BSODs after CPU upgrade

kairocchi · Thursday at 8:29 PM

Hello! Ever since upgrading to a brand new CPU (from Ryzen 5 3600 to Ryzen 7 5700x), I have been experiencing BSODs without a specific pattern. Sometimes it happens during heavy load and sometimes when I'm playing casual games. I don't know if it's a memory problem or a defective CPU. My temps don't go above 70C and I dust off my PC from time to time. No overclocks and I disabled PBO. RAM has no XMP feature.

Before installing the new CPU, I made sure to update the BIOS and GPU drivers.
It used to happen everyday but after updating drivers and the chipset through Gigabyte Control Center, it stopped for a while but then had a BSOD once again earlier. Let me know what you need and thank you so much for the help!

idgat · Thursday at 8:35 PM

kairocchi said:
Ever since upgrading to a brand new CPU

Who did this, self or technician?

kairocchi · Thursday at 8:47 PM

idgat said:
Who did this, self or technician?

I just did it by myself at home.

glasskuter · Thursday at 9:26 PM

kairocchi said:
Before installing the new CPU, I made sure to update the BIOS and GPU drivers.

Before changing the cpu, but after bios and gpu drivers, did you run windows without issue.? Or did you do all 3 things at once? Put the old cpu back in to see if the issue is resolved.

sabertoot · Thursday at 9:27 PM

Are you using an AMD GPU? Driver 25.4.1 had Timeout Detection and Recovery (TDR) error causing BSOD. If so update AMD driver 25.6.1.
I also have a5700 X CPU. Good luck.

MisterEd · Thursday at 10:25 PM

You shouldn't be getting BSODs. It could be caused by software or hardware.

I have the following:
MBD: ASUS ROG Strix B550-F Gaming WiFi II
CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 5700X3D
GPU: ROG-STRIX-RTX3060TI-08G-V2-GAMING
RAM: G.SKILL Flare X Series 32GB (2x16GB) DDR4 3200

I use the following to test my computer
Prime95 - stress tests CPU
Furmark 2 - stress tests GPU
HWMonitor - to monitor temperatures

I first ran Prime 95 to test the CPU temps
CPU Min/Max: 42.6C/74.5C

I then ran Furmark 2 to test the GPU temps
GPU Min/Max: 42.0C/66.0C

To demonstrate that games aren't causing problems I suggest you stress test the CPU and GPU separately using the same programs I used,

Prime95
FurMark
FurMark Downloads
HWMonitor

XxXxX · Thursday at 10:40 PM

please check.
control panel > security and maintenance > maintenance > reliability monitor
which should give any errors occurring on the system

then check.
start > window tools > system information > components > problem devices
this should indicate any devices that may not working correctly.

best of luck, Steve ..

Ghot · Thursday at 10:46 PM

@kairocchi

Well, I can give you ten points, just for filling out your computer specs.
It's already helping us to help you.

glasskuter · Friday at 12:02 AM

@kairocchi all that is in your zip file are ,dmp files. For @zbook or one of the others to look into this, there are other needed files. Gather the files into a folder, zip the folder and upload the zipped folder to googledrive, onedrive, or dropbox. Post a Shared link to the folder here.

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kairocchi · Friday at 7:44 AM

XxXxX said:
please check.
control panel > security and maintenance > maintenance > reliability monitor
which should give any errors occurring on the system

then check.
start > window tools > system information > components > problem devices
this should indicate any devices that may not working correctly.

best of luck, Steve ..

Alright, also thanks! I checked everything you mentioned above, and I don't see any problem devices. And here's what the reliability history showed, I included the most recent 3 critical events.

kairocchi · Friday at 7:49 AM

glasskuter said:
@kairocchi all that is in your zip file are ,dmp files. For @zbook or one of the others to look into this, there are other needed files. Gather the files into a folder, zip the folder and upload the zipped folder to googledrive, onedrive, or dropbox. Post a Shared link to the folder here.

BSOD - Posting Instructions

BSOD - Posting Instructions This will show you how to help provide needed information about your system and dump files. It will not contain any personal or sensitive information about you or your data. To get better help with your Windows BSOD issue, please read these instructions and follow...

www.elevenforum.com

Thank you for the guide, I'll work on it right now! Is there a way for me to edit my main post as well?

kairocchi · Friday at 7:54 AM

Ghot said:
@kairocchi

Well, I can give you ten points, just for filling out your computer specs.
It's already helping us to help you.

Thank you :> I built this PC last year and I'm slowly upgrading it, and now it's having this issue I struggle to fix. So I was wondering if it's any incompatibility with the parts or a defective CPU / RAM.

glasskuter · Friday at 7:59 AM

Not this late. Don't worry about it. Some of the info may prove to be pertinent. @zbook will see the new info once it's added.

kairocchi · Friday at 8:02 AM

MisterEd said:
You shouldn't be getting BSODs. It could be caused by software or hardware.

I have the following:
MBD: ASUS ROG Strix B550-F Gaming WiFi II
CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 5700X3D
GPU: ROG-STRIX-RTX3060TI-08G-V2-GAMING
RAM: G.SKILL Flare X Series 32GB (2x16GB) DDR4 3200

I use the following to test my computer
Prime95 - stress tests CPU
Furmark 2 - stress tests GPU
HWMonitor - to monitor temperatures

I first ran Prime 95 to test the CPU temps
CPU Min/Max: 42.6C/74.5C

I then ran Furmark 2 to test the GPU temps
GPU Min/Max: 42.0C/66.0C

To demonstrate that games aren't causing problems I suggest you stress test the CPU and GPU separately using the same programs I used,

View attachment 137309

Prime95
FurMark
FurMark Downloads
HWMonitor

Yeah it's worrisome because it's a brand new CPU. I'll come back and attach the results once I have done these tests, thank you!

kairocchi · Friday at 8:56 AM

sabertoot said:
Are you using an AMD GPU? Driver 25.4.1 had Timeout Detection and Recovery (TDR) error causing BSOD. If so update AMD driver 25.6.1.
I also have a5700 X CPU. Good luck.

Oh I am using a NVIDIA GPU, the drivers are updated to the latest.

kairocchi · Friday at 9:24 AM

kairocchi said:
Hello! Ever since upgrading to a brand new CPU (from Ryzen 5 3600 to Ryzen 7 5700x), I have been experiencing BSODs without a specific pattern. Sometimes it happens during heavy load and sometimes when I'm playing casual games. I don't know if it's a memory problem or a defective CPU. My temps don't go above 70C and I dust off my PC from time to time. No overclocks and I disabled PBO. RAM has no XMP feature.

Before installing the new CPU, I made sure to update the BIOS and GPU drivers.
It used to happen everyday but after updating drivers and the chipset through Gigabyte Control Center, it stopped for a while but then had a BSOD once again earlier. Let me know what you need and thank you so much for the help!

Attached below are the logs and 3 recent critical events from reliability history. I built the PC less than a year ago, then installed a new CPU and AIO quite recently.

kairocchi · Friday at 11:24 AM

MisterEd said:
You shouldn't be getting BSODs. It could be caused by software or hardware.

I have the following:
MBD: ASUS ROG Strix B550-F Gaming WiFi II
CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 5700X3D
GPU: ROG-STRIX-RTX3060TI-08G-V2-GAMING
RAM: G.SKILL Flare X Series 32GB (2x16GB) DDR4 3200

I use the following to test my computer
Prime95 - stress tests CPU
Furmark 2 - stress tests GPU
HWMonitor - to monitor temperatures

I first ran Prime 95 to test the CPU temps
CPU Min/Max: 42.6C/74.5C

I then ran Furmark 2 to test the GPU temps
GPU Min/Max: 42.0C/66.0C

To demonstrate that games aren't causing problems I suggest you stress test the CPU and GPU separately using the same programs I used,

View attachment 137309

Prime95
FurMark
FurMark Downloads
HWMonitor

I'm back with the results, these ran for an hour each. Unfortunately I can't test it for longer hours because of needing it for work usage and other reasons. No crashes happened or artifacts on the screen. Thank you for the recommendations!

KevTech · Friday at 11:40 AM

Some of your dump files are pointing at vgk.sys as the reason for the crash.
vgk.sys is a driver in Riot Vanguard anticheat so try uninstalling then reinstalling Riot Vanguard.
Or reinstall the games that install Riot Vanguard.

kairocchi · Friday at 3:28 PM

KevTech said:
Some of your dump files are pointing at vgk.sys as the reason for the crash.
vgk.sys is a driver in Riot Vanguard anticheat so try uninstalling then reinstalling Riot Vanguard.
Or reinstall the games that install Riot Vanguard.

That's also one of my suspects! I'll do a clean reinstall of any Riot-related programs.

zbook · Friday at 3:54 PM

Please perform the following steps:

1) Run Tuneup plus > post a share link

2) Turn off Windows fast startup

3) Open administrative command prompt and type or copy and paste:

sc delete vgc

sc delete vgk

Post a share link.

4) Reboot

5) Open C:\program files > scroll to Riot Vanguard > delete

6) Uninstall the Nvidia GPU driver nvlddmkm.sys using DDU > reinstall from the Nvidia website

(make sure that the driver is different from 32.0.15.7652)

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7) Play non-Vanguard for the next week and monitor computer stability / instability using:

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Code:

Name    NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060
PNP Device ID    PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_2882&SUBSYS_15007377&REV_A1\4&2283F625&0&0019
Adapter Type    NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060, NVIDIA compatible
Adapter Description    NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060
Adapter RAM    (1,048,576) bytes
Installed Drivers    C:\WINDOWS\System32\DriverStore\FileRepository\nv_dispi.inf_amd64_2c61c4d89b199ea8\nvldumdx.dll,C:\WINDOWS\System32\DriverStore\FileRepository\nv_dispi.inf_amd64_2c61c4d89b199ea8\nvldumdx.dll,C:\WINDOWS\System32\DriverStore\FileRepository\nv_dispi.inf_amd64_2c61c4d89b199ea8\nvldumdx.dll,C:\WINDOWS\System32\DriverStore\FileRepository\nv_dispi.inf_amd64_2c61c4d89b199ea8\nvldumdx.dll
Driver Version    32.0.15.7652
INF File    oem30.inf (Section079 section)
Driver    C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\DRIVERSTORE\FILEREPOSITORY\NV_DISPI.INF_AMD64_2C61C4D89B199EA8\NVLDDMKM.SYS (32.0.15.7652, 106.47 MB (111,643,760 bytes), 5/25/2025 9:03 PM)

Code:

vgk.sys      Mon May  5 13:47:54 2025 (681907DA)

Code:

nvlddmkm.sys Wed May 14 14:20:18 2025 (6824ECF2)

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