PC is a Corsair Prebuild:
CORSAIR VENGEANCE i7400 (link to product on their store)
13th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i9-13900K
Geforce RTX 4090
Symptoms:
Rig started off working great.
I use it pretty much exclusively for chrome internet and gaming. Exclusively steam for now.
I do dial all the games up, expecting the 4090 to be able to handle it with current gen games.
Started with occasional game crash or odd visual artifact that was short lived
Green, White, or Black squares that dance around the screen
Lines cutting through menu screens of games
Started to occur even without gameplay , shortly after boot-ups, sometimes with almost nothing running
Began to include chrome windows turning all black
Screens seeming to all go black, sometimes recover, sometimes not
Complete Computer Freezes, with varieties of experiences:
Sometimes audio would keep running in the background while everything else breaks down. No use of super F4 or ctrl+alt+delete or alt+tab
Sometimes mouse would still move but no response to clicking on anything
Sometimes monitors would stop recognizing input altogether and lack signal detection while the keyboard and tower lights were still on.
BSOD Blue Screen Of Death
I started to notice when I was more patient to let it sit for a while frozen.
It takes a minute, two, three to reach that.
I've started to export minidumps and kernel dumps per helpful recommendations from your prior posts.
Primary mentions from minidumps:
Most common: DPC_WATCHDOG_VIOLATION
One BSOD had: VIDEO_SCHEDULER_INTERNAL_ERROR
MODULE_NAME: nvlddmkm
IMAGE_NAME: nvlddmkm.sys
FAILURE_BUCKET_ID: 0x133_ISR_nvlddmkm!unknown_function
As I understand it (thanks to you all): it is more helpful to get to the level of kernel dumps with DPC_WATCHDOG_VIOLATION.
Links:
(3) Kernel Memory Dump Examples - Zipped - From Google Drive
Windows Event Log CSV Export - Google Sheets View (Online View)
Original Minidump Analysis Results (copy pasted text to google docs for online view)
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Rig details:
OS Name Microsoft Windows 11 Pro
Version 10.0.22621 Build 22621
Other OS Description Not Available
OS Manufacturer Microsoft Corporation
System Name VENGEANCE
System Manufacturer CORSAIR
System Model CORSAIR VENGEANCE i7400
System Type x64-based PC
System SKU CS-9050047-NA
Processor 13th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i9-13900K, 3000 Mhz, 24 Core(s), 32 Logical Processor(s)
BIOS Version/Date American Megatrends International, LLC. A.CB, 10/25/2022
SMBIOS Version 3.5
Embedded Controller Version 255.255
BIOS Mode UEFI
Motherboard:
BaseBoard Manufacturer Micro-Star International Co., Ltd.
BaseBoard Product PRO Z690-A WIFI (MS-7D25)
BaseBoard Version 2.0
Platform Role Desktop
Secure Boot State On
PCR7 Configuration Elevation Required to View
Windows Directory C:\Windows
System Directory C:\Windows\system32
Boot Device \Device\HarddiskVolume1
Locale United States
Hardware Abstraction Layer Version = "10.0.22621.819"
Installed Physical Memory (RAM) 64.0 GB
Total Physical Memory 63.8 GB
Available Physical Memory 59.3 GB
Total Virtual Memory 128 GB
Available Virtual Memory 122 GB
Page File Space 64.0 GB
Page File C:\pagefile.sys
Kernel DMA Protection Off
Virtualization-based security Not enabled
Windows Defender Application Control policy Enforced
Windows Defender Application Control user mode policy Off
Device Encryption Support Elevation Required to View
Hyper-V - VM Monitor Mode Extensions Yes
Hyper-V - Second Level Address Translation Extensions Yes
Hyper-V - Virtualization Enabled in Firmware Yes
Hyper-V - Data Execution Protection Yes
Things I've attempted so far:
Ran Windows Update + Installed any optional upgrades from that menu
Ran Malware Bytes - Quarantine of (3) items
Reseat graphics card
Try plugged into 1 of 3 different monitors alone, using 2 different display port cables interchangeably
On one iteration I was plugged into the DisplayPort option that is not directly on the graphics card slots itself. Same issues.
Used DDU to uninstall graphics driver and reinstall
Uninstalled iCue software, Astro A40 headset software
Updated Network Adapters drivers (2)
Rabbit hole I went into since I saw references to them in error logs.
Someone had that clear up their crashing issues from another forum.
Set CPU Power Options Advanced for Processor power mgmt to 99% for both options.
If I read correctly this avoids overclock on CPU? They were at 100% before.
Set Power Settings on PC to custom: Maximum Performance.
I am not aware of any overclocking on the GPU. I did do some of these things:
Nvidia Control Panel 3d settings use advanced settings
Power preference Maximum Performance