Nvidia GeForce GTX 960m Crashing (Laptop) - Software or Hardware Issue?

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First here are the specs to my laptop:
Asus GL551 15-inch Gaming Laptiop
Intel Core i7-4720HQ 2.6 GHz Processor
16 GB DDR3 RAM; NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M
1TB HDD Storage; DL DVD±RW/CD-RW
15.6 inches 1920*1080 pixels LED-lit Screen
Windows 10 Operating System; Red/Black Chassis

So after finding the source of the problem as to why laptop was freezing (Linked Thread - http://www.tomshardware.com/answers/id-3058881/rog-asus-laptop-freezing-startup.html) which was caused by consistent crashing of my Nvidia Drivers.

I got these messages:
"Display driver stopped responding and has recovered. Display driver NVIDIA Windows Kernel Mode Driver, Version 353.54 stopped responding and has successfully recovered."
"Display driver stopped responding and has recovered. Display driver NVIDIA Windows Kernel Mode Driver, Version 359.46 stopped responding and has successfully recovered."
"Display driver stopped responding and has recovered. Display driver NVIDIA Windows Kernel Mode Driver, Version 365.19 stopped responding and has successfully recovered."

I have taken the steps to resolving this issue by using DDU and reinstalling the Nvidia Drivers again and again. But it did not worked. Sometimes I even got a blue screen. (Linked Thread - http://www.tomshardware.com/answers/id-3061534/freezing-blue-screens-issues-nvidia-960m-laptop-graphics-card.html)

As of right now, I have gone to my device manager and disabled my Nvidia 960 Graphics Card for the time being until I figure what is the source of the problem.

My Question is:
If uninstalling the drivers is not the solution to the problem (software). Does that mean this a hardware issue?

And can this be solved?

Thank You!
 
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If you put up one of those memory dumps from the blue screen (usually C:\Windows\memory.dmp or minidump.dmp) I can analyze it to see if there is something named to be interfering with the Nvidia drivers.
Have you tried disabling all of your startup items? If that fixes it, you can enable them and reboot one by one until it crashes, then you know the culprit.

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If you put up one of those memory dumps from the blue screen (usually C:\Windows\memory.dmp or minidump.dmp) I can analyze it to see if there is something named to be interfering with the Nvidia drivers.
Have you tried disabling all of your startup items? If that fixes it, you can enable them and reboot one by one until it crashes, then you know the culprit.
 
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