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Blue Screen of Death; a Windows fatal system error, e.g. "A problem has been detected and Windows has been shut down" or "Your PC ran into a problem". Mention the specific error code and all information on the screen in your question.

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How do I kill a critical process in Windows without it BSODing or just restarting [closed]

So, for fun i just decided to kill some process like lsass.exe without it just restarting the system in one minute. But, when I do so, it will just restart the system. Or, even better, I want to ...
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Can't update Windows 10 (x64) - PAGE FAULT IN NON-PAGED AREA

As the title suggests, I cannot update Windows any more. It updated and ran falwlessly for 2 years before that. When any Windows updates are installed (either a feature update or a cumulative update, ...
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How to get BSOD Error info, as the PC restarts and I could not take the screenshot

My laptop is restarting from time to time after BSOD, it shows some error but it quickly restarts before I can ready some information. Is there any place in windows logs/events from where I can get ...
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Computer screen flashes then crashes

This problem had been occuring for like 2 weeks. What happens is that sometimes when im using the computer the screen will start flashing for 10-20 sec then the computer will restart automatically, ...
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Find cause of BSOD (almost caused by any activity)

Almost any form of activity causes my PC to run into BSOD eventually, how can I find out what is the culprit that causes this BSOD? Here's the dump files: https://files.catbox.moe/5lprem.rar
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Windows to go INACCESSIBLE_BOOT_DEVICE USB

Laptop : Lenovo P14s Gen2 Intel version Windows 11 Pro Go to installed on Cruicial SSD using rufus v4 Laptop belongs to my company, I just finished my grad with my 7yrs old laptop. Wanted to play ...
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Windows 10 crashes after going to sleep/hibernate

I'm experiencing an issue where after I put my PC to sleep or hibernate, the monitor turns off and, after a certain period of time, crashes. This issue doesn't always happen though - for the first few ...
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How to override the BSOD behavior in Windows systems

Many times , when I was re-installing Windows in an old computer, I faced the famous BSOD and the system argues that it must shutdown to prevent "further harms" to the hardware : in my ...
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Laptop broke down when Deep Freeze is still active, Cannot start Windows in another laptop

I am using Deep Freeze Standard v8 in Windows 7. One day my computer won't start at all due to mainboard failure. It is totally dead. The problem is that Deep Freeze was active when it happened. I ...
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Find cause of startup BSOD connected with complete battery discharge

I get the following issue on my Lenovo Yoga C940-15IRH laptop (i7-9750H, Geforce 1650 Max-Q, 16GB RAM, 4K display): I work on battery, and turn the PC off (Shut down) with the battery well over 60% ...
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Can I select certain third-party drivers to disable in Windows 10?

I am in a complicated situation where my PC is constantly rebooting on its own. I've verified it isn't my RAM, SSD, USB devices, etc. It is possible that its' my PSU, as there's no clear way to test ...
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Bootlooping BSoD SYSTEM_LICENSE_VIOLATION to Automatic Recovery

Here's what the computer did when I booted back up (in simple terms): BSoD SYSTEM_LICENSE_VIOLATION, restart Automatic Recovery, fails to fix, restart Repeat about twice Boots to the Automatic ...
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Windows 11 bootable media fails with NFTS_FILE_SYSTEM BSOD

I'm building a brand new PC. I've downloaded and run the official program to create a bootable USB key. After correctly setting up the boot media first in UEFI, the PC boots for a few seconds, and ...
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Android Studio emulator causing BSOD with DPC_WATCHDOG_VIOLATION error on Windows 11

whenever I try to run the device emulator, my pc crashes and shows blue screen of death because of DPC_WATCHDOG_VIOLATION. I've tried: completely uninstalling everything related to android studio and ...
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A1 and B1 memory slots don't work, while A2 and B2 do

I recently build my own PC, with a Z790 motherboard a intel i5 13K Alder Lake and a single 32 gb DDR5 ram stick. When trying to install windows, I had a lot of problems, most often a MEMORY_MANAGEMENT ...
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How to fix signatures hidclass.sys , hidparse.sys , hidusb.sys in windows 10

Blue screen - 0x000021a Windows boots when disabling mandatory driver signing. sigverif.exe showed hidclass.sys , hidparse.sys , hidusb.sys not signed. And now also basicdisplay.sys , basicrender.sys ....
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What's the cause of this silent LiveKernelEvent 193?

Brand new system, not OC'ed Zotac 4070Ti Trinity CPU i5-12600K 500GB Kingston SSD Transcend 16GB RAM Windows 11 Pro 22H2 Build 22621.1265 Coolermaster MWE 10050 Gold V2 All drivers and BIOS are up to ...
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PC Stucking on windows logo even in format drive

I built a new pc with the best parts. Now I can't run it. Here is the story, parts, and what I tried: Problem I can't boot pc even in format drive. It is stuck on the windows logo after 5 secs. ...
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String American Megatrend Laptop keeps on getting BSOD

after days of installing windows 11 on my laptop having an AMD 2700U processor I tried installing offline enrol to windows insider build and I received updates at first everything works well but on ...
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Driver BSODs (Minidump inside)

I have been attempting to troubleshoots some BSODs on an older machine running Windows 7. It first generated a corrupted dump that only gave me the following info: DRIVER_CORRUPTED_EXPOOL (c5) An ...
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Windows 11 bluescreen after update, cannot acess my files (bitlocker)

After turning on a windows feature, my Windows 11 restarted and now I'm stuck with bluescreen. While booting, Bitlocker asks me for my pin code and then I bluescreen during Windows' boot process. I ...
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Win 10 crashes at startup with BSOD

I hope this is the right site and forum for this question. I have a lenovo laptop with following specs: Core i7 Nvidia GTX 860M 8 GB DDR3 256 SSD Win 10 For some years the laptop used to crash ...
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BSOD UNEXPECTED_STORE_EXCEPTION error

I'm getting random BSOD crashes with the crash code: UNEXPECTED_STORE_EXCEPTION (the PC can run for a long time, then it crashes with the BSOD out of nowhere), and the guys over the subreddit /r/...
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IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL Bluescreen error in Windows 10

my computer randomly gets IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL Bluescreen error. SPECS: Nothing specific triggers it - last time my computer lasted for 2 hours I tried to uninstall all drivers with yellow mark in ...
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Nothing is saved after Reboot

I have an odd problem with a Windows 10 laptop (HP Stream 11). It's actually two problems, which may be symptoms of the same issue. After logging into Windows, after a minute or so, I get a blue ...
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BSOD after update, now crashes if a specific HDD is plugged

I was getting a bootloop with "automatic repair" I finally managed to fix it by leaving only my OS ssd plugged in and booting to windows, then it showed a "something went wrong rolling ...
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Hard Drive Failure? - Reallocated Sector Count

I recently noticed Windows was extremely slow and some programs failed to run. The hard disk is checked during boot randomly. Sometimes checks go to Stage 5: 100s of thousands of sectors. After a ...
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BSOD Critical Structure Corruption on Win10

I changed the ram but the problem is not solved Error code in event viewer: 0x00000109 (0xa39fd4e448c045cd, 0xb3b6e16a9b43ab35, 0x00000000000001a0, 0x0000000000000007). Minidump File 1 Debugging ...
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multi boot: deleting a GPT partition with sgdisk before the Windows 10 partition breaks Windows 10 boot

After deleting my first partition from Debian with sgdisk, I get a BSOD when booting Windows 10: Votre appareil a rencontré un problème et doit être redémarré. Nous allons redémarrer l'ordinateur ...
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chkdsk information on failing SSD

I have a Windows 10 PC which recently started having random BSODs with a different error code each time (process crashed, invalid store, and more). After narrowing down the problem to the SSD by ...
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My computer crashes at random due to, WHEA_UNCORRECTABLE_ERROR (124). i'm unable to identify what exactly is the cause

My PC will blue or black screen at random, especially when playing a game, some games cause the BSOD quicker than others. I recently upgraded my CPU, GPU and ram. I have ran memory tests for the ram ...
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Windows 8.1 boot error after restarting

I restarted my notebook after it lagged especially hard thinking it needs a fresh reset. After that it won't boot anymore. It says "the boot configuration data for your PC is missing or contains ...
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Windows 10 stops with CRITICAL_PROCESS_DIED

I have a Dell Latitude laptop shipped with Windows 10, which ran without problems until I had the idea to run an older Windows install from an external SSD in USB. It booted and worked (still works), ...
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Windows 10 Repair Install keeping apps and data when windows doesn't boot?

I have a windows 10 pro machine that has Blue Screened IOInitialize fail. I have tried everything under the sun dism, bcdedit fixboot etc . you name it ..and nothing is working to get it to simply ...
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Why am I experiencing a daily blue screen of death with either one of these causes: DPC_WATCHDOG_VIOLATION and HYPERVISOR_ERROR?

I am facing a very weird issue. My desktop is an Alienware from 2014 with all the recent updates installed for Windows 10. The behavior I get is that once a day I get two blue screens: ...
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Blue Screen Errors

Apologies in advance if I didn't post any of this correctly, this is my first time posting here. I have been getting bluescreen errors nonstop. I went to my diagnostic data viewer and noticed there ...
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Booting from a virtual disk on a virtual machine ends up in a blue screen

I took a HDD out of a dead PC (,which used to run Windows Vista) and virtualized it into vhdx using disk2VHD. After converting the VHDX to VMDK, I attached the drive to a new virtual machine on VMWare ...
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BSOD when connected to internet via Ethernet

Problem definition I am using Windows 10 on a Lenovo laptop with a Realtek network card. The network card shows in the Device Manager as "Realtek PCIe GbE Family Controller" and I usually ...
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Internal Power Error

From time to time my 1st attempt to turn on my PC fails (the motherboard manufacturer logo is displayed and then immediately PC shuts down). Every attempt after that is always successful. Here is the ...
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Windows VM works from QEMU CLI but produces BSOD from virt-manager

Overview I have a Windows 7 virtual image that I can successfully spin up using the following qemu command in the terminal: qemu-system-x86_64 -m 4096 -boot d -enable-kvm -smp 2 -net nic -net user -...
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Strange computer behavior

It is really hard to briefly describe what is happening with my computer in the title. Thus I will try to explain it as detailed as I can below. Turning on the computer after it has been turned off ...
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Constant PNP Fatal Error BSOD

I have been pulling my hair out trying to figure this problem out. The PC will randomly crash, and give the PNP_FATAL_ERROR code. However it boots up just fine, and I can use it no issues, until a ...
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How to switch between Docker related development and non-Docker related development?

This is a copy of my original question. On my PC, I have a process "vmmem", eating up to 1.6Gb of RAM, and regularly using my entire CPU usage. After some investigation, based on several ...
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Video Scheduler Internal Error

I have an Nvidia GTX 1660ti graphics card which I bought about 3 years ago. Recently I've been experiencing the "VIDEO_SCHEDULER_INTERNAL_ERROR" BSOD. As soon as I open up chrome, edge or ...
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How to clone PC without Intel Optane to a PC with Intel Optane

I am a computer tech and have cloned PCs for years, even wrote my own software to do it. For a few years now, I've ran in to boot issues after cloning from a non Intel Optane PC to an Intel Optane ...
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350w power supply enough?

I am working on a malfunctioning windows 10 pc for a friend of mine. It's a prebuild system with a gtx 1650, 8gb ddr4, 1 nvme ssd, 1 hdd and a Ryzen 3 3200G. According to my friend it has been having ...
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Blue Screen of Death while formatting corrupted USB drive [duplicate]

I was trying to flash Linux Mint on my 32GB Sandisk USB Drive using BalenaEtcher. But whenever I try to start flashing, my system crashes immediately with the following code on BSOD: Stop code: ...
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USB KVM corrupting page files?

I have three computers hooked up to a 4-way USB KVM switch - two Windows laptops and a Mac tower. One of the laptops has periodically experienced a bluescreen with a FAULTY_HARDWARE_CORRUPTED_PAGE ...
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Windows 10 (1909) BSOD on boot, and can't login in Safe Mode - what options do I have?

TLDR; BSOD on boot because of the enabled Driver Verifier. Can't login to Safe Mode to turn it off because I only remember the PIN, not the Password. Safe Mode with Network seems to be broken and ...
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BSOD when enabling Virtual Machine Platform in combination with vt-d

I did a new install of windows 11 on my laptop. Everything was fine until I ran "wsl --install" Got the BSOD with INACCESSIBLE_BOOT_DEVICE. After I disable VT for Direct I/O in BIOS my ...
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