Hello, long time lurker here who is motivated to post tonight because of a frustrating pattern of BSODs that I've been experiencing. I will try to keep this post short and informative - thanks in advance for your help and please advise if additional info would help diagnose.
System built in November 2018 and I've upgraded the graphics card and RAM kit since then. I've experienced a few odd BSODs over the past 3-4 years - usually no more than 1 or 2 per year - however, system has been increasingly unstable over the past 6 months. In the past month or so it has gotten to the point where I can't game for more than 20 minutes without BSOD'ing. Doesn't matter what game I play. It had even gotten to the point where I could BSOD just checking my email, etc.
At my wits end, I reinstalled Windows 10 yesterday, proceeded to reinstall my applications, thought I was fine, I was able to game for 90 minutes straight yesterday - then, tonight, bam, ntfs.sys BSOD while playing Planet Zoo. Clearly there is still something wrong.
Here is my DXdiag.
Here is the Windows Event Log from this evening's crash.
At this point I suspect either faulty RAM or C:/ Drive but I am no expert - hence this post.
Here are few of the different BSODs I've experienced over the past few months, increasing in frequency and severity over the past ~month:
TL;DR I have tons of BSODs and reinstalling Windows didn't fix it. Please see the DXdiag and Windows Event Log linked above.
Cheers
James
System built in November 2018 and I've upgraded the graphics card and RAM kit since then. I've experienced a few odd BSODs over the past 3-4 years - usually no more than 1 or 2 per year - however, system has been increasingly unstable over the past 6 months. In the past month or so it has gotten to the point where I can't game for more than 20 minutes without BSOD'ing. Doesn't matter what game I play. It had even gotten to the point where I could BSOD just checking my email, etc.
At my wits end, I reinstalled Windows 10 yesterday, proceeded to reinstall my applications, thought I was fine, I was able to game for 90 minutes straight yesterday - then, tonight, bam, ntfs.sys BSOD while playing Planet Zoo. Clearly there is still something wrong.
Here is my DXdiag.
Here is the Windows Event Log from this evening's crash.
At this point I suspect either faulty RAM or C:/ Drive but I am no expert - hence this post.
Here are few of the different BSODs I've experienced over the past few months, increasing in frequency and severity over the past ~month:
- IRQL NOT LESS OR EQUAL
- SYSTEM_SERVICE_EXCEPTION (with or without "win32kbase.sys" added)
- Kernel Security Check Failure
- Page Fault in Nonpaged Area
- Unexpected Kernel Mode Trap
- Vlflt.sys ( < does this have to do with BitDefender which I use?)
- Nothing is overclocked. RAM kit is @ 3200 @ 16-18-18-18-36. I was flirting with 3466 speeds in the past and noticed no correlation with BSODs. Stepping down the speeds (e.g. 2800) doesn't seem to help either.
- I ran System File Checker and the DISM tool via command line both pre and post Win10 reinstall. No errors were found ever.
- Pre OS reinstallation, Memtest 86 froze on Test 10 for a solid hour. I have not tried to run MT86 a second time.
- After I reinstalled Windows yesterday, I was surprised to find (relatively) current drivers already installed for all my devices within Device Manager (for example, a GeForce driver from April of this year). Is this to be expected? Did Windows Update grab these from the internet as part of the reinstall process, or during one of the first Windows Update updates?
TL;DR I have tons of BSODs and reinstalling Windows didn't fix it. Please see the DXdiag and Windows Event Log linked above.
Cheers
James
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