Question Constant BSOD when playing games

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Sure, give me any dumps you get,

Predicted bad weather here in the next few days means I may not answer post right away.

Did you take vanguard off as it might still be running even if you think it isn't. I would see if it helps at least. system did flag it as a problem.

I would have removed it and run Verifier again to see if it found anything else.
 
i had one person given me 24 dumps yesterday, took an hour to convert them all. At least yours only take 5 minutes

Conversion of dumps

report - Click run as fiddle to see report

File: 102022-8156-01.dmp (Oct 20 2022 - 22:10:37)
BugCheck: [DRIVER_VERIFIER_DETECTED_VIOLATION (C4)]
*** WARNING: Unable to verify timestamp for SmbIch.sys
Probably caused by: SmbIch.sys (Process: System)
Uptime: 0 Day(s), 0 Hour(s), 00 Min(s), and 04 Sec(s)

File: 102022-12968-01.dmp (Oct 20 2022 - 21:25:25)
BugCheck: [IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL (A)]
Probably caused by: ntkrnlmp.exe (Process: FIFA23.exe)
Uptime: 0 Day(s), 23 Hour(s), 14 Min(s), and 15 Sec(s)

I looked at that yesterday...

Do you have anything made by Fujitsu?
Apr 25 2022SmbIch.sys appears to be from Fujitsu - https://systemexplorer.net/file-database/file/smbich-sys/17409698
Fujitsu SMBus controller driver.

I was wrong before.
I think its actually an intel driver.
Intel Q470/H470/Z490/W480 SMBUS Controller
possibly part of chipset drivers.

could run this and see if it offers anything new - https://www.intel.com.au/content/www/au/en/support/intel-driver-support-assistant.html

Given the only drivers running at time were intel and Nvidia, there wasn't a big choice
Aug 02 2021iaLPSS2_I2C_CNL.sysIntel(R) Serial IO I2C v2 driver
Feb 03 2022e2f.sysIntel Ethernet 800 Series Netwrok Controller
Mar 21 2022gnf.sys
Apr 25 2022SmbIch.sys
Apr 29 2022UcmCxUcsiNvppc.sysNVIDIA USB Type-C Port Policy Controller driver
Jul 14 2022TeeDriverW10x64.sysIntel Management Engine Interface driver
Oct 07 2022nvlddmkm.sysNvidia Graphics Card driver http://www.nvidia.com/
Also makes me wonder if there is anything newer as they not exactly old.
I need to go in and add the names of the unknowns
 
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what make/model m,2 do you have?

It seems unlikely to me that an intel driver from June would be a problem.
something feels off here.

So ram was 1 set of 4 x 8gb sticks as I can't seem to find anything higher than 16gb sets with those codes.
 
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what is health of both drives like?

search for command prompt
choose run as admin from the right panel
type chkdsk X: /f and press enter (replace X with drive letter of each ssd)
2 paragraphs might pop up, agree to running at startup

Do that for both ssd
restart PC and let it scan drives.

we checked CPU & Ram, drivers don't just corrupt themselves so trying to figure out why.