Blue Screens

[GrandNoodleLite]

Hey everyone. I have been getting two different types of blue screens lately that seem to indicate two different problems. I think I have fixed one of them, but I still get the other type of blue screen almost daily.

 

1. I believe this one was fixed, but I still wanted to talk about it just in case. This blue screen I am 90% sure was caused by errors/corrupt files. I got it while I was downloading addons from the steam workshop for Garry's mod that I had subscribed to through the steam in game overlay. I was in game and just happened to have the Garry's Mod console open, so I saw a bunch of file errors. I don't know what they were because the console was being spammed with errors, then I got Blue Screen #1. I have a picture of that blue screen attached. I did what the blue screen told me to do and ran the "CHKDSK /F" command, restarted my computer, and let the command do it's thing. I have attached 3 more pictures of my screen while it was running this command. I don't know what it means of if it's helpful, but regardless i haven't seen this blue screen since. So I assume that's fixed.

 

Here are the pictures I just referenced:

 

2. This is the blue screen I get almost daily. I believe this one has something to do with my new gtx 980. I did not get this blue screen before I installed it, and now I get it almost daily. I don't know what's causing it. I opened my computer yesterday to make sure everything was plugged in. I didn't see anything wrong. The latch thing holding the graphics card into the motherboard was attached and holding in the graphics card, the screws near the video outputs were screwed in, the power adapters were plugged in nice and tight, and there weren't any wires or cords that could interfere with it. I'm also sure it's not a driver issue, because I uninstalled the drivers from my old graphics card, then installed the new drivers straight from the disk that came with my graphics card, then used the geforce experience to do a "Fresh Install" of the video drivers. I also just checked and they are all up to date. I also have EVGA Precision X 16 installed and I doubt the temperature is the cause. It idles around 32 degrees celsius and the fan is at it's default settings. I don't really know what the other stuff in Precision X is. All I know is that everything in Precision X is set to default settings. In fact, I'll just attach a screenshot of what I see in Precision x now. 

 

Here is a picture of this blue screen:

Here is the screenshot of a similar blue screen that I got earlier today that I assume is caused by the same problem:

Here is a picture of my gtx 980 in my computer:

 

Here are my specs: 

Processor: Intel® Core i7-3820 CPU @ 3.60GHz

Graphics Card: Superclocked Geforce GTX 980

Memory: 32.00 GB RAM (31.97 GB usable)

Sound Card: NVIDIA High Definition Audio

Windows Version: Microsoft Windows 7 Professional 64-bit

 

Here is a link to the gtx 980 I bought.

 

I am sick of these blue screens interrupting me and ruining my day! Help!

[007agentHP]

if you still have your product key, try reinstalling windows.

[Arphenyte]

Try clean installing windows, if that doesn't fix it, then it's clearly some component failing in your system.

[GrandNoodleLite]

if you still have your product key, try reinstalling windows.

 

 

Try clean installing windows, if that doesn't fix it, then it's clearly some component failing in your system.

I don't know where my product key is. I got this pc prebuilt from cyberpower over 2 years ago.

[007agentHP]

test it with your old gpu. if blue screens, then  its not the gpu. if it does not blue screen, try to update drivers. still blue screening, RMA the gtx 980.

[TheEpicMap]

I don't know where my product key is. I got this pc prebuilt from cyberpower over 2 years ago.

The product key should be on a sticker on the case you got from cyber power.

[GrandNoodleLite]

test it with your old gpu. if blue screens, then  its not the gpu. if it does not blue screen, try to update drivers. still blue screening, RMA the gtx 980.

 

I'll try reinstalling the drivers again before I switch them out and see if that works.

The product key should be on a sticker on the case you got from cyber power.

Ah yes. Now I see it. Hopefully I won't have to use it.

[GrandNoodleLite]

Try clean installing windows, if that doesn't fix it, then it's clearly some component failing in your system.

Is there a way to find out i a component is failing in my system without reinstalling windows?

[Arphenyte]

Is there a way to find out i a component is failing in my system without reinstalling windows?

You need an OS to run test on your components, so yeah you need windows. Also, since you mentioned corrupted files, the BSOD is most likely caused by them, reinstalling windows should be the easiest way to find out if it's the hardware, or the softwares fault.

[GrandNoodleLite]

Sorry to bump this (kind of) old thread, but I wanted to give it some time to make sure it had been fixed and I wanted to leave a reply in case someone else had this issue.. It turns out re-installing my graphics card drivers fixed the crashes. I had already re-installed the drivers once before to fix a different problem with stuttering in games, so I had my doubts that re installing the drivers would work. The only thing I did differently this time was that after I uninstalled the graphics card drivers, I deleted all of the Nvidia folders from "My Computer", the program files folder, and the program files X86 folder. Once those were deleted I installed the latest drivers (which I downloaded before I uninstalled my drivers) and everything seems to work just fine now. Thanks for the help everyone!