Question Daily BSOD crashes caused by ntoskrnl.exe

CaptainWalter

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For about 3 weeks now I have been getting daily BSOD crashes, and at first I resorted to using WinDbg to try and diagnose what the problem is but it's just more confusing than readable so I switched to using BlueScreenView. It said that ntoskrnl.exe is what was crashing and causing all of my BSODs, but from what I understand is that there is something else with my system, either driver/hardware wise that is the root cause of the fatal crashes.

My minidumps: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1psgzDboJuKHpRXsna6RO3lWVqyOQuB4p?usp=sharing

I recently swapped from a PowerColor RX 5700 XT to an ASUS RTX 3060 12GB when this has been happening, but the issue from what I was able to tell was still the same before and after so I reckon to believe that there is something other than my GPU/it's drivers that is causing my crashes. I've also tried checking my RAM with Memtest86, and no errors came up after 4 hours and 3 passes.

My PC Specs:
Ryzen 3600x
Asus ROG STRIX B450-F Gaming Mobo
G.Skill Ripjaws V 32 GB DDR4-3200
ASUS Dual GeForce RTX 3060 OC Edition 12GB
Samsung 860 EVO 1 TB
Seagate Barracuda 2 TB
EVGA SuperNOVA 550 G3 550W PSU
Windows 10

I am pretty much at my wit's end, I can't play some of my games without it either consistently crashing or BSOD during gameplay, and I've been getting crashes in games that I've never crashed in my playing of them for a decade without any trouble, even on a <Mod Edit> HP all-in-one PC.

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I rather think you may have disturbed the RAM cards whilst installing the new graphics card. Of the five dumps, two point at nvlddmkm.sys (the Nvidia driver) but the other three suggest a hardware cause, and most likely RAM. I would pop the RAM cards out and then reseat them fully. See whether that helps.
 
I rather think you may have disturbed the RAM cards whilst installing the new graphics card. Of the five dumps, two point at nvlddmkm.sys (the Nvidia driver) but the other three suggest a hardware cause, and most likely RAM. I would pop the RAM cards out and then reseat them fully. See whether that helps.
I went ahead and did what you suggested, and I also swapped the stick's positions in the slots just to see if that would have any effect. When I was taking the two sticks out they didn't seem to be loose or anything but it definitely never hurts to just go ahead and reseat them. If in 24 hours I get another BSOD potentially pointing towards a hardware issue with my RAM I'll try using the A1 and B1 slots on my mobo instead.