nvlddmkm.sys BSOD on MSI GT70 0NC laptop with Geforce GTX 670M

[MartDrummer]

When I try and run a game that does 3D rendering, my laptop BSOD's.
It happens with all kinds of 3D games. Cities: Skylines, BF2, BF3.

These games do not crash when run on my integrated Intel HD Graphics 4000.

I am (was) running the newest Geforce drivers. 347.88. I downgraded to 347.52 via Device Manager, and it still happens.

This has been going on since yesterday. Today i cleaned my laptop by removing the 2 heatsinks and fan. Before cleaning, the temperature when doing normal use would be 70-80 degrees celsius, and 90-100 when gaming. Now that I've cleaned the PC, it stays about 70 for Core #0 and about 50 for the three rest when gaming, and about 50 in mormal use.
I therefore do not suspect it is because of heat.

When playing BF2 on dedicated NVIDIA GPU, menus and other 2D elements work just fine. No glitching, artifacts or stuff like that. When a map is loaded and it starts to render the 3D enviroment, it BSOD's within 2-3 seconds. In those 2-3 seconds, there are no glitching, artifacts or other things like that.

This leads me to believe, that a part of the GPU cad, say a little chip or connection, is broken, leading the card to fail only when doing a specific thing (in this example, 3D rendering), but still working just fine otherwise and being recognized by the system.

What is your take on this matter?

 

[RobWHS]

Did you do a 'clean install' when changing drivers?

 

[MartDrummer]

I actually didn't. I should try do that.

I'm pretty sure it's dead though. The problem just started randomly. The PC had been running the same drivers for moths before this happened.

 

[MartDrummer]

Tried doing a clean reinstall. Didn't make a difference.

Almost 100% sure either the GPU or part of the motherboard has gone bad.
Thanks for the suggestion anyway.