Multiple crashes and freezes

Xtal_

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Hey everyone, need some urgent help from the community. So basically I experienced a blue screen long ago which I traced down to be a crappy PSU which was swapped out and solved the problem (August- this was the first blue-screen of death had ever gotten-driver power state failure ) System has been nice and smooth since then

I got my first blue screen for months in the start of February with the error- "DPC watchdog violation" (ntoskrnl path file) I stopped properly gaming since a couple of months ago and usually just use PC for binge watching TV and word processing so nothing that strenuous on the PC so ruled out CPU overheating and my PC does not get anywhere close to how hot it used to reach when I did game. I also noticed my disk was being used lots (up to 100%) by local services, performed a service scan on CMD, as well as a clean boot + virus scan and haven't had a crash since. HOWEVER I then noticed that on the last crash, when analyzing the crash dump that the file path on the mini dump is named as athwnx.sys as well as ntoskrnl.exe. This is not the case for the two crashes prior to that as they just had the ntoskrnl.exe I'm hoping I have solved it since disk usage is no longer a problem and haven't an experienced a crash since I did the service scan and reboot (20th February). Can someone please tell me if this is a driver issue because I really don't want to have to pay a wad of cash to replace parts :pfff:
Thanks everyone,
Xtal

My system:
-AMD FX6300 (6 core) APU
-AMD Sapphire R9 270x GPU
-XFX 550W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply
-crucial ballistix sport 8gb (x2)
-Seagate Barracuda 1TB
-Gigabyte GA-970A-UD3P AMD Socket AM3+ Motherboard (sad I know)
-Cooler Master Hyper TX3 Evo Air CPU Cooler
 
So, your using two kits of BLS2CP4G3D1609DS1S00CEU.

Crucial guarantees the rated speeds of any memory to be obtainable only in the kit it is sold in. If you are adding an additional kit of memory, the rated timings may not work.

You will need to relax the timings and/or frequencies in order to get two sets of memory to work. Another option you may need to do is increase the dram voltages or reducing the CPU multiplier.

I suggest using one kit.