BSOD after 15-20 minutes of gaming

Never had to go through so much effort trying to get a PC to be stable and my assumption is that is related to the most recent Windows 11 update. All of my drivers for all of my devices are updated and I have the most recent BIOS version. PC runs fine, currently playing PGA 2k25, and after around 15-20 minutes it will hang a few times, then BSOD. Usually, the BSOD is critical process died, but I have seen something for WHEA as well. No issues in Device manager, all drivers are installed. Latest Nvidia drivers as well. V2 Collector and Minidump attached. I am not able to find a copy of 23H2 to revert to since Microsoft was kind enough to remove all of them from their website.

Edit: Runs fine on the desktop, has never had a BSOD unless its in a game. Eliminated riser card, in first PCIGen4 slot, Turned off PCI Express Native Power Mangement and reverted back to PCIGen3 to resolve a constant Warning, Event 17, in event viewer. Stress test runs without issue on CPU, RAM, GPU, combined using OCCT. SFC and DISM has been run, this is a fresh install of 24H2 from USB. It is worth mentioning that the Motherboard killed a newer M.2 SSD which was somewhat the genesis for this problem. Its also a RMA board, the original had a manufacturing defect that caused it to have issues communicating with the DIMM slots. It has, however, been running just fine for more than a year. It was only after the 24H2 update that this started happening. Again, all of the drivers available from ASUS are installed and its on the latest BIOS. I was thinking about rolling back the BIOS but i just hopped on my M365 admin center and grabbed a 23H2 Pro ISO. I think I will probably just install that.

pmrobinson said:

I am not able to find a copy of 23H2

Click to expand...

Windows 11 22631 ISO english inkl. Updates

Welcome to the forum. I would not go back to 23h2. It won't be supported much longer. I would get to the bottom of it. You have prime hardware and shouldn't be having the problem. If there's an issue with hardware I would want to find out before it's out of warranty.

Not an answer to your problem, but I'm curious. May I ask why you chose to use only 16gb of ram with an i9 cpu, a super graphics card, and a gaming mobo?

The computer has been having WHEA 124 BSOD which are almost always caused by malfunctioning hardware.

Often component swaps are required for testing purposes.


All of these test should be done with the no over clocking.



Please perform the following steps: (in sequence)



Make sure that images or share links are posted for all steps / tests.





1) Reinstall the BIOS:





2) Run Tuneup plus > post a share link

https://www.tenforums.com/attachmen...-files-use-bsod-debugging-tuneup_plus_log.zip

Batch files for use in BSOD debugging - Windows 10 Help Forums

Batch files for use in BSOD debugging - Windows 10 Help Forums





3) Create a new restore point:

Create System Restore Point in Windows 10





4) Run Memtest86+ for 8 or more passes > take pictures > post images or share links

Memtest86+ | The Open-Source Memory Testing Tool

Just 1 error is a test fail and testing can be aborted.

The more the passes the better the testing conditions.

It sometimes takes passes into the 20's to detect malfunctioning RAM.

The RAM can be tested all at one time or one at a time in the same DIMM.

Memtest86+ | The Open-Source Memory Testing Tool

MemTest86+ - Test RAM




5) Run Sea Tools Long generic test (all drives) > post images or share links

https://www.seagate.com/content/dam...ds/seatools/_shared/downloads/100869623_B.pdf

https://www.seagate.com/content/dam...shared/downloads/SeaToolsWindowsInstaller.exe




6) Run HD Tune (all drives) (run an old version https://www.hdtune.com/files/hdtune_255.exe so that it produces results for the whole drive)
HD Tune website
a) Health
b) Full error scan




7) Open administrative command prompt and copy and paste:

chkdsk /b /v

Run these chkdsk switches on all drives using the syntax: chkdsk /b /v C: or chkdsk /b /v D: or chkdsk /b /v E: etc.

Make sure that the windows drive runs overnight while sleeping.

C:\WINDOWS\system32>chkdsk /b /v
The type of the file system is NTFS.
Cannot lock current drive.
Chkdsk cannot run because the volume is in use by another
process. Would you like to schedule this volume to be
checked the next time the system restarts? (Y/N)

Type: Y

Reboot as needed.




8) After completing all chkdsk /b /v run:

https://www.tenforums.com/attachmen...-files-use-bsod-debugging-chkdskfromevent.bat

Batch files for use in BSOD debugging - Windows 10 Help Forums

Batch files for use in BSOD debugging - Windows 10 Help Forums





Make sure that this runs only after the prior three steps for each drive.

9) Run HD Sentinel (all drives) > post images or share links (do not run until posting results for each steps 5, 6, 7 and 8)

Hard Disk Sentinel - HDD health and temperature monitoring
a) Overview
b) Temperature
c) SMART



10) Please make sure that all of the above steps are performed in sequence

These steps / tests can be performed overnight while sleeping:
a) Memtest86+
b) Sea Tools Long generic test
c) HD Tune Full error scan
d) Chkdsk /b /v




11) Choose one of the temperature monitoring software applications: Speecy, HW monitor, Speed fan:

Speccy - Free Download - Piriform: Speccy - System Information - Free

HWMONITOR | Softwares | CPUID: HWMONITOR | Softwares | CPUID

SpeedFan - Access temperature sensor in your computer: SpeedFan - Access temperature sensor in your computer



12) Run Prime95 - Stress Test Your CPU
Prime95 - Stress Test Your CPU Windows 10 Performance Maintenance Tutorials
a) Record the maximum temperature and post the maximum temperature into the thread
b) Record test duration and post the uninterrupted test duration into the thread
c) Aim for testing > 3 hrs and abort testing as needed for freezing, temperature changes (see link)
d) Use the Microsoft snipping tool to post images into the thread.




13) Run FurMark - GPU Stress Test Windows 10 Performance Maintenance Tutorials
Aim for 1 hour testing.
Please make note of the importance of temperature monitoring and aborting the test in the GPU link.
Abort testing as needed for temperature changes, freezing, display artifacts, etc.
FurMark - GPU Stress Test Windows 10 Performance Maintenance Tutorials:
FurMark - GPU Stress Test
Post images of each into the thread.

glasskuter said:

Welcome to the forum. I would not go back to 23h2. It won't be supported much longer. I would get to the bottom of it. You have prime hardware and shouldn't be having the problem. If there's an issue with hardware I would want to find out before it's out of warranty.

Not an answer to your problem, but I'm curious. May I ask why you chose to use only 16gb of ram with an i9 cpu, a super graphics card, and a gaming mobo?

Click to expand...

Ah yes, my mistake. I have a quad channel kit of 16GB modules. 64GB total.

Reverting did seem to work, but I just got another BSOD this morning during an install. Womp Womp.

Thanks for that correction. I'm just a nosey old woman when I see something that puzzles me.
One more nosey question and I'll bow out. Did you run this system through its stress-testing paces when you built it as you should have?

It would certainly seem to be a flakey piece of hardware or overheating. Do as @zbook said. Hopefully one of his tests will point to the culprit.
There is no quick and easy way to solve this and may well come down to swap-testing.