CRITICAL_PROCESS_DIED: Hardware failure?

BShen · May 8, 2020

So my laptop was all fine until 3rd May when it had two BSODs (couldn't catch the code, and all crashes listed in this thread simply does not make a memory dump into the system *at all*).

All hell went loose on yesterday (7th May) when I had NINE crashes with a few essentially crashing into a bootloop.

Tried to run Windows in safe mode but amazingly BSODs still happened, so I suspect it'd be either some sort of kernel problem OR a hardware failure of some sort.

Here are some of the codes that I recorded (in chronological order, might skipped one or two because I couldn't catch the code in time):

UNEXPECTED_STORE_EXCEPTION

CRITICAL_PROCESS_DIED

UNEXPECTED_STORE EXCEPTION

KERNEL_DATA_INPAGE_ERROR

SYSTEM_SERVICE_EXCEPTION

CRITICAL_PROCESS_DIED (two or three times in a row, bootlooped, occurred in Safe Mode as well)

CRITICAL_PROCESS_DIED (on 8th May)

*all codes seemed to point towards hardware failure as the cause in common.

**none were dumped into logs, all were caught on camera.

After 6th? / 9th crash, Windows couldn't even boot at all (BIOS says no bootable device). I tried to do a Startup Repair but Windows says it failed to repair for some reason. Somehow it was able to boot again after I leave my laptop to switch off for some time.

Among the few crashes, it seemed to happen during my file transfer process (I was doing some emergency backup from my HDD) although there's a few times it crashes while I was on YouTube or playing video from my HDD. In some cases it crashes on idle state (I suspect there was disk activity one time I was checking on disk status and saw System is reading data in the background).

Specs:

HP Pavilion 15-au136tx

i7-7500U

940MX (with a busted heatpipe)

Boot drive: 128GB onboard SSD (supplied by Samsung)

Storage drive: 1TB onboard HDD (supplied by WD)

SMART status: OK (checked on both OS level and UEFI level)

No hardware errors on RAM/storage/CPU based on a few fast to medium speed diagnostic tests from UEFI.

Did sfc /scannow and found a problem but still crashed later on. DISM did not get any problems, chkdsk C: / D: did not get anything.

How high of a chance it might be a hardware failure? I'm not planning on buying a new one until Ryzen 4000 gaming laptops are available in my country.