i've been lurking in this thread and actually didn't want to reply because i don't know alot about G-Amps. but you guys kinda running in acircle at this point. if Alienware-Eimy tells you not to install Desktop driver, why do you keep installing it? alright. sorry.

try to find out what happens. open the start menu and type in "reliability history". open it. you should see a bunch of errors. tell us what they say.

second info source is Event Viewer.

How to use Windows 10 Event Viewer - Windows 10 - Tom's Hardware 

you should see alot of errors there too. they could also help to find out whats going on.

Hi Carbon,

Thanks and that's right, I asked for the driver to check which one Lambay is using at this time since it should be just the laptop one.

Not sure event viewer will tell us much, let's see if reliability history has more to say.

Current driver installed in the notebook driver only.

Alienware Commander software is able to measure the temp.  I don't have it in front of me now but I remember it was a constant temp, no up spikes, of around 60c. Again that's from memory, I will have to check later. But it definitely didn't increase much. 

maybe you are right. maybe there is nothing to see. but at this point it's better then nothing.

too bad he has no other card to test. i would borrow him one but we are not even on the same continent.

Take your time, I do want to bring up that in my experience gaming and having burned a few Graphics Cards the past, that does sound like a symptom of hardware issues, however, I'll try and make a bit of research on the specific issue to see if anyone else has had similar experience.

First of all thanks for the help.

I spent the last few days wiping the computer and reinstalling Win 10.  All went well with the reinstallation.

I updated all the drivers.  Currently the notebook driver is the only one installed.

Tried gaming again tonight and unfortunately it crashes again.

You can see the NVIDIA GPU usage and mem load graph the drop where the GPU just stops operating.

Event Viewer

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Level Date and Time Source Event ID Task Category
Warning 14/04/2017 22:06:26 Microsoft-Windows-FilterManager 4 None File System Filter 'wcifs' (Version 10.0, ‎2016‎-‎09‎-‎15T17:42:03.000000000Z) failed to attach to volume '\Device\HarddiskVolumeShadowCopy2'.  The filter returned a non-standard final status of 0xC000000D.  This filter and/or its supporting applications should handle this condition.  If this condition persists, contact the vendor.
Warning 14/04/2017 22:06:26 Microsoft-Windows-FilterManager 4 None File System Filter 'wcifs' (Version 10.0, ‎2016‎-‎09‎-‎15T17:42:03.000000000Z) failed to attach to volume '\Device\HarddiskVolumeShadowCopy1'.  The filter returned a non-standard final status of 0xC000000D.  This filter and/or its supporting applications should handle this condition.  If this condition persists, contact the vendor.
Error 14/04/2017 21:59:53 Application Error 1000 (100) "Faulting application name: starwarsbattlefront.exe, version: 1.0.7.64833, time stamp: 0x586bb774
Faulting module name: starwarsbattlefront.exe, version: 1.0.7.64833, time stamp: 0x586bb774
Exception code: 0x80000003
Fault offset: 0x00000000032eb45a
Faulting process ID: 0x77c
Faulting application start time: 0x01d2b55c84c42e6e
Faulting application path: C:\Program Files (x86)\Origin Games\STAR WARS Battlefront\starwarsbattlefront.exe
Faulting module path: C:\Program Files (x86)\Origin Games\STAR WARS Battlefront\starwarsbattlefront.exe
Report ID: 79ef3c56-ae8a-4d02-914d-baf67768aede
Faulting package full name:
Faulting package-relative application ID: "
Warning 14/04/2017 21:58:26 Display 4101 None Display driver nvlddmkm stopped responding and has successfully recovered.
Warning 14/04/2017 21:58:26 Display 4101 None Display driver nvlddmkm stopped responding and has successfully recovered.
Error 14/04/2017 21:58:23 Microsoft-Windows-DistributedCOM 10016 None "The application-specific permission settings do not grant Local Activation permission for the COM Server application with CLSID
{D63B10C5-BB46-4990-A94F-E40B9D520160}
 and APPID
{9CA88EE3-ACB7-47C8-AFC4-AB702511C276}
 to the user NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM SID (S-1-5-18) from address LocalHost (Using LRPC) running in the application container Unavailable SID (Unavailable). This security permission can be modified using the Component Services administrative tool."
Error 14/04/2017 21:49:44 Microsoft-Windows-DistributedCOM 10016 None "The application-specific permission settings do not grant Local Launch permission for the COM Server application with CLSID
{7022A3B3-D004-4F52-AF11-E9E987FEE25F}
 and APPID
{ADA41B3C-C6FD-4A08-8CC1-D6EFDE67BE7D}
 to the user LAMBAY\lambay SID (S-1-5-21-4174060447-326208961-3917362985-1001) from address LocalHost (Using LRPC) running in the application container Unavailable SID (Unavailable). This security permission can be modified using the Component Services administrative tool."
Error 14/04/2017 21:49:44 Microsoft-Windows-DistributedCOM 10016 None "The application-specific permission settings do not grant Local Launch permission for the COM Server application with CLSID
{7022A3B3-D004-4F52-AF11-E9E987FEE25F}
 and APPID
{ADA41B3C-C6FD-4A08-8CC1-D6EFDE67BE7D}
 to the user LAMBAY\lambay SID (S-1-5-21-4174060447-326208961-3917362985-1001) from address LocalHost (Using LRPC) running in the application container Unavailable SID (Unavailable). This security permission can be modified using the Component Services administrative tool."
Error 14/04/2017 21:49:44 Microsoft-Windows-DistributedCOM 10016 None "The application-specific permission settings do not grant Local Launch permission for the COM Server application with CLSID
{7022A3B3-D004-4F52-AF11-E9E987FEE25F}
 and APPID
{ADA41B3C-C6FD-4A08-8CC1-D6EFDE67BE7D}
 to the user LAMBAY\lambay SID (S-1-5-21-4174060447-326208961-3917362985-1001) from address LocalHost (Using LRPC) running in the application container Unavailable SID (Unavailable). This security permission can be modified using the Component Services administrative tool."
Error 14/04/2017 21:34:44 Microsoft-Windows-DistributedCOM 10016 None "The application-specific permission settings do not grant Local Launch permission for the COM Server application with CLSID
{7022A3B3-D004-4F52-AF11-E9E987FEE25F}
 and APPID
{ADA41B3C-C6FD-4A08-8CC1-D6EFDE67BE7D}
 to the user LAMBAY\lambay SID (S-1-5-21-4174060447-326208961-3917362985-1001) from address LocalHost (Using LRPC) running in the application container Unavailable SID (Unavailable). This security permission can be modified using the Component Services administrative tool."
Error 14/04/2017 21:20:03 Microsoft-Windows-Perflib 1008 None "The Open Procedure for service ""WmiApRpl"" in DLL ""C:\WINDOWS\system32\wbem\wmiaprpl.dll"" failed. Performance data for this service will not be available. The first four bytes (DWORD) of the Data section contains the error code."
Error 14/04/2017 21:20:03 Microsoft-Windows-Perflib 1010 None "The Collect Procedure for the ""C:\Windows\System32\winspool.drv"" service in DLL ""Spooler"" generated an exception or returned an invalid status. The performance data returned by the counter DLL will not be returned in the Perf Data Block. The first four bytes (DWORD) of the Data section contains the exception code or status code."
Error 14/04/2017 21:20:03 Microsoft-Windows-Perflib 1023 None Windows cannot load the extensible counter DLL rdyboost. The first four bytes (DWORD) of the Data section contains the Windows error code.
Error 14/04/2017 21:20:03 Microsoft-Windows-PerfNet 2004 None Unable to open the Server service performance object. The first four bytes (DWORD) of the Data section contains the status code.
Error 14/04/2017 21:20:03 Microsoft-Windows-Perflib 1008 None "The Open Procedure for service ""MSDTC"" in DLL ""C:\WINDOWS\system32\msdtcuiu.DLL"" failed. Performance data for this service will not be available. The first four bytes (DWORD) of the Data section contains the error code."
Error 14/04/2017 21:20:03 Microsoft-Windows-Perflib 1008 None "The Open Procedure for service ""Lsa"" in DLL ""C:\Windows\System32\Secur32.dll"" failed. Performance data for this service will not be available. The first four bytes (DWORD) of the Data section contains the error code."
Error 14/04/2017 21:20:03 Microsoft-Windows-Perflib 1008 None "The Open Procedure for service ""ESENT"" in DLL ""C:\WINDOWS\system32\esentprf.dll"" failed. Performance data for this service will not be available. The first four bytes (DWORD) of the Data section contains the error code."
Error 14/04/2017 21:20:03 Microsoft-Windows-Perflib 1008 None "The Open Procedure for service ""BITS"" in DLL ""C:\Windows\System32\bitsperf.dll"" failed. Performance data for this service will not be available. The first four bytes (DWORD) of the Data section contains the error code."
Warning 14/04/2017 21:20:01 Server 2504 None The server could not bind to the transport \Device\NetBT_Tcpip_{02507613-02CB-4F7D-8AB7-9CFF9EB520F4}.

yeah, your GA Card is causing the drivers to halt. am afraid the card may be faulty. The other files may have received a DLL error due to the sudden interruption of the processes from the crash, so makes sense some windows errors would occur.

Unfortunately it is still not 100% accurate as there is very little chance it may also be the GA causing the graphics to crash if faulty. It is not that common, but I honestly do not use a GA myself, I can't say with certainty.

Would recommend testing another card my 2 cents