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BSOD possibly from Nvidia nvlddmkm.sys Driver
Ok, it seems I posted this on the wrong forum originally, as I had to recreat my account there, but this site had no record of my posts on this issue. BSOD possibly from Nvidia Drivers | Windows 7 Forums
Anyway, I was playing Star Trek Online the other day, and suddenly my PC completely froze up. Mouse and keyboard would not respond either. I hit the reset button and when it tried to start up I got BSOD, mentioning nvlddmkm.sys. The computer will only start up in safe mode now. I tried running disk check, which took over 6 hours and found nothing, and I tried the Windows Memory Diagnostic tool, which made it to 21% and then made no further progress in over an hour. I have since run it to completion and it found no issues.
I also tried uninstalling my Nvidia drivers, but have had numerous issues with that, telling me certain ones cannot be uninstalled in safe mode, specifically the PhysX driver. I downloaded and tried to install latest driver for my card, a 560TI, but says that it cannot install in safe mode either.
I tried to run Speccy, and it cannot access all of the computer components either.....CPU-Z also encounters an error on start, and won't display my memory cards.
I ran MemTest from a disk for 5 passes, which took over 6 hours and no errors were listed.
I'm not sure what had caused all this, I have not updated my drivers in the last few weeks, since before the holidays, and not had an issue. The only thing new with this PC is the mouse. My Logitech G500 starting turning on and off repeatedly, in all USB ports. I tried a friends HP mouse and this issue stopped, so I doubt it was the USB ports. Last week I bought a new Logitech G502 Proteus Core and haven't had any issues with it so far.
After disabling the Graphics Cards Adapter Driver, as shown in the second attached picture, my computer is able to start up in normal mode. However, even after installing the latest drivers for my card, I get the BSOD again, because it re-enables the above driver....
Does this mean my video card is dying?
I should also note that I have run MalwareBytes and SuperAntispyware in safe mode multiple times, and neither have detected anything except tracking cookies. However, all of my System Restore Points are gone....which suggests it could have been triggered by a virus or malware, but I don't know for certain.
The link at the beginning of the post includes all information I provided before, including the last 5 mini memory dumps from 1/27/15. I have not updated them since then, because I am having the same issue....I'm not sure if they are needed or if they are included in the DM Log Collector zip file..... but the mini dumps appear to be too large for this forum....
Thank you in advance to anyone who offers advice.