Solved Multiple BSOD and Consistent Game crashes

I just finished building a brand new PC. Specs are:

Intel Core i9-12900K 3.2 GHz 16-Core Processor
Asus ROG STRIX Z690-E GAMING WIFI ATX LGA1700 Motherboard
Corsair Dominator Platinum RGB 64 GB (4 x 16 GB) DDR5-6200 CL36 Memory
3x Samsung 980 Pro 2 TB M.2-2280 PCIe 4.0 X4 NVME Solid State Drive
Zotac GAMING AMP Holo GeForce RTX 3080 Ti 12 GB Video Card
Corsair RM1000x (2021) 1000 W 80+ Gold Certified Fully Modular ATX Power Supply
Windows 11

My first problems with this build have been the initial windows installation. Multiple BSOD while USB media was plugged in and freezes during installation phase. In efforts to remedy I have tried installing across all 3 m.2s, re-installing every piece of hardware(including CPU) and insane amount of restarts. I am not sure what fixed this problem, but eventually I jammed Windows 11 in, the only thing I did differently was plugging my USB through my case chassis.

At this point I figured it was drivers, so I immediately downloaded all the drivers I could through armory crate and geforce experience. Also downloaded ICUE and Logitech G-hub. The next issues were that random crashes would happen with applications such as firefox. When loading video games I am able to get to the load screen but once the game starts up it crashes(sometimes I get about 5 seconds of walking around). These are games across Steam and Origin. Also I have games installed on different SSDs.

The last big issues are with BSOD while doing restarts/shutdowns. Sometimes if I restart the computer through windows, it will give me a BSOD, or on start-up it will just give me a black screen. I have tried swapping around my RAM and am currently using the 2 stick configuration in accordance with how the manual wants it to be set-up. I have also un-installed armory crate since apparently that causes lots of issues. All of my attempted fixes are not working. Any advice is appreciated!

veeg said:

Hello

Did you install the chipset drivers for your mobo?

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Hello!
Re downloaded armory crate just to make sure. Yes the intel chipset driver is installed

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Bastet said:

Win 11 & games currently have problems so any games installed may be buggy due to this.
What is the exact error code/message when the BSoD shows?
Have you removed all but 1 RAM stick to see if the PC still bluescreen? If it doesn’t then insert 1 RAM stick at a time testing in between. You may have a bad RAM stick.

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I have tried between all 4 of my sticks. The error codes differ:
PAGE FAULT IN NONPAGED AREA
IRQL NOT LESS OR EQUAL
Some other errors I have seen are-Kernel Security Check Failure, and code 0x8007025d-0x2000c

Bastet said:

Have you checked for any BIOS updates?

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Yep! My BIOS is the latest version.

Bastet said:

Is Windows installed? If not then disconnect any unneeded USB devices & disconnect from the internet, then install Windows & choose not to install updates.
If Windows is installed then run Sfc & dism-
Right click on start & choose powershell/terminal with admin & type/copy & paste these cmds one at a time then click Enter:
SFC /SCANNOW
DISM /Online /Cleanup-Image /StartComponentCleanup
DISM /Online /Cleanup-Image /RestoreHealth

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All operations were completed successfully (Windows is installed). SFC found corrupt files and repaired. Still unable to load any video games.

Bastet said:

Are these games via Microsoft, Steam, Epic, Ubisoft or another gaming platform?
What happens exactly when you install or open the games?

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The games are across steam, battlenet, and origin. All are on seperate SSDs as well. I can launch the launcher, but crashes shortly after launching. Some games like Cyberpunk, I can walk around for about 5-10 seconds then it crashes. Same with Sims 4. Games like Warhammer Darktide, crash immedialtely after picking which game to load. I used the 3D Mark Stress test on steam, and that had no issues and the system stress test completed fully.

Malnutrition said:

Here are a few things you can do to improve performance on the computer. Perhaps it will help your issue, I am thinking it may be a hardware setting, but I am unsure.

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Reset your Hosts file.

1. Click here to download RstHosts v2.0\
2. Save the file to your desktop.
3. Right Click and Run as Administrator.
4. Click on Restaurer, then click OK at the prompt.
5. This will restore the default host file.

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Open a notepad and copy the content of the code box below, paste into open notepad and save it to your desktop as clean.bat then right click on clean.bat and run as admin.

Note: You should allow the n batch file to complete, it may take some time (ten minutes) and some assistance on your part!! Once it reboots your machine that is when it is done.


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Code:

@echo off
wmic /Namespace:\\root\default Path SystemRestore Call Enable "%SystemDrive%"
WMIC /Namespace:\\root\default Path SystemRestore Call CreateRestorePoint "BatchRestorePoint", 100, 10
fsutil resource setautoreset true c:\&fsutil usn deletejournal /d /n c:
powercfg.exe /setactive 381b4222-f694-41f0-9685-ff5bb260df2e
powercfg -hibernate off
bitsadmin /reset /allusers
nbtstat -R
nbtstat -RR
netsh winsock reset all
netsh winsock reset catalog
netsh winhttp reset proxy
netsh int tcp set heuristics disabled
netsh int tcp set global rss=enabled
netsh int tcp set global autotuninglevel=normal
netsh interface httpstunnel reset all
netsh interface portproxy reset all
netsh interface ip delete arpcache
netsh advfirewall reset
netsh advfirewall set allprofiles state On
wmic nicconfig where (IPEnabled=TRUE) call SetDNSServerSearchOrder ("76.76.19.19", "8.8.4.4")
%WINDIR%\SYSTEM32\lodctr.exe /R
%WINDIR%\SysWOW64\lodctr.exe /R
C:\Windows\SYSTEM32\lodctr.exe /R
C:\Windows\SysWOW64\lodctr.exe /R
DISM.exe /Online /Cleanup-Image /StartComponentCleanup
pause
DISM.exe /Online /Cleanup-image /Restorehealth
pause
del /s /q C:\Windows\SoftwareDistribution\download\*.*
del /s /q "%userprofile%\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Edge\User Data\Default\Cache\*.*"
del /s /q "%userprofile%\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\User Data\Default\Cache\*.*"
del /s /q "%userprofile%\AppData\Local\Opera Software\Opera Stable\Cache\Cache_Data\*.*"
del /s /q "%userprofile%\AppData\Local\temp\*.*"
del /f /s /q %systemdrive%\*.tmp
del /f /s /q %systemdrive%\*.log
del /f /s /q %systemdrive%\*.chk
del /f /s /q %systemdrive%\recycled\*.*
del /f /s /q %windir%\*.bak
del /f /s /q %windir%\prefetch\*.*
ipconfig /flushdns
ipconfig /registerdns
sc stop RasAuto
sc stop RasMan
sc stop SessionEnv
sc stop TermService
sc stop UmRdpService
sc stop RemoteAccess
sc config RasAuto start= disabled
sc config RasMan start= disabled
sc config SessionEnv start= disabled
sc config TermService start= disabled
sc config UmRdpService start= disabled
sc config RemoteAccess start= disabled
sc stop sysmain
sc config sysmain start= disabled
sc stop iphlpsvc
sc config iphlpsvc start= disabled
sc stop DiagTrack
sc config DiagTrack start= disabled
sc stop dmwappushservice
sc config dmwappushservice start= disabled
sc stop WSearch
sc config WSearch start= disabled
sc stop lfsvc
sc config lfsvc start= disabled
del /s /q %ProgramData%\Microsoft\Diagnosis\ETLLogs\AutoLogger\AutoLogger-Diagtrack-Listener.etl
REG ADD HKLM\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\DataCollection /v AllowTelemetry /d 0 /t REG_DWORD /f
reg add HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\SQMClient\parameters /v DisabledComponents /t REG_DWORD /d 0xFFFFFFFF
reg add hklm\system\currentcontrolset\services\tcpip6\parameters /v DisabledComponents /t REG_DWORD /d 0xFFFFFFFF
echo "" > %ProgramData%\Microsoft\Diagnosis\ETLLogs\AutoLogger\AutoLogger-Diagtrack-Listener.etl
sfc /scannow
pause
shutdown -r
Exit /B

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Install this program and run all below to max.

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Reboot your machine and see how things are.

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Installed everything. Same results