Troubleshooting

[ArushM]

So last night my entire PC nuked itself last night, where it would not boot into windows and was continually BSOD looping. All I could see in event viewer was Kernal-Power Error 41. For context I have 2 wifi chips in my PC, first the one that is on the MB (Intel AX211) and its antenna got mangled when I moved, so I bought a Wifi card (GC-WBAX210) with an Intel AX110 on it. The first time (See previous posts) I fixed this by just getting disabling the wifi chip I wasn't using (AX211) in device manager in safe mode and then updated the drivers and that was it, however, this time when I did that, I had issues downloading the driver itself, intel gave me an error when I tried to run the .exe file. The exact error was "one or more issues caused the setup to fail". I just downloaded the zip file and chose the one in device manager that didn't cause my PC to crash every couple of minutes, the options were between 3 Intel AX210 drivers or 1 microsoft one, The only one that did not crash was the microsoft one.

So now no more BSODs but when I got to get my OC back, which was rock solid previously, and we are back to more BSODs. As far as I can tell its been stable at stock, but I at least want XMP back and hopefully iGPU tuning but just getting back everything would be the best. Can someone please tell me why the OC that was previously rock solid is now crashing on me.

Things I've tried to fix it: 

• Reflash the same BIOS
• Give the CPU and iGPU more voltage
• Lower ring ratio clock
• More RAM voltage and slower freq and less tight timings

Things I am going to try:

• Re-entering all the OCs by hand instead of using the profiles that are saved
• Disabling all the intel technologies (c-state etc)

Specs: https://pcpartpicker.com/user/ArushM/saved/#view=XTXfpg

Please let me know of anything I missed/ you would like to know.

[OddOod]

specs?

 

[ArushM]

13 minutes ago, OddOod said:

specs?

 

Sorry, can you see this? https://pcpartpicker.com/user/ArushM/saved/#view=XTXfpg

[OddOod]

6 minutes ago, ArushM said:

Sorry, can you see this? https://pcpartpicker.com/user/ArushM/saved/#view=XTXfpg

Sorry, I must be blind
What does bluescreenview say about your BSODs?

[ArushM]

8 minutes ago, OddOod said:

Sorry, I must be blind
What does bluescreenview say about your BSODs?

Whats bluescreenview? I have just been using event viewer.

[ArushM]

It magically fixed it self by either running chkdsk /f /r or enabling complete minidump, I don't know which but I'll take it

[ArushM]

1 hour ago, ArushM said:

It magically fixed it self by either running chkdsk /f /r or enabling complete minidump, I don't know which but I'll take it

NVM still messed up

[OddOod]

21 hours ago, ArushM said:

bluescreenview

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/download/bluescreenview/
BSV is a pretty great minidump interrogator. As always, google software recs before installing

 

14 hours ago, ArushM said:

running chkdsk /f /r

Might be dying drive. Crystal disk info might give some better details
Also def do a run of SFC and DISM

[ArushM]

10 hours ago, OddOod said:

BSV is a pretty great minidump interrogator. As always, google software recs before installing

 

I got ntoskrnl.exe and ntfs.sys from it, I attempted to reinstall windows completely, deleting everything on the drive, didnt work and I was crashing before I could even finish the setup (without any OC), I am going to format C drive and see what happens

10 hours ago, OddOod said:

Might be dying drive. Crystal disk info might give some better details
Also def do a run of SFC and DISM

All gave back clean results

 

@RONOTHAN## Sorry to ask for your help again but if you have any insight please

[ArushM]

I formatted the C drive and am still getting blue screens, I am going to try new BIOS now

[OddOod]

On 7/25/2024 at 8:01 PM, ArushM said:

I formatted the C drive and am still getting blue screens, I am going to try new BIOS now

Okay, this sounds like you need to do a memtest (do the long one). If that fails, do memtest one stick at a time. If both sticks fail, then it's probably mobo, if one stick fails and the other doesn't you need to RMA RAM.

There is something hardware here that's failing. 

[ArushM]

1 hour ago, OddOod said:

Okay, this sounds like you need to do a memtest (do the long one). If that fails, do memtest one stick at a time. If both sticks fail, then it's probably mobo, if one stick fails and the other doesn't you need to RMA RAM.

There is something hardware here that's failing. 

I figured it out, bad drivers corrupted windows, then the bad drivers were still on the hardware making it useless. I just booted into safe mode and had a USB with all the right drivers. I think it was either the bluetooth or wifi.

 

And also the RAM passed memtest even when it was overclocked

[OddOod]

Awesome! Thanks for reporting back