I can't see why it would be anything other than the NVidia drivers bugging out. Maybe you have some software installed recently that's causing the bug to manifest in the NVidia drivers. I'm not sure. One can't really analyze this much without at least a kernel dump to work with, as minidumps are too small and retain very little info. I just can't tell without more information right now.

ive been uninstalling the driver, going into safe mode, running driver sweeper, rebooting, installing new driver.

That's definitely the best way at going at it. I recommend doing those aforementioned hardware tests, and if nothing shows up, just simply keep rolling back, perhaps by a good amount then if that driver works then start moving upwards with earlier drivers until you find the culprit.

Or, you can send us a kernel dump (MEMORY.DMP in your Windows directory). If the latest crash is from Driver Verifier, send us the resulting MEMORY.DMP file. You'll obviously have to compress it and upload to a filesharing site, since it is much too big here.

I cannot guarantee that my current debugging skills will be able to determine a definitive answer from the kernel dump, but it's definitely a lot better to work with than the minidumps.