BSOD appearing during multiple game plays Windows7 (SFdebugFiles incl)

Cocksickle · 30 Jun 2014

Attachment 323737

Followed steps for BSOD posts. Happens usually when playing certain games, but not always. Sometimes it happens almost immediately, sometimes after a while.

Please help. I'm scared.

Thedoctor44 · 30 Jun 2014

This case looks driver related rather than a failing GPU.

Code:

BugCheck 116, {fffffa80113914e0, fffff8800fa71e2c, ffffffffc000009a, 4}

You're having 0x116 bugchecks which indicate an attempt to reset the display driver within the allocated time interval failed.
This is mostly caused by either the display driver not responding or the graphics card is locking up as its failing.
This case looks more like a bad driver as the third parameter (ffffffffc000009a) indicates there were insufficient resources to complete the API, this is normally caused by display drivers causing memory leakage.

Code:

7: kd> lm vm nvlddmkm
start             end                 module name
fffff880`0f0b6000 fffff880`0fd0e000   nvlddmkm T (no symbols)           
    Loaded symbol image file: nvlddmkm.sys
    Image path: \SystemRoot\system32\DRIVERS\nvlddmkm.sys
    Image name: nvlddmkm.sys
    Timestamp:        Tue Mar 04 11:07:52 2014 (5315B408)
    CheckSum:         00C20523
    ImageSize:        00C58000
    Translations:     0000.04b0 0000.04e4 0409.04b0 0409.04e4

I would roll back your driver version, the most stable version is 314.22, can you acquire that driver?
If not then try 320.xx and work your way upwards seeing if driver changes increase/decreases the frequency of the bugchecks.

Here's my analysis on what the situation looks like.

Code:

7: kd> u fffff8800fa71e2c L20
nvlddmkm+0x9bbe2c:
fffff880`0fa71e2c 803db68aeeff00  cmp     byte ptr [nvlddmkm+0x8a48e9 (fffff880`0f95a8e9)],0 <-- 
Looks like a compare instruction didn't meet the requirements.
fffff880`0fa71e33 741e            je      nvlddmkm+0x9bbe53 (fffff880`0fa71e53) <-- jump if equal
fffff880`0fa71e35 4885c9          test    rcx,rcx
fffff880`0fa71e38 7412            je      nvlddmkm+0x9bbe4c (fffff880`0fa71e4c)
fffff880`0fa71e3a 8179084144564e  cmp     dword ptr [rcx+8],4E564441h
fffff880`0fa71e41 7509            jne     nvlddmkm+0x9bbe4c (fffff880`0fa71e4c)
fffff880`0fa71e43 81790c52564534  cmp     dword ptr [rcx+0Ch],34455652h
fffff880`0fa71e4a 7407            je      nvlddmkm+0x9bbe53 (fffff880`0fa71e53)
fffff880`0fa71e4c 48ff256d8eeeff  jmp     qword ptr [nvlddmkm+0x8a4cc0 (fffff880`0f95acc0)]
fffff880`0fa71e53 48ff259e8beeff  jmp     qword ptr [nvlddmkm+0x8a49f8 (fffff880`0f95a9f8)]
fffff880`0fa71e5a cc              int     3
fffff880`0fa71e5b cc              int     3
fffff880`0fa71e5c 803d868aeeff00  cmp     byte ptr [nvlddmkm+0x8a48e9 (fffff880`0f95a8e9)],0
fffff880`0fa71e63 741e            je      nvlddmkm+0x9bbe83 (fffff880`0fa71e83)
fffff880`0fa71e65 4885c9          test    rcx,rcx
fffff880`0fa71e68 7412            je      nvlddmkm+0x9bbe7c (fffff880`0fa71e7c)
fffff880`0fa71e6a 8179084144564e  cmp     dword ptr [rcx+8],4E564441h
fffff880`0fa71e71 7509            jne     nvlddmkm+0x9bbe7c (fffff880`0fa71e7c)
fffff880`0fa71e73 81790c52564534  cmp     dword ptr [rcx+0Ch],34455652h
fffff880`0fa71e7a 7407            je      nvlddmkm+0x9bbe83 (fffff880`0fa71e83)
fffff880`0fa71e7c 48ff251d8eeeff  jmp     qword ptr [nvlddmkm+0x8a4ca0 (fffff880`0f95aca0)]
fffff880`0fa71e83 48ff254e8beeff  jmp     qword ptr [nvlddmkm+0x8a49d8 (fffff880`0f95a9d8)]
fffff880`0fa71e8a cc              int     3
fffff880`0fa71e8b cc              int     3
fffff880`0fa71e8c 803d568aeeff00  cmp     byte ptr [nvlddmkm+0x8a48e9 (fffff880`0f95a8e9)],0
fffff880`0fa71e93 741e            je      nvlddmkm+0x9bbeb3 (fffff880`0fa71eb3)
fffff880`0fa71e95 4885c9          test    rcx,rcx
fffff880`0fa71e98 7412            je      nvlddmkm+0x9bbeac (fffff880`0fa71eac)
fffff880`0fa71e9a 8179084144564e  cmp     dword ptr [rcx+8],4E564441h
fffff880`0fa71ea1 7509            jne     nvlddmkm+0x9bbeac (fffff880`0fa71eac)
fffff880`0fa71ea3 81790c52564534  cmp     dword ptr [rcx+0Ch],34455652h
fffff880`0fa71eaa 7407            je      nvlddmkm+0x9bbeb3 (fffff880`0fa71eb3)

Code:

7: kd> dq nvlddmkm+0x8a48e9
fffff880`0f95a8e9  ????????`???????? ????????`????????
fffff880`0f95a8f9  ????????`???????? ????????`????????
fffff880`0f95a909  ????????`???????? ????????`????????
fffff880`0f95a919  ????????`???????? ????????`????????
fffff880`0f95a929  ????????`???????? ????????`????????
fffff880`0f95a939  ????????`???????? ????????`????????
fffff880`0f95a949  ????????`???????? ????????`????????
fffff880`0f95a959  ????????`???????? ????????`????????

We can't do much more given all this isn't available to minidumps so Kernel memory dumps are needed.
All the information is either saved in a context switch or not recorded in the minidumps, probably the second reason.

Cocksickle · 30 Jun 2014

I tried going back to 314.22, but it still blue-screened. I then changed it to 320.xx but that also blue-screened. I'm not sure where to go from here.