Question BSOD while idle issues

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Hello, I have been experiencing BSOD's for almost 6 months now. I have taken the PC into geek squad several times, they found nothing wrong with the hardware and ended up reinstalling Windows 10. This seemed to help for several weeks and then the BSOD's started happening again, although not frequently (once every week or two). All my drivers were fully updated, BIOS is updated, I ran Driver Verifier, Memtest, OCCT on all of it's settings and have found no problems with them. I ended up reinstalling Windows 10 myself the other day and now I am experiencing up to 4 BSODs in a single day. I should point out that none of the BSOD's have happened when my PC is doing anything intensive, I've been able to play resource demanding games with no issues. The BSOD's always happen when the PC is left idle or I have just one tab with music playing in my browser. I've decided to just start cycling out my parts and replacing them with new ones to see if it is indeed a Hardware problem, but I'm hoping maybe someone here can find something in the DMP's that may have been missed and help me figure out what is causing this problem. I've uploaded the last few DMP files and Event Log into this zip: https://1drv.ms/u/s!AuQfX8syP_a0ghaekfxkWxCsUUac?e=hJI7dY

Any help would be greatly appreciated.
 
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I've gone several days now with no BSOD after installing the network adaptor drivers from Intel's website. It's still too early to tell if it's solved the problem (there have been occasions before where a week went by with no BSOD). I'll post back in several weeks if there is no BSOD, or the moment I get another.
 

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I ran the dump file through the debugger and got the following information: https://jsfiddle.net/xo5umak4/show This link is for anyone wanting to help. You do not have to view it. It is safe to "run the fiddle" as the page asks.

File information:012721-8062-01.dmp (Jan 27 2021 - 22:28:11)
Bugcheck:BAD_POOL_CALLER (C2)
Probably caused by:memory_corruption (Process: msedge.exe)
Uptime:0 Day(s), 4 Hour(s), 08 Min(s), and 42 Sec(s)

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Why are you only running 1 stick of ram? any driver problems could tie into the reason why you only running 1 stick of a 32gb set currently.
I only owned one stick of RAM. I ended up getting a set of 2 8GB ram a month ago because I suspected it might be the issue, but I still was getting BSODs even with two sticks of RAM.
 
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I just tried to boot from Linux. I flashed it to a USB drive, however I can't seem to boot from the USB drive and it doesn't show up as an option in bios. Windows does not even seem to be able to detect the flash drive now.

EDIT: I managed to get the USB to be detected in BIOS, however when I start in Linux I get a string of "No irq handler for vector" errors. I can hear sound effects like its starting up but the screen remains blank with those errors.
 
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Try again using Rufus
https://www.softpedia.com/get/System/Boot-Manager-Disk/Rufus.shtml
http://www.freewarefiles.com/screenshot.php?programid=75261
Just tried out Rufus, When I boot from the USB I get to a blank menu that says the following:

"Minimal BASH-like line editing is supported. For the first word, TAB lists possible command completions. Anywhere else TAB lists possible device or file completions." It looks like there is a command line prompt after of some kind. Doing some quick research I put in "exit" but it just boots up Windows 10 after that.
 
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Have you uncabled your drives, just to make sure your don't make a mistake & wreck your W10 install.

How to install linux using rufus
https://bit.ly/3cfZef8
Yeah, I got Rufus to unpack Linux on the USB. I can look at the USB drive and I see a bunch of Ubuntu related files on it. The USB shows up as a bootable option in BIOS too. I set the USB to boot but then I get this screen:
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minimal bash-like line editing is supported
https://cutt.ly/xkqMIEE
Or,
minimal bash-like line editing is supported using linux live on a thumb drive
https://cutt.ly/KkqM0W2
 
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minimal bash-like line editing is supported
https://cutt.ly/xkqMIEE
Or,
minimal bash-like line editing is supported using linux live on a thumb drive
https://cutt.ly/KkqM0W2
I found an external CD drive and some old RWDVDs. I boot up but get an error "Invalid Magic Number, you need to load the kernel first."
 
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Also, if you are making a installer flashdrive from any linux .iso on rufus:
1. make sure that you set the boot section to FreeDOS then click the button next to it marked select(not the drop down arrow bit)
2.File system is FAT32
3.cluster size is default
 
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