- Jul 26, 2025
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For context, I recently started getting BSODs last week that had various errors from "CRITICAL_PROCESS_DIED", "UNEXPECTED_STORE_EXCEPTION", "KMODE_EXCEPTION_NOT_HANDLED", and recently more severe BSODs where it would just take me straight to the BIOS. The first BSOD happened when I installed a demo from Steam last week around 11:45 PM; this is important as around 30 minutes later my PC BSOD. I did not even play the game yet, but I immediately uninstalled it as I suspected malware automatically started running on my PC. It's not out there, considering the whole "PirateFi" incident on Steam was pretty recent (5 months ago).
Heads up, I didn't even know what the BSODs were even saying until two days ago since my PC would reboot almost immediately afterwards*. I also removed my external SSD, also believing that malware either came from the enclosure (it's a cheap enclosure that couldn't be recognized by Samsung Magician) or could possibly infect my external SSD. The external SSD is important later in the post.
The next morning, I started scans with Malwarebytes. That's where I found BSODs much more prevalent; whenever I would do a full system scan, it would scan 80-90% of the system - when it would scan the file system, it would freeze then BSOD with the various messages I mentioned above. Recently, I would get severe BSODs and sometimes no BSOD at all - I would get returned to the BIOS with my boot device/SSD missing. It's not corrupted**, as if I simply shut down my PC it would restart as if nothing happened.
Something I do have to note is that since my PC crashes and reboots so quickly, the memory dumps cannot be created, even with my setups. What will attach/say will not include memory dumps, but hopefully some critical information.
* Since I do not have the memory dumps, I will tell you what I have/suspect/find prominent:
On 7/22/2025: Event ID 41, with BugcheckCode: 3221226010
On 7/23/2025: Event ID 41, with BugcheckCode: 239 (0xEF)
On 7/23/2025: Event ID 161, with BugcheckProgress: 0x00040049 (volmgr, "Dump file creation failed due to error during dump creation".)
Every crash is almost immediately predated with 'File System Filter 'npsvctrig' (10.0, 1978-05-14T02:13:30.000000000Z) has successfully loaded and registered with Filter Manager. ' Probably doesn't mean anything, but still something noteworthy to put down.
(This log is one month before my issues became prominent, but this could also be important)
On 6/16/2025: Event ID 55, Ntfs, A corruption was discovered in the file system structure on volume C:. The exact nature of the corruption is unknown. The file system structures need to be scanned online.
This is my first PC, so I wanted to ask, could corruption be benign but also propagate to the point where it could become prominent? Speaking of this, it has to be something critical, as it survived a Windows reinstall and crashes the whole computer whenever anything that does a deep file scan (Windows Defender, Malwarebytes) finds it.
Returning back to my external SSD, logs were written to it by Windows when the initial BSOD errors came up. They're not memory dumps, but they do tell me what was happening internally: It couldn't find and validate ReAgent.xml and winre.wim multiple times, it failed to find the OS architecture (0x00000490), ResetBareMetalResetAvailable: No BareMetal config found, 0x80070001 in PbrGetDeviceNumber...Failed to invoke device number IOCTL for [\\?\ramdisk...].
Two days ago, I made adjustments to help keep the BSOD on for longer and also add more verboseness to the message through the registry. I was able to finally catch a BSOD, and here is what it says alongside CRITICAL_PROCESS_DIED: 0xFFFFE082C5F99B140, 0x00000000000000000.
Please tell me what those messages are as 0x00 returns some answers, but the latter doesn't.
What I have done in terms of troubleshooting:
1) BIOS update
2) Latest Windows 11 update reinstall
3) Malwarebytes Support Tool and Reinstall
4) MemTest64*, Windows Memory Diagnostic
5) NVIDIA driver reinstall and update
6) AMD Chipset update
7) Intel WiFi drivers diagnostics and update
8) Samsung Magician Diagnostics
9) Reverting all overclocks
10) Verifying integrity of Steam games in my library
11) Tracing back steps in Event Viewer
12) SFC, DISM, chkdsk
13) Thermal Paste reapplication (since my CPU seems to be reaching pretty high idle temps)
I don't really suspect physical hardware failure, since my entire PC (custom build) is less than 1 year old. I think this can be confirmed since no WHEA errors are found anywhere on my PC. I don't suspect any of my peripherals either; I tested this with my Logitech Yeti Orb and DSLR camera disconnected, and BSODs still occurred.
SPECS:
ASUS B450 M A-II
AMD Ryzen 5 5500
NVIDIA RTX 4060
CORSAIR 32 GB DDR4
Samsung 990 Evo Plus 1TB
Intel TP-Link AX3000
Segotep 650W PSU
** According to Samsung Magician diagnostics, HWiNFO, CrystalDiskInfo... SFC has found corrupted files and fixed them; I have run this and DISM multiple times.
Heads up, I didn't even know what the BSODs were even saying until two days ago since my PC would reboot almost immediately afterwards*. I also removed my external SSD, also believing that malware either came from the enclosure (it's a cheap enclosure that couldn't be recognized by Samsung Magician) or could possibly infect my external SSD. The external SSD is important later in the post.
The next morning, I started scans with Malwarebytes. That's where I found BSODs much more prevalent; whenever I would do a full system scan, it would scan 80-90% of the system - when it would scan the file system, it would freeze then BSOD with the various messages I mentioned above. Recently, I would get severe BSODs and sometimes no BSOD at all - I would get returned to the BIOS with my boot device/SSD missing. It's not corrupted**, as if I simply shut down my PC it would restart as if nothing happened.
Something I do have to note is that since my PC crashes and reboots so quickly, the memory dumps cannot be created, even with my setups. What will attach/say will not include memory dumps, but hopefully some critical information.
* Since I do not have the memory dumps, I will tell you what I have/suspect/find prominent:
On 7/22/2025: Event ID 41, with BugcheckCode: 3221226010
On 7/23/2025: Event ID 41, with BugcheckCode: 239 (0xEF)
On 7/23/2025: Event ID 161, with BugcheckProgress: 0x00040049 (volmgr, "Dump file creation failed due to error during dump creation".)
Every crash is almost immediately predated with 'File System Filter 'npsvctrig' (10.0, 1978-05-14T02:13:30.000000000Z) has successfully loaded and registered with Filter Manager. ' Probably doesn't mean anything, but still something noteworthy to put down.
(This log is one month before my issues became prominent, but this could also be important)
On 6/16/2025: Event ID 55, Ntfs, A corruption was discovered in the file system structure on volume C:. The exact nature of the corruption is unknown. The file system structures need to be scanned online.
This is my first PC, so I wanted to ask, could corruption be benign but also propagate to the point where it could become prominent? Speaking of this, it has to be something critical, as it survived a Windows reinstall and crashes the whole computer whenever anything that does a deep file scan (Windows Defender, Malwarebytes) finds it.
Returning back to my external SSD, logs were written to it by Windows when the initial BSOD errors came up. They're not memory dumps, but they do tell me what was happening internally: It couldn't find and validate ReAgent.xml and winre.wim multiple times, it failed to find the OS architecture (0x00000490), ResetBareMetalResetAvailable: No BareMetal config found, 0x80070001 in PbrGetDeviceNumber...Failed to invoke device number IOCTL for [\\?\ramdisk...].
Two days ago, I made adjustments to help keep the BSOD on for longer and also add more verboseness to the message through the registry. I was able to finally catch a BSOD, and here is what it says alongside CRITICAL_PROCESS_DIED: 0xFFFFE082C5F99B140, 0x00000000000000000.
Please tell me what those messages are as 0x00 returns some answers, but the latter doesn't.
What I have done in terms of troubleshooting:
1) BIOS update
2) Latest Windows 11 update reinstall
3) Malwarebytes Support Tool and Reinstall
4) MemTest64*, Windows Memory Diagnostic
5) NVIDIA driver reinstall and update
6) AMD Chipset update
7) Intel WiFi drivers diagnostics and update
8) Samsung Magician Diagnostics
9) Reverting all overclocks
10) Verifying integrity of Steam games in my library
11) Tracing back steps in Event Viewer
12) SFC, DISM, chkdsk
13) Thermal Paste reapplication (since my CPU seems to be reaching pretty high idle temps)
I don't really suspect physical hardware failure, since my entire PC (custom build) is less than 1 year old. I think this can be confirmed since no WHEA errors are found anywhere on my PC. I don't suspect any of my peripherals either; I tested this with my Logitech Yeti Orb and DSLR camera disconnected, and BSODs still occurred.
SPECS:
ASUS B450 M A-II
AMD Ryzen 5 5500
NVIDIA RTX 4060
CORSAIR 32 GB DDR4
Samsung 990 Evo Plus 1TB
Intel TP-Link AX3000
Segotep 650W PSU
** According to Samsung Magician diagnostics, HWiNFO, CrystalDiskInfo... SFC has found corrupted files and fixed them; I have run this and DISM multiple times.
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