Windows 10: My System Crashes While Gaming at seemingly random intervals.

Hello! I'm hoping to get some insight or guidance on how I might remedy the crashes that have been plaguing me since I have put the system together.For the most part, it works wonderful. Games on high settings at the 165hz refresh rate I like. But no matter what game I play, be it helldivers 2, overwatch, league of legends, valorant, etc etc. Even in single player games like cyberpunk 2077 I've had full bluescreens out of nowhere. I've replaced many parts in the hopes of trying to fix it but even today I just failed out of a comp overwatch match with really no indication of an impending crash.

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all games crash!

I suggest you run rthdribl > http://www.daionet.gr.jp/~masa/archives/rthdribl_1_2.zip
Increase the window size step by step and watch your vga temps permanently.
What happens?
If it crashes, run at stock speeds as suggested before and retry.

P.S.: When your system locks, does the display signal turn off after a time?
Stuttering sound or no sound at all when freezing?
What X1800XT model do you own exactly?

 

How to diagnose a system that freezes seemingly at random?

I am currently attempting to repair a laptop that experiences total system lock ups at random intervals, with a frequency of every few days.

Total lock up here is defined as no response to user input - Ctrl+alt+delete, no task manager, no Alt + F4, no smooth shutdown, display in a frozen state, no recovery if left alone

In this case, I am not asking for suggestions as to the cause, (as much as I appreciate any input offered) - I am asking for general advice in how to identify the cause of freezing, such as tools, logs and programs that may be able to trace the problem.

While the system in question here is a Windows 10 laptop, I believe it may be worth including wider suggestions for other operating systems and their versions, as future readers of this question might benefit from this.

 

DPC_Watchdog_Violation at random intervals

Hi TenForums,

I have recently been experiencing DPC_Watchdog_Violations at seemingly random intervals.
It doesn't matter if my computer is idle or in use and there is no specific time when it crashes, sometimes it happens on boot and others it happens after a few hours of use.

I have tried the following:
Manually updating the SATA AHCI driver
Disabling Win auto driver updates
Clean installed GFX drivers
Force Windows to full shutdown instead of quick shut down
Unplugged all attached USB devices and left the PC idle (still crashed)
Used SlimDriver to find and update as many out of date drivers I could
Run a /SFC scannow
Run antivirus/anti malware checks

Attached is the crash dump
Attachment 103038

Here is a Speccy overview:
Attachment 103039

Can provide more information if required.

Thanks for your time