Solved BSOD ntoskrnl.exe during Gaming

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I am running on Windows 10, I keep getting BSODs while playing games (Crusader Kings 3, RDR2 etc.), it seems to be caused by ntoskrnl.exe

I ran Auslogics Driver Updater but I have a feeling that it made things worse rather than better. I have a problem that when I start my PC, there will be no signal to the monitor. I have to keep restarting it until it works. But I think this is a seperate issue from the BSOD crashes.
I ran Windows Memory Diagnostics and it turned out with nothing, however I do suspect that it might be a RAM issue.


What do I do from here? How do I pinpoint/fix the problem?

Here are my Specs:

Operating System
Windows 10 Home 64-bit
CPU
AMD FX-8320 29 °C
Vishera 32nm Technology
RAM
8,00GB Dual-Channel DDR3 @ 668MHz (11-11-11-28)
Motherboard
ASUSTeK COMPUTER INC. M5A97 EVO R2.0 (Socket 942) 30 °C
Graphics
PD1560 (1920x1080@59Hz)
4096MB ATI AMD Radeon R9 200 Series (Sapphire/PCPartner) 43 °C
Storage
465GB Samsung SSD 850 EVO 500GB (SATA (SSD)) 32 °C
465GB Seagate ST500DM002-1BD142 (SATA ) 32 °C
28GB USB SanDisk 3.2Gen1 USB Device (USB )
Optical Drives
No optical disk drives detected
Audio
AMD High Definition Audio Device
 
Both crashes point towards the CPU but if you look at attachment A you will see the word Bank so it could be the RAM tripping the CPU up.

Are you overclocking the CPU or GPU**

What is the brand and model name or number of the PSU.

** We can see that the RAM is not being OCd and that it is in fact running too slow for your CPU, it should be registering at 933MHz - 1866MHz in dual channel.

Can you post a Speccy url for us;

Download then run Speccy (free) and post the resultant url for us, details here, this will provide us with information about your computer hardware + any software that you have installed that may explain the present issue/s.

To publish a Speccy profile to the Web:

In Speccy, click File, and then click Publish Snapshot.

In the Publish Snapshot dialog box, click Yes to enable Speccy to proceed.

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I think somehow my PC decided to overclock the CPU. Sometimes when I had a crash it would after restarting say "overclocking failed", which I think might be referring to a CPU overclock that somehow was active?
I went into the BIOS and choose an option for optimized configurations and it changed some settings in regards to the CPU. I haven't gotten a crash since.

The PSU is a Seasonic G-series, I can't find a number. I think the display issues I had has been resolved aswell, I am using a display tablet (for drawing) as a monitor basically, and I think it needed to have the USB cable it has plugged in because maybe the power from the socket is not enough. I had unplugged that USB cable when I did the Auslogics Driver Updating, which messed with some of the USB ports and I had to plug my mouse and keyboard into different ones from the to work, which forced me to unplug the one for the monitor (which I thought it just so the display in terms of the pen functionality would work). Since then I had the issues, which I thought were due to something the new drivers did.

I don't know why my PC overclocked the CPU, I never changed any settings. I will report if I continue to get any crashes.

Here is the speccy profile:

And thank you for your time phillpower2
 
Your temps and voltages look ok in Speccy but should the issue happen again we will need to know the exact model of PSU it is that you have, Seasonic released the G series way back in 2012 so unless your PSU was purchased out of the box new after September 2017 it is out of warranty and could therefore be showing its age.

You are welcome btw :)
 
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