Replacing most of your hardware still causes frequent system failures or crashes.
Replacing most of your hardware still causes frequent system failures or crashes.
First failure linked to CLOCK_WATCHDOG_TIMEOUT (101) in normal Windows programs. Second crash recorded as WHEA_UNCORRECTABLE_ERROR (124) during FIFA 23 MODULE_NAME: GenuineIntel. Image details provided. It seems your GPU might be experiencing issues. Try running the CPU diagnostic tool with the Intel program link shared.
The initial five dump files resemble RAM. None of them were WHEA. Storage might appear like RAM when the page file becomes corrupted, but typically direct dumps point to storage issues which aren't happening here. It's possible that swapping out the suspected faulty drive resolved crashes that seemed to stem from RAM. The subsequent dumps resemble CPU behavior. One Clock_Watchdog_Error usually indicates an unstable CPU overclock or a WHEA crash. WHEA depends on the CPU’s error log and only records its own and PCIe device errors. A WHEA crash signals a CPU problem, while this one points to an internal CPU timer issue. If you’re overclocking the CPU, consider disabling it. Also verify that Multicore Enhancement is turned off in the BIOS; ensure undervolting is also disabled.
Last night before the replies arrived I attempted to turn off all settings in the BIOS, but the multicore enhancement wasn’t visible. The problem didn’t get fixed. Using the old RAM stick didn’t resolve it either—I only booted with half of it. I’m planning to try a single SSD setup with full RAM and see how it goes. I’ll update later.
I installed Windows MemTest It On and everything worked perfectly. When I transferred it to another machine, there were no problems. I reformatted the PC without any additional drives except the local C drive, but it still experienced crashes. After accessing BIOS, I enabled optimized defaults, flashed the BIOS, and the issues stopped. I played a game for an hour while Plex scanned libraries and didn’t see any crashes. I switched BIOS to XMP II, turned on the overclock utility at extreme settings, restarted, and after another hour of gaming, there were no crashes again. I’m unsure what caused the BIOS issue, but it seems resolved. Also, I changed the core ratio option to auto instead of syncing all cores at 53. Thanks to everyone for your assistance—this saved me about $495! I was planning to replace my drives with a 2TB SSD and a 16TB HDD thinking they were damaged.