Solved Freezing & BSODs after a few minutes of booting, Windows 11

Hi all,

Issue started with daily DPC Watchdog Violation BSODs, has become significantly worse over yesterday and today. Would be very grateful if someone had any ideas.

Rolled back recent updates, updated BIOS, repaired installation with ISO, fully uninstalled NVIDIA drivers, reinstalled chipset drivers, ssd drivers. Now experiencing crashes every few minutes, even with no software running. I've since installed some older NVIDIA drivers but the crashes were continuing even with stock MS display drivers.

V2 Log: LIAM-(2025-03-12_15-43-41).zip
TuneUp Log: Tuneup_log 2025-03-12 at 15-25-04.zip
Reliability History (today's history since repairing installation): Reliability History.XML

Couple of BSOD dumps:

Thank you so much.

Liam

There's known issues with some of the latest Nvidia Drivers - in some cases causing even BSOD.

Try the ones released this month, which are suppose to fix this issue: GeForce Driver Results | NVIDIA

How are the temps?

GPU Stress: FurMark Downloads

CPU Stress: Cinebench - Free download and install on Windows | Microsoft Store

Temps/Freq/Voltage Monitor: Free Download HWiNFO Sofware | Installer & Portable for Windows, DOS (start as "Sensor Only")

Thank you so much for the quick reply. I think I might have resolved it; looks like two separate issues.

I think (as you suggest) the latest NVIDIA driver might have been causing the initial daily crashes, but when diagnosing yesterday I updated the BIOS. That new BIOS version had C-States set to "auto" which was causing repeated crashes when a CPU core idled - I didn't realise it was a new issue as it seamlessly took over from the old one.

Since disabling that the system has been stable, so fingers crossed!

liamjam said:

Thank you so much for the quick reply. I think I might have resolved it; looks like two separate issues.

I think (as you suggest) the latest NVIDIA driver might have been causing the initial daily crashes, but when diagnosing yesterday I updated the BIOS. That new BIOS version had C-States set to "auto" which was causing repeated crashes when a CPU core idled - I didn't realise it was a new issue as it seamlessly took over from the old one.

Since disabling that the system has been stable, so fingers crossed!

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Which motherboard? All the years of using PCs I've never had to change the C-States in BIOS to be stable

liamjam said:

but when diagnosing yesterday I updated the BIOS. That new BIOS version had C-States set to "auto" which was causing repeated crashes when a CPU core idled - I didn't realise it was a new issue as it seamlessly took over from the old one.

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That BIOS version, 7C84v1I1 is labeled as Beta version - not something i'd recommend (tho, i get the desperation - of trying almost anything - so it was worth a shot).

BrianInEngland said:

Which motherboard? All the years of using PCs I've never had to change the C-States in BIOS to be stable

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This one: https://www.msi.com/Motherboard/MAG-X570-TOMAHAWK-WIFI/support