Blue Screen of Death Windows 10

[Dustin_22]

I recently built a gaming pc and I started getting blue screens. I need some help troubleshooting. I've formatted my SSD and did a clean install of windows 10. I downloaded all of the latest drivers. I'm still getting blue screens. Also i've attempted installed all of the w indows updates but either my pc has a problem installing updates or blue screen before they are complete. I was able to download WhoCrashed and I can see the Dump Files. 7 crashes.

BugCheck Name:
DPC_WATCHDOG_VIOLATION
UNEXPECTED_KERNEL_MODE_TRAP
WHEA_UNCORRECTABLE_ERROR
KMODE_EXCEPTION_NOT_HANDLED
MACHINE_CHECK_EXCEPTION
MACHINE_CHECK_EXCEPTION
CLOCK_WATCHDOG_TIMEOUT

Also I don't know if it means anything but in safe mode I do not get blue screens.

 

[ailos]

Seems to be a hardware related problem of some kind, what are your specs and have you done anything in your bios like overclocking or changing any significant values?

 

[Dustin_22]

Seems to be a hardware related problem of some kind, what are your specs and have you done anything in your bios like overclocking or changing any significant values?

I have the ASUS H170, I5-6600, asus gtx960, samsung ssd. corsair cx500.

It just ran long enough to update windows without a crash then another crash immediately after the updates.

 

[ailos]

If you've got 2 ram sticks you can try and remove one and see if that solves the issue, if it doesn't try it the other way around. also, can you send me your dump files located in C:\Windows\Minidump?

 

[Dustin_22]

If you've got 2 ram sticks you can try and remove one and see if that solves the issue, if it doesn't try it the other way around. also, can you send me your dump files located in C:\Windows\Minidump?

I'll try doing that with my ram and see if it helps. I will also send you my dump files

 

[Dustin_22]

If you've got 2 ram sticks you can try and remove one and see if that solves the issue, if it doesn't try it the other way around. also, can you send me your dump files located in C:\Windows\Minidump?

when i attempt to open my mini dump files it says access denied

 

[ailos]

If you are an administrator you should be able to click past any prompts, I just tried it on my windows 10 machine and I can access the files. To read the dump files you need special software, I want to try and read your dumps with this software http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/blue_screen_view.html
Dumps do not open with any usual text editor like notepad

 

[Dustin_22]

If you are an administrator you should be able to click past any prompts, I just tried it on my windows 10 machine and I can access the files. To read the dump files you need special software, I want to try and read your dumps with this software http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/blue_screen_view.html
Dumps do not open with any usual text editor like notepad

well after removing one stick of ram i was testing that to see if it solved the problem. i had another blue screen with the error code UNMOUNTABLE_BOOT_VOLUME.

PC will not boot. Attempted the startup repair and its telling me startup repair couldn't repair your PC

 

[ailos]

Did you try using the other stick aswell? sorry for the late response, I found 3 generic reasons for the new bsod,
Boot volume corrupted
Corrupted files of your windows
Hdd got faulty
Can you still enter the bios?
You could try wiping your drive again but try to install another windows edition, like 7 or 8.
If it doesn't work your drive may be causing all of the issues... Do you have any spare drives you could try instead of your current one?

 

[Dustin_22]

Did you try using the other stick aswell? sorry for the late response, I found 3 generic reasons for the new bsod,
Boot volume corrupted
Corrupted files of your windows
Hdd got faulty
Can you still enter the bios?
You could try wiping your drive again but try to install another windows edition, like 7 or 8.
If it doesn't work your drive may be causing all of the issues... Do you have any spare drives you could try instead of your current one?

I did try the other stick and it didnt work. I used my usb that i installed windows with and reset windows. reinstalled graphics drivers and went an hour with no crashes. but then had the clock_watchdog_timeout. im going to attempt to get the minidump files

 

[johnbl]

windows system owns the minidump directory, you can copy files out of the directory but you can not move them. (just make a copy)
(you can delete them using cleanmgr.exe)

 

[Dustin_22]

Did you try using the other stick aswell? sorry for the late response, I found 3 generic reasons for the new bsod,
Boot volume corrupted
Corrupted files of your windows
Hdd got faulty
Can you still enter the bios?
You could try wiping your drive again but try to install another windows edition, like 7 or 8.
If it doesn't work your drive may be causing all of the issues... Do you have any spare drives you could try instead of your current one?

Hey I appreciate all of the advice that you gave me. I found a setting in my bios called Turbo Mode. It was on and it was running my i5-6600 at 3.30 GHz at all times. Then with a little load it was jumping to 3.76 GHz. With it turned off its now running .79GHz-2.5GHz with 1-5% utilization. I'm happy to say that its been hours without any crashes and I'm now installing my games again. Hopefully I'll put it under some stress with good results!