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Lightpurple
Iron Contributor
Jun 19, 2025

PC bluescreening randomly

Since February I've been experiencing random BSOD while gaming. Today it happened while I was just watching some Twitch streams and am officially worried.

ntoskrnl.exe along with dxgkrnl.sys and nvlddmkm.sys is what BlueScreenView says caused it but I can't find any sort of fix for it at all.
I've tried sfc /scannow stuff and it seems to find corrupted files and fixes them.. but the BSOD will happen regardless and I gotta do it all over again.

System Specs
MOBO: Z390 AORUS ULTRA
CPU: Intel i7-9700k CPU
GPU: Nvidia GTX 1070
RAM: Corsair Vengeance Pro 32GB DD4 3600MHz
PSU: EVGA Supernova 650 GS
OS: Windows 10

 

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  • sadmath's avatar
    sadmath
    Copper Contributor
    Jun 20, 2025

    I would make a bootable memtest usb and run it for a while just for good measure. If it slings errors then one of your sticks of ram is bad or a ram slot could be failing. You'd have to troubleshoot by switching ram sticks around to figure out which. 
    If the memtest comes up clean then do what Provencecass said and clean install the gpu drivers. 
    If THAT doesn't work then reinstall windows fresh. 
    If THAT doesn't work then it's likely your GPU is dying. Or it might even be your hard drive (ssd) failing or something up with the motherboard. You'd just have to troubleshoot each one to figure out the culprit. 

  • Provencecass's avatar
    Provencecass
    Iron Contributor
    Jun 20, 2025

    During installation, choose Custom (Advanced) and select Perform a clean install. Alternatively, use Display Driver Uninstaller (DDU) in Safe Mode to completely remove old drivers before installing the new one.

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