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    Crashing/Freezing cause by Hardware Failure

    Yes it stated that my PC didnt meet the requirements for Windows 11 so I enabled the TPM 2.0 setting and the secure boot and that fixed that issue. I now have the original hard drive in and have set the bios to the optimized default settings but it is still failing to boot. I'm confident it's...
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    Crashing/Freezing cause by Hardware Failure

    The issue arose with Windows 10 installed. I thought the hard drive had gone bad so I purchased a new one along with the Windows 11 install media USB drive from best buy but I couldn't even finish the install before it froze during setup.
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    Crashing/Freezing cause by Hardware Failure

    This had started about a month to a month and a half ago, I updated the GOU driver only a week ago. I got that driver directly from nvidia's site. The operating system is Windows 10. I do have a Windows 11 install media available along with the new SSD I bought (Samsung 970 EVO Plus NVMe M.2 1...
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    Crashing/Freezing cause by Hardware Failure

    I attempted a full re-install of Windows (keeping personal files but deleting all programs), but it froze doing that several times before returning to it's normal state which was being able to post for 2-3 minutes before freezing.
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    Crashing/Freezing cause by Hardware Failure

    It is a desktop PC and does not post at the moment, it either freezes at "Preparing Automatic Repair" within the initial ASUS launch window or it goes directly to "Automatic Repair could not repair your PC" in a Windows type menu. Below are all the specs I am aware of for parts: CPU: AMD Ryzen...
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    Crashing/Freezing cause by Hardware Failure

    Hello, I built a Windows PC two years ago and in the last month I started experiencing freezing/going to a black screen and restarting. I haven't made any new hardware changes and the only software updates made were basic windows updates or a manual GPU driver update. I've tried a new hard...
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    • dpc_watchdog_violation hardware failure windows 10 issue
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