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So about a month ago my pc started crashing now and then when under load and was under performing. I opened it up and re built it from scratch, key point being that I had to replace the thermal paste because it looked like it was not cooling properly and was significantly darker than new paste. This fixed the crashing for a few days then it started crashing every time I launched a game that was taxing. I replaced the thermal paste with new thermal paste that wasn't opened before and this worked again for about a day and now my pc is crashing again. A few other problems are that I have had issues connecting my controller to my pc via bluetooth while it says unknown device every time. I also wiped all the files off the pc and re installed windows recently because I would consistently find corrupted files when scanning my pc. This didn't solve anything.

Hello everyone. I recently built a new PC that has been running into seemingly random unpredictable stop code errors including "PFN_REFERENCE_COUNT" mainly, but also "PAGE_FAULT_IN_NONPAGED_AREA". I have not received the Page Fault error since swapping RAM, which I assumed would fix the crashing altogether.. I was wrong. It continued crashing randomly, but with PFN_REFERENCE_COUNT every time since swapping RAM. Sometimes the PC would just restart unexpectedly without a stop code (BSOD). I've found an annoyingly tedious way to replicate the issue, and that is by downloading games from Steam for hours until it inevitably crashes. The crashes also happened while playing games. So far, I have restored Windows (even clean installed from USB) around 4 times, trying different things. The last time, I only installed Windows updates, the latest GPU driver through GeForce Experience, and Steam to download games. I queued hours of games while I slept, knowing that if I woke up to a login screen that it crashed again. It took roughly 5.5 hours before a crash. I checked event viewer, and sure enough, "The computer has rebooted from a bugcheck. The bugcheck was: 0x0000001c (0x0000000000000000, 0x0000000000000000, 0x0000000000000000, 0x0000000000000000)." As far as hardware, I've ruled out the RAM (since I replaced it), and the GPU since it worked perfect in my last build. As of now, it could be any of the remaining components OR Windows update/GPU driver OR bad BIOS/motherboard. NOTE: I've currently seen two similar cases relating to random BSODs and the X570 AORUS Elite motherboard after googling "BSOD e1r68x64" Link 1: e1r68x64.sys ndis.sys BSOD - Troubleshooting - Linus Tech Tips Link 2: Seemingly random BSOD's - Microsoft Community If anyone has experience with "PFN_REFERENCE_COUNT" please help. I've looked for a solution, but can't find anything that works.. just a bunch of sites trying to get me to download their sketchy driver software. Specs: - 5800X - Gigabyte Gaming OC 3070 - Gigabyte AORUS Elite X570 motherboard (currently on F36c BIOS version) - Corsair Vengeance LPX 16GB(8x2) 2400MHz RAM -- because I sent my 3600MHz TridentZ RAM back :( - WD SN550 NVMe SSD 1TB - EK 280mm AIO - Windows Version 10.0.19043 - NVIDIA Driver 472.12 I downloaded the minidump file AND also my Event Logs --- EventLogs: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1PfY2Z0pUys62tqKoTipCLmMWuqI0xXcH/view?usp=sharing MiniDump: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1lvspJP3_32L6Rob-RnYktnBRVOpbgIur/view?usp=sharing 092921-7843-01.dmp EVENT LOGS SYSTEM.evtx

Hi there, Been having nothing but issues from my PC over the last 4 months and am in the dark as to how to go about fixing this, any help would be greatly appreciated. Parts are as listed: CPU - 12th Gen Intel Core i7-12700K, 3600 Mhz, 12 Core(s), 20 Logical Processor(s) MOBO - ASUS PRIME Z690-P WIFI ATX (Rev 1.xx) (BIOS Version/Date American Megatrends Inc. 1401, 31/03/2022) RAM - 32gb Kingston HyperX Fury BEAST DDR5 5200MHz CL40 GPU - MSI GeForce RTX 3080 GAMING X TRIO 10G CASE - Phanteks Eclipse P400A D-RGB Black Edition STORAGE: OS: Seagate Firecuda 520 1Tb Gen 4 NVME M.2 (5,000MB/s reads, 4,400MB/s writes) SSDs: Kingston A2000 1TB Gen 3 NVME (2200MB/s reads, 2000MB/s writes), 2x Samsung 850 Evo drives 256gb each HDD: Seagate barracuda 2tb drive PSU: EVGA SuperNOVA 1000W G5 80+ Gold Fully Modular COOLER: NZXT Kraken x63 AiO 280MM OPERATING SYSTEM: Microsoft Windows 11 Home (Version 10.0.22000 Build 22000) So, to begin with on March 8th of 2022, after 4 months of flawless function (It was built in November 2021), I began to experience intermittent BSODs, Black screens, or Fatal freeze crashes consistently both on the desktop and while gaming and doing render work, I will list the error codes I have been given (I have recorded all of them and what I was doing during), after doing some internet sleuthing I thought I would give my BIOS an update, which did not solve the issue. After BSODs the computer would have periods of instability, blue screening over and over until the system was no longer able to boot, only interrupted by holding the power button. Furthermore, occasionally on booting one or more USB ports. I have taken my PC to New Zealand's primary tech retailer (PB technologies) and have not had much in the way of assistance, and they havent been able to replicate the issues. Primary symptoms: Intermittent (System can sometimes be stable for over 8 hours) BSoDs, Fatal Black screen crashes, Fatal freezes with and without artifacting on monitors Has crashed in BIOS both before and after BIOS update, along with freezing/crashing on DEL/F2 prompt on startup Occasionally crashes on boot, when ASUS logo appears, and when booting windows Front and rear USBs not working occasionally One instance of integrated Wifi chip not working, unable to detect home Wifi aswell as inability to connect via ethernet(its primary connection) Having XMP on or off makes no difference. (its currently off and still crashing) My Troubleshooting steps: Have cleared CMOS several times Ran /sfc scannow which detected corrupt files and repaired them, still crashing. Checked idle temps (CPU is 31C, GPU is 51C) The same occurred following a fresh installation of windows on a separate drive. still crashing, then used a installation of windows on one of the SATA SSDs, still crashing I disconnected my GPU and ran integrated graphics to test if it was the GPU, still crashed. Ran Memtest86, instant errors, repeated again and it passed without error, moved RAM from A1 and B1 to A2 and B2, passed again, used only one stick in A2, passed, one stick in B2, passed Repeated Memtest86 (4 pass) with RAM in A1 & B1, Passed Ran Prime95 for several hours on Large FFT torture test, no issues or crashes. Ran HCl design Memtest, no issues Ran both Prime95 and HCl memtest together, no issues. Ran Furmark @1440p and had no issues. Ran PC with loan NVME SSD from PB Technologies, no other drives connected. Still crashing List of BSoD error codes I have gotten (Low numbers due to me just giving up and using my laptop instead of PC): Windows 10: IRQL_NOT_LESS_THAN_EQUAL KERNAL_SECURITY_CHECK_FAILURE KMODE_EXCEPTION_NOT_HANDLED DRIVER_VERIFIER_DMA_VIOLATION KMODE_EXCEPTION_NOT_HANDLED SYSTEM_SERVICE_EXCEPTION SYSTEM_SERVICE_EXCEPTION SYSTEM_SERVICE_EXCEPTION CRITICAL_PROCESS_DIED SYSTEM_SERVICE_EXCEPTION PAGE_FAULT_IN_NONPAGED_AREA SYSTEM_SERVICE_EXCEPTION SYSTEM_SERVICE_EXCEPTION UNEXPECTED_KERNAL_MODE_TRAP IRQL_NOT_LESS_THAN_EQUAL DRIVER_VERIFIER_DMA_VIOLATION KERNAL_SECURITY_CHECK_FAILURE IRQL_NOT_LESS_THAN_EQUAL KERNAL_SECURITY_CHECK_FAILURE (2 month gap while PC was at PB Technologies getting looked at) Windows 11 beginning 23/06/2022): 1 BSOD - Error code flashed away too quick to see (26/06/2022 @10:46pm) DRIVER_IRQL_NOT_LESS_THAN_EQUAL with stornvme.sys being what failed (03/07/2022 @5:39pm) KMODE_EXCEPTION_NOT_HANDLED with wdf01000.sys being what failed (06/07/2022 @9:48pm) BAD_POOL_CALLER (08/07/2022 @12:36am) HYPERVISOR_ERROR whilst PC was doing literally nothing (08/07/2022 @12:40am) IRQL_NOT_LESS_THAN_EQUAL (13/07/2022 @11:49pm) SYSTEM_SERVICE_EXCEPTION with dxgkrnl.sys being what failed (14/07/2022 @12:15am) 3 more unrecorded BSODs today (16/07/2022) I will attach a zip containing my msinfo32 and several minidump files from both Windows 10 and Windows 11 Thank you for your help in advance. Minidumps and MSinfo32.zip

Hey, I have a problem with my new Asus VivoBook A550VX-DM660T. Whenever I play a game, I will get a Blue Screen Of Death after 10 to 20 minutes which says: Stopcode: Memory Management. Or the game closes and I get the error: GAME NAME (engine) .exe has stopped working. I already contacted Microsoft, but they won't help me unless I buy some sort of Support Package. It has something to do with the ram, but when I check my systemmemory with the Windows Memory Diagnostic Tool (mdsched.exe) everything seems to be fine. I am from the Netherlands (which probably explains my bad English Skills), but I don't know if this laptop is sold world wide. So here are my specs: Intel i5 7300HQ 8Gb dual channel Ram (2.133Mhz) GTX950M (2gb) 256gb Micron SSD Windows 10 64 Bit Does anyone have experience with this problem and knows how to fix it? Kind regards, Twan

So i got this pc, when i start it up, bois and all that works fine, but when i go to install windows. It starts to load but gives me this error here. Any ideas?

Recently my pc keeps on giving me random BSOD. I used a bluescreenofdeath “reader/application” and it shows me this tag: 0x00000124. And i saw something on the internet about either HDD, RAM or overclocking. However today i was installing a game on my pc and my D drive (HDD) was just using maximum 15% usage on task manager. Could anyone help me out. Thank you

Hi, I have been having trouble with my OS recently, (it has been throwing up BSODs on boot, then freezing) so I thought best to reinstall windows, so i plugged my hard drive into borrowed machine, formatted it, and then proceeded to create windows install media, with Microsoft's tool. Later, I plugged the HDD back in to my machine, plugged in the USB and went into boot options, and selected the USB stick, (note here there were two options, one that had the USB sticks name on it,, and one that had its name on it, but the words were spaced out, i selected the one with normal spacing) A windows loading screen came up, and then it spat out a BSOD. I had formatted the USB on the other Machine before making media, after a few unsuccessful attempts. i remade the install media, still no luck, please can anybody help, I could put ubuntu on it and see if it persists. thanks in advance, Andrew (EDIT: the bsods were driver irql not less or equal, and irql not less or equal)

Hello guys. I've built a new gaming and college work pc and it all worked great until about 5 days to a week into use. I started having bsod crashes giving me a different error code everytime. I tried a few things to fix this like updating drivers, deleting recently downloaded software and re-seating different components. Non of this did anything. I've attached a few pictures but can take more if they are any help. If anyone could give advice It would be greatly appreciated, seeing as no one I know has any idea of what to do. One did say it could be a hardware problem which I'm afraid of but I think I should try a complete fresh install of Windows maybe? Just to check. Thanks in advance.

Before starting, here are my specs https://pcpartpicker.com/b/yY9J7P?comment_sort=highest So recently my computer has run into some issues that leave me confused after hours and hours of troubleshooting. First I was getting error code 68 on my ASUS motherboard and it wasn't even able to post with my dual channel ram installed. I did some troubleshooting to make sure that my ram wasn't the problem and when I pulled one stick out, it booted to my OS perfectly. I tried both sticks in single channel in every slot and it would boot to OS flawlessly. However, while I was doing these tests my system would light up on restart, start to boot, and then the power would cut out and it would power cycle and boot after the initial power cut. After booting in single channel in each of the 4 slots with each stick of ram, I updated my BIOS and I put the ram back in the dual channel slots it was initially in and it booted just fine . Since then, I've done a full scan of my memory with MemTest86 and it came back 100% successful with no RAM issues detected. That's where the majority of my issues have cropped up. Long story short, I wiped my boot SSD and reinstalled windows 10 on it to ensure nothing was wrong. I updated all of my Nvidia drivers and windows drivers (as far as I can tell in the device manager tool). I keep crashing to a blue screen with different error codes each time. Some of my issues point to my drivers being awry, but I'm fearing that it could be a hardware issue. The error codes are: SYSTEM SERVICE EXCEPTION - Product NVIDIA Windows Kernel Mode Driver, Version 359.46 PAGE FAULT IN NONPAGED AREA STATUS SYSTEM PROCESS TERMINATED - module ntoskrnl.exe DRIVER PAGE FAULT IN FREED SPECIAL POOL - Product NVIDIA Windows Kernel Mode Driver, Version 359.46 MEMORY MANAGEMENT SPECIAL POOL DETECTED MEMORY CORRUPTION Error code "0xc000021a" I have GeForce experience on my computer, and have installed the latest drivers from Nvidia before these BSOD errors happened. Recently, my computer BSOD almost consistently upon rebooting(during the reboot process), but after one blue screen, it boots normally to windows. I get the nvlddmkm.sys (nvidia driver) crash when simply watching a YouTube video in Google Chrome with YouTube being the only tab open with steam, and spotify being the only things open on my computer. Videos will start to stutter and then it will crash with an awful noise. My games from my HDD won't launch. Should be noted that I uninstalled my GTX1080, and booted from the CPU's integrated graphics and I still crashed in the same way, but it wasn't a Nvidia driver that caused it.

Hey, so as you can see in the title i just had a bsod on my new gaming rig and I dont know why The name was: BAD_POOL_HEADER here is the event log: Fault bucket 0x19_20_fwpkclnt!FwpsConstructIpHeaderForTransportPacket0, type 0 Event Name: BlueScreen Response: Not available Cab Id: 73e93438-9695-4560-b46c-17fee8868f3d Problem signature: P1: 19 P2: 20 P3: ffffe001198ea0f0 P4: ffffe001198ea110 P5: 402000f P6: 10_0_10586 P7: 0_0 P8: 768_1 P9: P10: Attached files: C:\Windows\Minidump\082816-18640-01.dmp C:\Windows\Temp\WER-24437-0.sysdata.xml C:\Windows\MEMORY.DMP C:\Windows\Temp\WER6FFF.tmp.WERInternalMetadata.xml These files may be available here: C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\WER\ReportArchive\Kernel_19_b6b1729a95d0ac94ed234751f573efcb2c75ec1d_00000000_cab_06625970 Analysis symbol: Rechecking for solution: 0 Report Id: 1b7b0d17-737c-4633-aead-13513f545f1c Report Status: 0 Hashed bucket: Thanks!

Okay so I posted a forum post on here a while back it was around 6 days ago and now Im still having the same issue. So I had blue screens for the first two days I had my computer and it was all due to memory so this is what I did I changed the way the memory was setup to A1 and B1 to A2 to B2 and it stopped the blue screens for four days then it started happening again. I emailed my motherboard manufacturer which is ASRock and they told me to flash the bios and then take one stick out see if that one blue screens then put the other one in but that the one out that I had in so I would only have one in at a time. So I did and I ran the windows Memory Diagnostics and both sticks came up as nothing was wrong with them so what is wrong could it be my motherboard if so what could I do I got my mother board way before I built my actual computer.

Hey there this is my first computer build. Because of this, these issues are new to me. The issue I am having is during gameplay mostly steam downloaded games aka(Amar 3,2 ect.,Battlefield) I have been encountering a problem were during the start up of a game I am running at Ultra settings at 1080p res. I am running at 60fps. My computer runs good for about 5mins. in then suddenly the frame rate will drop off to around 15fps and then blue screen about 10-20min. later. My computer tells me its a hardware/driver issue I just don't know where this could be because I bought fairly top quality components. If anyone has any ideas that would be great! PC Specs: a) Asus Maximus 6 Gene Motherboard b Intel Core i7 4770k 3.5ghz. c) Dual EVGA GeForce GTX 670 2gb. of GDDR. 5 memory FTW running in SLI ​d) Corsair Vengeance 16gb Gddr 3 memory 1866mghz. 2x8gb. e) Corsair GTX Neutron Series 240gb. SSD (Games and operating system stored here) f) WD Black 1tb. HDD 7200rpm. g) H100i CPU Cooler h) Asus 12x Bluray Reader/DVD Burner i) Corsair AX860i Power Supply j) Corsair 350d Case

Hello, I keep getting the blue screen of death on Windows 8.1. It's been fine since I first got it (months ago) and then starting from the 8th of June 2014 it has randomly happened 5 times. I have uninstalled every program which I have installed since then but it still happens (like 5 minutes ago). I could upload a picture of the minidump if that helps because I have no idea how to analyse it. I would be grateful for any help, thanks.

I just built my dad a new pc cuz he has the habit of using 3 separate equally crap laptops. As of 2 days ago (build finish), everytime I run windows, it seems to give me the BSOD within 30min to 1 hour, generally when it puts itself to sleep. As far as I can tell, I've installed everything in the pc correctly. I turned off the auto restart function in Startup and Recovery and even installed BlueScreenView, and left the pc on in hopes that it would get to the BSOD again and I could troubleshoot in the morning. Unfortunately, I just woke up and it had reached the BSOD, but the BSOD was stuck at 0% in creating a minidump, only stating that it was a "SYSTEM SERVICE EXCEPTION". I'm about to go through the windowsreport.com troubleshooting list for the "SYSTEM SERVICE EXCEPTION error in Windows 10 [COMPLETE GUIDE]" to see if my problem goes away because I want to be able to give the pc to my dad soon, but please let me know if you have any suggestions. Also, my iTunes keeps freezing when it finishes downloading movies on my dad's PC. Don't think it had that issue with music, but I'm not sure. Don't want to not use iTunes entirely since I do have a huge iTunes music and movie library and know my dad likes to use it, but was wondering if this could have something to do with the BSOD crashes...