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These crash dumps all give different errors; there is no pattern to them and they are all completely random. This is also happening with new drivers and fresh Windows installation so this appears to be a hardware issue.

I would create a bootable USB or CD and run MEMTEST86 for a couple passes overnight to see if the RAM is the issue. If you get 0 errors, I would then try a different graphics card or power supply. If that doesn't help, I'd try a different processor or AM3 motherboard.

The most likely causes are the graphics card or motherboard failing.

If you don't have access to spare parts I'd get a shop to figure out which part is failing. Right now you are at the stage where you must start swapping parts out to figure out what...
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To update your BIOS you go to that same page, click support, select your OS then BIOS, download the latest BIOS file, put it on a FAT32 formatted flash drive, then restart the PC and get into your BIOS settings and use Gigabyte Q-flash to update the BIOS using the BIOS file you downloaded. Do not interrupt the update process or it may brick the motherboard.

If you are getting random resets and BSODs then please give us your PC specs. Also if you go to C/Windows/minudump and upload your crash dump files for us, we can look at them and tell what may be causing the crashes.

If you are overclocking, revert your overclocks.
 
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Thanks for the reply.

I get the following BSOD errors:

irql_not_less_or_equal
KMODE_EXCEPTION_NOT_HANDLED
bad_pool_header

I may have gotten others, but I don't remember at the moment.

My specs are:

Windows 8.1 64bit
GPU: Nvidia 1070 (Using older driver. Have tried current)
CPU: AMD FX 8350
Motherboard: gigabye 990fxa-ud3
8 GB ram
600W PSU
 
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I'd uninstall the graphics card drivers in safe mode with Display Driver Uninstaller, then boot into normal Windows and install the latest driver. Only install the driver and Physx; leave out everything else. Reboot and see if crashing continues.

These crashes appear to be caused by a driver malfunction.

Also recommend updating your BIOS and chipset drivers.

Recent Windows updates have been causing system crashes on older machines running Windows 8. One last resort would be a clean Windows installation without installing any Windows updates and see if you still are crashing.
 
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These crash dumps all give different errors; there is no pattern to them and they are all completely random. This is also happening with new drivers and fresh Windows installation so this appears to be a hardware issue.

I would create a bootable USB or CD and run MEMTEST86 for a couple passes overnight to see if the RAM is the issue. If you get 0 errors, I would then try a different graphics card or power supply. If that doesn't help, I'd try a different processor or AM3 motherboard.

The most likely causes are the graphics card or motherboard failing.

If you don't have access to spare parts I'd get a shop to figure out which part is failing. Right now you are at the stage where you must start swapping parts out to figure out what is causing the issue. I wouldn't buy a new graphics card or motherboard right now because it would be a gamble. Something is failing if you are crashing with a fresh copy of Windows.
 
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