BSOD Issue

Tempura

Tempura

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Hello, new here. Decided to start my account with a bang and ask for help. :rolleyes:

Since a week or so back I have been having issues with BSOD and I believe it is GPU related, most likely driver related.

I have an 980 ti if that matters any and it was fine until a few days ago which makes me believe it's driver related since I've been swapping drivers 1-3 times and even more after hoping it was version specific but to no avail.

As it seems, I never get BSOD while using the computer, but it seems to happen when the computer monitor goes off after 15 or 30min of no activity. It doesn't happen right away but it happens when I actually turn off the monitor too but it only happen after quite a long while so usually if I keep my computer on and go to bed I wake up to it. I never actually get to see the blue screen but If I turn the monitor on and shake the mouse it will react after 10-15ish seconds and restart itself and tell me something along the lines of Windows having recovered from an unexpected shutdown.

BCCode: 3b


BlueScreenView tells me it's caused by nvlddmkm.sys+96960 (which is nvidia but the number differs everytime).

I have gone through the DDU ordeal plenty of times for this to be not related to remaining scraps from old drivers etc.


I don't have any reasonable recovery points in windows that are a better temporary option that completely reinstalling Windows.

I am going to reinstall Windows next week when rebuilding my computer in a new case with a new drive but that's out of the question for now.

Some people have had issues with power saving function which I did double check but it seems to be alright but I might've missed something since recreating the issue is through hibernation it seems.

Any of you guys have any ideas? :-)
 
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List all of your hardware.

If you've tried a few drivers, I'd swap the card out for another if you can, failing that. RAM or PSU.

Does it also do it on a fresh install of Windows?

Which OS are you using?
 
bledd. said:
List all of your hardware.

If you've tried a few drivers, I'd swap the card out for another if you can, failing that. RAM or PSU.

Does it also do it on a fresh install of Windows?

Which OS are you using?
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Well, it hasn't happened since the 13th funny enough but I am on Windows 7 Ultimate 64bit and as I said, I don't know about a fresh install, since I won't do that yet (I will within a week).


Asus x99 deluxe
5960x
980ti HoF edition 8 pack approved
4 sticks of 3200MHz G-Skill ram


I cannot really try with different hardware since I can't force it anymore (hasn't happened in 4 days).

I can add that the drivers I use since 3 days back are from August, the other 4-5 nvidia drivers I tried were from between now and 1 month back tops.

So let's say it was driver related - why doesn't my computer like 5 of the past 8-9 driver releases or so? Those 5 include WHQL, beta and developer releases.
 
3b often means your CPU isn't stable with the current settings (if you know what you are doing increasing vcore or LLC slightly can help).

(If you are running an OC with sleep/hibernation mode it might be that the voltage transition at some point is causing a problem).

EDIT: Regarding nvidia drivers - some people have had all sorts of issues with the recent 350 branch only really resolved with the very recent ones though personally I've not had any issues.
 
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bledd. said:
Hard drive?
PSU?

Are you overclocked?
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No overclock, only factory overclock on the gpu.


Corsair AX860 (non i version) for the PSU.


As for HDDs I have like 8 of them, but the boot drive is a 500GB Samsung 850 Pro SSD.


I can also add that it happened again tonight but with error code 50 this time.


Still caused by these 2:


ntoskrnl.exe ntoskrnl.exe+eec8b fffff800`03417000 fffff800`03a03000 0x005ec000 0x5625815c 2015-10-20 00:48:44 Microsoft® Windows® Operating System NT Kernel & System 6.1.7601.19045 (win7sp1_gdr.151019-1254) Microsoft Corporation C:\Windows\system32\ntoskrnl.exe


nvlddmkm.sys nvlddmkm.sys+1ac078 fffff880`06ef0000 fffff880`079cc000 0x00adc000 0x55dc6eed 2015-08-25 14:34:37 NVIDIA Windows Kernel Mode Driver, Version 355.82 NVIDIA Windows Kernel Mode Driver, Version 355.82 10.18.13.5582 NVIDIA Corporation C:\Windows\system32\drivers\nvlddmkm.sys


Once again, the biggest detail is that it happens when I'm sleeping but with computer on but with monitor turned off. Monitor turns off automatically after 20 minutes of no activity but quite frankly, I've been away for hours and it doesn't really happen - only in the middle of the night where I'm probably at least going to be away from the computer for 8+ hours.
 
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Sorry for not getting back to this but it has been a total mess.

My computer died completely one day and at some point I bought a new mobo and the cpu fried that and then I got a new mobo and a new cpu and things have been fine until now when I get the same 3b BSOD. I got new RAM too.

The only thing that is not new in my computer from the last time this issue happened is the GPU but I am playing games and everything and it never BSODs on my. It only happens when I turn off my monitor.

I have no clue what it is, but it happened now when I turned off the monitor and went to take a shower.

Heck, I even installed Windows again on a new drive.
 
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