Windows 10: Constant BSOD while gaming

Hi guys,

I have a pretty new laptop and have so far been unable to do any gaming on it as I get constant BSOD. I sometimes get 'display driver nvidia windows kernel xxx.xx has stopped responding' (which has happened no matter which nvidia driver I've had installed, currently on 362.00). It only happens when gaming and I have been trying every tip I've read online. I've put the computer on high performance, I've updated drivers, I've checked that seemingly every little thing that could be wrong with it and yet, here I am, unable to use the laptop for the one reason I bought it.

Any help would be very very appreciated.

I've attached the DM log file.

Thank you in advance.

:)

 

Constant BSOD's on Windows 10, when trying to play League of Legends game. errors, like "Bad Pool Header," "Faulty Hardware Corrupted Page," and "Attempted Write to ReadOnly Memory".

Everytime I try to play a game of League of Legends, I either blue screen loading in, during the game, or right before the game ends. I get a couple of random errors, like "Bad Pool Header," "Faulty Hardware Corrupted Page," and "Attempted Write to ReadOnly
Memory". I have an Nvidia Geforce GT 730 Graphics Card, and not only did I constantly try to fix if it was a driver issue, but I even clean installed new drivers twice and updated it. I still get constant BSOD's. :/

OP - Constant BSOD's on Windows 10

 

Constant BSODs under medium load while gaming.

Recently I've started having BSODs occur while running games, and more infrequently at random times when the PC is not really under any load. These have been consistently DPC_WATCHDOG_VIOLATION, IRQL_LESS_THAN_OR_EQUAL, BAD_OBJECT_HEADER, and a few other
less frequent stop codes. I'm now able to pretty consistently recreate the crash by running a game of Overwatch, usually with 3 games I'll BSOD with one of these stop codes.

I've tried a series of debugging methods so far:

1. Memtest86, found no errors, also did the RAM DIMM slot shuffle, again finding no issues...

2. Replaced the RAM anyway, No change.

3. Reinstalled Windows on a series of different physical hard drives and one SSD, no change.

4. Replaced the motherboard entierly (after my machine started throwing these same errors while trying to install windows from a bootable USB made with the media creation tool. No longer convinced the old Mobo was bad), allowed me to install and run windows
without immediate BSOD, but original problem not solved

5. Swapped out the GPU & updated GPU drivers, no effect

6. Swapped PSU, in case old psu went bad, no effect

7. Updated BIOS on both Mobos, no effect

8. Ran the Intel Processor Diagnostic Tool, CPU Passes, including load tests

9. Implemented the suggestions for googling "DPC_WATCHDOG_VIOLATION windows 10" [rolled SATA AHCI driver to default, disabled fast boot in bios/windows], no effect

10. Tried to some success to recreate the crash by just loading the CPU via CPU-z, while I did get it to BSOD once I haven't been able to repeat it.

11. Updated all the drivers available on my motherboards manufacturer page, no effect

12. Ran System Tests in Ubuntu finding no issues, though I'll admit these were not really comprehensive.

While the CPU does pass the Intel tool, I've not had a chance to replace it with a known working unit as I don't currently have access to one of the correct package for my motherboard.

Pretty much at the end of my wits here as far as what to do next...

System info:

Operating System: Windows 10 Pro 64-bit (10.0, Build 15063) (15063.rs2_release.170317-1834)

Language: English (Regional Setting: English)

System Manufacturer: MSI

System Model: MS-7A64

BIOS: 1.20

Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-6700K CPU @ 4.00GHz (8 CPUs), ~4.0GHz

Memory: 16384MB RAM

Available OS Memory: 16344MB RAM

Page File: 8034MB used, 11252MB available

Windows Dir: C:\Windows

DirectX Version: DirectX 12

Link to some of the latest crash dumps/minidumps:

CrashDumps.zip

And here is a CPU-Z report of my current system:

DESKTOP-PMEM6GD.txt

 

All 3 dumps indicate the nvidia chip (hardware) or driver. These are the indicated fail causes:

dxgmms2.sys
nvlddmkm.sys
ntkrnlmp.exe

You might try an older driver for your nvidia gtx 950m, like:

GeForce Windows 10 Driver WHQL 355.69

GeForce Windows 10 Driver WHQL 353.30

You may also need to contact the manufacturer and have them replace the laptop if it can't be fixed.

Did it come with Windows 10 or did you upgrade from 8.1? If upgrade, have you tried backing up your data and doing a clean install?

 

It came with windows 10. I've tried a few drivers already but I'll give those a try. Since it's never worked properly, I have a feeling that it is a hardware issue. But thank you for your reply.

 

Sounds like a good candidate to return to the seller and have it replaced to me, especially since it never worked right for you.