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BSOD after booting and doing nothing, 13-15 minutes later
The desktop is a PC, built by me, in 2011. AMD FX 6-core, 16 GB RAM, 1TB Western Digital Black, regular HD (not an SSD or hybrid). Motherboard is an ASUS M5A87. This is a business/office/production machine, not a gaming machine. Previous OS was Windows 7, and upgraded to Windows 10 with the free upgrade in 2016.
First blue screen, May 27, 2018, upon replacing an AOC monitor which stopped working with a new, HP monitor. But replacing the HP monitor, subsequently, with 3 other used monitors continued to give blue screens.
The blue screens come on consistently, after 13-15 minutes of the computer not actively used for anything, after booting to the desktop and allowing to sit idle.
I tried Clean Boot, enabling 5 programs at a time and excluding all others, and also under msconfig and the services console, but didn't find any program that was responsible.
In safe mode, the desktop will go indefinitely at rest without giving any blue screen.
I tried swapping out USB hubs, keyboards, mice, sound card, speakers, power cord, video card, Ethernet cable, and monitor cables, with no success.
I physically cleaned the PC with an air blower and canned air. Running Memtest86 and Microsoft’s memory test showed no errors.
Replaced the power supply (which showed no problems with a PSU tester), with another, more powerful, power supply.
I restored from an Acronis backup to April 2018, to a spare hard drive, prior to version 1803, which stopped the blue screens for about a week, but they started up again.
The blue screens appear consistently, 13-15 minutes (timed with a timer) after booting to the desktop, if doing nothing (meaning no activity by me at the keyboard, such as browsing or using File Explorer, etc.). If I boot and then do something, including Windows updates, get a document, do a scan, etc., more than 13 minutes passes before the blue screen occurs, but eventually, it does.
So far, I’ve waited for Windows 10 updates for July, August, September, and October (but not the update to 1809) might resolve the blue screens, but they did not.
I have not tried reinstalling Windows, because I wanted to see if the dm log collector program might reveal anything first.