Windows 10: Hard Reboot - Ran Driver Verifier & Need Help Understanding Offending Driver

Hello,


I've been experiencing hard reboots when my monitor changes back and forth from HDR - SDR and between refresh rates. I followed the process for tracking down a mis-behaving drive with driver verifier and could use help reading/understanding what's causing the issues.


First off, I noticed I was getting "BugCheck" errors in the System log after these hard reboots, an example below of one that occurred right before I setup driver verifier.


Log Name: System

Source: Microsoft-Windows-WER-SystemErrorReporting

Date: 4/17/2021 1:24:01 AM

Event ID: 1001

Task Category: None

Level: Error

Keywords: Classic

User: N/A

Computer: DESKTOP-J7S4R81

Description:

The computer has rebooted from a bugcheck. The bugcheck was: 0x000000d1 0xffffe70dd235a960, 0x0000000000000005, 0x0000000000000000, 0xfffff8036d7bbbc8. A dump was saved in: C:\Windows\MEMORY.DMP. Report Id: 74b2c573-9141-4adf-9775-3b5306a6cc3a.

Event Xml:

<Event xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/win/2004/08/events/event">

<System>

<Provider Name="Microsoft-Windows-WER-SystemErrorReporting" Guid="{ABCE23E7-DE45-4366-8631-84FA6C525952}" EventSourceName="BugCheck" />

<EventID Qualifiers="16384">1001</EventID>

<Version>0</Version>

<Level>2</Level>

<Task>0</Task>

<Opcode>0</Opcode>

<Keywords>0x80000000000000</Keywords>

<TimeCreated SystemTime="2021-04-17T05:24:01.2585914Z" />

<EventRecordID>135908</EventRecordID>

<Correlation />

<Execution ProcessID="0" ThreadID="0" />

<Channel>System</Channel>

<Computer>DESKTOP-J7S4R81</Computer>

<Security />

</System>

<EventData>

<Data Name="param1">0x000000d1 0xffffe70dd235a960, 0x0000000000000005, 0x0000000000000000, 0xfffff8036d7bbbc8</Data>

<Data Name="param2">C:\Windows\MEMORY.DMP</Data>

<Data Name="param3">74b2c573-9141-4adf-9775-3b5306a6cc3a</Data>

</EventData>

</Event>


I ran the driver verifier, changed my refresh rate a bunch and back and forth to HDR SDR, etc and got the machine to crash. Here's the bugcheck error log after I triggered the crash:


Log Name: System

Source: Microsoft-Windows-WER-SystemErrorReporting

Date: 4/17/2021 1:58:11 AM

Event ID: 1001

Task Category: None

Level: Error

Keywords: Classic

User: N/A

Computer: DESKTOP-J7S4R81

Description:

The computer has rebooted from a bugcheck. The bugcheck was: 0x000000c4 0x0000000000002000, 0xfffff80c38e42b0b, 0x0000000000000000, 0x0000000064726f4e. A dump was saved in: C:\Windows\MEMORY.DMP. Report Id: c50f524f-ed0e-4001-a822-e1a89cb61f1f.

Event Xml:

<Event xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/win/2004/08/events/event">

<System>

<Provider Name="Microsoft-Windows-WER-SystemErrorReporting" Guid="{ABCE23E7-DE45-4366-8631-84FA6C525952}" EventSourceName="BugCheck" />

<EventID Qualifiers="16384">1001</EventID>

<Version>0</Version>

<Level>2</Level>

<Task>0</Task>

<Opcode>0</Opcode>

<Keywords>0x80000000000000</Keywords>

<TimeCreated SystemTime="2021-04-17T05:58:11.9109161Z" />

<EventRecordID>135976</EventRecordID>

<Correlation />

<Execution ProcessID="0" ThreadID="0" />

<Channel>System</Channel>

<Computer>DESKTOP-J7S4R81</Computer>

<Security />

</System>

<EventData>

<Data Name="param1">0x000000c4 0x0000000000002000, 0xfffff80c38e42b0b, 0x0000000000000000, 0x0000000064726f4e</Data>

<Data Name="param2">C:\Windows\MEMORY.DMP</Data>

<Data Name="param3">c50f524f-ed0e-4001-a822-e1a89cb61f1f</Data>

</EventData>

</Event>


I then was stuck in a BSOD loop because of driver verifier. Rebooted to safe mode via Win10 USB media, did a system restore, and here I am.


Here are the minidump and memory dump files as well as error text RAR'd up on my OneDrive total size 25MB - Dump Files issue_2020.04.17.rar


Can someone take a look and help me understand the offending driver?


The issue may have been fixed by the system restore, but I want to be sure as I suspect my monitor is contributing to these issues.


Build info via Speccy

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Update

So the PC went down the same road, became unusable and I wiped it.

Clean install number 6. Clean install 5 was to test if Windows 7 was as unstable as the Windows 10 installs. It was - this made me think it may be a hardware problem or just a really poorly supported motherboard.

Clean install 6 - this time I am being methodical in my steps and testing every step of the way. PC specs are still the same other than a new stick of DDR4. What I have done so far:

• Bought/installed a new stick of DDR4 for testing.
• Followed Gerrys advice and installed latest BIOS, even though it is in beta it is listed as a stable release.
  
• Installed Windows 10
• Installed Chipset Drivers from Gigabyte website.
• Installed latest Ethernet drivers (20_7) from Intel website.
• I have made sure to not connect the PC to the internet and have left the ethernet cable unplugged.
• Ran Verifier, rebooted with no problems, not that I was expecting there to be any.
• Installed latest drivers from Nvidia
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• booted into safe mode, reset Verifier, rebooted.

So this is where I am at. A completely clean install, and what seems to be problems with Nvidia drivers.

Minidump link if someone could have a look. Minidump is 021216-2203-01

https://onedrive.live.com/redir?resid=3789DDEF7B6D41D2!15823

So I am not sure what this means. PC seems stable at the moment though there is hardly anything installed on it.

Does Verifier reporting a problem mean that there is one? What should I do from here?