Hi. Basically, son's pc has been crashing for the last few months playing games on Steam and while using his Valve Index. Originally we ruled it a Mobo-gone-bad issue. Happened when running Windows 7 Ultimate and the following hardware:
Windows 7 Ultimate
DISPLAY: (1) primary ASUS 3D 144Hz 1ms + (1) 60Hz
PSU: Corsair 850w
CPU: i7 4790k
MOBO: MSI U3 Plus (since replaced)
GRAPHICS: EVGA 980 Ti FTW
HDD: Samsung 2TB Sata
MEM: 16GB (2x8) Hyperx Fury 1866mHz & 16GB (2x8) Patriot 1600mHz (32GB total)
We've since purchased another mobo, formatted and installed a 256GB Patriot SSD, installed and updated Windows 7 Ultimate to Windows 10 Pro, and have only installed the basic software to run Windows 10 l, Steam, and a couple of Steam games, but the nvdllmkm error issue persists...screen freezes, goes black, then recovers back to desktop screen.
Current Build:
Windows 10 Pro
DISPLAY: (1) primary ASUS 3D 144Hz 1ms + (1) 60Hz
PSU: Corsair 850w
CPU: i7 4790k
MOBO: MSI z97 Gaming 7
GRAPHICS: EVGA 980 Ti FTW
SDD: 256GB Patriot
MEM: 16GB (2x8) Hyperx Fury 1866mHz
All Mobo drivers, bios, and Windows updated to latest. Graphics card driver updated to latest Windows 10 driver. Not using GeForce Experience or any other programs outside the basic Windows programs, Steam, and a couple steam games to test....same nvdllmkm error as before. Previous monitoring of cpu, memory, and power through MSI Extreme Tuning Utility hasn't shown anything strange, as far as I can tell...ran scan for drive errors...none found.
Any help is appreciated. He used to be running 16GB (2x8) Hyperx Fury 1866mHz plus another 16GB (2x8) Patriot 1600mHz memory, but after thinking it was an iffy motherboard we replaced it with the MSI z97 Gaming 7 Mobo, one Patriot module wasn't registering with its known name, ran a check and decided to leave it out if PC, then further decided to pull the other Patriot and try system with only 16GB Hyperx Fury 1866mHz modules in 2 & 4 for dual channel. Is there a chance the prebious motherboard went bad and messed up one memory module plus the graphics card?
post edited by nitroburn1972 - 2020/05/30 22:52:39