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Windows BSOD, no logs - motherboard issue?

Joeeeh

I wanted to share this story here to see if anyone else has experienced anything similar or has any tips. I'm feeling desperate.

 

Lately I have been getting a myriad of blue screen errors using my pc. Typically they are SYSTEM_SERVICE_EXCEPTION, CRITICAL_PROCESS_DIED, MEMORY_MANAGEMENT, or UNEXPECTED_STORE_EXCEPTION. The worst part about these exceptions is that I'm also getting a "Dump file creation failed due to error during dump creation." error in the Event Viewer with no logs or dump files.

 

The system always locks up in the same way (while loading into a game, opening a new application, installing something). A window will freeze, and then a few seconds later I'll lose control of my mouse. I'll get the blue screen error and the PC will freeze at 0% collecting the exception.

Originally, I had chalked this up to a bad PSU after swapping out my RAM and SSD. I RMA'd my PSU (Cooler Master V850) and when I put the new one in the BSOD's went away. It started happening again some months later, so I RMA'd it again, and then sold the new in box one on kijiji, assuming it was a bad batch of PSU's. I bought a replacement Corsair PSU and it went away again.

 

Now that the errors are back I'm starting to lean toward there being an issue with my motherboard, or my CPU's memory controller. Surely my PC isn't killing power supplies, right?

 

My specs are:
Intel i9 12900k

MSI RTX 4090

1000w Corsair SFX PSU

32GB kit of Corsair CL16 DDR4

1TB WD Black SSD 


Things I've tried:
Windows reinstall

Memtest86

BIOS updates

BIOS factory reset (no OC, or XMP)

Replaced PSU x3

Replaced my RAM

Swapping RAM slots

Replaced my SSD

Swapping m.2 slots

Reseated GPU and CPU

Unplugged my GPU

Enabled driver verifier

Tried different dump file creation methods

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My guess would be a dying mobo, though it would be a good idea to run a CHKDSK on your OS drive.

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Man mobo is a serial killer for hardware.

That's a lot trust in mobo.

 

Hopefully that's the case swap mobo.

 

If it was ssd then surely he would've encountered corrupted files.

I'm jank tinkerer if it works then it works.

Regardless of compatibility 🐧🖖

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58 minutes ago, BoomerDutch said:

Man mobo is a serial killer for hardware.

That's a lot trust in mobo.

 

Hopefully that's the case swap mobo.

 

If it was ssd then surely he would've encountered corrupted files.

I’ve swapped SSD’s from when I was originally running into this issue and have installed a clean version of Windows since, so I don’t think it’s the drive. 

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