[SOLVED] BSOD Help: Pfn List Corrupt

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I've read several pages of forum questions on this BSOD but it seems that most people usually have multiple different error messages, whereas I only have the one. I've only gotten pfn_list_corrupt and judging by time stamps on some messages I've sent out to friends, it looks like it started happening in July, after I installed my new GPU. I can't really tell if it's the GPU though, and I've used DDU to uninstall the drivers from the previous GPU and this one just recently. Anyway, here's the stuff:

I'll include the last four dump files. Two of them had obvious drivers that were the cause, of which I removed. I'll make sure to comment on those so whoever looks at these knows I dealt with them.

Specs:
OS
: Windows 10 Pro. Vers. 10.0.19042 Build 1904 (Note: I originally had Home when this all started. I upgraded.)
Mobo: Asus PRIME B450-Plus (Bios Ver. 2202, 7/14/2020)
CPU: Amd Ryzen 5 2600
GPU: Gigabyte GeForce RTX 2060 (Note: Before, as mentioned, I had a Gigabyte Radeon RX 580)
RAM: Corsair Vengeance LPX 32GB (Originally Ballistix Sport LT 16GB before replacing them with current in September, believing RAM was my issue.)

Dumps:
First Dump
Second Dump (I used Driver Verifier to get this one, aka why it isn't pfn_list_corrupt. Led to the next one as I grabbed some Logitech drivers for my mouse, hoping those would help.)
Third Dump (Logitech Drivers. They're gone.)
Fourth Dump (Fresh from today, about an hour ago.)

Things I've Tried:
1.) Memtest. Turned up nothing on either of the two sets of RAM I've had this year.
2.) Driver Verifier. First time it pointed to the network drivers for VirtualBox. Got rid of VBox, turned up nothing after. Second time, recently, the HID drivers and you can see where that led me.
3.) Updating as many drivers as I can think of.
4.) All the system scans and disk scans.
5.) Clean reinstalling Windows, multiple times.

Thanks for reading/looking. I hope someone can find what I cannot.
 
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so much for fixing that with a new ssd. I unmarked question as solved
passes prime 95
passes memtest
replaced ssd

still getting same error. its unusual to get the same BSOD on two different drives if its caused by software, but running out of hardware to look at.

if its software my guess would be these based on age of drivers alone.
Jun 17 2009PTSimBus.sysPenTablet Bus Enumerator driver (Shenzhen Huion Animatzon Technology Co.,Ltd)
Jun 22 2012PTSimHid.sysWacom PenTablet Hid MiniDriver

There should be newer versions of these
Jul 14 2016rt640x64.sysRealtek NICDRV 8169 PCIe GBE Family Controller driver
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so much for fixing that with a new ssd. I unmarked question as solved
passes prime 95
passes memtest
replaced ssd

still getting same error. its unusual to get the same BSOD on two different drives if its caused by software, but running out of hardware to look at.

if its software my guess would be these based on age of drivers alone.
Jun 17 2009PTSimBus.sysPenTablet Bus Enumerator driver (Shenzhen Huion Animatzon Technology Co.,Ltd)
Jun 22 2012PTSimHid.sysWacom PenTablet Hid MiniDriver

There should be newer versions of these
Jul 14 2016rt640x64.sysRealtek NICDRV 8169 PCIe GBE Family Controller driver
on here - https://www.realtek.com/en/componen...0-1000m-gigabit-ethernet-pci-express-software
 
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Sorry, I didn't get a notification about this post.
I've fully murdered the two tablet drivers after a fun game of Windows authorization. Killed the Driver Store versions too. I did that the day after I made my post, so I'm currently waiting...and looking for a new tablet, sigh. No more Huion products if it's the problem.

So, it's been about six days and nothing yet. I'm not holding my breath. I'm giving it until mid-January before deciding if those drivers were the problem.

I'll grab the Realtek driver, though.
 
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