Question A serious fault in my computer system over the last year

[Goodguypeter]

Computer troubles;

Symptoms include USB ports dropping out, audio crackling, WiFi loss, RGB keyboard peripherals that are connected via flashing briefly before cutting out, the loss of the ability to log out or shut down the pc and sometimes I lose my drive ports forcing me into rebooting my system praying it will work

The specs and IO

Windows 11
Asrock Taichi Carrara x670e BIOS 3.2
Ryzen 7700x
Noctua air cooler
MSI 2070 armored 8gig

NVME
1 tb Kingston NEW
1 tb Crucial

Disabled

1tb Samsung
4tb crucial

SSD
2tb Crucial drives x2

(I think these are my drives but one is disabled device manager while one is outright removed)

1000 watt Corsair RM3

64 gigs of Corsair XMP ram which is not on the list on the Carraras support list

My issue; I made a post last yearish about how I was receiving bad system instability, this has persisted on and off for a while it stopped outright with intermittent WiFi cut outs, it had grown increasingly a problem once more during the start of this year even after I made sure to keep my drivers in check but I had decided to move to a new hard drive after recommendations due to my old one being quite old and the main image existing for about nine years the drive itself was only from 2023.

I have tried everything in the book I know of and even asked some tech support ai because after I installed the new drive the cascading system failures came crashing down there are times now when the pc outright refuses to last five minutes post boot, note I do not get bods or black screens but I get stuttering then WiFi and keyboard drops. I would like to add on I run a black widow v4 which my mouse is daisy chained to and that does not lose power.

Sometimes when the pc is powered off for a duration it can last longer but usually after it crashes it can only last intermittently. Now I believe it is a extreme hardware failure in my motherboard since my intel chip causes so many errors or a software issue but latencymon says api or nvidia issues but I can’t even think that would be my problem.

To say im out of ideas and confused would be a great understatement

 

[Ralston18]

Start by looking in Reliability History/Monitor and Event Viewer for error codes, warnings, or even informational events just before or at the time of crashes and other problems.

You can click on any given entry to obtain more details. The details may or may not be helpful.

Objective being to gain some insight as to what Windows is "seeing" and then go from there.

Look for commonly occuring errors, patterns, sequences, etc..

Take your time, look and read carefully.

Start with Reliability History/Monitor. Much more end user friendly and the timeline format can be revealing.

Event Viewer requires more time and effort to navigate and understand.

To help:

How To - How to use Windows 10 Event Viewer | Tom's Hardware Forum (tomshardware.com)

Post accordingly.

 

[Lutfij]

Welcome to the forums, newcomer!

64 gigs of Corsair XMP ram which is not on the list on the Carraras support list
Got a link to the ram kit used?

Asrock Taichi Carrara x670e BIOS 3.2
Can you downgrade your BIOS to 3.16 and see if the issue is averted?

Was the OS reinstalled in offline mode(not referring to a cloned image of the OS drive)?

 

[Goodguypeter]

Start by looking in Reliability History/Monitor and Event Viewer for error codes, warnings, or even informational events just before or at the time of crashes and other problems.

You can click on any given entry to obtain more details. The details may or may not be helpful.

Objective being to gain some insight as to what Windows is "seeing" and then go from there.

Look for commonly occuring errors, patterns, sequences, etc..

Take your time, look and read carefully.

Start with Reliability History/Monitor. Much more end user friendly and the timeline format can be revealing.

Event Viewer requires more time and effort to navigate and understand.

To help:

How To - How to use Windows 10 Event Viewer | Tom's Hardware Forum (tomshardware.com)

Post accordingly.

Well some of the errors in event viewer are regarding the drop offs such as
Error 5032 Killer WiFi Newtwt 14 cannot be found
or raidport1 cannot be found but upon starting windows up I get credential guard errors such as vbs key violation or lbs package errors while reliability monitor shows errors related to the programs stopping their function ability. Such as error 144 Livekernelevent

 

[Goodguypeter]

Welcome to the forums, newcomer!

64 gigs of Corsair XMP ram which is not on the list on the Carraras support list
Got a link to the ram kit used?

Asrock Taichi Carrara x670e BIOS 3.2
Can you downgrade your BIOS to 3.16 and see if the issue is averted?

Was the OS reinstalled in offline mode(not referring to a cloned image of the OS drive)?

1)

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2) This issue existed prior to the bios being updated I do not believe this will fix but I will try if all else fails

3) No I was online when I installed the os, this is a totally separate nvm to the previous install

 

[Ralston18]

Start with @Lutfij 's suggestions while keeping an eye on the "error" codes etc..

Determine if any of those error codes, etc. end.

I am (full disclosure) a bit baffled about "or raidport1 cannot be found but upon starting windows up I get credential guard errors such as vbs key violation or lbs package errors while reliability monitor shows errors related to the programs stopping their function ability. Such as error 144 Livekernelevent"

What can you tell us about "raidport1" , "credential guard errors", or "vbs key violation" etc.?

Games, apps, sources?

More information needed.

 

[Goodguypeter]

Start with @Lutfij 's suggestions while keeping an eye on the "error" codes etc..

Determine if any of those error codes, etc. end.

I am (full disclosure) a bit baffled about "or raidport1 cannot be found but upon starting windows up I get credential guard errors such as vbs key violation or lbs package errors while reliability monitor shows errors related to the programs stopping their function ability. Such as error 144 Livekernelevent"

What can you tell us about "raidport1" , "credential guard errors", or "vbs key violation" etc.?

Games, apps, sources?

More information needed.

Well the crucial errors only happen during system failure which usually isn’t right off the bat the system can run for a about a minute before any of this happens while credential guard and Vbs happen upon start up and continue to flag, I disabled most things upon start up so it shouldn’t be anything anymore

 

[Ralston18]

Look in Task Scheduler.

 

[Goodguypeter]

Well the crucial errors only happen during system failure which usually isn’t right off the bat the system can run for a about a minute before any of this happens while credential guard and Vbs happen upon start up and continue to flag, I disabled most things upon start up so it shouldn’t be anything anymore

It always starts with Netwtw14 though I don’t think the internet is causing this , I would get the same with Ethernet it even goes from corrupted driver to device is not functioning properly

Look in Task Scheduler.

What should I look for?

 

[Ralston18]

Fair question.

Anything "X" that happens causing "Y" to be triggered/happen.

References to crediential guard, vbs (Visual Basic ?) or more specifically "Netrwtw14".

Otherwise, anything in Task Scheduler that you do not know about, recognize, or expect.

FYI:

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/taskschd/about-the-task-scheduler

There may be nothing "there"..... Which may help narrow down possible culprits.

 

[Goodguypeter]

Fair question.

Anything "X" that happens causing "Y" to be triggered/happen.

References to crediential guard, vbs (Visual Basic ?) or more specifically "Netrwtw14".

Otherwise, anything in Task Scheduler that you do not know about, recognize, or expect.

FYI:

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/taskschd/about-the-task-scheduler

There may be nothing "there"..... Which may help narrow down possible culprits.

Systems become too unresponsive to look at currently, usually flipping the psu switch off for a bit rejuvenates my ability to do things I may just try to reinstall windows but I truly believe there is something wrong with my motherboard even if there’s no event viewer errors prior to the frozen state my pc gets in.

 

[Goodguypeter]

Reinstalled windows went fine for a bit but now im convinced this is just a defective motherboard which the problem increased twenty fold after installing a new boot drive, it could be ram but im highly suspect on that and more leaning on the motherboard

 

[Ralston18]

It is true that sometimes we are forced to shutdown by turning the PSU off.

However, that can and does lead to corrupted and damaged files.

Run "dism" and "sfc /scannow". Either one or both tools may find and fix something.

Try booting into safe mode - determine if the system is more stable.

 

[Goodguypeter]

I don’t shut off by forcing my psu off I usually do it by holding the power button down as the system won’t shutdown or even pull up new windows mostly. When it bugs out I only turn the psu off after as it helps elevate the problem, but I moved my old nvme boot drive back in but to a different slot and I’ve had it running for about three hours fine which means that other nvme is either odd or the slot is bad, I’ve never had a bad nvme slot so I don’t know what it looks like but the nvme came out of a system I had laying around that should have worked fine, the old nvme usually would only do this once a month not every gaming session.

 

[PiersPlowman]

How does the system behave if you boot from an Ubuntu USB stick?