Could manually deleting windows.old cause random BSOD or system crash/force restart?

[AnimeMangaGamer]

I'm not entirely sure if it was already happening before I deleted the windows.old folder (I just wanted to get some drive space back that was being taking up by that folder since I reinstalled my OS last year but forgot about it) It does seem to happen more often when I'm playing a heavy load game such as Helldivers 2 but sometimes it would just happen randomly even with light task.

 

I used to have 13900K and while that chip did overheat and thermal throttle despite having a negative voltage offset I never really experienced anything like this BSOD/crashing/restarting. So I did send the 13900K back to Intel due to the 13th/14th gen crisis and instead of a accepting their offer of a direct replacement 14900K I request a refund and they gave me the full amount I paid which was like $527 and got a brand new 14900KF for like $400 during a sale last year November Black Friday.

 

Out of the box, the 14900KF was mounted with the same contact frame I used with my 13900K onto my ASUS Z690 board with PTM7950. BIOS was fully updated but the chip would still thermal throttle with Cinebench so I end up putting the same Global Core SVID Voltage of -0.1 to control the voltage. I have not seen the temps thermal throttle since but more recently this BSOD/crashes has been happening after just 3 months of owning the chip and I don't know if the windows.old folder has anything to do with it or I'm just suffering from 13th/14th gen instability issues but just experiencing worsening symptoms compared to my prior 13900K.

 

I uploaded my system info along with this post.

[KnoT]

Removing Windows.old manually would not cause this and as this 14900KF is new i doubt it's degraded as well but who knows, mby the undervolt is causing the instability.

As for overheating what is you cooling solution ? mby you need a better one and i don't think PTM7950 is helping at all as well as those are usually worse than normal thermal paste.

[AnimeMangaGamer]

24 minutes ago, KnoT said:

Removing Windows.old manually would not cause this and as this 14900KF is new i doubt it's degraded as well but who knows, mby the undervolt is causing the instability.

As for overheating what is you cooling solution ? mby you need a better one and i don't think PTM7950 is helping at all as well as those are usually worse than normal thermal paste.

Oh thank you, good to know that I didn't mess up Windows anyhow by deleting that folder.

I don't think my cooling solution would be an issue since I have custom liquid cooling loop with a D5 Pump and 2 x 360mm radiators with 10 fans and room ambient of 70°F average. About a year ago I switched to PTM7950 from Thermal Grizzly Kryonaut and my temps have definitely improved so ever since I have not used thermal paste anymore. I've also replaced the thermal paste on my 4090 with PTM7950 and temps have definitely improved in my experience at least.