Windows 10: PC Freezing/Deadlock While Gaming Repeatedly

So I will preface this by saying I am not a computer wiz, my brother gave me his old gaming pc that he built and it's just become my main pc. However recently it has been deadlocking/showing a blue screen when I try to run more demanding games like Overwatch 2. It either does 1 of 3 things:Just freezes, I can't use mouse or keyboard, and sound stops.Turns black screen and I hear a weird glitchy sound from my headphones that are plugged into the monitor I have 2 pairs, one is plugged into monitor and one is plugged into pcShows blue screen error and either never loads the restart or does even

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Pc deadlocks when gaming.

So essentially while gaming after a random amount of time my PC will completely deadlock (screen freezes, sound stops, keyboard and mouse become unresponsive) forcing me to force **** down my PC. This has happened continuously since yesterday and mostly while gaming, but sometimes while just watching YouTube. Sometimes after deadlocking my PC will come on after restarting but will blue screen, with each blue screen being a different error.

I have tried running diagnostics, checking ssd/hardrive and memory, all say they are fine. So I have no clue if this is a driver error as I have made sure all are up to date.

This is very strange as it started suddenly yesterday and I am not sure of the cause. If I were to guess I think it may be software related as checks on my hardware seem to be coming up good. But I honestly have to clue and would be welcome to try anything.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

 

Deadlock Freeze Diagnosis

I have been suffering from random deadlock freezes on my PC for weeks now, and for the first time after leaving my PC to run for a couple of minutes whilst frozen a bugcheck was generated.

Here is my MEMORY.DMP file: MEMORY.DMP

Is anyone able to help with a diagnosis?

 

I have constantly been deadlocking for the past week.

Thanks for clarifying, Krista.

I found these explanations and fixes for Windows 10 deadlocking along with some other related freezing fixes to try:

https://deletingsolutions.com/what-is-a-compute...

https://forums.tomshardware.com/threads/pc-dead...

https://www.windowslatest.com/2020/11/13/window...

https://forums.tomshardware.com/threads/deadloc...

What Should I Do When a Computer Freezes or Locks up?

https://www.quora.com/Which-method-is-used-for-...

https://www.technipages.com/computer-deadlock-e...

https://www.techguy.org/threads/freezing-deadlo...

https://linustechtips.com/topic/1230506-pc-dead...

https://www.reddit.com/r/buildapc/comments/sigy...

https://www.reddit.com/r/buildapc/comments/sk7b...

https://www.silviodibenedetto.com/windows-shell...

Feel free to ask back any questions. Based on detailed results you post back I will have other suggestions if necessary.

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