Constant BSOD's on my desktop after getting a new gpu

[Ghost Ptodigy]

Hello, so a few months ago my R9 280x stopped functioning for whatever reason after a year of use, so I went out to buy a new one. I installed it, and everything seemed the same until I've begun experiencing multiple BSOD's every week. This has never occurred before I switched my gpu. Here's my specs and the crash dump details. Any help would be greatly appreciated!

System Information (local)
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computer name: NICKS-PC
windows version: Windows 7 Service Pack 1, 6.1, build: 7601
windows dir: C:\Windows
Hardware: ASUSTeK COMPUTER INC., M5A97 R2.0
CPU: AuthenticAMD AMD FX(tm)-6300 Six-Core Processor AMD586, level: 21
6 logical processors, active mask: 63
RAM: 8482414592 total




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Crash Dump Analysis
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Crash dump directory: C:\Windows\Minidump

Crash dumps are enabled on your computer.

On Fri 7/17/2015 9:37:22 PM GMT your computer crashed
crash dump file: C:\Windows\Minidump\071715-80668-01.dmp
This was probably caused by the following module: fltmgr.sys (fltmgr+0x5039)
Bugcheck code: 0x1E (0xFFFFFFFFC0000005, 0xFFFFF880010FB039, 0x0, 0xFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF)
Error: KMODE_EXCEPTION_NOT_HANDLED
file path: C:\Windows\system32\drivers\fltmgr.sys
product: Microsoft® Windows® Operating System
company: Microsoft Corporation
description: Microsoft Filesystem Filter Manager
Bug check description: This indicates that a kernel-mode program generated an exception which the error handler did not catch.
This appears to be a typical software driver bug and is not likely to be caused by a hardware problem.
The crash took place in a standard Microsoft module. Your system configuration may be incorrect. Possibly this problem is caused by another driver on your system that cannot be identified at this time.



On Fri 7/17/2015 9:37:22 PM GMT your computer crashed
crash dump file: C:\Windows\memory.dmp
This was probably caused by the following module: bhdrvx64.sys (BHDrvx64+0xA8AA0)
Bugcheck code: 0x1E (0xFFFFFFFFC0000005, 0xFFFFF880010FB039, 0x0, 0xFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF)
Error: KMODE_EXCEPTION_NOT_HANDLED
file path: C:\Program Files (x86)\Norton 360\NortonData\22.5.0.124\Definitions\BASHDefs\20150706.001\BHDrvx64.sys
product: BASH
company: Symantec Corporation
description: BASH Driver
Bug check description: This indicates that a kernel-mode program generated an exception which the error handler did not catch.
This appears to be a typical software driver bug and is not likely to be caused by a hardware problem.
A third party driver was identified as the probable root cause of this system error. It is suggested you look for an update for the following driver: bhdrvx64.sys (BASH Driver, Symantec Corporation).
Google query: Symantec Corporation KMODE_EXCEPTION_NOT_HANDLED



On Sun 7/12/2015 7:53:53 PM GMT your computer crashed
crash dump file: C:\Windows\Minidump\071215-89965-01.dmp
This was probably caused by the following module: ntoskrnl.exe (nt+0x748C0)
Bugcheck code: 0xA (0x80, 0x2, 0x1, 0xFFFFF800032DC82F)
Error: IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL
file path: C:\Windows\system32\ntoskrnl.exe
product: Microsoft® Windows® Operating System
company: Microsoft Corporation
description: NT Kernel & System
Bug check description: This indicates that Microsoft Windows or a kernel-mode driver accessed paged memory at DISPATCH_LEVEL or above.
This appears to be a typical software driver bug and is not likely to be caused by a hardware problem.
The crash took place in the Windows kernel. Possibly this problem is caused by another driver that cannot be identified at this time.



On Sat 7/11/2015 1:53:39 AM GMT your computer crashed
crash dump file: C:\Windows\Minidump\071015-63508-01.dmp
This was probably caused by the following module: ironx64.sys (Ironx64+0x32418)
Bugcheck code: 0x1000007E (0xFFFFFFFFC0000005, 0xFFFFF880045DF418, 0xFFFFF8800317F588, 0xFFFFF8800317EDE0)
Error: SYSTEM_THREAD_EXCEPTION_NOT_HANDLED_M
file path: C:\Windows\system32\drivers\N360x64\1605000.07C\Ironx64.SYS
product: Iron
company: Symantec Corporation
description: Iron Driver
Bug check description: This indicates that a system thread generated an exception which the error handler did not catch.
This appears to be a typical software driver bug and is not likely to be caused by a hardware problem.
A third party driver was identified as the probable root cause of this system error. It is suggested you look for an update for the following driver: ironx64.sys (Iron Driver, Symantec Corporation).
Google query: Symantec Corporation SYSTEM_THREAD_EXCEPTION_NOT_HANDLED_M



On Thu 7/9/2015 2:21:10 PM GMT your computer crashed
crash dump file: C:\Windows\Minidump\070915-55333-01.dmp
This was probably caused by the following module: dxgmms1.sys (dxgmms1+0x196C)
Bugcheck code: 0x3B (0xC0000005, 0xFFFFF8801120196C, 0xFFFFF8800AAF4BD0, 0x0)
Error: SYSTEM_SERVICE_EXCEPTION
file path: C:\Windows\system32\drivers\dxgmms1.sys
product: Microsoft® Windows® Operating System
company: Microsoft Corporation
description: DirectX Graphics MMS
Bug check description: This indicates that an exception happened while executing a routine that transitions from non-privileged code to privileged code.
This appears to be a typical software driver bug and is not likely to be caused by a hardware problem.
The crash took place in a standard Microsoft module. Your system configuration may be incorrect. Possibly this problem is caused by another driver on your system that cannot be identified at this time.



On Sun 6/28/2015 3:32:32 AM GMT your computer crashed
crash dump file: C:\Windows\Minidump\062815-19858-01.dmp
This was probably caused by the following module: ntoskrnl.exe (nt+0x748C0)
Bugcheck code: 0x3B (0xC0000005, 0xFFFFF800032477BF, 0xFFFFF88008D66BB0, 0x0)
Error: SYSTEM_SERVICE_EXCEPTION
file path: C:\Windows\system32\ntoskrnl.exe
product: Microsoft® Windows® Operating System
company: Microsoft Corporation
description: NT Kernel & System
Bug check description: This indicates that an exception happened while executing a routine that transitions from non-privileged code to privileged code.
This appears to be a typical software driver bug and is not likely to be caused by a hardware problem.
The crash took place in the Windows kernel. Possibly this problem is caused by another driver that cannot be identified at this time.



On Sat 6/20/2015 7:40:24 PM GMT your computer crashed
crash dump file: C:\Windows\Minidump\062015-18985-01.dmp
This was probably caused by the following module: ntoskrnl.exe (nt+0x748C0)
Bugcheck code: 0x50 (0xFFFFF6C4CB0D6B40, 0x0, 0xFFFFF80003272F0B, 0x5)
Error: PAGE_FAULT_IN_NONPAGED_AREA
file path: C:\Windows\system32\ntoskrnl.exe
product: Microsoft® Windows® Operating System
company: Microsoft Corporation
description: NT Kernel & System
Bug check description: This indicates that invalid system memory has been referenced.
This appears to be a typical software driver bug and is not likely to be caused by a hardware problem.
The crash took place in the Windows kernel. Possibly this problem is caused by another driver that cannot be identified at this time.



On Fri 6/19/2015 4:26:18 PM GMT your computer crashed
crash dump file: C:\Windows\Minidump\061915-14695-01.dmp
This was probably caused by the following module: ntoskrnl.exe (nt+0x748C0)
Bugcheck code: 0x50 (0xFFFFF6A952000000, 0x0, 0xFFFFF80003275F0B, 0x5)
Error: PAGE_FAULT_IN_NONPAGED_AREA
file path: C:\Windows\system32\ntoskrnl.exe
product: Microsoft® Windows® Operating System
company: Microsoft Corporation
description: NT Kernel & System
Bug check description: This indicates that invalid system memory has been referenced.
This appears to be a typical software driver bug and is not likely to be caused by a hardware problem.
The crash took place in the Windows kernel. Possibly this problem is caused by another driver that cannot be identified at this time.



On Mon 6/1/2015 9:58:00 PM GMT your computer crashed
crash dump file: C:\Windows\Minidump\060115-13977-01.dmp
This was probably caused by the following module: ntoskrnl.exe (nt+0x748C0)
Bugcheck code: 0x50 (0xFFFFF707ECE7F048, 0x0, 0xFFFFF80003288233, 0x5)
Error: PAGE_FAULT_IN_NONPAGED_AREA
file path: C:\Windows\system32\ntoskrnl.exe
product: Microsoft® Windows® Operating System
company: Microsoft Corporation
description: NT Kernel & System
Bug check description: This indicates that invalid system memory has been referenced.
This appears to be a typical software driver bug and is not likely to be caused by a hardware problem.
The crash took place in the Windows kernel. Possibly this problem is caused by another driver that cannot be identified at this time.



On Mon 9/29/2014 9:57:08 PM GMT your computer crashed
crash dump file: C:\Windows\Minidump\092914-16426-01.dmp
This was probably caused by the following module: atikmdag.sys (atikmdag+0xC7DBB)
Bugcheck code: 0x1000007E (0xFFFFFFFFC0000005, 0xFFFFF88011151DBB, 0xFFFFF880053FB228, 0xFFFFF880053FAA80)
Error: SYSTEM_THREAD_EXCEPTION_NOT_HANDLED_M
file path: C:\Windows\system32\drivers\atikmdag.sys
product: ATI Radeon Family
company: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
description: ATI Radeon Kernel Mode Driver
Bug check description: This indicates that a system thread generated an exception which the error handler did not catch.
This appears to be a typical software driver bug and is not likely to be caused by a hardware problem.
A third party driver was identified as the probable root cause of this system error. It is suggested you look for an update for the following driver: atikmdag.sys (ATI Radeon Kernel Mode Driver, Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.).
Google query: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. SYSTEM_THREAD_EXCEPTION_NOT_HANDLED_M

 

[Ghost Ptodigy]

Bump

 

[johnbl]

your bugcheck codes have suberrors of 0xFFFFFFFFC0000005
or 0xC0000005. This tends to indicated memory corruption.

The memory corruption can be caused by hardware (bad BIOS memory settings), overclocking in BIOS or by overclocking software, bad drivers, and sometimes malware hacking your system.

I would start with updating your BIOS then run memtest86 to confirm your hardware works as expected.
(you can also reset your BIOS to defaults if it is already current)

if memtest86 works as expected, then boot windows, remove any overclocking driver and run cmd.exe as an admin then run
sfc.exe /scannow
to check for corrupted windows core files.

if you find corruption confirm it was repaired, then look for the cause of the corruption. IE run malwarebytes scan.

if you can not find a cause then look to old device drivers as a potential cause: update drivers for from your motherboard vendors website. focus on updating the ethernet driver. if you use a USB ethernet device, update the USB drivers for your motherboard and the CPU chipset drivers for your motherboard as well as the driver for the USB device itself.

some of the bugchecks were in a security filter driver (reason to update the ethernet driver)
these problems can only be debugged using a kernel memory dump rather than a mini dump.
so if all else fails, change your memory dump type to kernel, then start cmd.exe as an admin and run
verifier.exe /standard /all
and reboot your machine and wait for the next memory dump. it will be in c:\windows\memory.dmp and will be much larger than the minidumps. Then try whocrashed.exe or bluescreenviewer.exe and see if it names the driver that caused the problem. Otherwise you should put your memory dumps on a server and post a link so someone could look at them with a windows debugger to see what the likely cause of the failure is.

 

[Ghost Ptodigy]

So I've ran the memtest, and passed it with no errors. I haven't done the bios updates yet, because I'm a bit confused. There's over 5 new updates, so do I just flash the latest one, or all of them?

 

[johnbl]

you should get the latest one. no need to flash them in order (unless it is in the instructions, like for some solid state drive firmware updates)

So I've ran the memtest, and passed it with no errors. I haven't done the bios updates yet, because I'm a bit confused. There's over 5 new updates, so do I just flash the latest one, or all of them?

 

[Ghost Ptodigy]

Alright, so regarding the scan command..I ran it, and apparently there are some corrupted files but they cannot be repaired. I've ran it 3 times just in case

 

[Ghost Ptodigy]

Still having the bsods

 

[johnbl]

on windows 7 if sfc.exe /scannow fails to repair your files, you have to look at the log file and figure out why it did not repair the files. It means both the primary and hidden backup copies of the files have been modified. (common with malware problems, and hacked versions of the OS) In this case you have to do a repair using the windows 7 CD.

windows 8 has
dism.exe /online /cleanup-image /restorehealth
to get a clean copy from a known good source on the internet.

 

[Ghost Ptodigy]

Just updated to windows 10, hopefully it'll fix all of these issues. Thanks again!