Hello all,
I'm in desperate for help, as I've been getting a variety of BSOD. Please help!
This computer is less than 1 yr old. 2 weekends ago I changed out my CPU Cooler to a Noctua cooler. It is worth noting that the process wasn't smooth, and I got thermal paste on the side of the chip and a tiny speck on the bottom barely touching a pin (I know, stupid of me). I thoroughly cleaned it, put it back in, then applied the cooler. I applied it backwards the first time and needed to rotate it to correctly attach it to the CPU. I had BSOD's before this, not not nearly as frequently.
After that point, I started getting BSOD at least once every session. They almost always happened:
I'm willing to provide any info anyone needs to help me here, as I'm really out of my league. Thank you for the help!
Now from what I've gathered, there are a few possible explanations for this:
I'm in desperate for help, as I've been getting a variety of BSOD. Please help!
This computer is less than 1 yr old. 2 weekends ago I changed out my CPU Cooler to a Noctua cooler. It is worth noting that the process wasn't smooth, and I got thermal paste on the side of the chip and a tiny speck on the bottom barely touching a pin (I know, stupid of me). I thoroughly cleaned it, put it back in, then applied the cooler. I applied it backwards the first time and needed to rotate it to correctly attach it to the CPU. I had BSOD's before this, not not nearly as frequently.
After that point, I started getting BSOD at least once every session. They almost always happened:
- Within 5 minutes of waking it up/turning on
- While playing a game
- KERNEL_AUTO_BOOST_LOCK_ACQUISITION_WITH_RAISED_IRQL
- KMODE_EXCEPTION_NOT_HANDLED
- KERNEL_AUTO_bOOST_INVALID_LOCK_RELEASE
- Ryzen 5 3600
- Gigabyte x570 Aorus Elite
- G.Skill 16 GB DDR4-3200
- Samsung 970 Evo 500gb
- GTX 1060 3gb
- Seasonic FOCUS Plus Gold 650 W 80+ Gold
I'm willing to provide any info anyone needs to help me here, as I'm really out of my league. Thank you for the help!
Now from what I've gathered, there are a few possible explanations for this:
- I need to remount the CPU cooler. I could have applied it incorrectly and the CPU could be overheating. This explains crashing while playing games, but I don't think this explains it crashing when I first wake it up / turn it on. Easiest solution, i'd even put back on the original cooler to see if that helps.
- The PSU could be causing this. That explains the turn on/wake up crashes, and maybe the game crashes too. However this is a highly rated PSU that is also brand new. Could it be broken?
- Speccy
- WhoCrashed
- SFC /SCANNOW
- Diagnostic tool not program
- OCCT
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