Alkyy

A kind redditor over at r/techsupport figured out using the dumpfiles that one of my cpu cores was the problem. Disabling it and another in Ryzen Master fixed my issue. Solved!

Before you go into the comments, I have all the latest drivers and have freshly reinstalled Windows. If you still think there is some lesser-known driver I may have forgotten, go ahead. For over two years now, I have been having multiple daily issues with my computer. Here they are in chronological order as they´ve shown up over time. 1. STATUS_ACCESS_VIOLATION error on YouTube, tab crashes (became less common after the first few months) 2. Blue screens (BSOD) : (multiple daily) (see errors below) 3. Random restart (rare, weekly) 4. PC turns to a slideshow, ~5sec per frame (super rare, comes and goes) 5. Game/chrome just closes, never happens when gaming, only when idle with the game open in the background (few daily, increasingly more common) 6. Full Freeze, no input works (very rare) 7. Windows File Explorer dies, stuck loading (multiple daily) The interesting thing that I´ve noticed is that I never blue screen when gaming. So to test out this theory I decided to keep a game open in the background.. and it worked! Out of all the games I´ve tried, Dota Underlords works best on its own. So every time I launch the PC it is a race to launch Dota Underlords before I blue screen. Interestingly, even with it open, I still need to be doing something on the computer to mitigate the blue screens. I can be sitting here watching youtube or whatever for 5 hours straight with no issues, but the moment I leave the room for 2 minutes, I return to a restarted computer. Recently however, even that is not enough, the problems keep escalating and Dota Underlords keeps crashing on its own (showing a gpu usage spike in task manager) leading to the blue screen shortly after. I´ve found that having Civilization 6 open on top of that minimizes this. My conclusion then was that it is either a Windows issue, or a disk issue. The various blue screen error codes tell me either of a corruption or maybe something wrong with the anti-virus/security, since another thing that I´ve noticed recently is Windows Defender almost daily gives me a status report of how it scanned the device 6 times and found nothing. So, I opened up the PC, cleaned it using my hands, compressed air and a vacuum cleaner. I also swapped around which SATA ports my SSDs use. I took out the GPU and dusted it. Then I put in a BRAND NEW type of drive (M.2 NVMe Samsung 970 EVO PLUS) that my computer has NEVER SEEN and installed a BRAND NEW operating system (MX Linux, allegedly the most stable OS possible) on it that my computer has NEVER SEEN and the result??? No difference. While it doesnt crash (self restart) like the Windows installation, the browsers (firefox, chrome) crash upon launch or within 3 seconds. IT CONSISTENTLY FREEZES after a while of doing something like downloading discord, opening pdfs or browsers. So load seems to have an opposite effect than it does on the Windows installation, but while it is "stable" when idle, I STILL CANT DO ANYTHING. Listening to LTG is the only option I feel I have left. The non-exhaustive blue screen error code collection: Most common: System_service_exception (sometimes on its own, sometimes additional error code) irql_not_less_or_equal Kernel.. lock.. on_thread_termination Memory_management PFN_list_corrupt The rest: Mountmgr.sys failed attempted execute/ of non exexute memory Ntfs.sys service exception Fltmgr.sys system service exception Wdfilter.sys registry filter driver exception Kmode exception not handled Reference by pointer Kernel thread priority floor violation Kernel mode heap corruption Dxgkrnl.sys system service exception Driver_overran_stack_buffer Irql gt zero at system service Unexpected kernel mode trap Afd.sys system service exception Invalid io boost state (after shutting off) Ntfs file system Win32kfull.sys s_s_e (after shutting off) Multiple irp complete requests Unexpected store exception Invalid io boost state Driver irql not less than equal Kernel stack locked at exit Npfs.SYS system service exception Critical structure corruption fast_eresource_precondition_violation system_service_exception gameflt.sys driver_overran_stack_buffer Invalid_process_detach_attempt

Context: Ive just found an old ics file in my downloads folder with a 13-digit number as its name that is 4589 bytes large. I dont recall ever downloading such a thing and I have never used the calendar for anything. I did some googling and apparently ics files can be viruses that attack the vulnerabilities of calendar apps but, it can also be opened with notepad and such programs. I am curious as to what it is and so I am wondering whether opening it with notepad is safe or not. Thanks for the future answers.

SOLVED! at a cost.. I had to go with the nuclear option, that being to reinstall Windows. I took the SSD out and put it into another computer to back up some important stuff, all went smoothly. 1. To fix the corrupted USB I just ran the Windows thing on it again. 2. When I went to install Windows, it said my drive needs to be GPT and not MBR. 3. I followed this guide but that involved wiping the whole drive. 4. In a comment on that video I saw someone suggesting to create the partitions manually, something I was hoping Windows would do. 5. Not trusting Windows, I did so according to this guide Method 2, Step 3. (Which I was unable to do before due to "not enough reclaimable bytes" supposedly.) IT WORKS! All of my original data is gone but oh well, the price of Windows. If you currently have this problem and this post just popped up in google, hi!

What all does installing windows over everything i have entail? can it even make the partition?

What do you mean "boots from internal drive"? The SSD is fully functional, it was in another computer earlier today and i backed up some stuff, it just DOESNT HAVE A BCD/EFI PARTITION. Im trying to avoid losing further data. Are you saying i just select the basic "Install windows" option from the bootable usb? Can that create a partition? What else does it entail, explain like i dont know anything bout computers(almost true). I dunno what youre on about or if you cant read, MY WINDOWS DOESNT BOOT.

I am currently booted from a windows bootable usb because my SSD does not have a bcd and therefore windows cannot boot. I am currently following this: https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.diskpart.com/windows-10/missing-efi-partition-windows-10.amp.html guide, method 2 to create a EFI partition. when i run the shrink desired command it says: the specified shrink size is too big and will cause the volume to be smaller than the minimum volume size. when i run "shrink querymax" it says: the maximum number of reclaimable bytes is: 0 B There is 70gb empty on that disk. What to do

Nope, there is only the big main "Partition 1" and a 500mb recovery "partition 2"

I am currently following this: https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.diskpart.com/windows-10/missing-efi-partition-windows-10.amp.html guide, method 2 to create a EFI partition. when i run the shrink desired command it says: the specified shrink size is too big and will cause the volume to be smaller than the minimum volume size. when i run "shrink querymax" it says: the maximum number of reclaimable bytes is: 0 B There is 70gb empty on that disk. What to do

So i followed the guide: first option to repair didnt work Second option to rebuildbcd in command prompt didnt work, so i googled why it doesnt. One guide said that windows repair enviroment cant be detected in USB 3.0. So i turned off pc and put the usb into a 2.0. Now i get this: Even when i put the usb back into 3.0 it still only shows this, not the blue windows stuff. Did the usb get corrupted?

Lets say im able to backup what i need, Then whats the process. I just watched a video on how to create a EFI partition, do i do that and then do repair? What are the exact steps here? Thanks for the replies

That is quite an expensive and time consuming solution. Is the bootable windows usb repair not an option? All i need is for windows to make a boot partition/folder on my SSD, right? Most of my truly important stuff is backed up elsewhere. I REALLY need this computer functioning. I have just found a windows forum post https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_10-hardware/windows-boot-loader-installed-itself-on-my-old/ff3dc47c-9a28-4d8f-bb94-bb2cf690e362 that deals with a similar issue but its quite complicated and i dont know whether it would help my completely unbootable PC.

Everything important is on the SSD. Thats why im worried about losing data. I have previously reinstalled Windows without losing data (i think) but now its gotten complicated. The plan was to wait on my new SSD that i ordered last week to arrive and back stuff up on it, now i cant access anything.. Is that repair option from a usb the thing to do? And if what are the EXACT steps?

An operating system wasnt found... nothing changed in thd BIOS either, SSD is still the only boot option (the other is "Disabled") same as an hour ago, i clicked the override boot and same thing again

It was a fresh install, backed up some stuff on an old laptop and formatted everything, i have made posts about that experience aswell but i cant easily navigate to them as im on my phone.