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Random BSODs while gaming/browsing
Let me get straight to it. I have been on Windows 10 since the free upgrade offer. I have had 0 issues up until recently where my PC would randomly crash and most of the BSOD's would list CRITICAL_PROCESS_DIED. Most of the time I would be playing League of Legends and other times just browsing the internet. This would happen at least once a day (I use this PC only for about 1-4 hours and the BSODs were random).
After doing some research online I ran "sfc /scannow" and the system passed the integrity test. A few days in to the issue I cleared my prefetch folder and the system was once again stable for a few days and then the BSODs happened again. Clearing the prefetch folder would give me a few stable days and the back to the usual BSODs. After a few days I noticed that my graphics card (Asus HD7950 OC2) died (vertical lines on the screen), this made me believe that the PC must have been crashing to the graphic card failing slowly.
I went ahead and purchased a new entry level card (Sapphire RX460) and I didnt see the crash for a few days, but it came back to the same issue again. This time around the PC would BSOD sometimes or it would just freeze while I was in game, the cursor would move around but the PC itself was frozen (ctrl+alt+del etc nothing worked). At other times the CRITICAL_PROCESS_DIED BSOD would come up and the PC would be stuck at 0% collection of the dump. I am not sure if it helps but the audio would be kind of stuck too.
The most annoying part is I cannot just keep pressing the power button to power off or use the reset button because my SSD doesnt get detected when doing that and I have to do a power cycle on the SSD which would take up about 40-60 mins. Trust me when I tell you that I have tried everything and I am contacting you guys as a last resort because I have no idea what to do now.
I am someone who tries to google as much as possible to resolve an issue and this one has me dumbfounded. Any help with this would be highly appreciated.
PC Specs,
Processor - Intel i7-3770
Mobo - Asus P8Z77-V
RAM - Corsair Vengeance 8 GB DDR3
PSU - Corsair 650W Modular
Graphics Card - Sapphire RX460
SSD - Intel 330 180 GB
Hard Disk - Hitachi HD721010DlE630 1 TB 7200 RPM
EDIT: The disks pass SMART checks and have no errors listed in their SMART attributes ie no pending sectors/offline uncorrectable etc.
EDIT 2: The PC just froze again when browsing but it came back to life and I immediately opened the event viewer to see if I could find something useful and I found three warnings,
1 - Reset to device, \Device\RaidPort0, was issued.
2 - The IO operation at logical block address 0x46ea30 for Disk 0 (PDO name: \Device\00000034) was retried.
3 - Reset to device, \Device\RaidPort0, was issued.
Could this mean that the SSD is failing? A SMART output of the SSD - Error logging capability: (0x01) Error logging supported. General P - Pastebin.com
Last edited by nublet; 24 Sep 2016 at 10:06.