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Windows Driver Verifier BSOD
So I have an old Alienware Aurora R1 and after about 5 years the liquid cooling tube burst and fried the motherboard. I figured it was time for an upgrade anyway, but I liked the case and didn't want to buy a new PC. So I got an ASRock Z97M Pro4 with an Intel Core-i5 4690K. I tried overclocking it and I would leave prime95 v26.6 running and it would be fine... until I came back and woke up the monitor. Then I'd get a BSOD (my first sign that it was something video card related). I'm still using the nvidia Geforce GTX 260 that came with the original PC because I don't really use it for gaming. After having other un-related problems, I formatted my system drive and did a fresh install of Windows 10. I tried to install the most recent drivers (v341.92), but Windows Update wasn't having that and replaced it with v341.74 (really not a fan of these mandatory "updates"). I reset the BIOS to the initial, un-overclocked configuration. Then I ran Driver Verifier and it immediately gave me a BSOD. I looked at the crash dump and I'm pretty sure the BSODs are video card-related, but I have no idea what the exact problem is or how to fix it. I haven't been getting BSODs except when running Driver Verifier or when overclocking my CPU. I've attached the minidump generated by driver verifier in the hopes that someone here can figure out how to fix this. Thanks.
Last edited by Metaphorce; 29 Nov 2015 at 21:22.