Windows 10: Daily BSOD (DPC_WATCHDOG_VIOLATION): ntoskrnl.exe? nvstor.sys?

Glad to hear your system is more stable at least.

GeForce Experience updates only drivers of GeForce graphic card. Nvidia SATA drivers are related to Nforce motherboard chipset, so they shouldn't be updated using GeForce Experience. Nvidia gives no support/drivers to these old chipsets.

So you can use GeForce Experience to keep your graphics drivers up to date, but many people prefer to use older but stable drivers, for example v314.22 although they are not primarily designated for Windows 10. Of course, they lack support for the latest DirectX standard.

 

I still haven't received any BSODs (this is the longest I've gone since they began). So I believe we may have resolved the issue!

Thanks also for confirming that I could still use GeForce Experience to update my graphics drivers. I've since done that as well, with no issues. I think seeing "Nvidia" on each made me hesitate.

I'll leave this thread open a few more days, and if no BSODs occur, I'll mark this resolved. Thanks again to both axe0 and valihrach for all the help!

 

Still no BSODs! I think we have a winner!

I'll mark this thread as solved - thanks again for all of the help.

 

You're welcome; I had similar problems, unfortunately I had to buy AMD graphics card and replace that old Nvidia one to fully avoid crashes. It seems to be common problem: Nforce chipset + Geforce graphics in combination are fully stable in Windows 7 but not in Windows 10.

 

Hello iPaul,

I have exactly the same problem as you describe in this thread except that my computer is an HP, not a Dell. I will try changing the Nvidia driver to the Standard Dual PCI IDE Controller driver as you did and hopefully that will fix my problem as well. I'm wondering if this means my disk drives will be slower because an IDE driver would not use features of the SATA interface that make it faster than the IDE? Did you notice any degradation in performance of the drives?

Thanks!