BSOD crash at higher resolutions - NTOSKRNL.exe

djtorque83

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Hi guys,
I have a new monitor, an AOC AG271QX 1440p 144hz monitor, and have been having some troubles.
Since running the new monitor at full res, I have been having crashes playing Rocket League. BSOD will occur anywhere from 1 minute into the game to 60 mins in.
I've never had issues on my old monitor running at 1920x1080 60hz, and when I change back to that monitor now, all seems OK. Unsure if the GPU is struggling with this new res for some reason.

I've run Memtest86 and RAM came up solid.

Verifier.exe implicates NTOSKRNL in every instance, which as I understand it, isn't all that helpful. With verifier turned off, I get a plethora of different BSOD messages, ranging from clock_watchdog_timeout, to system_service_exception to IRQL_not_less_or_equal, and about a dozen more different ones.

Build is new:
i7 6700
Gigabyte Gaming 3 mobo
Gainward GTX 970
8GB ripjawz RAM
Windows 10
EVO 960 250GB SSD

Have had same results using DisplayPort and HDMI. Have tried a variety of display and quality options both in-game and in windows, and the only thing that seems to affect it is the resolution and frame rate. Have updated every driver and BIOS i can think of, have tried some different diagnostics and process of elimination has narrowed it down to 3 things in my opinion:
GPU, Monitor or Motherboard

Can a monitor directly cause BSOD?

What would be the best way of diagnosing which of these is causing the issue, short of swapping the hardware out for a different model, which I don't have access to (except the old monitor, which runs fine at 1920x1080, but then, so does my new monitor). Running Furmark at 1440p for 30mins is stable as, no issues.

EDIT:
I ran 1080p resolution for 4 hours, and figured that was a semi-solution, then it crashed again. That definitely helped, I'm assuming it was either because less strain on GPU/CPU/PSU, but clearly isn't a fix.

Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks!
Dan
 

BigBoomBoom

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No, but since you moved onto higher resolution and higher refresh rate, your hardware got stressed more. It's usually meant your hardware is unstable, if you overclock then drop the overclock and try again.
 

djtorque83

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No OC.
The system itself is otherwise rock solid, never had a problem. Do you think FurMark is enough to stress it enough to reproduce the crash? Anything you could suggest?
Would it be worth looking at the PSU? Im kinda running out of ideas!
Thanks
 

BigBoomBoom

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Not as much as a pass but rather 30 mins and check temp to see if they are OK. It could also be a driver issue, uninstall ALL graphics driver (you may have had AMD before switching to NVIDIA for e.g) with DDU and reinstall drivers.
 

djtorque83

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So I just started running prime95 and instantly cores 2 and 4 of my CPU failed the rounding tests in the program.
Stopped and restarted, and the same thing happened again straight away.
As I'm writing this, core 1 has failed also... Does this mean a CPU issue? OR can that mean cooling / PSU?
CPU cores got up to 72degrees during testing, which I understand is OK as long as they're not there constantly?
 

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