Frequent BSOD Issues for Years, Need Help
Since 2020 or 2021, my pc has been facing BSODs every month or two and I've struggled to determine a cause. Before 2020, the pc was originally the family computer but then became my own personal pc to which everything was replaced so that I could properly use it for myself (GPU, CPU, Motherboard, etc).
I've noticed that these BSODs have taken place while my pc is idle or while I am browsing. I typically leave my pc on for most of the day and usually have google chrome and discord open. Don't know if this is worth mentioning but I typically have Youtube open in one tab, another tab or two of stuff like searches, google docs slideshow, etc., or video/manga sites open while discord is simply idle.
I've had the pc reset twice and conducted some tests and potential fixes based on what dump files I have but haven't seen it fully fix the BSOD issues. I will admit however I didn't really try to find fixes beyond command prompt and updating drivers until sometime in December 2025 when I started having a lot of BSODs every 5-10 minutes to which prompted in me doing one of the two resets I mentioned which did make my pc stable for a short while until it returned to BSODs every month or two. Since that reset, I've tried many things but still see issues.
Here are my specs:
AMD Ryzen 5 3600 6-Core Processor
B450M DS3H rev. 1.x Motherboard (BIOs ver. F67)
DDR4 Vengeance LPX 32GB (2x16GB)
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060
Notes:
- At some point my BIOs version was F63c but then I updated it to F67
- XMP is disabled and my RAM is running at 2133MHz
- Originally I started with 32GB (2x16GB) sticks of the same type as I have now back in 2020, and sometime during 2022-2024 I got an additional 32GB (2x16GB) sticks (4 sticks totaling 64GB) but I encountered a BSOD on April 12th, 2026 (found in the attached folder link) that listed the image name as: hardware_ram so I removed all 4 sticks and replaced them with new 32GB (2x16GB) sticks
From these BSODs I attached (check at the end), I tried the following but still see issues (these are ordered from earliest to latest of completion and all began after April 12th, 2026)
List of Fixes:
- Replaced all 4 ram sticks with 2 new ones (April 12th)
- sfc /scannow command (April 19th)
- Did find corrupt files and fixed them
- Windows Memory Diagnostic Tool (Apr 19th)
- No issues
- Memtest86 (Apr 19th)
- Found no errors in 4 passes
- DISM command (Apr 20th)
- Restore operation completed successfully
- CHKDSK /f (Apr 21st)
- Corrected minor file system issues
- Performed DDU/Updated AMD Chipset drivers (Apr 20th)
- Installed NVIDIA Game Ready driver 596.21, and AMD Chipset driver 8.02.18.557
- Initially selected not to install NVIDIA App but did days later
- Disabled NVIDIA Overlay
- Disabled APP Center in BIOs (May 13th)
- Disabled Multi-Pane Overlay or (MPO) (May 13th)
- Disabled Fast Startup (May 13th)
- Uninstalled Razer programs (May 13th)
I've tried using Google Gemini and most primarily ChatGPT and Claude AI to help me go through the stuff I listed above but haven't yet been successful. I've also asked a friend more knowledgeable in PC stuff than me and they recommended using Ryzen Master to check for stuff (though I had issues trying to download it) and using I believe Prime95 (I don't recall the name of the program but I wanted to avoid running it as they said when they ran it, they had to open up their pc to run a fan against it so it wouldn't overheat).
At this point besides things I changed at the time of writing (May 13th), I've exhausted most of the potential fixes and am desperate for any help that could potentially put an end to these BSODs.
Attached here is a link to a folder containing all the BSODs that I've had since the 2nd reset and 2 that I still had saved: https://www.mediafire.com/folder/ukgduhcr3jfyw/List_of_BSODs
Additional Notes:
Although I don't have the older BSODs anymore, I do recall often seeing IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL BSODs.