Constant BSOD on Windows 10.

xreva

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Jul 24, 2012
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I've been getting BSOD at least three times a day for the past week. I've had Win10 for about two weeks now and weirdly enough I didn't have these issues for the first week. They seem to have started when I downloaded the latest NVIDIA driver (364.51) or it is otherwise a coincidence. I use a USB WiFi adapter that has no Win10 drivers so that could also be it; whenever I unplug it I get BSOD. It tells me security kernel something or other which indicates a driver problem, yes?

A lot of times I'm not doing anything to cause it. Sometimes opening a program can cause it, but I'm literally just sitting at my desktop a lot of the time and it will happen.

I really want to do a clean install of win10 but I took the free upgrade and I do not have a bootable flash drive or win10 discs. I have no idea how to reinstall windows 10 without having something like that.
 
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Ok go it. Now you mentioned that BSOD appeared after you install nvidia drivers, you could try removing it and using integrated graphics for testing, before doing so you could check your Nvidia gpu temperature. Also avoid using WiFi adapter or any other external device, except mouse and keyboard 😉. Now if BSOD will disappears, try to borrow another gpu and test again.

Here is a screenshot from Speccy:

https://i.imgur.com/L69RgpI.png


I used BlueScreenView and it also highlighted two files. ntoskrnl.exe and USBPORT.Sys the latter indicates it is most likely my WiFi adapter. Not sure about ntoskrnl.exe though. I have no idea how to look at minidump files or post them but I would like to find out how.
 
Ok go it. Now you mentioned that BSOD appeared after you install nvidia drivers, you could try removing it and using integrated graphics for testing, before doing so you could check your Nvidia gpu temperature. Also avoid using WiFi adapter or any other external device, except mouse and keyboard 😉. Now if BSOD will disappears, try to borrow another gpu and test again.
 
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