Question Memory leak causing Discord, Chrome and Megasync to crash

Feb 21, 2024
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System: Asus ROG Strix G16 G614JI, purchased early september of last year
Upgraded to 32GB DDR5@5200mhz and a 2TB SSD a month after buying the laptop
Tried sfc/scannow, DISM, as well as SSD, GPU and memory test, passed all of them on every Windows install
Tried completely reinstalling Windows 11 and putting original 16GB ram and 1TB SSD back in
One more thing, I haven't done any overclocking to any component of the system, unless the 5200 mhz ram up from 4800 counts

Problems started early February, when Chrome tabs started crashing, with either status_breakpoint or status_access_violation, usually YouTube a couple minutes into watching a video, I never timed it but it was pretty frequent
At about the same time in February, Discord also started crashing very frequently, usually it would crash and restart but sometimes I would have to reopen it entirely. Also would usually crash again if I did what I was doing before it crashed the first time.
For example, one time I was in a voice call with one other person, other person shared their screen and upon sharing their screen I crashed. I didn't even have to be watching their stream. This happened 4 times in a row.
Another time I was writing a kinda long bio, and discord crashed, so I tried typing the bio again and it crashed again, this happened also about 4 times in a row as well.
There was one time where it crashed probably 10+ times in a row, before Discord even loaded in. Couple of times where it completely closed itself.
Also a couple of times, Discord gave me critical windows errors related to memory. I didn't write them down, I clicked OK on accident, but the next time I opened discord it didn't give me that error.
Another weird error that I got, opening Task Manager one time gave me 'the stub recieved bad data.' right after though, it worked fine.
I also got a wonderful BSOD, stop code was REGISTRY_ERROR
This was when I decided to reinstall Windows 11, which unfortunately didn't solve the problem. It never got as bad as crashing 10 times in a row, but Discord still crashed frequently.
Also, during the installation of a couple drivers, I got runtime errors, which can't be good. I ran them again and they worked fine, but I don't know if that corrupted something or what.
This was when I tried looking into a couple of Discord's crash logs, which gave me this.

FAILURE_BUCKET_ID: NULL_CLASS_PTR_READ_c0000005_Discord.exe!Unknown

FAILURE_BUCKET_ID: INVALID_POINTER_READ_MINUS_ONE_ffffffff_c0000005_Discord.exe!Unknown

Another thing to note about the Discord crash logs is that they state that my OS is Windows 10 and my architecture is x86. I don't know if this is normal behavior or not. I also noticed something pretty weird, Megasync was also crashing, and was also giving the exact same c0000005 string somewhere in the crash dump. Nothing I did on this install of Windows 11 fixed this issue.
Tried installing the original ram, which worked for about 20 minutes, then the crashing happened again and again.
Then I tried putting in the factory SSD, and I have to admit it's not crashing as much now, but it still is, mainly in voice calls. This is a link to three crash dumps from a few days ago.
 
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Welcome to the forums, newcomer!

System: Asus ROG Strix G16 G614JI
Does the laptop have any BIOS updates pending?

Tried completely reinstalling Windows 11
Where did you source the installer for your OS? Did you install the OS in an offline mode?
 
Welcome to the forums, newcomer!

System: Asus ROG Strix G16 G614JI
Does the laptop have any BIOS updates pending?

Tried completely reinstalling Windows 11
Where did you source the installer for your OS? Did you install the OS in an offline mode?
Sourced the installer from Microsoft's website and installed with a wifi connection, just installed the latest version of the bios since you brought it up (from rog website as well) and it's still crashing, these are two crash logs i just got from discord, had my camera on in a Discord call with two people, the crashes were about 3 minutes in between.
 
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Sourced the installer from Microsoft's website and installed with a wifi connection, just installed the latest version of the bios since you brought it up (from rog website as well) and it's still crashing, these are two crash logs i just got from discord, had my camera on in a Discord call with two people, the crashes were about 3 minutes in between.
I really want to figure out if this is something I can fix because I really do not want to send in my laptop for RMA. I've heard plenty horror stories of Asus RMA sending back broken and even incorrect items.
 
Hi,
I actually have the same exact laptop model, brand, everything, just 16 GB RAM with an i9-13980HX and a 4070. I'm having the exact same problems. I went to a local shop near me to fix the Google Chrome STATUS_ACCESS_VIOLATION and so far, no problems. However, I'm having problems with Discord just like you are, and even VALORANT, if you play that game with it crashing and giving me StackHash/0xc0000005 access violation errors. I'd love to get more in contact with you to talk more about this. If you'd like to add me on Discord it's "miro.py." This issue is giving me a pain in the a** as well. I really hope this isn't like some sort of CPU or hardware issue. And, just like you, I've tried every fix you said on top of installing Windows 11 and even downgrading to Windows 10.
 
Hi,
I actually have the same exact laptop model, brand, everything, just 16 GB RAM with an i9-13980HX and a 4070. I'm having the exact same problems. I went to a local shop near me to fix the Google Chrome STATUS_ACCESS_VIOLATION and so far, no problems. However, I'm having problems with Discord just like you are, and even VALORANT, if you play that game with it crashing and giving me StackHash/0xc0000005 access violation errors. I'd love to get more in contact with you to talk more about this. If you'd like to add me on Discord it's "miro.py." This issue is giving me a pain in the a** as well. I really hope this isn't like some sort of CPU or hardware issue. And, just like you, I've tried every fix you said on top of installing Windows 11 and even downgrading to Windows 10.
Completely forgot about this, glad I just now remembered.
Currently, there is a fix, at least for me. Thanks to you xx (thank you so much for reaching out on discord omg)
Go into the advanced settings tab on your BIOS (on the ROG Strix G16) and turn off Intel Virtualization Technology. Then download Intel XTU (short for eXtreme Tuning Utility, if you don't know) and turn down your performance and efficient core ratios (for me I turned down the performance cores to 49x and efficient cores to 38x, again thank you miro!!!)
Unfortunately though, right now it seems to be just a fix for me. Programs are still crashing for miro, just not as much.
 
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