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System unexpectedly stops, applications stop working, and screen flashes red.

System unexpectedly stops, applications stop working, and screen flashes red.

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colder1998
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11-04-2023, 04:20 PM
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Hey, over the past few months my PC has experienced occasional freezes and BSODs only when idle. In the past week or so I couldn't play any demanding games because they would crash. My system would freeze unexpectedly during use and every time I left it running for more than an hour I received a BSOD marked with DPC_Watchdog_Violation. Recently I saw another BSOD stating CLOCK_WATCHDOG_VIOLATION, and it seems the machine is barely functional now. Games like The Hunter: Call of the Wild, Age of Empires IV, Elden Ring, and Satisfactory (version 7) tend to crash. Football Manager 2023 works fine and only freezes during these issues. What I've tried so far: reinstalling Windows, which led to an upgrade to Windows 11; updating drivers, firmware (including SSD and BIOS); disconnecting all USB devices except mouse and keyboard; checking temperatures and boosting fan speeds; scanning drives for errors (all clear); running MemTest86 on RAM (no issues); testing with a borrowed GPU that reduced crashes but still caused occasional freezes. After switching back to my own GPU, performance dropped significantly. Current specs: Windows 11, AMD Ryzen 9 5900X, MSI GeForce RTX 2080TI, 32GB DDR4 RAM, Gigabyte B550 B560M motherboard, Corsair RM850 850W power supply, 1TB NVMe SSD, 500GB SATA SSD, and a WD 2TB HDD. The SSD and HDD are clean. My GPU is nearly three years old, the rest from May 2021. I haven't overclocked anything. I plan to post a dump file once my PC boots again after five minutes of operation. The Resource and Performance Monitor isn't giving clear results; I'm having trouble extracting reports. Any advice would be greatly appreciated. I feel stuck without a solution. Edit: Updated the post with the Sysnative zip file I received.
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colder1998
11-04-2023, 04:20 PM #1

Hey, over the past few months my PC has experienced occasional freezes and BSODs only when idle. In the past week or so I couldn't play any demanding games because they would crash. My system would freeze unexpectedly during use and every time I left it running for more than an hour I received a BSOD marked with DPC_Watchdog_Violation. Recently I saw another BSOD stating CLOCK_WATCHDOG_VIOLATION, and it seems the machine is barely functional now. Games like The Hunter: Call of the Wild, Age of Empires IV, Elden Ring, and Satisfactory (version 7) tend to crash. Football Manager 2023 works fine and only freezes during these issues. What I've tried so far: reinstalling Windows, which led to an upgrade to Windows 11; updating drivers, firmware (including SSD and BIOS); disconnecting all USB devices except mouse and keyboard; checking temperatures and boosting fan speeds; scanning drives for errors (all clear); running MemTest86 on RAM (no issues); testing with a borrowed GPU that reduced crashes but still caused occasional freezes. After switching back to my own GPU, performance dropped significantly. Current specs: Windows 11, AMD Ryzen 9 5900X, MSI GeForce RTX 2080TI, 32GB DDR4 RAM, Gigabyte B550 B560M motherboard, Corsair RM850 850W power supply, 1TB NVMe SSD, 500GB SATA SSD, and a WD 2TB HDD. The SSD and HDD are clean. My GPU is nearly three years old, the rest from May 2021. I haven't overclocked anything. I plan to post a dump file once my PC boots again after five minutes of operation. The Resource and Performance Monitor isn't giving clear results; I'm having trouble extracting reports. Any advice would be greatly appreciated. I feel stuck without a solution. Edit: Updated the post with the Sysnative zip file I received.

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alevy3131
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11-04-2023, 04:20 PM
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You reviewed the S.M.A.R.T logs for the drives and noticed GPU-related VRAM activity, which might be normal across multiple GPUs. Also looked into the BIOS settings, disabling overclocking features such as XMP to rule out that issue.
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11-04-2023, 04:20 PM #2

You reviewed the S.M.A.R.T logs for the drives and noticed GPU-related VRAM activity, which might be normal across multiple GPUs. Also looked into the BIOS settings, disabling overclocking features such as XMP to rule out that issue.

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11-04-2023, 04:20 PM
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I did everything correctly. Are there any GPU-related VRAM concerns? Could the BSOD or freezing be due to something else? I looked into BIOS settings and disabled XMP, but I also adjusted a few other parameters meant to enhance CPU performance during low-load situations. When I launch applications that utilize my GPU, the usage spikes rapidly to 95-100% and remains consistently high. I was able to run The Hunter: Call of The Wild with minimal graphics settings, and my GPU is operating at that maximum level. This behavior shouldn’t occur for a recommended GTX 760 card.
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mlodypatyk
11-04-2023, 04:20 PM #3

I did everything correctly. Are there any GPU-related VRAM concerns? Could the BSOD or freezing be due to something else? I looked into BIOS settings and disabled XMP, but I also adjusted a few other parameters meant to enhance CPU performance during low-load situations. When I launch applications that utilize my GPU, the usage spikes rapidly to 95-100% and remains consistently high. I was able to run The Hunter: Call of The Wild with minimal graphics settings, and my GPU is operating at that maximum level. This behavior shouldn’t occur for a recommended GTX 760 card.

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