ntoskrnl.exe BSOD

[essenbe]

What kind of airflow do you have? I have a 670 OC, and I've overclocked it and benchmarked it a lot and it's never seen 65C. They shouldn't run that hot. Also, which card do you have?

 

[moieu]

Just a regular computer case. Basic cord management. Aftermarket fan on cpu and 1 case fan.

 

[essenbe]

If you can, add some more intake fans. Just to test it, take the side off and blow a house fan into the case. See if that helps.

 

[moieu]

I can try the house fan tomorrow. I have to do course work tonight.

 

[essenbe]

Ok, no problem. Just let us know.

 

[moieu]

What would be good setups for my fan speed in MSI afterburner?

 

[essenbe]

Here is what I am using now.

View attachment 340718

 

[moieu]

Alright I set it up. I've noticed crashes in games and fps drops but my temperatures have been fine. I don't know what to do at the moment.

 

[essenbe]

With Graphics cards, if it isn't temps or drivers, it comes down to the card itself, your motherboard or the power supply. That is pretty much all that is involved. I would suggest to see if you have a friend with a similar card who will swap cards with you for a few days to see. If his card does the same in your computer but your card runs fine in his, you know it is not the card. You can borrow a good working PSU and try that.

At this point it is the process of elimination. According to Anandtech (AnandTech | The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 Review: GK106 Fills Out The Kepler Family ) your card can pull as much as 287 Watts. Your PSU is of questionable quality and depending on which model you have can put out around a max of 450 Watts on the +12V rail(s), that leaves little for the rest of your components and very few PSU's can sustain max output. Failing either one of those, it is the motherboard.

I would start by turning down my in game settings to see if that helps. Then proceed to the other things mentioned above. Just let me know how you progress. I wouldn't go buy anything unless I found out what was causing your problems.

 

[moieu]

Got another BSOD, this time it wasn't a ntoskrnl.exe though, so maybe it will help? Also I've been playing games without crashes and stuff lately, this BSOD was random.

 

[essenbe]

It really doesn't tell me much

PAGE_FAULT_IN_NONPAGED_AREA (50)
Invalid system memory was referenced.  This cannot be protected by try-except,
it must be protected by a Probe.  Typically the address is just plain bad or it
is pointing at freed memory.
Arguments:
Arg1: fffff90080bea3d0, memory referenced.
Arg2: 0000000000000001, value 0 = read operation, 1 = write operation.
Arg3: fffff960000b66cf, If non-zero, the instruction address which referenced the bad memory
 address.
Arg4: 0000000000000002, (reserved)

 

[moieu]

Damn

 

[moieu]

So I opened my case and stuck a portable fan by it and I'm getting pretty good temps. I also set up MSI afterburner to run just like your's is. I ran FurMark for 16 minutes and only got up to 77C, compared to the 98C I was getting before after running for 7 minutes. Also I got another BSOD (this was before I opened up my case). This time it was dxgkrnl.sys. I'm attaching the dm log collector zip, just in case it has anything useful for you.

 

[essenbe]

nvlddmkm
start             end                 module name
fffff880`1303f000 fffff880`13d1f000   nvlddmkm T (no symbols)           
    Loaded symbol image file: nvlddmkm.sys
    Image path: \SystemRoot\system32\DRIVERS\nvlddmkm.sys
    Image name: nvlddmkm.sys
    Timestamp:        Wed Nov 12 14:51:31 2014 (5463C853)
    CheckSum:         00CA4D59
    ImageSize:        00CE0000
    Translations:     0000.04b0 0000.04e4 0409.04b0 0409.04e4

 

[moieu]

Nvidia drivers?

 

[essenbe]

Yes,
http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/327414-nvidia-drivers-avoid-problems.html

Then

   Warning

Be sure to create a System Restore point before proceeding further http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/697-system-restore-point-create.html

Driver Verifier - Enable and Disable
Run Driver Verifier for 24 hours or the occurrence of the next crash, whichever is earlier.

   Information

What is Driver Verifier:
It puts stress on the drivers, and tries to make the faulty driver crash the computer. It is designed this way, to attempt to trap the offending driver.

What you will notice:
It will tend to make the computer rather slow and sluggish because the drivers are being stressed.

   Warning

Before enabling DV, make sure you have created a system restore point before enabling Driver Verifier. make a System Restore Point manually before enabling DV.

   Tip

• If you fail to get on the Desktop because of DV, Boot into Advanced Boot Options > Safe mode. Disable DV there. Now boot normally again, and try following the instruction of enabling DV again.
• If you cannot boot in Safe mode, do a System Restore to a point you made earlier.

Let us know the results, with the subsequent crash dumps, if any.

 

[moieu]

I've noticed that the NVIDIA folder in my C: drive disappears. The first time you linked that a while ago I had no folder there, and then after reinstalling it was there. Now I'm trying to delete the NVIDIA drivers again and it's not there anymore.

 

[essenbe]

It should not disappear, unless you deleted the whole folder. It is the folder that holds your graphics drivers. It can't disappear.

 

[moieu]

I still have the driver installed, but look, no folder.

There was a NVIDIA folder here yesterday.

 

[Layback Bear]

Look in program files.