BSOD Issue

[MrPhantastic]

Hi,  

Running win10 build 1903

I'm encountering an issue with windows here, and am wondering what I can do to fix it. Essentially this is what happened. I was running VLC and Assassins Creed at the same time (don't know why this matters, but it might), and experienced and bsod. Nothing of note the first time. I let it reset, and then as soon as I logged into windows again, and it showed me the desktop, the system greeted me with another bsod. I've tried multiple times, and only bsods occur. Sometimes, It'll sit at the desktop for a min or two, and as soon as I try to open a program, it bsods. Common error messages that have shown up include things like: critical process died, attempted write to readonly memory, system thread exception not handled, system service exception, irql less or not equal, and more. When I went to go into startup recovery, run the "sfc /scannow" command in cmd, it told me it was successful at repairing, told me to restart, only to greet me with another crash. Any ideas on how to help me out? Thanks, I really appreciate it. I would like to leave resetting the pc to a last resort. Speaking of which, if I reset, if i choose keep files, will it clean out other drives other than my system drive?

[Mira Yurizaki]

Things that commonly cause BSODs are either bad/buggy drivers, dying storage drive, or bad RAM. I highly doubt it's the first one unless you have something from a lesser-known company or recently updated something. If you can check the drive's SMART data or run

chkdsk C: /f /r 

... to see if it's having issues.

 

For bad RAM, use https://www.memtest.org/ and let it run overnight. If it comes with any errors or crashes, then the RAM is suspect.

[MrPhantastic]

17 minutes ago, Mira Yurizaki said:

Things that commonly cause BSODs are either bad/buggy drivers, dying storage drive, or bad RAM. I highly doubt it's the first one unless you have something from a lesser-known company or recently updated something. If you can check the drive's SMART data or run

chkdsk C: /f /r 

... to see if it's having issues.

 

For bad RAM, use https://www.memtest.org/ and let it run overnight. If it comes with any errors or crashes, then the RAM is suspect.

Alright, thanks, its running chkdsk now, Ill get back with some results.