Question New PC keeps bluescreening; CRITICAL_PROCESS DIED

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Built a new PC a couple days ago,
CPU: 9800X3D
CPU cooler: Noctua AXP90-53FC
Motherboard: ASROCK b650-I lightning wifi
Ram: 2x32gb ddr5 6000 cl32 T create
SSD: WD Black 2tb gen4x4
GPU: 7900xtx
PSU: Corsair SF 850, brand new.
Chassis: Ncase T1
OS: Win 11
Monitor: MSI G274QPX


Its been blue screening like crazy though, factory reset it 5 times now, I ran memtest86 and it passed, ran DISM and /sfc scannow to check if it was the SSD and that came back good, checked all my connections both data and power, loaded defaults in bios which is the most recent version. Attempted to use windbg but it didn't create a minidump file despite having blue screened roughly 20-30 times. I usually know a lot about computers but I'm at the end of my knowledge here. Stop code CRITICAL_PROCESS_DIED. Also got some odd memory errors I've never seen before which is what made me run a memtest scan anyways, they're attached below, this isn't all of them as I'm sure there were hundreds, I just powered it off after clicking OK 20 times. I've got like 8 of those images like the 2 attached below if one of you is mr. Torvald himself and just know which bits those correspond to and exactly what's wrong with it based off that. Later today when I get time I'm gonna remove the GPU and run it off integrated graphics and see if it's that. Also might just try reseating my ram instead of pressing down on it since more than half of blue screen errors seem to be ram. Other than that I have no Idea what could be wrong with it.


Additional troubleshooting info that's less relevant; Initially I thought it was me using winutil, a windows setup tool to help you optimize and customize, and I had EXPO enabled, and a -25 pbo on all cores, so I loaded defaults in BIOS, still crashed, factory reset and didn't use winutil, still crashed. Took the side and top panels off, pushed down on all the connectors and ram, then ran memtest86 from a USB, it said PASS after like 5 hours of running, booted it up, and as soon as I typed the password in, crash.

TLDR; Built a new pc, kept blue screening, ran memtest86 on ram, /sfc scannow and dism on ssd, both came back green. Need help.
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Welcome to the forums, newcomer!

Built a new PC a couple days ago,
When posting a thread of troubleshooting nature, it's customary to include your full system's specs. 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.

Its been blue screening like crazy though, factory reset it 5 times now,
Factory resets don't do much. Did you install the OS in offline mode? Installing all drivers in an elevated command(while in offline mode) i.e, Right click installer>Run as Administrator? Where did you source the installer for the OS?

2TB gen4x4 WD black that I was using as a secondary storage drive in my laptop,
Was this drive's partitions broken and recreated when you were installing the OS onto it? Provided there aren't any more drives on your system.
 
Welcome to the forums, newcomer!

Built a new PC a couple days ago,
When posting a thread of troubleshooting nature, it's customary to include your full system's specs. 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.

Its been blue screening like crazy though, factory reset it 5 times now,
Factory resets don't do much. Did you install the OS in offline mode? Installing all drivers in an elevated command(while in offline mode) i.e, Right click installer>Run as Administrator? Where did you source the installer for the OS?

2TB gen4x4 WD black that I was using as a secondary storage drive in my laptop,
Was this drive's partitions broken and recreated when you were installing the OS onto it? Provided there aren't any more drives on your system.
Thanks for the formatting etiquette, the psu is new, I think the bios version is 3.16, the newest one.

I used OOBE\\bypassNRO to skip online installation because I don't like being signed in on a Microsoft account, I used a USB and the windows media creation tool and let the media creation tool install and format the install file onto the USB.

Yes, when I was installing from the USB onto the 2tb SSD i had to delete all of the partitions in 3 SSD and create a new one then format it from the installer menu where you're choosing the installation location.
 
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