Regular BSODs on PC, almost always caused by "ntoskrnl.exe"

[ashwilliams1994]

For pretty much as long as I can remember I've been getting frequent blue screens on my desktop PC with varying error messages that aren't usually very helpful.
I've ran MemTest, chkdsk and sfc /scannow in command prompt.

In BlueScreenView I noticed that almost every crash was caused by the driver "ntoskrnl.exe" with address +14a0b0.

I've read that updating drivers could fix the issues but I don't really know what/where to do this. I've got up to date GPU drivers, but don't really know what other drivers to search for.

Specs:
AMD FX-4350
8GB DDR3 RAM
64-bit Windows 10
Nvidia GTX 960
ASUS M5A97 LE R2.0
1Tb Seagate HDD

EDIT: Forgot to link to dumps. These are the recent dumps from Windows\Minidumps:

https://1drv.ms/u/s!AvYB8PXdzQPvjwuQFnBXgWB-O3m2

 

[Colif]

i know, lets delete ntoskrnl, you didn't want windows working after all (only joking)... NTOSKRNL = New Technology Operating System Kernel, without it windows won't work. One of its jobs is to deal with driver requests so it often gets the blame for something they asked it to do.

Have a look here : https://www.asus.com/us/Motherboards/M5A97_LE_R20/HelpDesk_Download/ and compare the win 10 drivers there to what you have installed in device manager. Audio & USB are fairly recent.

I can't read dump files but hopefully someone else will help you soon

 

[ashwilliams1994]

i know, lets delete ntoskrnl, you didn't want windows working after all (only joking)... NTOSKRNL = New Technology Operating System Kernel, without it windows won't work. One of its jobs is to deal with driver requests so it often gets the blame for something they asked it to do.

Have a look here : https://www.asus.com/us/Motherboards/M5A97_LE_R20/HelpDesk_Download/ and compare the win 10 drivers there to what you have installed in device manager. Audio & USB are fairly recent.

I can't read dump files but hopefully someone else will help you soon

Thanks, I've now installed the drivers from that page except for the BIOS which I haven't done before so would rather avoid. I'll wait it out now and see if I keep crashing and then maybe try updating the BIOS

 

[Colif]

Asus bios really easy - video is for M5A97

[video="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KMiANmcon0M"][/video]