PC taking forever to wake from sleep mode, sometimes just restarts or wakes to BSOD w/ DPC_WATCHDOG_VIOLATION. Have .DMP files but don't know what to

[gihobo]

As noted in the title, for the past month my PC has been taking 3-5 minutes to wake up from sleep mode, whereas before it would wake in about 2 seconds. Additionally, my PC will sometimes just restart after a few minutes of nothing showing up on my monitor, or it would wake into a BSOD with the error DPC_WATCHDOG_VIOLATION. Some things I've tried to do to fix this:- Update windows, my graphics driver, and any other drivers I can find. I've attempted to update the IDE ATA/ATAPI Controller through the Device Manager, but when I search automatically for updates it says that Windows has determined

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