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Multiple different BSoDs
For quite a while now I've been getting unpredictable BSoDs and freezes. Sometimes my PC would be fine for weeks/months at a time and suddenly I'll get heaps within a day or two.
They seem to happen at all sorts of times:
- When the PC is idle
- When watching a video with VLC player
- During the startup of Windows (sometimes I wouldn't even get a BSoD and the PC would just try restarting again)
- In Google Chrome
- In CoD4
- In GW2
Only some of the most recent .dmp files are in the attached zip folder, if Windows has created others I wouldn't know where they are. My system specs are on my profile.
Some of the BSoD STOP codes I've come across (over many months, generally in order from oldest to most recent) include:
- 0A ("IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL")
- 50 ("PAGE_FAULT_IN_NONPAGED_AREA")
- C9 ("HIDCLASS.SYS")
- 10E (The video memory manager has encountered an unexpected fatal error.)
- 3B ("SYSTEM_SERVICE_EXCEPTION") (More than once, but with varying codes in the brackets. One of the 3B BSoDs also showed "aswSnx.sys")
- 7E ("dxgkrnl.sys")
- 7E ("dxgmms1.sys")
- 7E (no other info besides the codes in the brackets)
- 1E (More than once, but with varying codes in the brackets. Immediately before one of these 1E BSoDs, I caught a glimpse of Google Chrome failing to load a webpage ("Aw snap! Something went wrong..." or whatever it says)
- 7E ("nvlddmkm.sys")
Things I've tried:
- Reinstalling NVIDIA drivers (both the normal way as well as a 'clean' install)
- Cleaning PC (including inside the CPU and graphics card)
- Checking that the C Drive has 15+% of free space on it
- Running Memtest86 (I reached pass 9 with 0 errors)
- Driver Verifier (Windows couldn't even boot so I had to disable it via safe mode.
- Full system scan with Avast (0 detections but several things that it couldn't scan, which according to Google is probably just related to Avast)
- sfc /scannow (could not repair the files "utc.app.json" + "telemetry.ASM-WindowsDefault.json"...these seem to be old buggy files in an old Windows update that has long since been addressed?)
- Checked hard drives for errors, having checked both checkboxes (no problems on any of my 4 hard drives)
- WhoCrashed (repeatedly said that a driver was likely responsible)
As an impatient noob/intermediate user I'm scared to mess around with the registry and BIOS.
I appreciate any help!