Question Constant BSODs all linked to ntoskrnl.exe ?

Aug 17, 2025
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Recently (at least the past week) I've been getting random BSOD crashes. They were infrequent so I didn't think much about them, but today when I tried to run one of my emulators, it would consistently crash and restart my pc. I tried looking online for various fixes like chkdsk and updating drivers, but no luck. I saw that there was a post here from around 4 years ago with a similar issue so I figured I'd try my luck and post here. Some crashes I got were: "DRIVER OVERRAN STACK BUFFER", "DRIVER_IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL", "PAGE FAULT IN NON PAGE AREA". I've attached a link to a dropbox file of my Minidump folder in case that was needed as well as the old post with the similar issue.

Thanks for any help

https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/kgbw...ey=kk7abwlrdgyjlp95q1nl3mt3e&st=pm30japh&dl=0
 
Welcome to the forums, newcomer!

Please list the specs to your build like so:
CPU:
CPU cooler:
Motherboard:
Ram:
SSD/HDD:
GPU:
PSU:
Chassis:
OS:
Monitor:
include the age of the PSU apart from it's make and model. BIOS version for your motherboard at this moment of time.

dxgkrnl.sys
yuzu.exe

Are two things that stood out to me after using WinDBG to run your .dmp files, uninstall Nintendo's emulator and see if that changes anything.
 
I couldn't find everything so I just listed what I could using Speccy (I'm not familiar with PCs at all). I did manage to find an almost exact copy of the PC I bought from Micro Center so I attached that link to hopefully clear up what I couldn't list here.

CPU: 13th Gen Intel Core i9-13900K
CPU cooler:
Motherboard: MSI PRO Z690-A WIFI
Ram: 32GB (Speccy says unknown, but the similar build on Micro Center suggests it could be DDR5-6000 RAM)
SSD/HDD:
2GB Western Digital WD Blue SN570 2TB (Unknown (SSD))
5GB Western Digital WD Game Drive USB Device (USB (SATA) (SSD))
GPU: Intel(R) UHD Graphics/NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ti
PSU: 750 watts(?)
Chassis: PowerSpec ATX 205 Mesh
OS: Windows 11 Pro
Monitor: Acer SB220Q and Scepter E20

Here's the link to the similar PC: https://www.microcenter.com/product/689961/powerspec-g453-gaming-pc

Yuzu.exe is the name of the emulator, but it has no issue launching, it's just when it has to run a game that it crashes. I mentioned it cause it was the only crash I could get to consistently occur as even before the day of my post I had 1-2 crashes unrelated to that and even after making my post I had a crash from a completely different game. Also it's not something that is installed, although I can remove it from my PC and see if that makes a difference.

Sorry for the late reply, work ran longer than expected.