Windows 10: Consistent BSOD with intensive tasks

What happened

- While playing a video game the monitor suddenly only displayed a black screen (no video displayed, audio still playing, computer still running).

- Turned off (held power button down until it powered down)

- Tried to turn it back on. It beeped 6 times at POST and wouldn't turn on.

- Turned on without issue the following day.

- A small electrical-sounding 'beep' started coming from the tower irregularly. I stopped trying to run anything intensive when that happened.

- It works fine during light use - word processing, web browsing, videos, simple flash games, etc. Anything more intensive and it BSODs after a few minutes.



What I've tried

- Used troubleshooters in Windows Settings & in SupportAssist.

- Tried most recent drivers, and the drivers that were working fine until now.

Computer details

The computer isn't that old (April 2015), but the warranty has definitely expired. The minidump of the latest BSOD, and the MSinfo32 file are here: https://1drv.ms/f/s!AsYVdoEX6CsmkAhYYN6XlZsgiXMj


Overview of specs (nothing is over/under-clocked)
- OS: Windows 10 64 bit
- CPU: i7-5820k
- GPU: GTX 980
- RAM: 16gb
- Disk: 256gb SSD + 1TB HDD

Based on what I've read about the 6 beeps at POST and how it's failing only in graphically intensive tasks my guess is that the GPU is at fault. But if anyone can help diagnose what's going wrong and/or how to fix it I'd really appreciate it.

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BSOD due to DPC_Watchdog_Violation

I have done some of the steps suggested and it seems the BSOD goes away in general but it's still consistently triggered by one activity, downloading via qBitorrrent. It happens consistently, with the same error code, DPC watchdog violation

Here's my new MiniDump file: https://1drv.ms/u/s!ApwAH8v1MEWqiQ1StjgAah4muPyu

Are there any more clues as to why this specific application consistently trigger the BSOD? I've tried other similar application like uTorrent but it still triggers BSOD regardless of which application I use.

Thank you again for your help.

 

BSOD due to DPC_Watchdog_Violation

I have done some of the steps suggested and it seems the BSOD goes away in general but it's still consistently triggered by one activity, downloading via qBitorrrent. It happens consistently, with the same error code, DPC watchdog violation

Here's my new MiniDump file: https://1drv.ms/u/s!ApwAH8v1MEWqiQ1StjgAah4muPyu

Are there any more clues as to why this specific application consistently trigger the BSOD? I've tried other similar application like uTorrent but it still triggers BSOD regardless of which application I use.

Thank you again for your help.

 

BSOD Kernel Security Check Failure consistently caused by Photoshop...


Dear All,

Initially I felt very relieved that there is a quick solution to this problem. I have done all step by step according to your suggestion to switch the graphic processor. Nevertheless the BSOD continues to appear when I try to run Photoshop CC2015. *cry*cry*cry

I have extracted the required information from my system in the attached file. I would be very glad if somebody can assist with this. Thanks in advance