BSOD and crashing, looking for some help.

[dyllan]

So I was playing the new Rainbow Six: Siege that I got for free, I have to run it at low which is odd to me to begin with but thats not the problem I am here for, I had just entered into a multiplayer lobby and broke a window when my PC locked up and restarted. When I booted back up to the desktop everything was flickering so I downloaded newest drivers and did a clean install, after that it locked up again as soon as I tried to load up WoW with a stream open on my second monitor. So to add to this mystery I was looking at bluescreen viewer when all of the sudden the file just disappeared, I got some of the information copied out but its not the full dump.

120715-5656-01.dmp 12/7/2015 5:06:50 PM DRIVER_IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL 0x000000d1 00000000`00000000 00000000`00000002 00000000`00000008 00000000`00000000 nvlddmkm.sys nvlddmkm.sys+1cb8ca NVIDIA Windows Kernel Mode Driver, Version 359.06 NVIDIA Windows Kernel Mode Driver, Version 359.06 NVIDIA Corporation 10.18.13.5906 x64 ntoskrnl.exe+142760 C:\WINDOWS\Minidump\120715-5656-01.dmp 4 15 10586 405,004 12/7/2015 5:07:19 PM

Now I am honestly not sure if this is the right part of the forums to put this and if it is the wrong part I apologize and ill recreate it there but any help would be awesome.

Computer specs are

GTX N580 1.5gb
Asus z87-A
i5 4670k (no OC, I know its a waste, but its terrible trying to OC this particular chip)
Hyper 212 EVO cooler
8gb 1866 RAM (Cant remember manufacturer)
Corsair CX600M PSU

 

[Mr.Scott]

Sounds like you're running out of VRAM.

 

[dyllan]

I do agree VRAM is an issue, but ive had this set up for years and added windows 10 upon release. So I am kind of skeptical that VRAM would be the issue if it just started now, especially for WoW and a stream on my second monitor. With that being said though, is there any way I can track my VRAM usage?

 

[Mandrake4565]

Open Msi afterburner or Gpu-Z

 

[dyllan]

So I downloaded MSI Afterburner, with no stream on and say just on WoW im using 1.1gb of vram however I get a ton of "display driver stopped responding and has recovered" errors and with a stream running on the other monitor, I am capping out my VRAM and I get the error "Application has been blocked from accessing Graphics hardware." I still find it odd that I never received these errors before however, is it possible that I corrupted something on my graphics card with that initial crash from Rainbow Six: Siege?

 

[Mandrake4565]

I doubt you corrupted the BIOS on the Gpu, the driver maybe. It may be happening because you're running Windows 10 now. It's been known to have issues with drivers. I will also add when running older hardware you may find running an older driver will be helpful. It's been a while since I've run my GTX 580 but I do know with my ATI 5850 it does not like any driver past Catalyst 12.3.

 

[dyllan]

Alright this time was a bit different, used the Guru3d driver tool to remove all Nvidia drivers, after that I installed the newest drivers and that worked for a few hours until it randomly crashed, after that my computer would boot, post, begin to load into windows and then restart. I gave it about 20 minutes then tried to turn it on again and it would let me get into windows and I then restarted into safe mode and cleaned my drivers again, so thats where I am at now. Unfortunatly ive got nothing in my minidump for bluescreen viewer. Im starting to feel like the card may just be dying.

 

[Mandrake4565]

Alright this time was a bit different, used the Guru3d driver tool to remove all Nvidia drivers, after that I installed the newest drivers and that worked for a few hours until it randomly crashed, after that my computer would boot, post, begin to load into windows and then restart. I gave it about 20 minutes then tried to turn it on again and it would let me get into windows and I then restarted into safe mode and cleaned my drivers again, so thats where I am at now. Unfortunatly ive got nothing in my minidump for bluescreen viewer. Im starting to feel like the card may just be dying.

It is possible the card is calling it quits. Maybe try pulling the heatsink off, look for any bulging or blown caps and re TIM the gpu core.

 

[trents]

I would look at the possibility of the PSU failing as well.