Hello. I am a tech savvy person, but I simply cannot save my beloved laptop from a recent malfunction.
One fine day, I had Gameloop (an Android emulator) running idle on the laptop. Suddenly, the window started flickering and eventually everything started going black and flickering. So I did a restart, and nothing was ever the same again.
The computer is a Lenovo Ideapad Y700-17ISK on the following specs:
Various BSODs (list below) kept coming over and over, and sometimes the screen just stays black. Strangely, no such issue exists in Safe Mode. I tried the following:
After the fresh installs, the PC seems fine. But as soon as the initial key drivers gets auto installed by Windows, different BSODs kept coming. Below are the most common:
One fine day, I had Gameloop (an Android emulator) running idle on the laptop. Suddenly, the window started flickering and eventually everything started going black and flickering. So I did a restart, and nothing was ever the same again.
The computer is a Lenovo Ideapad Y700-17ISK on the following specs:
- CPU: Intel Core i7-6700HQ 2.60GHz 6MB
- RAM: DDR4 8GB 2133Mhz
- GPU: Nvidia GeForce GTX 960M 4GB
- SSD: Kingston HyperX Predator 240GB M.2
Various BSODs (list below) kept coming over and over, and sometimes the screen just stays black. Strangely, no such issue exists in Safe Mode. I tried the following:
- Uninstall and reinstall drivers
- In BIOS: Switch between internal-only and switchable graphics
- Laptop inbuilt hard reset to factory settings
- Manual full SSD wipe, and install a genuine fresh Windows 10 (from May 2020)
- Manual full SSD wipe, and install a genuine fresh Windows 10 (from September 2021)
- Change the SSD entirely, and install a genuine fresh Windows 10 (from September 2021)
- Unseat RAM/Wifi/SSD/Battery/CMOS, and reseat
- Switch RAM order - who knows
After the fresh installs, the PC seems fine. But as soon as the initial key drivers gets auto installed by Windows, different BSODs kept coming. Below are the most common:
- VIDEO_TDR_FAILURE (igdkmd64.sys)
- DRIVER_IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL (Wdf01000.xyx)
- WDF_VIOLATION (ucx01000.sys)
- VIDEO_SCHEDULER_INTERNAL_ERROR
- (there was one more about power state, I could not note it down) - I will edit this list as more comes