Multiple BSODs and graphics driver crashes.

DJNads

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So for about a month now I've been having blue screens while running certain games (Assetto Corsa, Project Cars) and other programs like the full screen apps downloaded from the store. At first I thought it was related to a possible HDD failure but after running several tests everything came back fine. I did a fresh install of 8.1 not long ago and for a while I had no issues but they came back.

Things I have tried: Complete graphics driver uninstall and reinstall, downgrading to a different version, upgrading to a different version. Complete wipe and reinstall of windows 8.1. sfc /scannow, chkdsk /f /r.
Here are the dump files since reinstalling.
View attachment 53782

Edit: Forgot to mention this is a laptop. Acer Aspire V3-571G-6407
 

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Hi DJNads & Welcome to the forums ^_^,

The ZIP File uploaded by you is empty and does not contain any Dump files to analyse. Kindly re-run the Diagnostic Tool and make sure that you run it for at least 15 minutes or until the app says that it has finished the work.

Re-upload the freshly generated ZIP File and make sure that there are Dump files inside it ^_^


-Pranav
 

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Hey sorry about that, I've run the diagnostics tool a few times but just doesn't seem to add anything to the archive. Can I just manually create the archive of minidump files and upload it? I'll edit this post with the archive if the tool works, but let me know if I can do it myself.


Edit: Sorry about all of that. Eventually got it to work but the program was causing some graphical issues. Screen would black out then show the lockcreen then hack to the desktop.

Here is the archive. Double checked that the program wrote to it this time.
View attachment 53838
 
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Just want to bump this and say I jumped ahead a bit and just installed the VGA driver that comes from the manufacturer and my crashes with loading anything graphically intensive have stopped. My only question is why did that problem happen all of a sudden? I had been running with the nvidia driver pretty much since I got this laptop. Didn't update it recently when the problem started. Just happened out of nowhere.


Edit: Never mind.. The gpu driver crashes came back. My guess is drivers are conflicting somewhere. But yeah, no bluecreen yet, just crashing and recovering.
 
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Try this method: Display driver stopped responding and has recovered Display driver - Microsoft Community
Be very careful. If you do not know how to do this, don't. Ask someone to do it for you, because registry editing is very dangerous.

That was one of the first things I tried. Neither of them actually stopped the driver from crashing. Stopped the video_tdr_failure bluescreen though when I did it.

Edit: Here is a minidump of the most recent bluescreen I had. It was driver_power_state_failure
View attachment 53876
 
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Hi DJNads ^_^,

I have analysed your latest dump files and below has been provided an analysis of the same for informative purposes :-
Code:
0: kd> !irp ffffe0015b312560
Irp is active with 4 stacks 3 is current (= 0xffffe0015b3126c0)
 No Mdl: No System Buffer: Thread 00000000:  Irp stack trace.  Pending has been returned
     cmd  flg cl Device   File     Completion-Context
 [  0, 0]   0  0 00000000 00000000 00000000-00000000    
   Args: 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
 [ 16, 0]   0  0 ffffe0015aa32640 00000000 fffff80071a1723c-ffffe001580056a0    
        \Driver\pci nvlddmkm
   Args: 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
>[ 16, 2]   0 e1 ffffe001581051f0 00000000 fffff802c5f29c30-ffffe0015b5dcb80 Success Error Cancel pending
        \Driver\n[COLOR=#FF0000][B][U]vlddmkm nt!PopRequestCompletion[/U][/B][/COLOR]
   Args: 00000000 00000001 00000001 00000000
 [  0, 0]   0  0 00000000 00000000 00000000-ffffe0015b5dcb80    
   Args: 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
And we have the NVIDIA Display Driver causing the problems.
Now, regarding your VIDEO related errors. For laptops, it is strongly suggested to use the graphics drivers provided by the manufacturer of the Laptop since they tweak the drivers so that it could support the Graphics Switching Technology. Generally, a laptop has an integrated graphics and an external Graphics Card attached separately on the motherboard. During heavy utilization like gaming, the external graphics card is turned on for maximum performance and while the use is normal like browsing, watching movies, the driver switches back to integrated graphics. This is done to provide performance and battery backup in the appropriate situations.

It seems that the NVIDIA Streaming Service is turned on. Kindly disable this Service from the Services Window (To open it, press Start + R , type in "services.msc" and hit Enter). This service is known to cause problems. Also disconnect your Razer Devices till the time we are troubleshooting with your system.
Remove TrueCrypt as well since it is vulnerable and caused problems in the past.

If the problem is still not solved, kindly take a look at this thread -
http://www.eightforums.com/bsod-crashes-debugging/56407-bsod-please-help.html#post447522





@Softwaremaniac - I have created a post on my website over here -
TDR Fix (For AMD & NVIDIA Users) - OMG Debugging!!!
Take a read and whenever you want to suggest that particular registry fix, just ask the user to download the file and open it up. Also make sure that you understand that this is not a fix but rather a workaround and the method suggested first in the website should be tried. I hope this helps :)


-Pranav
 

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Thank you very much. What you do is greatly appreciated. Yeah, I forgot to uninstall truecrypt after running it for a few minutes while I decrypted some stuff to just use bitlocker. Could you explain how the Nvidia streaming service could be causing all of these issues? I'm assuming it's because my GPU doesn't actually support it. And thanks for the other link, I'll make sure to remove geforce experience if this issue persists.

Edit: After disabling the service, uninstalling Geforce Experience, Truecrypt, and Razer Cortex, and making sure I have the driver from the manufacturer installed, the driver crashing/recovering still happens.
 

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Thank you very much. What you do is greatly appreciated. Yeah, I forgot to uninstall truecrypt after running it for a few minutes while I decrypted some stuff to just use bitlocker. Could you explain how the Nvidia streaming service could be causing all of these issues? I'm assuming it's because my GPU doesn't actually support it. And thanks for the other link, I'll make sure to remove geforce experience if this issue persists.

Edit: After disabling the service, uninstalling Geforce Experience, Truecrypt, and Razer Cortex, and making sure I have the driver from the manufacturer installed, the driver crashing/recovering still happens.

Did you try the Registry Fix which I suggested in my previous post?
Are you only getting Driver Crashes/Recovering or are you experiencing any BSODs as well?

-Pranav
 

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Yeah the registry fix/workaround was one of the first things I saw to do after researching the tdr failure. I haven't had and BSODs since reinstalling the original driver and uninstalling geforce experience. Just driver crashes/recovering when loading Assetto Corsa. (It might be an isolated incident with that game since it is still in pre-release, but I just want to make sure)
 
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Does the crash still occur just in that one game?
 

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Kindly answer what softwaremaniac has asked. You could also stress test your GPU so that you could be certain if it is your GPU at fault or the game.

FurMark Video Stress Test - free from here: FurMark: VGA Stress Test, Graphics Card and GPU Stability Test, Burn-in Test, OpenGL Benchmark and GPU Temperature | oZone3D.Net
FurMark Setup:
- If you have more than one GPU, select Multi-GPU during setup
- In the Run mode box, select "Stability Test" and "Log GPU Temperature"
Click "Go" to start the test (Looks like it's "BURN-IN test" now)
- Run the test until the GPU temperature maxes out - or until you start having problems (whichever comes first).
NOTE: Set the alarm to go off at 90ºC. Then watch the system from that point on. If the system doesn't display a temperature, watch it constantly and turn it off at the first sign of video problems. DO NOT leave it it unmonitored, it can DAMAGE your video card!!!
If the temperature gets above 100ºC, quit the test - the video card is overheating.
- Click "Quit" to exit[/quote]
What you are looking for:
- excessive heat from the GPU (report back with anything over 90ºC)
- problems with the video display (picture is distorted or jumbled, picture turns black, etc)
- problems reported by the program (I haven't seen this, but "just in case")


Let me know how it goes ^_^
 

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@Softwaremaniac: So far the only thing that gets the driver to crash is that game.

I tried running the stress test but it never actually loads. Just stops responding before the test starts. I tried in fullscreen and windowed mode. There is a text file in the main directory called FurMark_0001 that shows some logs. However I don't think it's for my laptop because it's saying I'm running windows 7 with a gtx 660...

Edit: Forgot to mention that I tried in windows 8 and 7 compatibility mode with admin rights.
 
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So I got a bluescreen after windows updated. There are about 16 updates that installed and I'm not sure which one caused it. It only bluescreened once, but the driver crashing has happened more when running google chrome.

Here is the minidump from that crash.
View attachment 54088
 

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So it's consistently crashing on startup now. Any help would be appreciated. I'm running in safe mode right now.

I ran driver verifier because the last crash is most likely due to a driver issue. I think that's why I got DRIVER_VERIFIER_IOMANAGER_VIOLATION as the stop code for this one.

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Your USB Wi-fi Device might be causing crashes because it's outdated
Code:
[COLOR=red][B]pneteth.sys Fri Nov 25 06:25:50 2011  (4ECF26DE)[/B][/COLOR] 
PdaNet USB wireless tether 
[URL="http://www.carrona.org/drivers/driver.php?id=pneteth.sys"]http://www.carrona.org/drivers/driver.php?id=[B][COLOR=blue]pneteth.sys[/COLOR][/B][/URL] 

HECIx64.sys Tue Jul 3 00:14:58  2012 (4FF21D62) 
Intel Management Engine Interface 
[URL="http://www.carrona.org/drivers/driver.php?id=HECIx64.sys"]http://www.carrona.org/drivers/driver.php?id=[B][COLOR=blue]HECIx64.sys[/COLOR][/B][/URL] 

athw8x.sys Thu Jan 17 10:15:39  2013 (50F7C13B) 
Atheros Wireless LAN Driver 
[URL="http://www.carrona.org/drivers/driver.php?id=athw8x.sys"]http://www.carrona.org/drivers/driver.php?id=[B][COLOR=blue]athw8x.sys[/COLOR][/B][/URL] 

k57nd60a.sys Wed Jan 30 01:48:55  2013 (51086DF7) 
Broadcom NetLink Gigabit Ethernet NDIS6.x Unified Driver  
[URL="http://www.carrona.org/drivers/driver.php?id=k57nd60a.sys"]http://www.carrona.org/drivers/driver.php?id=[B][COLOR=blue]k57nd60a.sys[/COLOR][/B][/URL] 

ScpVBus.sys Sun May 5 23:31:26  2013 (5186CFAE) 
Scarlet.Crush Productions Scp Dual Shock 3 Virtual Bus  Driver 
[URL="http://www.carrona.org/drivers/driver.php?id=ScpVBus.sys"]http://www.carrona.org/drivers/driver.php?id=[B][COLOR=blue]ScpVBus.sys[/COLOR][/B][/URL] 

intelppm.sys Thu Aug 22 10:46:35  2013 (5215CFEB) 
Intel Processor driver 
[URL="http://www.carrona.org/drivers/driver.php?id=intelppm.sys"]http://www.carrona.org/drivers/driver.php?id=[B][COLOR=blue]intelppm.sys[/COLOR][/B][/URL] 

dump_storahci.sys Thu Aug 22  13:40:39 2013 (5215F8B7) 
driver created to provide disk access during crash  dump file generation 
[URL="http://www.carrona.org/drivers/driver.php?id=dump_storahci.sys"]http://www.carrona.org/drivers/driver.php?id=[B][COLOR=blue]dump_storahci.sys[/COLOR][/B][/URL] 

nvlddmkm.sys Thu Aug 29  23:39:12 2013 (521FBF80) 
nVidia Video drivers 
[URL="http://www.carrona.org/drivers/driver.php?id=nvlddmkm.sys"]http://www.carrona.org/drivers/driver.php?id=[B][COLOR=blue]nvlddmkm.sys[/COLOR][/B][/URL] 

nvpciflt.sys Thu Aug 29 23:39:37  2013 (521FBF99) 
nVidia 3D Vision Display driver 
[URL="http://www.carrona.org/drivers/driver.php?id=nvpciflt.sys"]http://www.carrona.org/drivers/driver.php?id=[B][COLOR=blue]nvpciflt.sys[/COLOR][/B][/URL] 

iwdbus.sys Thu Mar 13 22:59:14  2014 (53222A32) 
Intel WIDI Bus Enumerator driver[br]Related to Intel Widi -  Wireless Display 
[URL="http://www.carrona.org/drivers/driver.php?id=iwdbus.sys"]http://www.carrona.org/drivers/driver.php?id=[B][COLOR=blue]iwdbus.sys[/COLOR][/B][/URL] 

igdkmd64.sys Fri Sep 26 15:42:04  2014 (54256D2C) 
Intel Graphics driver 
[URL="http://www.carrona.org/drivers/driver.php?id=igdkmd64.sys"]http://www.carrona.org/drivers/driver.php?id=[B][COLOR=blue]igdkmd64.sys[/COLOR][/B][/URL] 



Debug session time: Thu  Nov 20 21:39:31.166 2014 (UTC + 1:00) 
Loading Dump File  [C:\Users\Mihael\SysnativeBSODApps\112014-26265-01.dmp] 
Built by:  9600.17328.amd64fre.winblue_r3.140827-1500 
System Uptime: 0 days 0:00:13.926  
Probably caused by : ntkrnlmp.exe ( nt!ViGenericDriverEntry+0 ) 
BugCheck  C9, {21f, fffff8029f696934, ffffcf805c0dcdc0, 0} 
BugCheck Info: [URL="http://www.carrona.org/bsodindx.html#0x000000C9"]DRIVER_VERIFIER_IOMANAGER_VIOLATION  (c9)[/URL] 
Bugcheck code 000000c9 
Arguments: 
Arg1: 000000000000021f, A  driver has not filled out a dispatch routine for a required IRP major function.  
Arg2: fffff8029f696934, The address in the driver's code where the error was  detected. 
Arg3: ffffcf805c0dcdc0, IRP address. 
Arg4: 0000000000000000  
BUGCHECK_STR: 0xc9_21f 
PROCESS_NAME: System 
FAILURE_BUCKET_ID:  0xc9_21f_VRF_nt!ViGenericDriverEntry  
¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨``  




--- E O J --- 2014 Nov 20 22:54:03 PM _88-dbug Copyright  2012 Sysnative Forums 
--- E O J --- 2014 Nov 20 22:54:03 PM _88-dbug  Copyright 2012 Sysnative Forums 
--- E O J --- 2014 Nov 20 22:54:03 PM  _88-dbug Copyright 2012 Sysnative Forums
 

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Hi DJNads ^_^,

I have analysed your latest dump files and it seems that the Driver Verifier failed in flagging the Driver. I also do not see many drivers on your Dump file. The Dump file is giving me Device Object Not Found. This means that the Minidump file has not saved the data properly.
Kindly upload a ZIPPED copy of the complete memory dump found at "C:\Windows\Memory.DMP". Make sure that before uploading the Dump file, you ZIP it up.

Also, kindly run the Hardware Diagnostics over here and report back the result -
Hardware Diagnostics

-Pranav
 

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    8 GB DDR3 @ 1600MHz Dual Channel ^_^
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    Intel HD 3000 B-)
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    Windows Defender & Common Sense!
Here is the memory dump.

https://www.sendspace.com/file/4ya2dk

I'll do the hardware diagnostics later tonight and report back

Edit: I've been busy the last couple of nights. I ran seagate's HDD tester and it failed the long generic test. bad sectors. Haven't run memtest yet though.
 
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