BSOD or 2 a day

[fishy]

Hello peeps

I'm having some serious issues with BSODs.

I have had none a while ago, about 2 weeks

Last thing i changed in my PC was adding 2 more sticks of RAM in there (same model, same capacity, same speed as the old one)

But BSODs didn't start right away, after changing RAM, so that's what confuses me.

Also tested the RAM with windows built in memory tester and memtest86, none of the 2 showed any errors.

Also did disk check on all of my SSDs and HDD, all good.

Did scan everything with malwarebytes and AV, both found nothing

 

The one thing that's most suspicious to me is GPU.

BSODs range from irql_not_less_or_equal, driver_verifier_detected_violation, kernel_security_check_failure, maybe some more, these i remember from the top of my head.

I did check the minidump file and it showed up the nvlddmkm.sys several times as the culprit.

So far, I uninstalled the graphics drivers, reverted back to old driver, switched GPU between normal and LN2 mode but it always BSODs on me usually at least once a day, today twice so far.

 

I had win 7 and upgraded to 8.1 recently, since I was having these problems even when on win 7, I thought that new, fresh install would fix it, but it didn't.

 

My biggest fear is, that it's something to do with GPU hardware, is that possible?

Also open to suggestions to fix this

Thanks

 

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[xnoobftw]

Could it be due to overheating?

[fishy]

Could it be due to overheating?

No, it happens when idle, browsing web, playing games, happens really randomly

[zanthros]

The mini-dump says it all. Since you have tried a fresh install and 2 different versions of the OS and revert / update the driver for the graphics I would tend to lean to the graphics card going on you. Verify by changing the card.

[fishy]

The mini-dump says it all. Since you have tried a fresh install and 2 different versions of the OS and revert / update the driver for the graphics I would tend to lean to the graphics card going on you. Verify by changing the card.

well, i don't have a couple of spare gpus lying around

but wouldn't it show in other things if it was h/w gpu?

like artifacting and freezing and so on?

i have none of those problems and no fps drops or anything, "only" BSOD

 

will try the nvidia guide as well, see how it goes, i really hope it's not h/w