windows 10 Computer freezing/blue screening, VIDEO_TDR_FAILURE (116) and nvlddmkm.sys crashing

[Guest Julian DuBransky]

Ever since I got this PC a couple years ago, it's had the occasional blue screen crash or freeze into crash. I would originally get WHEA_UNCORRECTABLE_ERROR, but since my old laptop would also get that occasionally, I just brushed it off as the odd crash every few months. With my PC however, starting a couple months ago, whenever it would automatically restart from one of these crashes it would boot me back to BIOS and not read my SSD as a boot drive. Manually turning off and on my PC again let it boot up normally. This happened a little more often (once or twice a week) until about one week a

 

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