Different Blue Screens that keep happening

Vasili K

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So over the last few days or so, I've been getting the BSOD while I play games, while I watch movies, and even when I surf the web.

At the start it said it was a Steam Service Exception which I found was odd but Steam had just updated and it was very laggy at the time (it no longer shows that message).

Then It became a Memory Management issue (I did a Memory Diagnostic test with nothing to show that it was a RAM issue.)

I heard that it might be a driver issue from someone so I updated my GFX drivers now it says "Video Memory Manager has encountered a fatal error" (something along those lines).

So I'm just trying to figure out what the issue is that is causing it. Could it be a Hard Drive or a Mobo issue?
 

Vasili K

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Okay I've downloaded WhoCrashed and Ran it. The reports were

On Fri 8/22/2014 7:35:45 PM GMT your computer crashed
crash dump file: C:\Windows\memory.dmp
This was probably caused by the following module: watchdog.sys (watchdog!WdLogEvent5+0x11B)
Bugcheck code: 0x10E (0x1F, 0xFFFFF8A001971940, 0x1, 0x11A18)
Error: VIDEO_MEMORY_MANAGEMENT_INTERNAL
file path: C:\Windows\system32\drivers\watchdog.sys
product: Microsoft® Windows® Operating System
company: Microsoft Corporation
description: Watchdog Driver
Bug check description: This indicates that the video memory manager has encountered a condition that it is unable to recover from.
The crash took place in a standard Microsoft module. Your system configuration may be incorrect. Possibly this problem is caused by another driver on your system that cannot be identified at this time.



On Fri 8/22/2014 6:32:35 PM GMT your computer crashed
crash dump file: C:\Windows\Minidump\082314-26910-01.dmp
This was probably caused by the following module: watchdog.sys (watchdog+0x122F)
Bugcheck code: 0x10E (0x1F, 0xFFFFF8A00BF53D60, 0x3, 0x5796C)
Error: VIDEO_MEMORY_MANAGEMENT_INTERNAL
file path: C:\Windows\system32\drivers\watchdog.sys
product: Microsoft® Windows® Operating System
company: Microsoft Corporation
description: Watchdog Driver
Bug check description: This indicates that the video memory manager has encountered a condition that it is unable to recover from.
The crash took place in a standard Microsoft module. Your system configuration may be incorrect. Possibly this problem is caused by another driver on your system that cannot be identified at this time.



On Thu 8/21/2014 8:33:53 PM GMT your computer crashed
crash dump file: C:\Windows\Minidump\082214-26176-01.dmp
This was probably caused by the following module: ntoskrnl.exe (nt+0x75BC0)
Bugcheck code: 0x1A (0x5003, 0xFFFFF70001080000, 0x7F27, 0x7F290040FE4E)
Error: MEMORY_MANAGEMENT
file path: C:\Windows\system32\ntoskrnl.exe
product: Microsoft® Windows® Operating System
company: Microsoft Corporation
description: NT Kernel & System
Bug check description: This indicates that a severe memory management error occurred.
This might be a case of memory corruption. More often memory corruption happens because of software errors in buggy drivers, not because of faulty RAM modules.
The crash took place in the Windows kernel. Possibly this problem is caused by another driver that cannot be identified at this time.


Friday was the day I tried updating my GFX Drivers to see if it would help
 

Vasili K

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If one of them was bad wouldn't it come up when I did the Mem Test? Or can one of them get overlooked? Also Watchdog cannot be related to the game... Because I don't even own that game