new cpu BSOD, error 0xA, 0x50, 0xD1

ICIT2LOL said:

you could follow Golden's suggestion too an stress test that CPU.

yeah, i did, everything went fine during a 5 minute stress for both the cpu and gpu (tested one at once, then both)
also thanks for the link, i'm gonna reinstall the os again to see if it stops the bsods.
and just as a funny story i guess, yesterday i played a game for like 5 hours straight, temperature was fine, but at some point i restarted it, and i got an error, which i found weir because from the little google research i did, it's supposedly because of low paging file size, which shouldn't be possible, since i have 3 gbs file size.anyway, here's the funny part: about 10 minutes after i closed the game i went to youtube and 2 minutes into the first video i watched i got another 0x101.
i'm planning on trying to trying to get the error again, and if i do i might just reinstall my os again, or maybe try win10

OK mate I suggest to do what I always do is to clean the drive before you reinstall do that on another machine using DISKPART that way I am sure nothing is left over form the previous system install
Disk - Clean and Clean All with Diskpart Command

Now the last dump showed up inconclusive and a Google on that came up with no answers so I am wondering now if there may be a problem with the hard drive - just how old is it?

Ok personally I would go for a new one and depending on the budget - an SSD or hybrid or straight spinner but that would have to be a 7200rpm model.

Most of those options are reasonably priced now the spinners of course are the cheapest but if you like performance the others would be the go the SSD way ahead of the other two types.

I like Seagate myself for spinners (if I ever have to buy one) and also the hybrid and Samsung for the SSD the 850 EVO being good value.

Well mate there are a couple of tests that I suggest you can try to see if the drive is ok or not
SeaTools for Windows |
Seagate

and this Best Free Partition Manager for Windows | MiniTool Partition Free this one will check the actual surface of the platters and in part the read/write heads on the actuating arms plus any problems that these arms are themselves are not functioning . It will not say exactly what it is except that it is positive about the surfaces see pic

But run the Seatools first.

If these come back clear then we can rule out the drive pretty well.

Hello mate the errors you have are to do with vmsoftware vstor2.sys
VMware Virtual Storage Volume Driver
ntosext.sys could be anything and is nearly always listed to do with a Windows update.

nvlddmkm.sys is the NVIdia driver issue
Now the NVidia driver is a fixable the VM software I am not sure about will have to research it and the update one as I said can be due to one of he other two or something else again