Hey, how's it going, everyone? I'm having some serious issues with my computer today.
Let me first clear the air: I, myself, am not new to Bluescreenland. I've done a lot to check what the problem is, but I can't seem to figure it out.
This started about 2 days ago. My computer was working fine, I was having fun, just got Wallpaper Engine, was looking at all of the cool things people have done with it. My friend invited me to play VRChat, so I went with him. However, immediately started having problems upon joining his world, lot of stuttering and mini-hangs, and soon VRChat crashed. I booted it up again, joined his world, VRChat crashed. I booted it up one more time, sat in my private world for about 5 minutes with no crashes, no hangs, nothing. So I joined on him. Boom, it crashes not 10 seconds later, but instead of just VRChat, it's my entire computer. It hard locks. Audio is stuck, screen goes black, no BSOD after a minute, so I restart the computer.
I try once again to log into VRChat. I thought, maybe that was a bad boot for some of my drivers? Surely it won't happen again.
Bam, crash, no BSOD, hard lock again. Restart, Crashes while logging in, this time with a Stop Code: Kernel Security Check Failure.
I've had this before, and nothing bad happened after. So I boot up, check again, it took 5 minutes for my PC to get past the log in screen after putting in my pin.
Usually my computer takes about.... 30 seconds or so. 5 minutes tells me something is not right.
I shut down Wallpaper Engine, thinking maybe that was an issue. Told it to stop loading up at start. Restarted my computer. Still 5 minutes-ish to log in. At this point I'm just getting frustrated. I boot up TeamSpeak, nothing seems to be extra wrong, except I noticed that the animation for bringing up my auto-hidden task bar is very stuttery. I check my task man, which took about a minute to fully load up, and my CPU usage is 100%, mainly through System Interrupts, system, a bunch of windows stuff. (Also, I'm currently getting malwarebytes to do a quick virus scan, just to make sure)
Before TeamSpeak has fully loaded up, which was also taking much longer than usual, but that makes sense because my CPU was being absolutely railed, I get another BSOD, this time it's different. IRQL not less or equal. Cause: xboxgip.sys
My friend told me it's the RAM. But I couldn't even get into my PC to schedule a memdiag. Everytime I tried to log in from this point, it would BSOD. It was either the Kernel Security Check, the IRQL thing? Or Page Fault in Non-Paged Area. Again, xboxgip.sys.
My thoughts were thus: Either my RAM is cooked, which would be upsetting because two of the sticks I just bought and installed a couple of weeks ago and the other two were only 6 months old, or xboxgip.sys was causing all of my problems.
Now, I can't uninstall xboxgip.sys with xboxgip.inf, because it's system critical. Microsuck won't let me figure out if that's the problem. But BSOD after BSOD, finally I did something weird. I plugged the Xbox controller that my friend gave me in (I hate xbox controllers, but it was the only way ATS would let me play it, it won't let me use PS4 controllers), booted it, it bsods, I unplug it, after that long wait, I finally get into Windows. Things are super sluggish. Stupid sluggish. But I manage to schedule a memdiag. And what it tells me makes me want to hurl.
Hardware problems were detected. To solve these problems, contact your computer manufacturer.
First off Microsoft, I AM the computer manufacturer. But of course, Microsoft doesn't give the consumer any competent tools for figuring out what these problems are, why would they do that?
I went and grabbed a program called memtest86. I'm sure many of your are familiar with it. I let it run while I went to sleep, and I woke up to it telling me something wonderful: 0 errors.
0 errors. Now, my thoughts are on my motherboard or the OS.
Here's my question: Should I reinstall windows, lose all of my programs, in the hopes that maybe it's the OS? Or should I trust Microsoft and buy another motherboard?
I'm certain many people will be asking for specs, so here we go.
AMD Ryzen 5 1600 (non-OC)
AMD Radeon 5700XT (non-OC)
4x8GB G.Skill Trident Z RGB @ 3000MHz (non-OC)
Sound Blaster X AE-5 (Love my sounds.)
Asus Prime x370-A (can't find this board anywhere anymore, it's so damn pretty)
NZXT Case (that's important, because I use NZXT CAM)
NZXT Kraken Z (the smaller, two fan option, again NZXT CAM, drivers)
Razer keyboard and mouse and mouse pad (Important because drivers, again, Razer Synapse 3)
2 HDD's (C:\ is 1TB seagate, 64MB cache, so no SMR, D:\ is 500GB Laptop Drive)
1 1TB Samsung QVO SSD (I call it the Yeetatron)
I would like to note that I tried running a chkdsk, it BSOD'd at the end of that (it was a pre-windows one, too, not a during windows one. I had to check my main disk), so... I even tried using the "Reset this PC" option, and it BSOD'd during that! Funny enough, both times, it said xboxgip.sys was the cause. Also, after the second BSOD, it refuses to save the dmp files, it just sits at 100% until it is manually restarted. Which is frustrating.
I also find it amazing that microsoft's provided tool for reading .dmp files manages to fail to read them every time. I have to use BlueScreen Viewer.
Finally, the virus scan has completed and, aside from what MWB assumes are PUP's (which are actually programs that I installed myself and trust, because I know what they do), PC is clean.
I'm at a loss here, guys. This is seriously worrying and upsetting.
OOP forgot to mention, system seems to be running just fine in Safe Mode.
EDIT: two new ones. Interrupt Exception not handled (I assume that's USB or some other peripheral or CPU related), and now System Thread Exception not handled. This is... worrying? To say the least.
Let me first clear the air: I, myself, am not new to Bluescreenland. I've done a lot to check what the problem is, but I can't seem to figure it out.
This started about 2 days ago. My computer was working fine, I was having fun, just got Wallpaper Engine, was looking at all of the cool things people have done with it. My friend invited me to play VRChat, so I went with him. However, immediately started having problems upon joining his world, lot of stuttering and mini-hangs, and soon VRChat crashed. I booted it up again, joined his world, VRChat crashed. I booted it up one more time, sat in my private world for about 5 minutes with no crashes, no hangs, nothing. So I joined on him. Boom, it crashes not 10 seconds later, but instead of just VRChat, it's my entire computer. It hard locks. Audio is stuck, screen goes black, no BSOD after a minute, so I restart the computer.
I try once again to log into VRChat. I thought, maybe that was a bad boot for some of my drivers? Surely it won't happen again.
Bam, crash, no BSOD, hard lock again. Restart, Crashes while logging in, this time with a Stop Code: Kernel Security Check Failure.
I've had this before, and nothing bad happened after. So I boot up, check again, it took 5 minutes for my PC to get past the log in screen after putting in my pin.
Usually my computer takes about.... 30 seconds or so. 5 minutes tells me something is not right.
I shut down Wallpaper Engine, thinking maybe that was an issue. Told it to stop loading up at start. Restarted my computer. Still 5 minutes-ish to log in. At this point I'm just getting frustrated. I boot up TeamSpeak, nothing seems to be extra wrong, except I noticed that the animation for bringing up my auto-hidden task bar is very stuttery. I check my task man, which took about a minute to fully load up, and my CPU usage is 100%, mainly through System Interrupts, system, a bunch of windows stuff. (Also, I'm currently getting malwarebytes to do a quick virus scan, just to make sure)
Before TeamSpeak has fully loaded up, which was also taking much longer than usual, but that makes sense because my CPU was being absolutely railed, I get another BSOD, this time it's different. IRQL not less or equal. Cause: xboxgip.sys
My friend told me it's the RAM. But I couldn't even get into my PC to schedule a memdiag. Everytime I tried to log in from this point, it would BSOD. It was either the Kernel Security Check, the IRQL thing? Or Page Fault in Non-Paged Area. Again, xboxgip.sys.
My thoughts were thus: Either my RAM is cooked, which would be upsetting because two of the sticks I just bought and installed a couple of weeks ago and the other two were only 6 months old, or xboxgip.sys was causing all of my problems.
Now, I can't uninstall xboxgip.sys with xboxgip.inf, because it's system critical. Microsuck won't let me figure out if that's the problem. But BSOD after BSOD, finally I did something weird. I plugged the Xbox controller that my friend gave me in (I hate xbox controllers, but it was the only way ATS would let me play it, it won't let me use PS4 controllers), booted it, it bsods, I unplug it, after that long wait, I finally get into Windows. Things are super sluggish. Stupid sluggish. But I manage to schedule a memdiag. And what it tells me makes me want to hurl.
Hardware problems were detected. To solve these problems, contact your computer manufacturer.
First off Microsoft, I AM the computer manufacturer. But of course, Microsoft doesn't give the consumer any competent tools for figuring out what these problems are, why would they do that?
I went and grabbed a program called memtest86. I'm sure many of your are familiar with it. I let it run while I went to sleep, and I woke up to it telling me something wonderful: 0 errors.
0 errors. Now, my thoughts are on my motherboard or the OS.
Here's my question: Should I reinstall windows, lose all of my programs, in the hopes that maybe it's the OS? Or should I trust Microsoft and buy another motherboard?
I'm certain many people will be asking for specs, so here we go.
AMD Ryzen 5 1600 (non-OC)
AMD Radeon 5700XT (non-OC)
4x8GB G.Skill Trident Z RGB @ 3000MHz (non-OC)
Sound Blaster X AE-5 (Love my sounds.)
Asus Prime x370-A (can't find this board anywhere anymore, it's so damn pretty)
NZXT Case (that's important, because I use NZXT CAM)
NZXT Kraken Z (the smaller, two fan option, again NZXT CAM, drivers)
Razer keyboard and mouse and mouse pad (Important because drivers, again, Razer Synapse 3)
2 HDD's (C:\ is 1TB seagate, 64MB cache, so no SMR, D:\ is 500GB Laptop Drive)
1 1TB Samsung QVO SSD (I call it the Yeetatron)
I would like to note that I tried running a chkdsk, it BSOD'd at the end of that (it was a pre-windows one, too, not a during windows one. I had to check my main disk), so... I even tried using the "Reset this PC" option, and it BSOD'd during that! Funny enough, both times, it said xboxgip.sys was the cause. Also, after the second BSOD, it refuses to save the dmp files, it just sits at 100% until it is manually restarted. Which is frustrating.
I also find it amazing that microsoft's provided tool for reading .dmp files manages to fail to read them every time. I have to use BlueScreen Viewer.
Finally, the virus scan has completed and, aside from what MWB assumes are PUP's (which are actually programs that I installed myself and trust, because I know what they do), PC is clean.
I'm at a loss here, guys. This is seriously worrying and upsetting.
OOP forgot to mention, system seems to be running just fine in Safe Mode.
EDIT: two new ones. Interrupt Exception not handled (I assume that's USB or some other peripheral or CPU related), and now System Thread Exception not handled. This is... worrying? To say the least.
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