Windows 10: Frequent BSODs after completely clean Windows 10 Pro install

Hi there,

Around a week ago, my old Windows install was completely screwed and so was my SSD. In an effort to resolve these issues I ordered a new NVMe M.2 SSD (250GB) and did a completely clean install using a bootable USB stick that I created using Windows' official tool.

Unfortunately the installation didn't go very smoothly, I had to retry a few times, and try out different ports/USB drives before it finally completed without errors.

I suspected something went wrong, so I ran the following checks:

• chkdsk /f /r - I looked at the logs using Event Viewer, which said it detected some errors and it repaired them.
• sfc /scannow - It indicated that it found some issues, but it couldn't repair it.
• DISM /Online /Cleanup-Image /RestoreHealth - It indicated that it repaired some things.
• sfc /scannow - It indicated that it found some issues, and repaired them.

I rebooted between each step, and when I run sfc /scannow right now, it says it can't find any integrity violations, which is good.

Between these checks I got multiple BSOD's, 7 so far since Tuesday. 5 of them were MEMORY_MANAGEMENT, 1 was PAGE_FAULT_IN_NONPAGED_AREA, and the other was SYSTEM_THREAD_EXCEPTION_NOT_HANDLED.

(NB: I recently replaced my RAM (2x8 = 16 GB DDR4 @ 3.000 MHz) under warranty as it was faulty. This was on my old installation. I don't expect my RAM to be faulty, but I'm willing to try everything.)

According to BlueScreenViewer, all 7 of these crashes were caused by ntoskrnl.exe. This was the reason I tried to fix the problem with chkdsk, sfc and dism. Unfortunately the crashes are still occuring.

The crashes seem to happen at random as soon as I click on something. This could be closing a tab, minimizing a window, closing an application (e.g. HWMonitor). It can literally be anything.

I've tried to Google the error codes, I tried to analyze the minidumps using an online tool, or read related threads on this forum, but unfortunately no luck so far.

If anyone here could point me into the right direction that would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you,

Sem

PS: I have attached the ZIPs created by both the normal and the beta collection tool. The minidumps of the last 4 BSODs are included, the first 3 already got deleted unfortunately. I did include the text files of the first 3 crashes that were generated by BlueScreenViewer. If I need to attach anything else please let me know.

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