DPC_WATCHDOG_VIOLATION caused by hal.dll + ntoskrnl.exe

I'm going to bed for tonight. I'll try again more tomorrow. This is just insanity.

Run the chkdsk /r /v C: overnight

A BSOD in safe mode is a sure sign you have hardware failure. I would suspect your SSD and running CHKDSK on a drive which is failing can trigger more problems and so I would not advise it.

Do run the tests on the SSD as advised earlier to see if you can confirm failure with the disk or if it needs a firmware upgrade.

Which tests?

Please upload a new V2.

Update the progress.

CyberSpark said:

Which tests?

Items 15 & 16 from post #2

Right. Those. Issue is I can't get this thing to stay on without bluescreening long enough to finish the process. Even in safe mode.

Please perform the following steps:

1) Find a camera or smartphone camera that you can use to take pictures and post images into the thread

2) See if you can download and install:
Run HD Sentinel: (free or trial edition)
Hard Disk Sentinel - HDD health and temperature monitoring
Hard Disk Sentinel - HDD health and temperature monitoring
Post images of each of these tabs into the thread:
Overview tab
Temperature
SMART
Disk performance

Take Screenshot in Windows 10 Windows 10 General Tips Tutorials
Take Screenshot in Windows 10


3) Run Sea Tools for DOS: SMART, Short, and Long Generic tests

SeaTools for DOS tutorial | Seagate Support US
Hard Drive (HDD) Diagnostics (Sea Tools for DOS) & SSD Test | Sysnative Forums

You could try booting from the following rescue media and running the test that way.

Windows 10 Recovery Tools - Bootable Rescue Disk

I have a bootable media flash drive from Acer for the last time that something like this happened. It has all of the apps and files this computer had when I first bought it. Should I try that instead?

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And yes. It was from the last time this computer had a similar problem.

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This isn't the first time this BSOD has caused this laptop to crash completely but each time it happens in a different way.