u/Relampax

MSI Katana 15 HX se reinicia y falla incluso después de reinstalar Windows limpio.

Hola, necesito ayuda para diagnosticar un problema muy extraño con mi laptop. Llevo días intentando arreglarlo y no he podido, ya no se me ocurre más que preguntar aquí antes de llevarla con un técnico.

Agradezco cualquier aporte, muchas gracias!

Equipo:

- MSI Katana 15 HX B14WGK

- Intel i9-14900HX

- RTX 5070 Laptop

- 32 GB RAM

- SSD NVMe 1 TB

La compré nueva en octubre de 2025. La uso para ingeniería, programas normales, música y juegos tanto ligeros como pesados. Nunca la he abierto, cambiado pasta térmica ni hecho modificaciones importantes.

Todo comenzó un día jugando Left 4 Dead. Entré a una partida de supervivencia y el juego se cerró repentinamente a los 15 segundos de comenzar a moverme. Pensé que eran mods, eliminé varios y seguí probando, pero después de eso empezaron muchos problemas en Windows.

Entre los síntomas que aparecieron:

- Reinicios aleatorios

- Errores en Chrome/Edge como STATUS_BREAKPOINT

- Páginas que no cargaban correctamente

- Programas cerrándose solos

- FL Studio quedó corrupto después de un reinicio durante una instalación/actualización

- Windows Defender empezó a fallar

- DISM y SFC daban errores

- Comportamiento general inestable del sistema

- DISM llegó a fallar con “Error 1726: Error en la llamada a procedimiento remoto”

- SFC /scannow a veces fallaba o se detenía

- En algunos casos la laptop se reiniciaba simplemente estando en idle

Después fui intentando reparar Windows y finalmente decidí respaldar todo y hacer una instalación completamente limpia de Windows 11 desde USB.

La reinstalación también tuvo sus problemas:

- El instalador no detectaba el SSD por Intel VMD/RST

- Tuve que cargar drivers F6 manualmente

- Durante algunos intentos, estando en el instalador de windows (corriendo en el usb) se reiniciaba la laptop y tenía que volver a intentar, hasta que tuve el tiempo suficiente para lograrlo.

Finalmente logré instalar Windows limpio. Durante un tiempo pareció mejorar:

- Cero reinicios momentáneamente

- Ventiladores normales

Drivers MSI instalados manualmente:

- chipset

- Intel ME

- Intel/NVIDIA graphics

- Audio

- WiFi/Bluetooth

- Touchpad

También desinstalé OneDrive porque estaba generando problemas con Documents.

Después de unas horas donde todo parecía bien aparecieron otros síntomas...

- Chrome y Edge mostraban errores como RESULT_CODE_KILLED_BAD_MESSAGE, STATUS_ACCESS_VIOLATION y Crashpad_NotConnectedToHandler

- desactivar aceleración gráfica ayudó parcialmente

- Configuración y Edge llegaron a cerrarse solos

- Minecraft ya no reinicia toda la laptop, pero el juego se cierra solo después de unos minutos

- Windows Defender funciona un rato al iniciar Windows y luego falla o se desactiva

- Los análisis completos de defender se cancelan (y el análisis offline nunca inicia).

Los reinicios eventualmente regresaron. Ahora vuelve a reiniciarse de manera relativamente constante incluso:

- En idle

- Usando el explorador de archivos

- Usando FL Studio

- etc.

En el visor de eventos aparecen cosas como:

- “La velocidad del procesador está limitada por el firmware del sistema”

- errores COM relacionados con Windows.SecurityCenter

- Microsoft Defender Antivirus Service terminated unexpectedly

- “Error general de acceso denegado” repetido muchas veces

- Throttling reportado por firmware

Lo que me confunde es que:

- El hardware no parece completamente muerto

- A veces puede pasar horas encendida sin problemas

- Las temperaturas no parecen raras

- Pero el sistema sigue claramente inestable

No tengo claro si esto parece:

- Corrupción profunda de Windows

- Problema de drivers/firmware

- Problema térmico

- Motherboard/VRM

- RAM

- SSD

- Malware

- Algún problema con el sistema híbrido Intel/NVIDIA

- Cualquier otra cosa que yo no tenga idea

No soy experto, simplemente he intentado seguir procedimientos de diagnóstico y evitar empeorar la situación.

Si alguien tiene experiencia con laptops MSI, Intel HX o problemas similares, agradecería cualquier orientación o diagnóstico..

Gracias de antemano.

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u/Relampax — 6 days ago

MSI Katana 15 HX se reinicia y falla incluso después de reinstalar Windows limpio.

Hola, necesito ayuda para diagnosticar un problema muy extraño con mi laptop. Llevo días intentando arreglarlo y no he podido, ya no se me ocurre más que preguntar aquí antes de llevarla con un técnico.

Agradezco cualquier aporte, muchas gracias!

Equipo:

- MSI Katana 15 HX B14WGK

- Intel i9-14900HX

- RTX 5070 Laptop

- 32 GB RAM

- SSD NVMe 1 TB

La compré nueva en octubre de 2025. La uso para ingeniería, programas normales, música y juegos tanto ligeros como pesados. Nunca la he abierto, cambiado pasta térmica ni hecho modificaciones importantes.

Todo comenzó un día jugando Left 4 Dead. Entré a una partida de supervivencia y el juego se cerró repentinamente a los 15 segundos de comenzar a moverme. Pensé que eran mods, eliminé varios y seguí probando, pero después de eso empezaron muchos problemas en Windows.

Entre los síntomas que aparecieron:

- Reinicios aleatorios

- Errores en Chrome/Edge como STATUS_BREAKPOINT

- Páginas que no cargaban correctamente

- Programas cerrándose solos

- FL Studio quedó corrupto después de un reinicio durante una instalación/actualización

- Windows Defender empezó a fallar

- DISM y SFC daban errores

- Comportamiento general inestable del sistema

- DISM llegó a fallar con “Error 1726: Error en la llamada a procedimiento remoto”

- SFC /scannow a veces fallaba o se detenía

- En algunos casos la laptop se reiniciaba simplemente estando en idle

Después fui intentando reparar Windows y finalmente decidí respaldar todo y hacer una instalación completamente limpia de Windows 11 desde USB.

La reinstalación también tuvo sus problemas:

- El instalador no detectaba el SSD por Intel VMD/RST

- Tuve que cargar drivers F6 manualmente

- Durante algunos intentos, estando en el instalador de windows (corriendo en el usb) se reiniciaba la laptop y tenía que volver a intentar, hasta que tuve el tiempo suficiente para lograrlo.

Finalmente logré instalar Windows limpio. Durante un tiempo pareció mejorar:

- Cero reinicios momentáneamente

- Ventiladores normales

Drivers MSI instalados manualmente:

- chipset

- Intel ME

- Intel/NVIDIA graphics

- Audio

- WiFi/Bluetooth

- Touchpad

También desinstalé OneDrive porque estaba generando problemas con Documents.

Después de unas horas donde todo parecía bien aparecieron otros síntomas...

- Chrome y Edge mostraban errores como RESULT_CODE_KILLED_BAD_MESSAGE, STATUS_ACCESS_VIOLATION y Crashpad_NotConnectedToHandler

- desactivar aceleración gráfica ayudó parcialmente

- Configuración y Edge llegaron a cerrarse solos

- Minecraft ya no reinicia toda la laptop, pero el juego se cierra solo después de unos minutos

- Windows Defender funciona un rato al iniciar Windows y luego falla o se desactiva

- Los análisis completos de defender se cancelan (y el análisis offline nunca inicia).

Los reinicios eventualmente regresaron. Ahora vuelve a reiniciarse de manera relativamente constante incluso:

- En idle

- Usando el explorador de archivos

- Usando FL Studio

- etc.

En el visor de eventos aparecen cosas como:

- “La velocidad del procesador está limitada por el firmware del sistema”

- errores COM relacionados con Windows.SecurityCenter

- Microsoft Defender Antivirus Service terminated unexpectedly

- “Error general de acceso denegado” repetido muchas veces

- Throttling reportado por firmware

Lo que me confunde es que:

- El hardware no parece completamente muerto

- A veces puede pasar horas encendida sin problemas

- Las temperaturas no parecen raras

- Pero el sistema sigue claramente inestable

No tengo claro si esto parece:

- Corrupción profunda de Windows

- Problema de drivers/firmware

- Problema térmico

- Motherboard/VRM

- RAM

- SSD

- Malware

- Algún problema con el sistema híbrido Intel/NVIDIA

- Cualquier otra cosa que yo no tenga idea

No soy experto, simplemente he intentado seguir procedimientos de diagnóstico y evitar empeorar la situación.

Si alguien tiene experiencia con laptops MSI, Intel HX o problemas similares, agradecería cualquier orientación o diagnóstico.

Gracias de antemano.

reddit.com
u/Relampax — 6 days ago

MSI Katana 15 HX se reinicia y falla incluso después de reinstalar Windows limpio.

Hola, necesito ayuda para diagnosticar un problema muy extraño con mi laptop. Llevo días intentando arreglarlo y no he podido, ya no se me ocurre más que preguntar aquí antes de llevarla con un técnico.

Agradezco cualquier aporte, muchas gracias!

Equipo:

- MSI Katana 15 HX B14WGK

- Intel i9-14900HX

- RTX 5070 Laptop

- 32 GB RAM

- SSD NVMe 1 TB

La compré nueva en octubre de 2025. La uso para ingeniería, programas normales, música y juegos tanto ligeros como pesados. Nunca la he abierto, cambiado pasta térmica ni hecho modificaciones importantes.

Todo comenzó un día jugando Left 4 Dead. Entré a una partida de supervivencia y el juego se cerró repentinamente a los 15 segundos de comenzar a moverme. Pensé que eran mods, eliminé varios y seguí probando, pero después de eso empezaron muchos problemas en Windows.

Entre los síntomas que aparecieron:

- Reinicios aleatorios

- Errores en Chrome/Edge como STATUS_BREAKPOINT

- Páginas que no cargaban correctamente

- Programas cerrándose solos

- FL Studio quedó corrupto después de un reinicio durante una instalación/actualización

- Windows Defender empezó a fallar

- DISM y SFC daban errores

- Comportamiento general inestable del sistema

- DISM llegó a fallar con “Error 1726: Error en la llamada a procedimiento remoto”

- SFC /scannow a veces fallaba o se detenía

- En algunos casos la laptop se reiniciaba simplemente estando en idle

Después fui intentando reparar Windows y finalmente decidí respaldar todo y hacer una instalación completamente limpia de Windows 11 desde USB.

La reinstalación también tuvo sus problemas:

- El instalador no detectaba el SSD por Intel VMD/RST

- Tuve que cargar drivers F6 manualmente

- Durante algunos intentos, estando en el instalador de windows (corriendo en el usb) se reiniciaba la laptop y tenía que volver a intentar, hasta que tuve el tiempo suficiente para lograrlo.

Finalmente logré instalar Windows limpio. Durante un tiempo pareció mejorar:

- Cero reinicios momentáneamente

- Ventiladores normales

Drivers MSI instalados manualmente:

- chipset

- Intel ME

- Intel/NVIDIA graphics

- Audio

- WiFi/Bluetooth

- Touchpad

También desinstalé OneDrive porque estaba generando problemas con Documents.

Después de unas horas donde todo parecía bien aparecieron otros síntomas...

- Chrome y Edge mostraban errores como RESULT_CODE_KILLED_BAD_MESSAGE, STATUS_ACCESS_VIOLATION y Crashpad_NotConnectedToHandler

- desactivar aceleración gráfica ayudó parcialmente

- Configuración y Edge llegaron a cerrarse solos

- Minecraft ya no reinicia toda la laptop, pero el juego se cierra solo después de unos minutos

- Windows Defender funciona un rato al iniciar Windows y luego falla o se desactiva

- Los análisis completos de defender se cancelan (y el análisis offline nunca inicia).

Los reinicios eventualmente regresaron. Ahora vuelve a reiniciarse de manera relativamente constante incluso:

- En idle

- Usando el explorador de archivos

- Usando FL Studio

- etc.

En el visor de eventos aparecen cosas como:

- “La velocidad del procesador está limitada por el firmware del sistema”

- errores COM relacionados con Windows.SecurityCenter

- Microsoft Defender Antivirus Service terminated unexpectedly

- “Error general de acceso denegado” repetido muchas veces

- Throttling reportado por firmware

Lo que me confunde es que:

- El hardware no parece completamente muerto

- A veces puede pasar horas encendida sin problemas

- Las temperaturas no parecen raras

- Pero el sistema sigue claramente inestable

No tengo claro si esto parece:

- Corrupción profunda de Windows

- Problema de drivers/firmware

- Problema térmico

- Motherboard/VRM

- RAM

- SSD

- Malware

- Algún problema con el sistema híbrido Intel/NVIDIA

- Cualquier otra cosa que yo no tenga idea

No soy experto, simplemente he intentado seguir procedimientos de diagnóstico y evitar empeorar la situación.

Si alguien tiene experiencia con laptops MSI, Intel HX o problemas similares, agradecería cualquier orientación o diagnóstico.

Y si a alguien en México (Querétaro) le interesa ayudarme seriamente con la reparación de mi laptop y cree que podría revisarla físicamente, también podríamos negociarlo.

Gracias de antemano.

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u/Relampax — 6 days ago

MSI Katana 15 HX keeps crashing/restarting even after clean Windows install, drivers and BIOS checks.

Hi, I really need help diagnosing a very strange issue with my gaming laptop. I’ve been trying to fix this for days and I honestly don’t know what else to try before taking it to a repair shop.

Any help or ideas would be greatly appreciated, thank you.

Laptop:

- MSI Katana 15 HX B14WGK

- i9-14900HX

- RTX 5070 Laptop GPU

- 32 GB RAM

- 1 TB NVMe SSD

I bought it new around October 2025. I mostly use it for engineering classes, music production, normal daily stuff and gaming. I’ve never opened it, repasted it, overclocked it or modified the hardware.

The whole thing started after a Left 4 Dead crash. I joined a survival match and around 15 seconds after I started moving, the game suddenly closed. I thought it was caused by mods, removed several of them, retried, and after that the entire system slowly started becoming unstable.

Symptoms over time:

- Random restarts

- Chrome/Edge errors like STATUS_BREAKPOINT

- Websites failing to load properly

- Apps randomly closing

- FL Studio got corrupted after the laptop restarted during an installation/update

- Windows Defender acting broken

- DISM/SFC failing

- Weird Windows behavior overall

- DISM failed at one point with “Error 1726: The remote procedure call failed”

- SFC /scannow sometimes failed or stopped midway

- The laptop sometimes restarted while completely idle

Eventually I backed everything up and did a completely clean Windows 11 reinstall from USB.

Even that had problems:

- Windows installer initially couldn’t detect the SSD because of Intel VMD/RST

- I had to manually load F6 drivers

- During some attempts, the laptop restarted while still inside the Windows installer running from the USB, forcing me to retry until I finally had enough time to complete the installation

After finally getting Windows installed, things improved for a while:

- Temporarily zero restarts

- Fans sounded normal again

MSI drivers installed manually:

- Chipset

- Intel ME

- Intel/NVIDIA graphics

- Audio

- WiFi/Bluetooth

- Touchpad

I also removed OneDrive because it was causing issues with Documents.

After a few hours where everything seemed fine, other symptoms started appearing:

- Chrome and Edge crashes with RESULT_CODE_KILLED_BAD_MESSAGE, STATUS_ACCESS_VIOLATION and Crashpad_NotConnectedToHandler

- Disabling hardware acceleration helped somewhat

- Settings app and Edge sometimes closed by themselves

- Minecraft no longer restarts the laptop, but the game closes after a few minutes

- Windows Defender works briefly after boot, then disables/fails

- Full Defender scans cancel themselves, and offline scans never start

Eventually the restarts came back. The laptop now restarts somewhat regularly even while:

- Sitting idle

- Browsing File Explorer

- Using FL Studio

- etc.

Event Viewer logs include:

- “Processor speed limited by system firmware”

- COM permission errors related to Windows.SecurityCenter

- Microsoft Defender Antivirus Service terminated unexpectedly

- Repeated “General access denied error”

- Firmware-reported throttling

What confuses me is that:

- The hardware doesn’t seem completely dead

- Sometimes the laptop can stay on for hours without issues

- Temperatures don’t seem unusually high

- But the system is still clearly unstable

At this point I genuinely don’t know whether this looks like:

- Deep Windows corruption

- Driver/firmware instability

- Thermal issue

- Motherboard/VRM issue

- RAM issue

- SSD issue

- Malware

- Some kind of Intel/NVIDIA hybrid graphics problem

- Or something else I’m completely missing

I’m not an expert, I’ve basically just tried to follow troubleshooting steps carefully and avoid making things worse.

If anyone has experience with MSI laptops, Intel HX systems or similar issues, I’d seriously appreciate any advice or diagnostic ideas.

Thanks in advance.

reddit.com
u/Relampax — 6 days ago

MSI Katana 15 HX keeps crashing/restarting even after clean Windows install, drivers and BIOS checks.

Hi, I really need help diagnosing a very strange issue with my gaming laptop. I’ve been trying to fix this for days and I honestly don’t know what else to try before taking it to a repair shop.

Any help or ideas would be greatly appreciated, thank you.

Laptop:

- MSI Katana 15 HX B14WGK

- i9-14900HX

- RTX 5070 Laptop GPU

- 32 GB RAM

- 1 TB NVMe SSD

I bought it new around October 2025. I mostly use it for engineering classes, music production, normal daily stuff and gaming. I’ve never opened it, repasted it, overclocked it or modified the hardware.

The whole thing started after a Left 4 Dead crash. I joined a survival match and around 15 seconds after I started moving, the game suddenly closed. I thought it was caused by mods, removed several of them, retried, and after that the entire system slowly started becoming unstable.

Symptoms over time:

- Random restarts

- Chrome/Edge errors like STATUS_BREAKPOINT

- Websites failing to load properly

- Apps randomly closing

- FL Studio got corrupted after the laptop restarted during an installation/update

- Windows Defender acting broken

- DISM/SFC failing

- Weird Windows behavior overall

- DISM failed at one point with “Error 1726: The remote procedure call failed”

- SFC /scannow sometimes failed or stopped midway

- The laptop sometimes restarted while completely idle

Eventually I backed everything up and did a completely clean Windows 11 reinstall from USB.

Even that had problems:

- Windows installer initially couldn’t detect the SSD because of Intel VMD/RST

- I had to manually load F6 drivers

- During some attempts, the laptop restarted while still inside the Windows installer running from the USB, forcing me to retry until I finally had enough time to complete the installation

After finally getting Windows installed, things improved for a while:

- Temporarily zero restarts

- Fans sounded normal again

MSI drivers installed manually:

- Chipset

- Intel ME

- Intel/NVIDIA graphics

- Audio

- WiFi/Bluetooth

- Touchpad

I also removed OneDrive because it was causing issues with Documents.

After a few hours where everything seemed fine, other symptoms started appearing:

- Chrome and Edge crashes with RESULT_CODE_KILLED_BAD_MESSAGE, STATUS_ACCESS_VIOLATION and Crashpad_NotConnectedToHandler

- Disabling hardware acceleration helped somewhat

- Settings app and Edge sometimes closed by themselves

- Minecraft no longer restarts the laptop, but the game closes after a few minutes

- Windows Defender works briefly after boot, then disables/fails

- Full Defender scans cancel themselves, and offline scans never start

Eventually the restarts came back. The laptop now restarts somewhat regularly even while:

- Sitting idle

- Browsing File Explorer

- Using FL Studio

- etc.

Event Viewer logs include:

- “Processor speed limited by system firmware”

- COM permission errors related to Windows.SecurityCenter

- Microsoft Defender Antivirus Service terminated unexpectedly

- Repeated “General access denied error”

- Firmware-reported throttling

What confuses me is that:

- The hardware doesn’t seem completely dead

- Sometimes the laptop can stay on for hours without issues

- Temperatures don’t seem unusually high

- But the system is still clearly unstable

At this point I genuinely don’t know whether this looks like:

- Deep Windows corruption

- Driver/firmware instability

- Thermal issue

- Motherboard/VRM issue

- RAM issue

- SSD issue

- Malware

- Some kind of Intel/NVIDIA hybrid graphics problem

- Or something else I’m completely missing

I’m not an expert, I’ve basically just tried to follow troubleshooting steps carefully and avoid making things worse.

If anyone has experience with MSI laptops, Intel HX systems or similar issues, I’d seriously appreciate any advice or diagnostic ideas.

Thanks in advance.

reddit.com
u/Relampax — 6 days ago

MSI Katana 15 HX keeps crashing/restarting even after clean Windows install, drivers and BIOS checks.

Hi, I really need help diagnosing a very strange issue with my gaming laptop. I’ve been trying to fix this for days and I honestly don’t know what else to try before taking it to a repair shop.

Any help or ideas would be greatly appreciated, thank you.

Laptop:

- MSI Katana 15 HX B14WGK

- i9-14900HX

- RTX 5070 Laptop GPU

- 32 GB RAM

- 1 TB NVMe SSD

I bought it new around October 2025. I mostly use it for engineering classes, music production, normal daily stuff and gaming. I’ve never opened it, repasted it, overclocked it or modified the hardware.

The whole thing started after a Left 4 Dead crash. I joined a survival match and around 15 seconds after I started moving, the game suddenly closed. I thought it was caused by mods, removed several of them, retried, and after that the entire system slowly started becoming unstable.

Symptoms over time:

- Random restarts

- Chrome/Edge errors like STATUS_BREAKPOINT

- Websites failing to load properly

- Apps randomly closing

- FL Studio got corrupted after the laptop restarted during an installation/update

- Windows Defender acting broken

- DISM/SFC failing

- Weird Windows behavior overall

- DISM failed at one point with “Error 1726: The remote procedure call failed”

- SFC /scannow sometimes failed or stopped midway

- The laptop sometimes restarted while completely idle

Eventually I backed everything up and did a completely clean Windows 11 reinstall from USB.

Even that had problems:

- Windows installer initially couldn’t detect the SSD because of Intel VMD/RST

- I had to manually load F6 drivers

- During some attempts, the laptop restarted while still inside the Windows installer running from the USB, forcing me to retry until I finally had enough time to complete the installation

After finally getting Windows installed, things improved for a while:

- Temporarily zero restarts

- Fans sounded normal again

MSI drivers installed manually:

- Chipset

- Intel ME

- Intel/NVIDIA graphics

- Audio

- WiFi/Bluetooth

- Touchpad

I also removed OneDrive because it was causing issues with Documents.

After a few hours where everything seemed fine, other symptoms started appearing:

- Chrome and Edge crashes with RESULT_CODE_KILLED_BAD_MESSAGE, STATUS_ACCESS_VIOLATION and Crashpad_NotConnectedToHandler

- Disabling hardware acceleration helped somewhat

- Settings app and Edge sometimes closed by themselves

- Minecraft no longer restarts the laptop, but the game closes after a few minutes

- Windows Defender works briefly after boot, then disables/fails

- Full Defender scans cancel themselves, and offline scans never start

Eventually the restarts came back. The laptop now restarts somewhat regularly even while:

- Sitting idle

- Browsing File Explorer

- Using FL Studio

- etc.

Event Viewer logs include:

- “Processor speed limited by system firmware”

- COM permission errors related to Windows.SecurityCenter

- Microsoft Defender Antivirus Service terminated unexpectedly

- Repeated “General access denied error”

- Firmware-reported throttling

What confuses me is that:

- The hardware doesn’t seem completely dead

- Sometimes the laptop can stay on for hours without issues

- Temperatures don’t seem unusually high

- But the system is still clearly unstable

At this point I genuinely don’t know whether this looks like:

- Deep Windows corruption

- Driver/firmware instability

- Thermal issue

- Motherboard/VRM issue

- RAM issue

- SSD issue

- Malware

- Some kind of Intel/NVIDIA hybrid graphics problem

- Or something else I’m completely missing

I’m not an expert, I’ve basically just tried to follow troubleshooting steps carefully and avoid making things worse.

If anyone has experience with MSI laptops, Intel HX systems or similar issues, I’d seriously appreciate any advice or diagnostic ideas.

Thanks in advance.

reddit.com
u/Relampax — 6 days ago

MSI Katana 15 HX keeps crashing/restarting even after clean Windows install, drivers and BIOS checks.

Hi, I really need help diagnosing a very strange issue with my gaming laptop. I’ve been trying to fix this for days and I honestly don’t know what else to try before taking it to a repair shop.

Any help or ideas would be greatly appreciated, thank you.

Laptop:

- MSI Katana 15 HX B14WGK

- i9-14900HX

- RTX 5070 Laptop GPU

- 32 GB RAM

- 1 TB NVMe SSD

I bought it new around October 2025. I mostly use it for engineering classes, music production, normal daily stuff and gaming. I’ve never opened it, repasted it, overclocked it or modified the hardware.

The whole thing started after a Left 4 Dead crash. I joined a survival match and around 15 seconds after I started moving, the game suddenly closed. I thought it was caused by mods, removed several of them, retried, and after that the entire system slowly started becoming unstable.

Symptoms over time:

- Random restarts

- Chrome/Edge errors like STATUS_BREAKPOINT

- Websites failing to load properly

- Apps randomly closing

- FL Studio got corrupted after the laptop restarted during an installation/update

- Windows Defender acting broken

- DISM/SFC failing

- Weird Windows behavior overall

- DISM failed at one point with “Error 1726: The remote procedure call failed”

- SFC /scannow sometimes failed or stopped midway

- The laptop sometimes restarted while completely idle

Eventually I backed everything up and did a completely clean Windows 11 reinstall from USB.

Even that had problems:

- Windows installer initially couldn’t detect the SSD because of Intel VMD/RST

- I had to manually load F6 drivers

- During some attempts, the laptop restarted while still inside the Windows installer running from the USB, forcing me to retry until I finally had enough time to complete the installation

After finally getting Windows installed, things improved for a while:

- Temporarily zero restarts

- Fans sounded normal again

MSI drivers installed manually:

- Chipset

- Intel ME

- Intel/NVIDIA graphics

- Audio

- WiFi/Bluetooth

- Touchpad

I also removed OneDrive because it was causing issues with Documents.

After a few hours where everything seemed fine, other symptoms started appearing:

- Chrome and Edge crashes with RESULT_CODE_KILLED_BAD_MESSAGE, STATUS_ACCESS_VIOLATION and Crashpad_NotConnectedToHandler

- Disabling hardware acceleration helped somewhat

- Settings app and Edge sometimes closed by themselves

- Minecraft no longer restarts the laptop, but the game closes after a few minutes

- Windows Defender works briefly after boot, then disables/fails

- Full Defender scans cancel themselves, and offline scans never start

Eventually the restarts came back. The laptop now restarts somewhat regularly even while:

- Sitting idle

- Browsing File Explorer

- Using FL Studio

- etc.

Event Viewer logs include:

- “Processor speed limited by system firmware”

- COM permission errors related to Windows.SecurityCenter

- Microsoft Defender Antivirus Service terminated unexpectedly

- Repeated “General access denied error”

- Firmware-reported throttling

What confuses me is that:

- The hardware doesn’t seem completely dead

- Sometimes the laptop can stay on for hours without issues

- Temperatures don’t seem unusually high

- But the system is still clearly unstable

At this point I genuinely don’t know whether this looks like:

- Deep Windows corruption

- Driver/firmware instability

- Thermal issue

- Motherboard/VRM issue

- RAM issue

- SSD issue

- Malware

- Some kind of Intel/NVIDIA hybrid graphics problem

- Or something else I’m completely missing

I’m not an expert, I’ve basically just tried to follow troubleshooting steps carefully and avoid making things worse.

If anyone has experience with MSI laptops, Intel HX systems or similar issues, I’d seriously appreciate any advice or diagnostic ideas.

Thanks in advance.

reddit.com
u/Relampax — 6 days ago