Question BSODs when PC is idle/doing nothing/light tasks, but doesn't BSOD when under load ?

Dec 24, 2024
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Ive been dealing with BSODs the past year and recently theyve been getting worse.. I've gone through reddit forums where others have found success in undervolting. The common denominator seems to be either RGB software or AMD CPUs. I managed to temporarily fix my problem with increasing the voltage on my CPU by 0.05 but that only worked for about a week before the issue returned. Going through my MiniDumps it seemed the it was LightingService.exe that was the cause but after deleting that it had become OVRService, I even have one with Brave being the problem. Other issues im facing are Chrome tabs randomly crashing and constant BSODs with the following codes:

MEMORY MANAGEMENT
IRQL NOT LESS OR EQUAL
PAGE FAULT IN NON PAGED AREA
SYSTEM SERVICE EXCEPTION
KMOD EXCEPTION NOT HANDLED
KERNEL SECURITY CHECK FAILURE
BAD POOL HEADER
DPC WATCHDOG VIOLATION


and sooo many more that I haven't even recorded yet, these are just off the top of my head. It is a daily occurrence with these yet they never happen when im playing Games, they only happen when im using Chrome or leave my PC on doing nothing.

Ive used DDU to wipe drivers and reinstall, ive uninstalled and reinstalled CPU drivers, update motherboard BIOS, run memory tests and everything seems fine. Right after installing the CPU drivers my PC actually BSOD but that was after the install was complete and wasn't during, the drivers were also installed in safemode.

My PC refuses to boot when undervolted as well, and ive watched plenty of tutorials and im sure im not doing anything wrong. This has me thinking its either a Motherboard or CPU issue or perhaps Windows itself but I could also see it possibly being a PSU issue?

Specs:
Mobo: Asus ROG B450-F
CPU: Ryzen 3600X
Gigabyte RTX 3070 Ti
RAM: 2 x 8GB Corsair Vengence RGB DDR4
Storage: Windows boots off an NVMe SSD, and I also have an HDD.

Minidump files (5 of them)
 
Hello and welcome to the forum!

Those five dumps taken together look very much like bad RAM, so before looking at anything else we need to test your RAM...
  1. Download Memtest86 (free), use the imageUSB.exe tool extracted from the download to make a bootable USB drive containing Memtest86 (1GB is plenty big enough). Do this on a different PC if you can, because you can't fully trust yours at the moment.
  2. Then boot that USB drive on your PC, Memtest86 will start running as soon as it boots.
  3. If no errors have been found after the four iterations of the 13 different tests that the free version does, then restart Memtest86 and do another four iterations. Even a single bit error is a failure.
Let us know how that goes.