Windows 10: My PC is going crazy after a BSOD, what do I do?

I have been using this Windows 10 computer for half a year and nothing has gone badly about it until today. After a short gaming session, I closed the app and was met with a bluescreen, it was shaking and was all over the place. My computer then restarted and all I saw my background, no taskbar, no pinned apps, just my background. When I click on it, it fades white and blacks out, and reappears. After 3 minutes, my taskbar shows up, my pinned software and games showed up, and a weird error message read out something about a DNSAPI.dll file containing an error. I determined this was a system co

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Crazy BSOD Loop. Genuis Needed.

Hi,



Thank you for writing to Microsoft Community Forums.



Method 1:

• This issue seems to be more related to hardware, please go through
  
  CRITICAL_PROCESS_DIED and
  BAD_POOL_CALLER and check for the resolution steps.
  

If you could contact your system manufacturer and run a hardware diagnostic that will help you out with this issue.



Method 2:

• You can also refer to this
  suggestion by Krishna Prasobh V posted on September 4.
  

Hope it helps.



Amit Sunar

Microsoft Community - Moderator

 

BSOD- atikmpag.sys

This is most likely due to an installation/upgrade error with ATI driver's. I suggest doing DriveSweeper and the following:

• Drivesweeper all drivers & in Safe Mode
• Unistall all drivers that aren't used in DriveSweeper (CCC Profiler Updates, MSI AfterBurner, anything related to ATI that use's it's drivers.)
• After you do this, the first thing you need to do is go into Device Manager and Unistall your ATI Drivers

Once your done, restart the PC and then try installing the latest drivers.


I had several issues with this in the past, but I overcame it with logical reasoning and whenever I have a driver issue, I just use these steps and I always overcome the problem.

Best of luck! *Toast :toast:

 

PC reboots (no BSOD) on CPU stress

Hi fellow TPU members,

not too long ago, the box my gf's PC was transported in gave way on the stairs. Yes, you got it right, that sent a PC tumbling down a flight of steps alright.

Stuff broke. Also, stuff remained intact somehow.

I bought her a new case, new CPU cooler and we removed the floppy drive, so far so good. But the PC started crashing for no apparent reason, without a BSOD.

I tested:

• Memtest86+, left overnight, 0 errors
• Scanned the HDD for errors, nothing there
• Left FurMark burning up the GFX card and drawing some power, no problems there
• Ran Ubuntu from a Live CD doing nothing special, didn't crash
• Ran OCCT, Linpack, Prime95, all 3 caused reboots within minutes
• Oh, and I disabled "Restart on error" so I'm sure it's not a BSOD.

Now, I can still try and test something CPU intensive on Ubuntu, but my guess is the CPU didn't survive.
Before I do anything drastic like whippin' out the magic wallet and get her a new AMD quad, is there anything I didn't see?
I'm guessing the motherboard could be borkered as well, but can I check that other than replacing the CPU with a working one?
Any suggestions on which proggies I can use from an Ubuntu Live CD to stress the CPU?