BSOD happens repeatedly during game launches, particularly with Elden Ring.
BSOD happens repeatedly during game launches, particularly with Elden Ring.
The two Kernel_Mode_Heap_Corruption incidents stemmed from AMD's RAID driver. Avoid installing AMD's RAID driver at all costs—it's the most problematic one I've encountered. To eliminate it, both of us must remove the installation tool, which is likely StoreMI. If you installed StoreMI, uninstall it. Also remove any other AMD-related tools like Ryzen Master and the GPU utilities, as well as any additional storage software.
Next, manually replace the driver. Launch Device Manager (Windows key + R, type "devmgmt.msc") → Navigate to Storage controllers. For each controller named StoreMI, RC, RAID, or Bottom, right-click and update the driver. If a storage spaces controller is present, disable it first. Choose a driver from your PC and select "Standard" as the name—this could be "Standard AHCI" or "Standard NVM Express" depending on whether it's SATA or NVMe.
These RAID driver issues also triggered Driver_Power_State_Failure crashes, which were linked to the same AMD RAID driver. After installation, the RAID driver will automatically manage other drives even without RAID enabled. Always refrain from installing it.
I resolved it on Windows 11 now. Just unplugged the SATA from the ports and removed the second NVMe, and it works fine now.
That's true, Raid isn't great. After switching to Windows 11, I followed a tutorial and ended up stuck in a boot loop within the BIOS. It was just setting the correct CMOS setting—switching the boot to the flash drive and turning off option 2. I left the boot option as default and double-clicked the flash drive once I knew what to do. After deleting all partitions, I left my one NVMe SSD as unallocated and selected it. The USB setup went smoothly, and now my PC is running Windows 11—feels pretty good (boo-shee).