Windows 10 Freezes, Sound continues, Graphics Card defective?

kABUSE · 16 May 2020

That sounds more than implausible to me.

EdTittel · 17 May 2020

Grab TF regular poster/guru @Superfly's excellent tool: ShowKeyPlus. If you run it against your el-cheap-o key, it will tell you if it's legitimate or not. If it isn't it might well play a role in your issues.
HTH,
--Ed--

kABUSE · 17 May 2020

Can you please give me an explanation how this could possibly be caused by the windows key that was used?

Jacee · 17 May 2020

Read this article for information about 'cheap' keys...... Cheap Windows 10 Keys: Do They Work?

spunk · 17 May 2020

The Enterprise edition is designed to install to several hundred computers for a corporation, it is not available for Home use, so you have a pirated copy. Try a Repair Install:
Repair Install Windows 10 with an In-place Upgrade

joeandmarg0 · 17 May 2020

Does Reliability History give any flags and information after each event and does Device Manager show anything,in particular,Display Adapter?
Type ---dxdiag--- into the search box and check all pages and note the driver version listed on the Display page,then download it ,or a later version from the maker's site only.
If you can,use Display Driver Uninstaller,in Safe Mode,to remove the present one and then install the new one.

kABUSE · 17 May 2020

Jacee said:

Read this article for information about 'cheap' keys...... Cheap Windows 10 Keys: Do They Work?

That article does not tell anything about how license keys can cause problems such as I described. I really have no idea what you are on about. If my license ever stops working, I will get a pop-up, telling me so. It won't randomly force-freeze my PC and risk data loss. Sorry but that thought is just very distant from reality and I have no clue how you even came up with that absurd idea and how you found another guy "confirming" it.

It is absolutely apparent that this is either a driver issue or hardware failure.

Anyway, the new GPU should arrive tomorrow.

I will try a Windows 10 Repair Install as spunk suggested. If that doesn't fix the issue, I will put in the new GPU.

joeandmarg0 said:

Does Reliability History give any flags and information after each event and does Device Manager show anything,in particular,Display Adapter?
Type ---dxdiag--- into the search box and check all pages and note the driver version listed on the Display page,then download it ,or a later version from the maker's site only.
If you can,use Display Driver Uninstaller,in Safe Mode,to remove the present one and then install the new one.

Last time I checked, there were no useful logs in Reliability History. I already tried reinstalling most devices in device manager. No devices show any issues. I already did the "Display Driver Uninstall" in Safe Mode to no avail.

Thanks for the help, people. It is appreciated.

Jacee · 17 May 2020

I'm sorry you got riled up over my two posts.... I certainly didn't have to find EdTittel to confirm my absurd idea! Please try not to be rude to forum members, who are just trying to help you. Good luck

kABUSE · 17 May 2020

You are right. Sorry that I was being rude.

kABUSE · 24 May 2020

I formatted the SSD and fully reinstalled Windows 10.

The error still persists.

I got this on the windows 10 reliability monitor now:

Code:

Hardwarefehler
Problemereignisame:		LiveKernelEvent
Code:				141
Parameter 1:			ffffe305a93f2460
Parameter 2:			fffff801466d09f0
Parameter 3:			0
Parameter 4:			1530
Betriebssystemversion:		10_0_18363
Service Pack:			0_0
Produkt:			256_1
Betriebsystemversion:		10.0.18363.2.0.0.256.4
Gebietsschema-ID:		1031

Any clue?

Thanks