Question At my wits' end with ACCESS_VIOLATIONs

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Hey there good people,

I am at my wits' end. I recently upgraded my PC to the point where I replaced most of the system, only keeping the PSU, GPU and a hard drive.

Ever since that upgrade the PC has been unstable. I get BSODs on a semi-regular basis, sometimes twice a day, sometimes with 2 weeks between them, but they do happen alot. Different programs I run also crash, most of the time showing me some variation on the "ACCESS_VIOLATION" error, this happens to chrome in the middle of watching a youtube video, seemingly at random, but it also happens to games or the software I use for work (DAW and video editing softwares mostly).

I have made many attempts at diagnosing the problem. so far I have:

• wiped all drives and did a completely fresh install of windows 10 (I did this several times)
• took out one stick of RAM to run single channel, then did the same again with my secons stick of RAM
• updated the motherboards BIOS to the newest version.
• switched out the GPU for one I know to be stable
• reset BIOS settings several times
• ran Windows memory diagnostics several times -no errors
• ran memtest86 several times - no errors
• ran chkdsk several times - no errors
• updated all drivers I could think of that could be relevant to the issue

nothing spat out any useable info, no hardware changes I made helped at all. I don't really have a way to "evoke" these errors, they just happen, even if i leave the system alone. One of my recent BSODs happened at 3 in the morning while i was sleeping.

my current system looks as follows:

• Win10 Home 64-bit
• ryzen 5 3600x running stock
• MSI b450 GAMING PRO CARBON AC
• corsair vengeance LPX DDR4 3200MHz c16 2x16GB (ran both at base and using the XMP profile)
• GTX1060(3gb), now GTX1070 (no change between GPUs, other than the extra performance before a crash)
• Random1TBHDD with unreadable label
• Samsung 970 EVO 1TB
• Sandisk sata SSD 240GB

Here are the Dumps since my most recent reinstall:

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1-yNKLlDuniGl_c8UAIjTQZEBGaAgrM7F?usp=sharing

I hope you guys have some ideas, thanks in advance for reading all this stuff.

 

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Aaaand I'm back.

I just had what I thought was a BSOD. The PC froze up, it did that typical BSOD sound thingy, where it just produces this grating noise...

then, after i waited for the actual blue screen for about a minute or so, the screen went black, then came on again and showed my desktop. no programs were running and the taskbar didn't respond to any input, but I could open folders and such just fine. Windows did NOT produce a dump file for this, and there was no actual blue screen, so I have no actual Idea what happened

 

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I have now replaced the RAM with sticks from a different manufacturer, with different capacities, running at different speeds and the problem still persists

I also added the full kernel dump of my most recent BSOD to the gdrive folder. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Y0-rltmBeEFJ6ICQRZnIMyK-3A-3H_sm/view?usp=sharing

what the hell could this be?

 

[Sohom]

I have now replaced the RAM with sticks from a different manufacturer, with different capacities, running at different speeds and the problem still persists

I also added the full kernel dump of my most recent BSOD to the gdrive folder. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Y0-rltmBeEFJ6ICQRZnIMyK-3A-3H_sm/view?usp=sharing

what the hell could this be?

What branded ram did u replace it with?

 

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What branded ram did u replace it with?

A G.Skill 3200mhz set of 2x8, rated for and running at 14-14-14-34 timings. There was no change in how frequent i get the ACCESS_VIOLATION errors either, it had absolutely no effect, so I'm assuming I can rule out RAM as the culprit here.

 

[Sohom]

A G.Skill 3200mhz set of 2x8, rated for and running at 14-14-14-34 timings. There was no change in how frequent i get the ACCESS_VIOLATION errors either, it had absolutely no effect, so I'm assuming I can rule out RAM as the culprit here.

Access violation error is indicative to memory, so maybe an issue with the memory controller on the cpu chip... or ur motherboard ram slots... so the error is

 

[Sohom]

Access violation error is indicative to memory, so maybe an issue with the memory controller on the cpu chip... or ur motherboard ram slots... so the error is

access violation error is indicative to memory, so maybe the memory controller on the cpu chip, ur motherboard ram slots or driver error... but it is connected to the memory ... try enabling xmp, are u running the ram modules on manual configuration or xmp mode?
Also list the complete model number of the gskill ram modules, so i can take a look at the specifications....

 

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access violation error is indicative to memory, so maybe the memory controller on the cpu chip, ur motherboard ram slots or driver error... but it is connected to the memory ... try enabling xmp, are u running the ram modules on manual configuration or xmp mode?
Also list the complete model number of the gskill ram modules, so i can take a look at the specifications....

The Model number i get from the Amazon page is : "F4-3200C14D-16GTZR", when i do a software readout of ram info i get this sheet:

https://imgur.com/a/u2G44er

View: https://imgur.com/a/u2G44er


which seems fine to me. I did set the auto profile for xmp. should I change that? I already tried just running at the stock 2133 on the previous ram and that did not make any difference.

Would It make sense to get another b450 compatible CPU and try that just to rule out the CPU maybe?

 

[Sohom]

Would It make sense to get another b450 compatible CPU and try that just to rule out the CPU maybe?

I wud suggest u to first clear the cmos by taking the motherboard battery out for 30 seconds and then put it back in and try booting; if issue still persists, then i wud suggest u to rma ur mobo...

 

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I wud suggest u to first clear the cmos by taking the motherboard battery out for 30 seconds and then put it back in and try booting; if issue still persists, then i wud suggest u to rma ur mobo...

CMOS has been cleared, I'm now waiting to see if that changed anything.

Is it really more likely to be the motherboard than the CPU?

 

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The problem still persisted after clearing CMOS, also I just got another BSOD.

The full kernel dump should be accessible here https://drive.google.com/file/d/1_tReS6zJj76yG1DH22b5rHhrXmKus8YX/view?usp=sharing

can someone take a look and see if there's usable information ? Are Dump files even going to be helpful in diagnosing Hardware Issues at this point ?