Random BSODs and crashes (Minidumps included)

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It started with me getting "DPC watchdog violation" BSODs. Sometimes in a game, sometimes while doing nothing. I have updated all drivers. BIOS is up to date. In another thread, someone suggested deleting a recent Windows update. Tried that and it seemed to work, since I had a day of no crashes, but I just now had another crash (not a BSOD - the system froze and restarted itself), which said the following in the Event Viewer.:

The computer has rebooted from a bugcheck. The bugcheck was: 0x00000133 (0x0000000000000000, 0x0000000000000501, 0x0000000000000500, 0x0000000000000000). A dump was saved in: C:\WINDOWS\MEMORY.DMP. Report Id: 012718-51671-01.

Here's a link to my 3 most recent Minidump files:

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1msPFvxT_Yg3hi5rLVfXSckHDuvAPuoqX?usp=sharing

Speccy snapshot:

http://speccy.piriform.com/results/Boq3sXDiD1h1NruTDZwMhw0

Somebody suggested to me elsewhere that my PSU may be the issue. It's a 650w Cooler Master GM series, and is only a year and a half old.

I really hope someone can help me out. I've had very little luck anywhere so far.

 
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I've been seeing a recent Windows update cause BSODs due to a conflict with the patch and the display driver. Approaches to this issue include:

- Uninstall all Windows updates for November 2017-now. Configure your Windows update settings not to install updates automatically.

- Clean install Windows 8 and then immediately disable Windows Update completely. This is an unsafe approach but it stops MS from wrecking your PC with bad updates and you can use a good antivirus with active protection to fall back on. This is a last resort option but I would take an unsafe PC over an inoperable one.

- Upgrade to Windows 10
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This issue appears to be caused by a device driver malfunctioning. One of the dump files references your nVidia driver and 2 core Windows files (the kernel executive and the hardware abstraction layer driver) having issues with each other. The device driver broke some rules and the OS locks up.

If you didn't already, I recommend using the DDU and safe mode method for display driver uninstallation and re installation. I can provide the correct procedure for this if you do not know it.

The issue could be related the power supply but lets try software level solutions first.
 
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kattegat.twin

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Thanks a mil for your reply. I have done the DDU un/installation, a few days ago, but I'll do it again. By the correct procedure, I assume you mean doing a clean wipe, in safe mode? I have to go to work now, but I'll be back in a few hours and I'll do that again and get back to you.

Cheers.
 
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Yes, safe mode/DDU/Restart is the correct method.

If that doesn't help I would try an older version of the driver after DDU.

If THAT doesn't help I would DDU the GPU driver provided by ATI or nVIDIA and let Windows install a VGA driver for the graphics card after you boot into Windows for the first time after the DDU reboot. If Windows does this it should change the resolution back from low resolution to normal. If it doesn't just leave it in low res mode and see if it crashes after a while. You can also try installing a different GPU+drivers alternatively if you don't like using low resolution mode.

If it crashes without the nvidia or ATI drivers please post the crash dump files for it.
 
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Hey,

Sorry for my late reply. I haven't had a lot of free time lately. I have a day off today, though.

I had no crashes after letting the PC sit idle with a VGA driver installed for a few hours. But, sometimes the PC goes several hours without a crash or a freeze anyway, and then it happens, so this test was not conclusive.

In another thread - http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/answers/id-3618772/dpc-watchdog-violation-repeated-crashes.html - someone suggested deleting some recent Windows security updates, which did seem to work for a day, but it seems Windows reinstalled them by itself.

Here are some recent DMP files. https://drive.google.com/open?id=1gea9aZp6XAaOquL2fec6bEeGuJN4kDBM

One other thing to note: I haven't had a BSOD or Watchdog Violation in some time now. I get a system freeze, which I am forced to restart. It seems to be almost exclusively happening while in game (PUBG). There have been instances of the PC restarting itself while idle, but the couple of times that happened lately, I was out of the room and just heard the beep that it makes when restarting...



 
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I've been seeing a recent Windows update cause BSODs due to a conflict with the patch and the display driver. Approaches to this issue include:

- Uninstall all Windows updates for November 2017-now. Configure your Windows update settings not to install updates automatically.

- Clean install Windows 8 and then immediately disable Windows Update completely. This is an unsafe approach but it stops MS from wrecking your PC with bad updates and you can use a good antivirus with active protection to fall back on. This is a last resort option but I would take an unsafe PC over an inoperable one.

- Upgrade to Windows 10
 
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