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can you test with different RAM?
I experienced similar with crucial from ebay. a test gave a big green PASS, but clearly was a faulty one stick.
now of course it may just not like the speed setting in BIOS, but in my case that stick just wouldn't accept anything. I never tried it on the new motherboards as I have now upgraded.
But then my old sticks work at full speed now whereas they required to be 2 clicks slower before.
I experienced similar with crucial from ebay. a test gave a big green PASS, but clearly was a faulty one stick.
now of course it may just not like the speed setting in BIOS, but in my case that stick just wouldn't accept anything. I never tried it on the new motherboards as I have now upgraded.
But then my old sticks work at full speed now whereas they required to be 2 clicks slower before.
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I've had the XMP profile set in BIOS since the build, so hoping it's not related to that. It's got two 16GB sticks in it just now, but I think I can rustle up some other sticks from somewhere. The only real change is installing a game recently.
When I looked it up I think that was the Microsoft response, but there were other things. There's been quite a few BSOD's with various messages. In the Event View the critical warning is the dump file, which I think is related to System Restore. I've cleaned it out and set new restore points and then this BSOD came up. Thing is, once the computer has started up it seems to be fine, so I would be inclined to be looking at startup items and services.
I'll be changing my HD soon anyway, so I'll do a fresh install and if it still happens then that will probably narrow it down to hardware.
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1. a good scan of the drive
2. try different ram
3. 24h2 upgrade presuming you haven't done it yet. That should overwrite most sys files.
all of these should give a pretty good clue.
when my ram was messing up it was usually during startup or very shortly after, giving all sorts of wildest errors.
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I've done a quick scan but I could probably look at doing a more thorough one. All Windows updates are done and also motherboard drivers updated earlier this week.
RAM is on the list!
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Just powered up and another bsod. Just after I typed in my windows pin it started to fade to the desktop but froze for a second. It was at that moment I knew ...
Restarted fine though. It's rather odd. Different message this time.
Event log pointing to volmgr 161, I'm thinking a recent Windows update could have done it.
Will check my GPU driver as well.
Restarted fine though. It's rather odd. Different message this time.
Event log pointing to volmgr 161, I'm thinking a recent Windows update could have done it.
Will check my GPU driver as well.
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Kingston is very good stuff usually carries lifetime warranty as well
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Well, it started happening again and became progressively worse over the last week. Only happened when booting up and rarely whilst actually in Windows. Each restart would come up with a BSOD showing a different error until it would eventually kick in.
System Restore failed as well in the recovery menu, but it must have shunted something as I got one last successful boot. Now it is BSOD with a consistent Critical Process Died. Time to wipe the slate clean. New M2 Drive popped in and that's me just back up and running after an hour. Didn't bother doing a clone or transferring apps etc as I don't want to risk transferring any corrupted files.
Now have the long slog of reinstalling everything, setting up emails etc. Damn you Windows. Still, at least I now have a fresh OS.
EDIT: Fresh install and the BSOD has returned. My guess it must be either BIOS or hardware, but looks like it could be Microsoft.
KB5016061: Secure Boot DB and DBX variable update events
TPM-WMI
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The Secure Boot update failed to update a Secure Boot variable with error Secure Boot is not enabled on this machine.. For more information, please see https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=2169931
Looks like I'm not alone: View: https://www.reddit.com/r/WindowsHelp/comments/1g5c9sa/wmitpm_1796_error_fresh_install_windows_11_24h2/?rdt=57059
System Restore failed as well in the recovery menu, but it must have shunted something as I got one last successful boot. Now it is BSOD with a consistent Critical Process Died. Time to wipe the slate clean. New M2 Drive popped in and that's me just back up and running after an hour. Didn't bother doing a clone or transferring apps etc as I don't want to risk transferring any corrupted files.
Now have the long slog of reinstalling everything, setting up emails etc. Damn you Windows. Still, at least I now have a fresh OS.
EDIT: Fresh install and the BSOD has returned. My guess it must be either BIOS or hardware, but looks like it could be Microsoft.
KB5016061: Secure Boot DB and DBX variable update events
TPM-WMI
1796
The Secure Boot update failed to update a Secure Boot variable with error Secure Boot is not enabled on this machine.. For more information, please see https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=2169931
Looks like I'm not alone: View: https://www.reddit.com/r/WindowsHelp/comments/1g5c9sa/wmitpm_1796_error_fresh_install_windows_11_24h2/?rdt=57059
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I tried to via System->Recovery, but then when I went to roll back updates it started to update! lol I've done a BIOS update, latest one was Oct 24 so I'm hoping there's a fix in it. So far so good. I'm not doing any more Windows updates until I see a fix noted.
On the plus side, browsing has become super snappy again. Both this computer and another one I use were getting very slow to open certain webpages, even on this site. DNS Flushes and all sorts wouldn't sort it, but this fresh install has. Windows....
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There's loads of stuff on the usual tech sites about problems with the H24 update. Hopefully it'll get sorted.
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Well, after a clean install on a brand new drive and having only installed email and steam, I'm now locked out with it telling me to setup a new pin, which doesn't actually do anything and just repeats itself in an infinite loop.
Tried the registry workaround from the boot restore options, but doesn't work. I don't think I want to waste time hoping it may work again anyway.
The plan and solution? A new install, but this time I'm going to do Windows 10 because Windows 11 can sod right off.
I'm very close to browsing macs lol
Tried the registry workaround from the boot restore options, but doesn't work. I don't think I want to waste time hoping it may work again anyway.
The plan and solution? A new install, but this time I'm going to do Windows 10 because Windows 11 can sod right off.
I'm very close to browsing macs lol
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Out of interest, are you setting it up with an M$ account?
And if the key in eprom, or do you have to enter it each time?
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No choice now, they demand your Microsoft details. All the workarounds no longer seem to work.
It's just a simple pin instead of a password. BSOD are back as well. MB is MSI and latest bios update is October, so it's not like they aren't bothering keeping things up to date. Judging from the online carnage you read online about their various updates, the common denominator is always Microsoft and their updates.
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I meant the licence key, sorry
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Oh that, I don't put it in. I buy my Microsoft software directly through my Microsoft account, so it knows it's licenced, presumably also looking at my hardware to verify or maybe that's no longer the case.
Come to think of it, I think I'm going to have to login to Windows to authenticate the OS. It doesn't bother me too much having to log in, I've nothing to hide etc. But I still think it should be fully optional.
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I've just paused updates for 5 weeks, just in the hope that by the time 24H is rolled out to us it will be fixed.
I've an Acer box upstairs that I let uodate to W11 late last year, and having re-started it to use for WFH, it did a major update, demanding microsoft ID. I went part-way through the process using nospam@nospam.com as my email + a nonsense password, then cancelled the login and went back a couple of screens and it allowed me to skip without logging into microsoft.
Sorry you guys are getting BSODs all the time.
I've an Acer box upstairs that I let uodate to W11 late last year, and having re-started it to use for WFH, it did a major update, demanding microsoft ID. I went part-way through the process using nospam@nospam.com as my email + a nonsense password, then cancelled the login and went back a couple of screens and it allowed me to skip without logging into microsoft.
Sorry you guys are getting BSODs all the time.