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So I was playing a game and my fans were going crazy and suddenly I got a pop up a text which said that I'm not using my monitor and it's gonna turn off in 30 seconds, so I waited and it rlly did turn off. I turned my pc off and back on and everything seemed to be fine my pc was working, fans spinning, keyboard and mouse were also working and it had a blue light on the monitor itself but the screen was still black can someone help me?

So when he playes games on the lowest settings he can barely get 7 fps. However when he for example looks at the sky he gets better fps. Its probably not his energie usage that is being capped because we looked at that already his grafic card is up to date and when running games his GPU sits around 85 °C.

Specs are
CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 5500U wuth Randeon Graphics(2.10GHz)
Installed RAM: 16gb
GPU: AMD Randeon(TM)Graphics(496 MB)

Sup reddit, i have that problem for like 2 weeks, my gpu is RTX 2060 super and its connected into my full hd monitor by hdmi cabel, the image flickers sometimes like *game* *boop blackscreen* *game* it happens randomly like one in 7 or 10 minutes and only in high-end games like Marvel's spider man remastered on ultra settings, i hoped that it might be a shitty cabel's fault, i've changed it, the result is that now its happening in a bigger time interval nothing more, please tell me what should i do, maybe switch to DP or idk, should i be worried? Would take any answers

I got a new PC recently. I took my old Samsung 870 SSD and put it in my new PC. Now every time I boot up my PC it says scanning drives and for some reason when I boot up to the windows home screen, it says I have no Wi-Fi and I can’t login using my pin. Whenever you start my PC it works fine and lets me login. It was also making me enter in my locker code every time I booted on my PC until I disabled that. Should I just wipe the Samsung drive? Would that fix it?

Hello! I just moved into college and bought a custom pc from someone 2nd hand a couple of years ago. It was working fine before packing and moving but now it won't connect to our display screen (tv).

It gives me a hard time connecting via hdmi and when it finally takes away the no connection found indication, the screen is blank.

I tried 2 different hdmi cords and 2 different display screens, same issue.

Any help is appreciated

Hi, I don’t know if this is the right subreddit but I’m moving to remote work pretty soon and I’d like a docking station that has the functionality of being and to switch my two monitors from being an extended display of my work laptop to being my monitors for my pc. I’ve found a couple and am willing to spend some decent money but I did some searching and don’t know if I’m looking at the right thing. It would be something like this: https://a.co/d/0aYrs13R where I can plug both my monitors, my laptop and then my pc into and then at the press of a button or something change which main component my monitors are working off of (one displaying the pc stuff, other being an extended display of my work laptop).

Bit of context PC was bought from a family friend with no issues approx 4 weeks ago started fine but with only 8gb of ram couldn’t run a lot then started to crash and BDOS errors to the point it was happening after every start up. Followed chat GPT troubleshooting and then a friend who works with pc’s said just reinstall windows but I now cannot. Here is a summary of all the things I have done. Any help would be very very very greatly appreciated!!!!!

I have listed chronologically all of the issues and repairs. Again any help would be fantastic from everyone.

>!The important error history!<

The errors we’ve now seen across the whole investigation include:
Unexpected system restarts
SYSTEM_THREAD_EXCEPTION_NOT_HANDLED (0x7E)
ntfs.sys
PAGE_FAULT_IN_NONPAGED_AREA (0x50)
Previous LiveKernelEvent 1A8
NVIDIA driver-related crashes/installation issues
Windows Recovery/Quick Machine Recovery loops
BitLocker recovery/boot issues following the earlier BIOS changes
Where that leaves us
The biggest finding is that the problem predates the current Windows installation and has now occurred during multiple clean Windows installation attempts.
We’ve therefore moved away from:
“Corrupted Windows installation”
towards:

“Something at the hardware/firmware level is intermittently corrupting or crashing Windows.”

The remaining hardware suspects are primarily motherboard/PCIe, CPU/memory controller, GPU, PSU and RAM, with the SSD currently looking considerably less suspicious based on the checks we’ve performed.

And importantly, we have not found evidence that the 931 GB or 238 GB storage drives are the cause, and we have deliberately avoided formatting them.

Date
Problem / error
What we did
Result
13 July 2026
BIOS changes caused Windows/BitLocker boot problems
Investigated BIOS after enabling Secure Boot/fTPM for Windows 11
BIOS/boot configuration became unstable; BitLocker recovery was repeatedly triggered
13 July
Secure Boot / fTPM issue
Checked CSM, Secure Boot, OS Type, PK state and fTPM
fTPM was eventually recognised as ready; Secure Boot/PK configuration remained problematic
13–14 July
BitLocker recovery loop
Checked BitLocker with manage-bde, including protection status and key protectors
Key protectors existed; protection status showed Off at one point; encryption was around 14.8%
14 July
Windows boot looked abnormal
Restarted after BitLocker changes
Windows eventually booted, but initial boot resolution looked stretched/pixelated
14 July
Fortnite/game instability
Investigated Windows/BIOS state following the BIOS changes
Game still froze/crashed, suggesting the problem wasn’t simply Fortnite
14 July
TPM configuration
Checked TPM/fTPM and PCR validation
TPM reported ready; PCR profile included 0, 2, 4
14–15 July
Secure Boot/BIOS configuration
Worked through ASUS BIOS settings including Windows UEFI mode, CSM, Secure Boot and fTPM
Eventually established a working UEFI configuration, but the wider system instability remained
17 Aug
PC suddenly restarting while sitting on desktop
PC was restarting without warning and returning to Windows lock screen
Established this wasn’t only happening during gaming/heavy load
17 Aug
Repeated BSOD/recovery environment
Windows Recovery showed Continue / Turn off PC / Quick Machine Recovery / Troubleshoot
Recovery options were investigated; Reset was avoided
17–18 Aug
Windows installation/recovery
Created a Windows 11 USB from Win11_25H2_English_x64_v2.iso on the SanDisk USB
USB successfully created and verified
18 Aug
Windows installer
Split the 7.1 GB install.wim into .swm files because FAT32 couldn’t hold it
install.swm ~3.9 GB and install2.swm ~3.1 GB successfully created
18 Aug
Boot USB
Verified EFI/BOOT/BOOTX64.EFI existed
USB was bootable
18 Aug
Windows Setup
Initially selected Windows installation rather than repair
Installation proceeded
18 Aug
Windows installation
Deleted the old Disk 0 Windows partitions when instructed, leaving Disk 0 unallocated
Windows began a clean installation
18 Aug
Installation reached ~75–80%
First major clean-install crash
BSOD: SYSTEM_THREAD_EXCEPTION_NOT_HANDLED (0x7E); ntfs.sys
18 Aug
Recovery/installer loop
Windows Setup repeatedly returned to the “upgrade vs clean installation” prompt
Established the installer USB was being booted again rather than a completed Windows installation
18 Aug
RAM investigation
Confirmed original crashes occurred with 2 × 4 GB, then tested 16 + 4 GB, then 16 GB alone
Crashes persisted; 16 GB alone was running at 2133 MHz
18 Aug
RAM slot
Moved 16 GB Corsair Vengeance from B1 → A1
BIOS detected 16,384 MB DDR4 at 2133 MHz normally
18 Aug
Second clean installation
Started Windows installation with 16 GB alone
Installation reached ~77%
18 Aug
Second major BSOD
Installation crashed
PAGE_FAULT_IN_NONPAGED_AREA (0x50)
18 Aug
SSD/filesystem investigation
Checked Samsung 860 EVO with filesystem scan
Windows reported no filesystem problems and 0 KB in bad sectors
18 Aug
SSD SMART
Checked SMART failure prediction
FALSE for the drives checked
18 Aug
SSD/SATA
Disconnected/reconnected Samsung 860 EVO SATA connection
SSD was still correctly detected
18 Aug
BIOS configuration
Established current baseline
CSM Disabled, Windows UEFI Mode, AHCI, fTPM Enabled, Erase fTPM NV Disabled, PBO Auto
18 Aug
BIOS
Confirmed BIOS version
6254, which is current for the ASUS Prime A320M-K
18 Aug
GPU
Confirmed Zotac GTX 1660 and checked physical power
6-pin PCIe power securely connected
18 Aug
GPU/PCIe
Checked Above 4G, Resizable BAR and SR-IOV
Above 4G Enabled, SR-IOV Disabled, Resizable BAR initially Auto
18 Aug
Resizable BAR test
Temporarily changed Resizable BAR Auto → Disabled
No improvement
18 Aug
Third clean installation
Tested Windows installation with Resizable BAR disabled
Crashed much earlier, around 30%
18 Aug
Third major BSOD
Same installation test
Again SYSTEM_THREAD_EXCEPTION_NOT_HANDLED (0x7E) / ntfs.sys
18 Aug
Resizable BAR
Restored setting
Auto
18 Aug
CPU/BIOS
Checked Ryzen 5 3600 configuration
3.6 GHz, ~1.37 V live reading, PBO Auto
18 Aug
PSU
Identified PSU
Corsair CV450, 450 W; wattage isn’t obviously inadequate for Ryzen 5 3600 + GTX 1660
18 Aug
BIOS stability
Established PC can remain in BIOS for a long period without crashing

Laptop: Dell Inspiron 14 5430 SSD: KIOXIA KBG50ZNS1T02 (1TB NVMe, OEM/removable M.2 2230)

The problem: Getting recurring BSODs specifically when running Chrome + YouTube tabs simultaneously — high load/paging scenario.
Started a few months ago, getting more frequent.
Like at first it was like if i moved my laptop it gave kernel data inpage error but then like in the past 3 days critical error and kernel data inpage errors came up frequently and like the laptop will login but then after that it hangs up.

Took it to service center — they fixed stuff but when i started working this came up again.

Crash details from Event Viewer:
KERNEL_DATA_INPAGE_ERROR (0x7A)
Parameter 2: 0xC000009C (STATUS_DEVICE_DATA_ERROR — bad sectors)

KERNEL_DATA_INPAGE_ERROR (0x7A)
Parameter 2: 0x0 (STATUS_SUCCESS, ambiguous)

After that i did all the stuff given below:

CrystalDiskInfo: shows “Good,” 96% life, but Media and Data Integrity Errors (SMART ID 0E) = 99, Error Log Entries (ID 0F) = 317

HD Tune surface scan: 0% damaged blocks

chkdsk /f /r /x on C: — found only 4KB in bad sectors, fixed some file system corruption (MFT bitmap)

chkdsk on D: and E: — 0 bad sectors on both

After chkdsk:
Then I like it was fine for like a few hours. Like 5 hrs i think. Btw in that time i was training like models in google colab env and had many chrome tabs opens, file explorer , git etc etc etc.

Then this came up
KMODE_EXCEPTION_NOT_HANDLED (0x1E)
Parameter 1: 0xC0000006 (STATUS_IN_PAGE_ERROR — same disk read failure, different code path)

Soooo. What should I do???

Anyone dealt with KIOXIA BG-series OEM SSDs specifically failing early?

Is a fresh Samsung 970 EVO Plus 1TB swap the right call here, or is there anything else worth checking before I spend the money?

Today, I installed a simple game from itch.io and, as a result, I got multiple viruses, blocked by Windows Defender. That seems unusual, as the game is a student game from the school I attended; there's no need to be concerned.

I tried to uninstall the game: when finding it in Windows Apps and pressing Uninstall, I think it mentioned dw20.exe as the program that would be uninstalled. I didn't pay attention as I just wanted to get rid of it.

I never manage to uninstall the game properly. I just delete files from Programs

As a result, my PC is working correctly, BUT Task Manager, Command Prompt, and other systems are broken.

• Ctrl + Alt + Suppr -> Task Manager -> It opens the System32 file
• Command Prompt -> Doesn't open from the shortcut. If I click on it from the System32 folder (cmd.exe), it works, but if I open it as Administrator, dw20.exe tries to execute. If I say yes, nothing happens, and the Command Prompt remains closed.
• Same for Task Manager opened with "taskmgr.exe" in System32 (no Admin mod)
• Their icons are broken. Folder Explorer icon is also broken but works as normal.

So... :

- I tried using Command Prompt from Safe Mode (Pressing Shift when starting the computer). I typed "sfc /scannow". Errors were found and "fixed" but when restarting the computer, nothing changed.

- I asked Gemini and tried other things :

• DISM /Online /Cleanup-Image /RestoreHealth ->doesn't work ; Cleanup-Image isn't found
• reg delete "HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Image File Execution Options\taskmgr.exe" /f ->the system can't find it

What can I do? Besides that, everything (afaik) works correctly.

Thanks!

I have an RX 5700 XT, E5-2680 v4, 2x4GB DDR4, and a 500GB HDD; a green screen appears whenever I launch games. However, on my main PC paired with an R5 7500F, everything is fine and the 5700 XT works correctly. It also performs normally in benchmarks when paired with the Xeon. Undervolting didn't help. I tried reinstalling the drivers and removing the old ones, but that yielded no results either. What could be causing this, and how can I fix it?