I recently built my first gaming PC. Everything went well, the system posted properly and started running fine for a few days. About 2 days after I built it I began getting a multitude of BSOD, mainly memory management, I ran memtest86 and windows memory diagnostic, lone and behold my RAM was faulty, I bought a new pair and put em in, the system began running fine. A few days of light use later I began to play my first GPU and CPU intensive game Arma 3, within 7 to 10 minutes the frame rate dropped to 1 and this terrible audio distortion occurred unlike anything I have ever heard before. My system froze and with 10 secs I received a BSOD caused by DPC Watchdog Violation. I looked through numerous forums telling me to update my SSD firmware, I used Samsung Magican to check my SSD firmware, it was up to date, I proceed to try gaming again on a game called Verdun, same issue, I tried Rainbow Six Siege, every time I respawned my frame rate dropped and would eventually freeze and the inevitable DPC Violation. Finally after digging through more forums, I decided to check my minidump files, the lone wolf error was nvlddmkm.sys, I dug through some more forums and my solution was disabling NVIDIA HD Audio, this worked for a time being until yesterday when playing Unturned it occurred again but the screen violently changed color to white with pink lines, I hard reset the PC and started gaming again to see if it would occur again, it did on Verdun, I waited it out and the game continued smoothly with the exception of some frame dips. I began digging through some forum and found that since the nvlddmkm.sys caused these BSOD that I had to delete it, on a forum it told me that it should be under System32/drivers only to find it wasn't in their, but it is present in the NVIDIA drivers folder but it's labeled nvlddmkm.sy_ please if anyone can please help, all I want is to play some games after coming home from school.
Specs:
Case - Lian Li PC-05SX
Mobo - EVGA Z170 Stinger
CPU Cooler - Shadow Rock LP
CPU - Intel Core i7 6700k
GPU - EVGA GTX 980ti SC ACX 2.0
PSU - Corsair SF600
RAM - 16 (2x8) GB DDR4
HDD - Seagate Barracuda 7200Rpm 2TB
SSD - Samsung 850 Evo 500GB
Monitor - Asus vx228h 21.5 inch 60hz 1080p
Specs:
Case - Lian Li PC-05SX
Mobo - EVGA Z170 Stinger
CPU Cooler - Shadow Rock LP
CPU - Intel Core i7 6700k
GPU - EVGA GTX 980ti SC ACX 2.0
PSU - Corsair SF600
RAM - 16 (2x8) GB DDR4
HDD - Seagate Barracuda 7200Rpm 2TB
SSD - Samsung 850 Evo 500GB
Monitor - Asus vx228h 21.5 inch 60hz 1080p