Diverse Seemingly random BSOD's

damicore

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So I've got this old PC with an Athlon 64 X2 from the first generation and an Asus M2N-MX SE Plus motherboard, no dedicated graphics card whatsoever.
I've been getting the following diverse and irreproducible at will seemingly random BSoD's:

irql_not_less_or_equal
whea_uncorrectable_error
page_fault_in_nonpaged_area
KERNEL_MODE_EXCEPTION_NOT_HANDLED_M
APC_INDEX_MISMATCH
DRIVER_CORRUPTED_EXPOOL
BAD_POOL_HEADER
MEMORY_MANAGEMENT
DRIVER_IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL

Among others, I think.

and they happened in:

ntoskrnl.exe
ntfs.sys
nvlddmkm.sys
ntkrnlpa.exe

I've done 2 passes of memtest86+ with no results.
The pc has also been showing glitched lines and squares during bootup, never on windows. It would boot that way and not enter windows altogether or boot without the glitchs. But since I chaged the vga monitor around 2 days ago this has not repeated itself (I thought they were some corrupted EDID's or something). The BSoD's do keep on coming, though.
The most common one seems to be the WHEA one by far.

I'm at a complete loss, I thought it could be the motherboard because of the crashes in nvlddmkm and the glitches at startup. But given the diversity of the BSoD's I think the power supply might be the culprit?
I don't know. It'd be great if I could make something out of all this mess.
 
BSODs are most commonly caused by software to hardware miscommuniction. In other words, software is looking for hardware, but the hardware is either faulty, or no longer present. Given the various stop errors (BSOD), I would start looking at out dated driver(s). Run driversweeper, and then follow it up with CCleaner. If the stop errors persist, either run MT86+ for 4-6 passes; operate the system on one stick of RAM (will help determine if RAM is bad); or make a disc image of your boot HDD and then install Windows on a new partition or new HDD. Use the disc image to reinstall your files and settings.