Windows 10: Why is my game bluescreening after 20-30 minutes?

Hey, this has happened to me many times before but now its a different error. This time i tried playing Paladins on Steam. The last time i played Paladins was on, if i'm not mistaken, the Epic Games Launcher. That crashed as well. This is the new error i'm getting: "If you call a suupport person, give them this info: Stop code: IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL What failed: ntoskrnl.exe"This is the 4th game this has happened. I submitted this error another time and it looked like this: "Hey, whenever i try to play VRChat my game will bluescreen after around 20-30 minutes. I've never experienced issues l

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BSOD 20 to 30 minutes after startup

Hello, all, my computer, an Alienware Area-51 v2, started having Intermittent BSOD in August. It was usually once or twice a week and at the time I wasn’t in a position to take time to diagnose what was causing them, so I stupidly just let them go and worked around them. Then this past Friday the BSOD went from being Intermittent to happening consistently about 20-30 minutes after starting the computer. Every bluescreen has said: Stop code: REFERENCE_BY_POINTER I’ve gone through a lot of suggested tests to try and figure out what the cause is and while I think I have narrowed it down to Nvidia Drivers, I have not been able to get anywhere past that. The memory dump files show ntoskrnl.exe as the cause, not seeing anything else, but also not sure what to look for. Here is my V2 log: Microsoft OneDrive - Access files anywhere. Create docs with free Office Online. So here is what has been done so far. My apologies that this long, just trying to be thorough. After the bluescreens started happening consistently about 20-25 minutes after starting the computer, I went into safe mode and that did stop the bluescreens from happening. Then I disconnected every USB device from my computer with the exception of mouse and keyboard and went though each to see if it stopped the bluescreens. They did not did not. Uninstalled Virus software Bitdefender. still bluescreens Ran SFC, DISM, Chkdsk and smart tools on the boot drive. SFC did say it was doing some repairs but the rest said everything was fine and did not stop the bluescreens. Ran Memtest 86 overnight until finished and no errors. Tried to do an In Place Repair Upgrade to see if that would fix anything, but bluescreened before it could finish. Set up Driver Verifier to run, but after restart, it would hang on the Alienware splash-screen before login. Had to force recovery and boot into safe mode and then turn off Driver Verfier. Memory dumps were not created for that. Tried again and still had the same issue. Completely removed Logitech Gaming Software, did not stop bluescreen. Went through and deleted a bunch of old drivers and used Display Driver Uninstaller to remove Nvidia Drivers. This stopped the bluescreens. The Graphics card is a GTX980-Ti I then ran the In Place Upgrade for Windows 10 which succeeded this time. Then I installed the newest Nvidia software, 496.13. Restarted and 20 min later bluescreens again. Used DDU to completely uninstall Nvidia again and then installed older version Nvidia software 466.47. Restarted and 20 min later bluescreens again. Used DDU to completely uninstall Nvidia again and then installed even older version Nvidia software 442.74 Restarted and 20 min later bluescreen. I’m sure I missed something and I’m not sure what else to do at this point. Im about at my wits end. I’m trying to avoid a clean install as it will take me forever to get back to the way it was. But will if I need too. The only time I can stop the bluescreens is when I uninstall all the Nvidia drivers. Could it be the Nvidia card itself? Is there some way I can test the card to see if it’s faulty? I use this computer for work as well and I need to get it working soon. Thanks in advance for the help!

 

Clock always 20 minutes fast if set on automatic

There's at least 3 places on this list that have 30 minute offsets but that doesn't explain 20 minutes:
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OS update caused Windows-10 to lock up after 20-30 minutes

An OS update from about a week or two ago caused headphone audio out to go dead (even though the control panel does see the signal) AND Windows-10 locks up after 20-30 minutes, regardless of activity. Need suggestions for resolving these issues.