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BSOD Issues Unsolved For A Long Time
I'd like to give some background on this since this has been happening for probably over a year now and I still haven't been able to get this fixed. I'll try to give as much information as possible and if anyone takes the time to read my rambling then I'll love you forever. Maybe.
So, around a year ago I started getting BSODs that happened at seemingly random times. I could be playing a game or watching a video and I'd get one regardless. They usually happened 1 to 3 times a day for about a week, then I'd get nothing for a month and then we'd be back to square one. The BSOD always seemed to suggest that it was a driver causing these errors, but despite posting on several forums and getting help from a number of people I've never been able to figure out what's actually causing this. Eventually I decided to upgrade from Windows 7 to Windows 10 and doing a clean install in the hopes that it would get rid of my issue. It didn't.
Within days of upgrading to Windows 10 I had another BSOD and the cycle continued as normal. About a month or two ago, NVIDIA released some rather unstable drivers for their GPUs, I installed these drivers (prior to knowing the issues they were causing) and seemingly had no problem with them, but they did seem to change something. I was no longer getting BSODs, instead my computer would just crash to a black screen and then reset, no minidumps would be produced when this happened.
A few days ago I decided to rollback these drivers, and I'm back to square one again! I'm getting BSODs fairly frequently and I still have no idea why. The drivers would seem to point at my GPU but I do a clean driver install every single time and I haven't had a single case of my GPU overheating or producing visual artefacts so in my mind that rules it out.
Someone on one of the forums I posted on suggested it might be my PSU, as around the time I started getting the BSOD-less crashes, Event Viewer would only tell me that it was a Kernel Power error, this led me to upgrade my PSU to one with slightly more voltage but this has changed nothing and was just a stupid waste of money on my part.
If you're willing to help and want any more details I'll be happy to tell you what I can, I don't have any dump files from last year since they all got purged along with Windows 7 when I upgraded.