Windows 10: BSOD nvlddmmkm.sys

Hi!

I'm getting this Nvlddmkm.sys BSOD for past few days. I have attempted to remove NVIDIA driver and reinstall, but it has not helped. I have ran RAM test. There were no errors. I also ran Furmark test (default settings). The temperature reached quite high (~85 C) and I aborted the test. This is when BSOD came up. I have been having strange issues because of this. It took me several tries and fiddling to repair windows 10 and after running furmark test, I got BSOD again. The laptop would freeze when I remove the battery charging adapter. This is happening lately. I upgraded to Windows 10 from Windows 10 earlier when it was released and didn't have any issue. I wonder whether this is software related, or a hardware is failing?

My Laptop is Thinkpad T530.

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Driver Verifier BSOD diagnosis opinions?

Thank you very much for looking at this.

I followed the directions for uninstalling the drivers, and attempted to install new ones that I

downloaded from my motherboard maker, ASUS. Unfortunately, they don't provide audio drivers for anything past Win 7 64 bit, but even though I'm running Win 10, I tried them. The computer would still crash when I ran driver verifier at startup and I had
to use a restore point.

When I checked which drivers were installed, however, it seemed to still be reverting to the original ones that initially caused the problem. So, I did some research on my own and used the Windows Show or Hide Updates program to make sure VIA wasn't auto-updating,
but the issues persisted. So, as a last resort, I simply went to device manager and updated the audio drivers to Win 10 provided by Microsoft, but I'm still getting the driver verifier crash before the system starts. My computer is presently in this state.
As long as I don't use driver verifier, it doesn't crash at startup, but I bet it will after normal sustained use.

The new dump files are here from the trials above. I'm curious if they're all still pointing to the audio driver, and if so/not,
what other steps you might recommend?

 

Driver Verifier BSOD diagnosis opinions?

I used the link provided and selected the option that says the BSOD occurred while using my PC. The link suggests checking for updates and disconnecting hardware. My software is already up to date, and rather than disconnecting random hardware, I was under
the impression from that by uploading the dump files from the Driver Verifier program that from

this post, there might be some clues as to what specific driver is causing the crashes. Is that possible to determine?

 

please help!
Any input appreciated!

 

Hi bluehawk1,

If you can boot into Windows, please read How to upload files and upload the zip from the posting instructions *Smile

Please fill in your system specsPlease follow this tutorial and download the tool. The tool will give you detailed information about your system specs, please fill in your system specs more completely including stuff you use for your laptop.How to fill in your system specs:

 

Hi Axe0,

Thanks a lot for replying.
I attached the zip folder, but deleted later on since it included some personal things like product keys.
I have deleted that genuine file and uploaded the zip folder again.

 

Try not to run furmark if not adviced. Furmark is known to fry a lot of GPUs (including the healthy one)

 

Only if you don't watch the temps *Wink
Furmark is completely safe as long as one keeps a keen eye on the temps and aborts the test when the temps reach too high.

 

Please do not delete/edit anything in the zip and upload a new zip without any edits/removals.
There is nothing personal in the files.
From the product key only the last few digits are present which is generic meaning you see it on every Windows installation with the same version.

 

Hi Axe, here's the untouched zip folder. Thanks for assurance.
I haven't seen seen BSOD for last two days. I am not using google chrome browser anymore.

 

Got one more BSOD. I had Nvidia start up items disabled and it seemed fine. I enabled the start up items back to try to find the cause and I got BSOD. I am attaching latest dump data.

 

Please uninstall everything of Nvidia graphics using Display Driver Uninstaller and install new drivers from your manufacturer Lenovo. Be sure the clean install box is checked and only install the Graphics driver and the PhysX driver.
Attachment 53411
Code: *** WARNING: Unable to verify timestamp for nvlddmkm.sys *** ERROR: Module load completed but symbols could not be loaded for nvlddmkm.sys 0: kd> lmvm nvlddmkm start end module name fffff800`a4ce0000 fffff800`a57c8000 nvlddmkm T (no symbols) Loaded symbol image file: nvlddmkm.sys Image path: \SystemRoot\system32\DRIVERS\nvlddmkm.sys Image name: nvlddmkm.sys Timestamp: Thu Jul 23 02:15:19 2015 (55B03217) CheckSum: 00AAF49B ImageSize: 00AE8000 Translations: 0000.04b0 0000.04e4 0409.04b0 0409.04e4[/quote]

 

Done!
Used that tool to remove all Nvidia drivers and software and re-installed the drivers from Lenovo T530 support page.
I installed 64 bit Nvidia drivers opted out from HD Audio, 3d vision, and nview package. Just installed display drivers.

Edit: Looks like a new update gets installed after installing Nvidia graphics driver from installation file. I think Windows update keeps forcing this update.

 

Bump!

Edit: I put my wireless connection in metered and it stopped downloading updates, which seems to have done the trick. The frequency of BSOD has reduced, but I still get them.

 

Bumping is against the rules!

If you get bluescreens, why don't you upload a new zip as you previously did?