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Is anyone else experience intermittent BSOD's after the recent windows updates?
It started happening quite frequently as I moved from AMD -> Intel -> AMD right around when the update happened, but the BSOD's only started with the Intel -> AMD.
Thinking it was drivers I went through reinstalling all the mobo/gpu drivers and then reinstalled windows today since it continued. Which it now still has after the reinstall, hinting at either mem or GPU faults or corrupt files, it happens less after the reinstall but still somewhat present.

I can't really think what else it might be as I have re-seated the RAM/GPU multiple times, haven't reseated the CPU because I'm changing boards soon so don't want to waste TP and I know the cooler is on properly.
I haven't rolled back the update yet either.

I use Brave Browser, and have been experiencing the browser(and only the browser) freeze up and shut down, or flash away(like it is closing) & immediately reappear, or sometimes a black screen flash (PC not just in browser, yet GPU thermals and everything are looking fine, nothing is noticeably out of line)

it also doesn't help that I don't know how to interpret Event Viewer.

Some of the BSOD's I've been getting:

IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL
PAGE_FAULT_IN_NONPAGED_AREA
SYSTEM_SERVICE_EXCEPTION

TIA for any advice.
 
Only XMP 2.0. I haven't been doing anything intense so although it crossed my mind I didn't think it would be the cause.
XMP can be unstable too, even though it shouldn't be. I found my RAM was unstable at XMP but stable at a faster overclock.

Try a stability test (I always recommend OCCT Large dataset for at least 8 hours. You need zero errors, even one error means it's unstable).

Otherwise I have heard that a bunch of people are having issues with 20H2... Have you tried Googling the issue?
 
Yeah I have googled it and there's nothing more than the usual tips of reseating hardware and rolling back drivers. I can only really think it is the XMP profile, but it doesn't make sense that a Web tab is randomly freezing or refreshing itself and/or just not reloading for no reason.
 
my corsair ram running xmp but power set to lower than what xmp wanted and stable... but without the change runs a few days maybe then suddenly bsod. but might also be that i have 4 x 8gb but when only 2 in xmp works fine without any tweaks.
 
Could somebody maybe please look over my event viewer dump file please?

Something keeps catching/missing an instruction and just shuts down either the Browser or BSOD's and I'm getting over it after 3/4 days of trying to fix it.
 
Turns out (since I have 2 kits of 16gb) that one of my kits manufacturing date is from 2015/6 and was even branded towards 6th gen Intel & does not play nicely with AM4/x570. Not sure why but I haven't had a BSOD since and everything feels smooth and responsive -_-

I had a feeling it was memory based since it was the common denominator in all the BSOD's, but I knew there wasn't anything wrong with them so I thought it must be a windows instruction not catching, and maybe it was, but simply because the RAM is a bit older and just doesn't play nice with the platform.
 
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