Question UNSOLVED: GPU/nvlddmkm error? A ton of IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL bluescreens and rampant game crashes

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ymi04060513

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Hi,
Since installing a new monitor yesterday afternoon, I've had rampant crashes in games such as Rocket League and Rust, the crashes seem to start after about an hour of playing (just an estimate) and then happened very frequently afterwards. Rust just crashed after about an hour of playing, and then I bluescreened to Kernel_Security_Check_Failure, and Rocket League last night crashed after about an hour and then probably once every 5 minutes.

I have an MSI GeForce GTX 2070 8GBs GPU, Ryzen 7 2700x CPU, Tomahawk B450, Samsung 860 EVO SSD, 32gbs of 3200mhz DDR4 RAM, and a 240hz monitor (set at 240) and a 144 hz 2nd monitor.

The 240hz monitor is set to ~240hz and is the MSI G27C4X monitor, and this is the one I installed yesterday, and the second monitor is the MSI MAG241C 144hz monitor, which is my 2nd screen, set at 144hz. It seems like after installing this new monitor that's when the issues have started. Is there something I did wrong? I just unplugged my old Dell monitor, and then plugged in my new 240hz monitor and set it as my main display, and moved my 144hz monitor over as my secondary one. But I've been having a bluescreen problem...

The first of the bluescreens happened with a kernel_security_check_failure bluescreen, after this, I disabled my XMP profile and game boost in BIOS which was slightly overclocking my RAM and CPU. Then after this, I got an irql_not_less_or_equal blue screen. This was just a classic bluescreen and I didn't know how to move forward; I saw some things saying to rollback drivers but I chose to wait for someone else's opinion because all I did was plug in a new monitor, and toggled on and off an XMP/Gameboost profile which I've used in the past, I didn't think there were any different drivers to this. Then after about 2 hours of playing, I got another irql_not_less_or_equal bluescreen. This one was strange because it just flashed a little blue box with like half of the frowny face in the top left of my main monitor for a second, but I was able to identify it as the BSOD, then, it just restarted\ and then after the restart it BSOD'd again this time even stranger, where my main monitor had the classic BSOD explanation and loading bar, but my 2nd monitor, which I had open with a CPU heat reader, just kind of froze with the monitor on my wallpaper, and the CPU temp reader (the CPU temp hit about 71C max in a pretty intensive rust session so I don't think the temp is an issue.) with the loading bar and restarted, I powered down my PC and am now writing this from my laptop.
 
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ymi04060513

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Okay, sweet, I just played Rust for about an hour, no BDOS issues thus far, if there are any issues, which I assume will arise tonight when I play an extensive Rocket League session tonight. Do you think that the problem was likely fixed?
Okay, so i booted up Rocket League, and the game just closed once again within 5 minutes of being online, I went to my event viewer to see what happened and this is what I see:

https://ibb.co/MPGC66F

https://ibb.co/LJzcx2s

https://ibb.co/7nZnmqq

So it looks like its a nvlddmkm issue? However, in that 3rd image link, it says that the source can't be found. So does that mean that its an issue with the drivers in my monitor I uninstalled?


Is this something similar happening to what's happening to me?

EDIT (2 hours after the posting of this message):
After about an hour and some change of playing, I went to go eat dinner; when I returned, my Rocket League had crashed again with the same three events that had happened prior in this message. nvlddmkm stopped responding but successfully recovered.

EDIT (1 hour after)
I reached out to a different forum and was recommended to do a full Safe boot ddu uninstall and reinstall of my Nvidia GPU drivers. Have just done this now, I will let you know if any more crashes occur.

EDIT (2 hours after last edit)
It seems like uninstalling all the drivers and reinstalling has helped not crash me, its still too early to tell if its fixed, but I played for the last hour and 45 mins and didn't experience anything bad.
 
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Okay, so i booted up Rocket League, and the game just closed once again within 5 minutes of being online, I went to my event viewer to see what happened and this is what I see:

https://ibb.co/MPGC66F

https://ibb.co/LJzcx2s

https://ibb.co/7nZnmqq

So it looks like its a nvlddmkm issue? However, in that 3rd image link, it says that the source can't be found. So does that mean that its an issue with the drivers in my monitor I uninstalled?


Is this something similar happening to what's happening to me?

EDIT (2 hours after the posting of this message):
After about an hour and some change of playing, I went to go eat dinner; when I returned, my Rocket League had crashed again with the same three events that had happened prior in this message. nvlddmkm stopped responding but successfully recovered.

EDIT (1 hour after)
I reached out to a different forum and was recommended to do a full Safe boot ddu uninstall and reinstall of my Nvidia GPU drivers. Have just done this now, I will let you know if any more crashes occur.

EDIT (2 hours after last edit)
It seems like uninstalling all the drivers and reinstalling has helped not crash me, its still too early to tell if its fixed, but I played for the last hour and 45 mins and didn't experience anything bad.
Ironically, that was what I was going to suggest. I think it was just faulty display drivers. Do DM/post on here if anything more happens.
 
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