[SOLVED] Help troubleshooting Daily BSOD

[maomaobear]

Hi all, been getting BSODs once or twice a week on my build for the last few months. Last week I upgraded my CPU cooler and cleaned out the PC and have been getting the BSODs more frequently, about once a day. And the temperature is down from 50-80C to 30-60C instead, which confuses me!

The BSOD can happen during gaming, or closing a Microsoft Word file, or it seems at any time almost. All the errors are different, from IRQL NOT LESS OR EQUAL, to MEMORY MANAGEMENT, to KERNEL FAILURE (or something).

I ran a Prime95 test and it passed the Small FFTs, but failed the Large FFTs with a "Rounding error". So I'm thinking it may be the memory. What's weird is that it always fails on one worker within 2-3 minutes, but then the test runs perfectly fine for the next hour or more. A couple times the crash even resulted in a no POST and I had to reseat the CMOS battery to get to the bios.

Down-clocking the memory from 3200mhz to 3133mhz (timings same) seems to reduce the issue of Prime95 rounding error. However, I still got crashes/BSODs.

I also re-installed windows and all the drivers, including running DDU and reinstalling graphics drivers from AMD. No luck.

Today I've down-clocked all the way to 2133mhz (same settings as if XMP was never enabled), and no crashes for a while just crashed while editing this post

It SEEMS like a memory problem to me, but before I get it RMAed, wondering if you guys could help shed light into the problem more. Could voltages be the cause, and if so which voltages should I increase? Could it be the motherboard DIMM slots, how would I test that if my motherboard manual specifically states to slot in RAM in a certain order/slots? Is it most definitely not a CPU issue?

How do I 100% confirm its the RAM so I don't RMA it and still have the issues?

Appreciate any help. PC Specs below.

Cheers,
Pin

MSI X570 Gaming Plus
AMD Ryzen 5 3600X - no overclock
2x 8GB Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200mhz
Sapphire Pulse Radeon 5700XT
EVGA Supernova G3 550
Windows 10 Pro

RAM Timings
16-20-20-20-38
Voltage Settings:
MEM VDDIO 1.35v
MEM VTT Auto
VDDCR SOC 1.1v
CLDO VDDP 0.9v
CLDO VDDG 1.1v

All other motherboard settings on auto (no PBO)

 

[Colif]

summary:
Passes prime 95
Passes Memtest
Voltages look about normal in hwinfo
Storage drives seem ok I(ran magician)
You already said you had a Blue Yeti before I asked (slaps self)

specs:
MSI X570 Gaming Plus
AMD Ryzen 5 3600X - no overclock
2x 8GB Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200mhz
Sapphire Pulse Radeon 5700XT
EVGA Supernova G3 550

Any BSOD since you put in new LAN card?

 

[maomaobear]

No BSODs for two days.

Since the new LAN card (disabled the on-board port via device manager), only change I made was unplugging secondary SSD drive.

Fingers crossed...

If anything BSOD frequency has reduced to a usable PC state, which is good.

 

[maomaobear]

And.... we have a crash

This time, BSOD was KERNEL_AUTO_BOOST_LOCK_ACQUISITION_WITH_RAISED_IRQL (192)

Dump: https://drive.google.com/file/d/16-p15nz3EdW_90jJydMZVJOzHDUIlO6A/view?usp=sharing

 

[maomaobear]

Time to solve this problem with the credit card. New CPU and motherboard inbound.

 

[Colif]

Time to solve this problem with the credit card. New CPU and motherboard inbound.

i hope that fixes it. I prefer not to cost people money

 

[maomaobear]

Me too! Let's just hope its not the GPU

 

[gardenman]

Hopefully that works. Here's the result for latest dump in case it's needed: https://jsfiddle.net/njbo7arm/show This link is for anyone wanting to help. You do not have to view it. It is safe to "run the fiddle" as the page asks.

File information:	112821-10187-01.dmp (Nov 28 2021 - 07:22:10)
Bugcheck:	KERNEL_AUTO_BOOST_LOCK_ACQUISITION_WITH_RAISED_IRQL (192)
Driver warnings:	*** WARNING: Unable to verify timestamp for WdFilter.sys
Probably caused by:	memory_corruption (Process: MoUsoCoreWorke)
Uptime:	0 Day(s), 8 Hour(s), 36 Min(s), and 39 Sec(s)

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[maomaobear]

New motherboard and CPU are setup. Stand by to get some.

 

[Colif]

wdfilter.sys is windows defender mini filter... lan again.

Brand new PC incoming?

 

[maomaobear]

wdfilter.sys is windows defender mini filter... lan again.

Brand new PC incoming?

New motherboard and CPU already setup:
MSI Mag B550M Mortar WIFI
Ryzen 5600X

Didn't even need to reinstall windows.

You know I'm thinking there is a possiblity that the wintun.sys driver connected to Astrill VPN may be the culprit. Am staying away from it for the next week while testing the CPU/mobo replacement, but will re-test it again afterwards.

 

[maomaobear]

Full week of PC use and no BSOD. Looks like my problem is solved.

Will return motherboard and CPU for maintenance and see what they say. Will report back if I get a clear answer on the cause.

Thank you Colif for your help.

 

[maomaobear]

Just as a final update to this thread. My seller got back to me and it looks like AMD will be giving me a brand new 3600X. Unfortunately AMD did not tell my seller what the problem was, only that it would be replaced with a new one.

So it was the CPU.