Frequent system crashes and BSODs indicate instability. Check hardware, update drivers, and ensure proper cooling.
Frequent system crashes and BSODs indicate instability. Check hardware, update drivers, and ensure proper cooling.
The system runs a Ryzen 5 2600X with various components including a B450M-DS3H processor, Zotac RTX 2060 graphics card, and a 512GB SSD. It uses an EVGA 500W Bronze PSU, XPG NVMe drive, and Windows 10 Pro. Since December 2019, the machine has frequently experienced BSODs, causing crashes in games like R6S, CSGO, Rocket League, Valorant, and especially Minecraft. I've tried numerous fixes such as updating drivers, reinstalling Windows, and switching storage types, but the issue persists. A detailed list of all BSOD entries is available here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1rUI3...ZmEpnrOY40
DDU is a display driver uninstaller. Simply download it, boot Windows into safe mode, use DDU to remove all traces of the Nvidia driver, restart, then reinstall the Nvidia driver again. This should help resolve the problem. However, a fresh Windows install might not fix everything, but it could work if you're dealing with graphics and system file issues.
Three days on, still stable, breaking a new mark! (post-VALORANT launch)
regrettably, the game froze once more—Valorant and Siege. Since then, no blue screen has appeared, though the issues persist. It might be that the crashes and blue screens are unrelated.
Right after I shared this, I encountered an unexpected blue screen error labeled UNEXPECTED_KERNEL_MODE_TRAP.