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Blue screen of death every other day, memtest fine
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By K123 2025-07-16 02:46:37
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Reversing drivers didn't fix it.
Completely removing all nvidia drivers and reinstalling them fresh didn't fix it.
I remember when the weather got hot last year my GPU went to ***and I removed the back plate and plastered it in thermal paste and it made it run beautifully. Can't really be bothered to do that again yet.
Tried limiting the power to 70% and temp to 70 degrees max and it seemed stable but crashed.
I guess the GPU might need binning but I'll try a full fresh windows install to try and work out if it is just driver related.
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By K123 2025-07-16 03:17:44
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Running extreme stress tests doesn't crash the GPU. Literally just FFXI.
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By K123 2025-07-16 03:17:51
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Running extreme stress tests doesn't crash the GPU. Literally just FFXI.
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By Asura.Alkk 2025-07-16 05:54:53
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K123 said: »
Memtest has 0 errors after 4 hours of testing.

4 hours of memtest is far from enough to rule out faulty ram. I would either let it run for up to 24 hours or remove one stick at a time and see what happens. The latter is usually the more sane test as you probably don't want your computer inaccessible for a long period of time
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By K123 2025-07-16 07:42:27
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I'm pretty sure it is GPU related though, and I don't think it's the RAM on the GPU either. It's irregular power draw or something I think. Might replace PC with an AMD mini pc and put the 3090 on an Occulink dock and use it for AI that way. This way main PC can't crash if the display is out of the igpu
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By Bahamut.Raineer 2025-07-16 12:07:32
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You change any USB-connected devices recently? Only BSODs I've ever gotten is from USB bus failures, but my GPUs are all AMD.
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By K123 2025-07-16 15:03:34
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I'll try unplugging everything but nothing is new.
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By Viertel 2025-07-16 16:07:29
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If you're getting blue screens, are you getting dump files? You can get WinDBG from free on the Microsoft store, run !analyze on the dump, and it can tell you exactly what's causing it.

If you're not getting dump files, but you're set up TO get them (I think by default Win10/11 does small memory dumps on BSODs) then it's more than likely the firmware on your SSD/NVME as it's crashing too quickly to make the dump file.

Regardless WinDBG and a dump file will point to exactly what's happening.
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By K123 2025-07-16 17:26:42
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Viertel said: »
If you're getting blue screens, are you getting dump files? You can get WinDBG from free on the Microsoft store, run !analyze on the dump, and it can tell you exactly what's causing it.

If you're not getting dump files, but you're set up TO get them (I think by default Win10/11 does small memory dumps on BSODs) then it's more than likely the firmware on your SSD/NVME as it's crashing too quickly to make the dump file.

Regardless WinDBG and a dump file will point to exactly what's happening.
I will try this. Not crashing right now but:
- FFXI instances (x2) only rendering at 720p
- Removed all USB items (doubt it is this...)
- GPU still limited to 70%
- I also turned off Windows UI scaling (was 200% on 4k monitor) and I have a feeling this was causing stress for some reason