Random BSOD Kernel-Power 41 (63) bugcheckcode 126, 26, 278, 0, 59, 80

[Adam Wilkin]

Hello, i have been experiencing random restarts at the beginning of January. The 2 restart i remember the most at the beginning of the month was when Just Cause 3 was loading up and when i was updating Nvidia drivers. These did not come up with a BSOD. But after that the restarts have been much more frequent happening around once a day and now i have a BSOD, and i don't have an explanation for these resent problems. Looking up on the internet at first i thought my graphics card or PSU was the problem but i now think it might be a software issue with drivers or something.

I have linked a ZIP file with all the files you need!

Anyone could help i would really appreciate it. If you have any questions about anything please ask and i will try and explain as much as i can. Thank You!

 

[cluberti]

Note that if you're having issues with problems starting in January, the restarts are not producing bugchecks (the only dump files here are from June 2015 and December 2015). I did see you've been having power issues since June, though, although it was most frequently reported in December. I decided to look at the dump from December and found your video driver is from May of 2015 - given this is an nVidia chipset, there's bound to be a newer driver (the latest driver for the GTX 960 appears to have been released just 2 days ago):

2: kd> lmvm nvlddmkm
start             end                 module name
fffff880`05c8e000 fffff880`06751000   nvlddmkm T (no symbols)           
    Loaded symbol image file: nvlddmkm.sys
    Image path: nvlddmkm.sys
    Image name: nvlddmkm.sys
    Timestamp:        Wed May 27 19:49:51 2015 (5566824F)
    CheckSum:         00A7E4BD
    ImageSize:        00AC3000
    Translations:     0000.04b0 0000.04e4 0409.04b0 0409.04e4

 

[Adam Wilkin]

Yes in December i had bought a new graphics card and it was a faulty one, but i got a new one back that worked. That probably explains the problems in December. Also i have updated the nivida drivers, and 2 days ago when i did it crashed with no BSOD.

i dont know why windows is not creating dump files then, there is a screenshot of my cirtical errors

Maybe its a hardware thing, as it seems windows cant record what it it?

 

[cluberti]

If the system is set to crash, you can actually test it by using NotMyFault from sysinternals - if it bugchecks when using that tool (you would crash the system on purpose), then you can be certain that at least the BSOD works (and validate it creates a memory.dmp file after coming back up). If so, then yes, the unclean shutdowns would likely NOT be bugchecks. That would indeed indicate hardware issues instead.

 

[Adam Wilkin]

sorry for the late reply, i updated lots of programs and drivers and it seemed to work but its now just come back! i just tried that program and still not dump files were created. what do you suggest now?