Solved Reproduceable BSOD issue - interferes with startup and work - need help

My PC is crashing in two scenarios repeatedly, sometimes jsut after starting up and opening browser etc. is freezes and BSODS, maybe 50% of the time, I just restart thriceish then.
Second Scenario is trying to play Tarkov(EFT) on bigger Maps, can't go 2min without crashing (really wanna play Tarkov please it just wiped), smallest map factory often can be played without issue, but does nto seem to be a heat problem.

The BSODS "types" are usually DPC Watchdog Violation (most often one jsut after start), "PAGE FAULT IN NONPAGED AREA", "MEMORY MANAGEMENT".

I've attached my event viewer logs and the most recent crashdump.

I suspect it's a fautly driver, but I really have no idea and more importandly, if I'm right I have no idea how to find out which one it is I need to reset.

Specs:
Win 10 Home
Graca: Radeon RX590 Series
Processor 11th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-11700K
RAM: Patriot Memory Viper 4 Series RAM DDR4 32GB (2 x 16GB) 3200MHz Kit CL16
Motherboard: ASUS Prime Z590-P

SOS please halp - it's a mix between fun and work PC and I've been struggeling with this since for over a week and I'm just a wittle gobwlin that can't even read event viewer logs

Yeah, sorry for the late answer, I tried what you suggested and it did not help. Also did win memory checks both times and they came up with nothing.

Last BSOD was "SYSTEM THREAD EXCEPTION NOT HANDLED", I'd attach crash logs etc. if it seemed like anyone would ever read them. But I'll just keep on hoping and leave the critical event viewer details here, maybe it will help. At this point idk if a reset would fix my problems.


- <Event xmlns="

http://schemas.microsoft.com/win/2004/08/events/event

">


- <System>


<Provider Name="Microsoft-Windows-Kernel-Power" Guid="{331c3b3a-2005-44c2-ac5e-77220c37d6b4}" />


<EventID>41</EventID>


<Version>8</Version>


<Level>1</Level>


<Task>63</Task>


<Opcode>0</Opcode>


<Keywords>0x8000400000000002</Keywords>


<TimeCreated SystemTime="2022-07-17T13:42:21.0135798Z" />


<EventRecordID>8130</EventRecordID>


<Correlation />


<Execution ProcessID="4" ThreadID="8" />


<Channel>System</Channel>


<Computer>DESKTOP-2FHNFOP</Computer>


<Security UserID="S-1-5-18" />


</System>


- <EventData>


<Data Name="BugcheckCode">126</Data>


<Data Name="BugcheckParameter1">0xffffffffc0000005</Data>


<Data Name="BugcheckParameter2">0xfffff8023eaefd1e</Data>


<Data Name="BugcheckParameter3">0xfffffa0055386b58</Data>


<Data Name="BugcheckParameter4">0xfffff8022b4a9920</Data>


<Data Name="SleepInProgress">0</Data>


<Data Name="PowerButtonTimestamp">0</Data>


<Data Name="BootAppStatus">0</Data>


<Data Name="Checkpoint">0</Data>


<Data Name="ConnectedStandbyInProgress">false</Data>


<Data Name="SystemSleepTransitionsToOn">0</Data>


<Data Name="CsEntryScenarioInstanceId">0</Data>


<Data Name="BugcheckInfoFromEFI">false</Data>


<Data Name="CheckpointStatus">0</Data>


<Data Name="CsEntryScenarioInstanceIdV2">0</Data>


<Data Name="LongPowerButtonPressDetected">false</Data>


</EventData>


</Event>


xoxo

phillpower2 said:

Be happy to take a look if you would be so good as to see POSTING INSTRUCTIONS - Please read before posting in this section

For just uploading dmps.

1. Copy any dmp files from C:\Windows\Minidump onto the desktop.
2. Select all of them, right-click on one, and click on Send To> New Compressed (zipped) Folder.
3. Upload the zip folder using the Attach button, bottom left of the dialogue input box

Click to expand...

Hey, thanks for the offer.

In the first post in this thread is an older dump and eventviewer logs from me attached.
Here I'll also attach my most recent minidumps and eventviewer logs, only errors and critical errors.

Thanks in advance, tell me if you need any more info, I'm still betting on faulty drivers or something, if you find something and it's not as obvious as "roll back driver xy" I would greatly appreciate it if you would roughly point me to somewhere that helps me resolve the problem at hand.

xoxo

@phillpower2 Thanks for trying either way

Yeah by now I already disabled driver verifier since those three were from not being able to start up, due to driver verifier.

I expect many here are american including you and I'm european, so it's the mdidle of the night here and I just wanna note that it might be like at elast a day before I'll write another answer you'll read in time.

But I'll update/replace that driver and do some "stress testing" to see if the issues are fixed.

If not, I will attach minidumps and event viewer logs regarding the new crashes.

You can add this to the next message after my next crashdumps, if you want, but I just want to make sure, since you said "only one lot of drivers flagged up", but on the link there is only one driver to see "Driver for Qualcomm Atheros CB42/CB43/MB42/MB43 Network Adapter" and not "lots of drivers". Is there like a link on there to the other flagged drivers that I'm missing, should I update/roll them back, or should I not worry about them for now?

xoxo

Hey @phillpower2 it uh still does the thing, meaning under high load, playing 5min Tarkov on a bigger map, it crashes seemingly randomly. After rolling back and updating the "Driver for Qualcomm Atheros CB42/CB43/MB42/MB43 Network Adapter".

I've attached the dump regarding that and the uptodate eventviewer logs.

@phillpower2 Btw Thanks for the help so far

So I reenabled DV and it did not give me any non-signified(? don't knwo the translation) drivers and thus went into the cycle of starting, trying to play and crashing.

I've attached the crash dumps.

The first one (time wise) was after getting into the "lobby" of the game Tarkov, going into loading for a raid (map) crashed, second one was crashing during PC startup directly, third one was trying to open the launcher for Tarkov which caused the BSOD and fourth one was on startup again. None of them during the BSOD gave me a faulty driver at the bottom and yeah you should be able to see the BSOD messages in the dumps I suspect. All 4 BSODS, but idk why only two crashdumps got generated.

Can gladly generate more this way if needed. Or whatever else might help.

Any ideas for fixes? Should I just take a day, copy everything and reset reset the system, like fully truly wipe it all? Or do you think this is reasonably solvable?

Kind regards

@phillpower2 Hey uh I could not resist trying another round, so heres another Crashdump 🙃

@phillpower2 Will do, thanks and good night

@phillpower2 Quick update: It did not work

I did everything to the letter, did the repair with all options ticked, I saw it find a few things and tried a round afterwards. It crashed after barely 2min to desktop without warning, tried again and it BSODS after 2min, crashdump is attached.

Also yes I have already tried reinstalling it etc. and just made a Windows Defender exception to be sure.

Any other realistic ideas/suggestions?

@phillpower2 First off, would the game pretty often crashing to desktop with an error message not suggest it is not a hardware instead of a software problem?

My PSU is an Thermaltake TR2-530AH2NSW 530 Watt

And here is my speccy, but I noticed some processes etc. are listed in german, so if you want me to redo it wafter changing system language to english, just tell - http://speccy.piriform.com/results/BG28ywd3H8nX7yVWEMInv14

Also I already checked the RAM and Storage using the windows tools for them, if you meant that.

@phillpower2 First off thanks for all the time invested. Yeah so I had this talk before and frankly I don't agree that it is the problem in the slightest. Long story short yes I know it's an old PSU, but before buying the parts I calculated that it can withstand/provide the power usage spikes of the RX590 with the rest of the system and I'm not about to fork over min. 150€ for or a new PSU, otherwise I would have already done so.


But mainly I don't think it is the issue since when I upgraded my system last year to the parts it has now, there were no problems at all, last Tarkov "season" which has almost exactly the same PC requirements as this season, I had no problem playing the biggest map with high FPS on high settings etc. except for the potential circumstance that the PSU fried itself in the meantime it makes no sense that it would be the problem.


But yes I already know I should/will replace it ~ "soonish"² and i don't think I got a PSU laying around that could work so I'll look into what you suggested there.


In the meantime you could humour me. So since running the PC repair ~ish I noticed(!) no more "startup" errors, BSODS when starting browser after startup for example and I downloaded some other games that are pretty "power" hungry, tested a lil and they seemed to cause no BSODS.


Meanwhile I got a reply in the Tarkov forums where I was seeking help at the same time, with even less success than I had here, I mean without you I'd be talking to the void, I'll attach the message at the end. They said it was a common issue with AMD cards.


But here's the catch where you might be able to help, long story short² I tried this before, what they rec, and depsite having an AMD card it made my PC unable to startup normally. So I had to use safe mode, thing is AMD won't let me reinstall their driver pack or the "adrenaline program" that acts like it while in safe mode, I tried everything my small limited mind could think of. And a PC recovery was not able to fix it/make the GPU drivers as they were either. So luckily I had all stuff backed up since I was afraid of this and had to reset my PC.


Got any ideas how I could prevent that, if I were to try what the devs were telling me to do again. Like if it ****s with my GPU running, whyever tf essentially deleting nvidia driver scraps would do that, for example how I can get those AMD drivers to reinstall under safe mode afterwards.



Here's what they wrote me:

This is a known issue and we are working on it right now.
To solve the problem yourself, please, follow the next steps:


1. Check if the monitor is connected to the integrated graphics card.


2. Close all running programs.


3. Install Display Driver Uninstaller: https://www.guru3d.com/files-details/display-driver-uninstaller-download.html.


4. Launch the program.


5. In the Options window that appears, clear all the checkboxes except those in the "NVidia Specific Options" section.


6. The checkboxes in the "NVidia Specific Options" section should be left as is: all except Remove PhysX are highlighted.


7. Click "Close" in the "Options" window.


8. In the main program window choose "GPU" in the "Select device type" line.


9. In the line "Select device" select "NVidia".


10. Press "Clean and restart" button.


11. Wait until the program finishes. The program will automatically restart your computer upon completion.


Please, tell us if the problem wasn't solved.


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