M
MykieY.
Hi! I'm posting here because I am badly in need of help with my computer. I've been getting BSOD's but I am posting a history of what has happened below. Skip to the bottom for a list of specs, symptoms and a link to the crash dumps. I hope someone can help me, Thank you in advance for your attention!
TL;DR
SPECS:
Symptoms:
Crash Dump Link:
Crash Dump - Google Drive
(Memory 1 is an older Dump, not sure if it's related but I found it in my System32 after rolling back to November 2)
(Memory 2 and Memory 3 are BSODs that happened today)
I am convinced this is a bad driver that I can't find but I am also suspicious that it might be an old GPU problem or a RAM problem. I have work in the morning so I am panicking to get this sorted out. I will try learning how to analyze my crash dumps for now but I have uploaded them here for anyone who wants to take a look. Thanks again!
Continue reading...
=========================
On November 6, 2020
On November 6, 2020
I decided to do an upgrade by flashing the BIOS from 7B89v23 to 7B89v28. I was able to game for an entire day but the day after, I ran into a host of problems ranging from System Freezing, BSOD errors, and Resets. I took a look at the Crash dumps and the BSOD error messages and got different messages.
IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL
kmode_exception_not_handled
I have been getting some random crashes and restarts before but thought it was a Power Supply issue and replaced my Power Supply with a bigger one. Today I learned to use Windbg to analyze my crash dumps.
Analyzing the Crashdumps only pointed me towards ntkrnlmp.exe which pointed to driver problems.
Analyzing the Crashdumps only pointed me towards ntkrnlmp.exe which pointed to driver problems.
=========================
On November 8, 2020
I did Windows Memory Diagnostics twice and even did a DDU of my Nvidia driver after sniffing around that the latest driver for the GTX 970 was causing BSODs.
On November 8, 2020
I did Windows Memory Diagnostics twice and even did a DDU of my Nvidia driver after sniffing around that the latest driver for the GTX 970 was causing BSODs.
I also installed the latest AMD chipset drivers for my system. Unfortunately installing these drivers is when my problem got worse.
After 5-15 minutes of uptime, my system would start slowing down to a crawl. NT Kernel & System would start piling up threads (208 threads). Input from keyboard and mouse were slow. Dragging Explorer and Application windows would have the mouse drag behind to a crawl while Desktop Windows Manager spiked in CPU usage. Audio would start to crackle, and one of my cores would be bombarded up to 100%. This issue also popped up during Clean boot.
After 5-15 minutes of uptime, my system would start slowing down to a crawl. NT Kernel & System would start piling up threads (208 threads). Input from keyboard and mouse were slow. Dragging Explorer and Application windows would have the mouse drag behind to a crawl while Desktop Windows Manager spiked in CPU usage. Audio would start to crackle, and one of my cores would be bombarded up to 100%. This issue also popped up during Clean boot.
I decided to downgrade my bios back to 7B89v25 and thought the issue had resolved itself. Unfortunately after 20 minutes of uptime, the same issues returned. I decided to use driver verifier and ended up unable to boot and getting a WATCHDOG_EXCEPTION BSOD. I boot into a Rescue USB and perform a safe boot and start up repair.
=========================
On November 10, 2020
I decided to rollback to an earlier bios and image of my system (7B89v23) and (November 2, 2020). The system randomly restarted at some point which I thought was due to windows updating to 20H2. The system stayed stable and the High single core CPU usage issue had disappeared. I was able to game for the next 8 hours without issue, but as soon as I leave the PC, I run into an IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL. I reboot my PC but after 5 minutes I get another IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL.
On November 10, 2020
I decided to rollback to an earlier bios and image of my system (7B89v23) and (November 2, 2020). The system randomly restarted at some point which I thought was due to windows updating to 20H2. The system stayed stable and the High single core CPU usage issue had disappeared. I was able to game for the next 8 hours without issue, but as soon as I leave the PC, I run into an IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL. I reboot my PC but after 5 minutes I get another IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL.
I am at a loss about what to do as these are mostly new components that I purchased in December 2019, The PSU was replaced 2 weeks ago, and the Graphics Card is from March 2014, 6 years ago.
=========================
TL;DR
SPECS:
- Ryzen 5 2600
- MSI B450M Mortar Max
- Crucial MX500 M.2
- 2 x 8GB Kingston HyperX Fury DDR4 @ CL15 1199.3 Mhz
- MSI NVIDIA GTX 970 4GB GAMING LIMITED EDITION
- Windows 10 build 20H2
Symptoms:
- PS/2 keyboard not working after waking PC from sleep
- Mouse lagging when dragging application windows around the desktop
- Slow Keyboard input.
- Sudden black screen and restart.
- IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL_BSOD
- kmode_exception_not_handled
- ntkrnlmp.exe
Crash Dump Link:
Crash Dump - Google Drive
(Memory 1 is an older Dump, not sure if it's related but I found it in my System32 after rolling back to November 2)
(Memory 2 and Memory 3 are BSODs that happened today)
I am convinced this is a bad driver that I can't find but I am also suspicious that it might be an old GPU problem or a RAM problem. I have work in the morning so I am panicking to get this sorted out. I will try learning how to analyze my crash dumps for now but I have uploaded them here for anyone who wants to take a look. Thanks again!
Continue reading...