Windows 10: Random bsods and corruption of software

So my pc is around 6 years old and back when I bought it I bought some cheapo ocz 120gb ssd just for Windows.

Around last week we had a power outage and when I started the pc back up the loading animation was all messed up and it wouldn't let me boot into safe mode or anything so I reinstalled Windows on the ssd and ever since then at the end of each day I've had a different bsod error each time.

This has already happened around 11 times in the past week and each and every time windows got corrupted somehow and I've had to reinstall windows so I assumed it was an SSD problem since everything else in my system is high quality and has had no issues. I did a check with crystaldiskinfo on my ssd but it came up with no issues.

After each reinstall I've let windows reinstall all the drivers from updates and windows has been updated to version 2004 every time. The only drivers I manually install are the graphics and the audio drivers.

Some of the errors I've gotten:

Loading screen changes and turns glitchy and doesn't let me boot into the system.

Bsod: process1 initialization failed

Bsod: critical process thread has died(something like that)

It booted me into windows and it kept refreshing? And when I tried to open anything it said memory could not be written and other times it said memory could not be read

More errors of the same kind. I've never been able to boot into safe mode after any of these errors and windows automatic repair hasn't done anything.

Are these errors due to my ssd or something else like my ram? Is there a way I can find out which part is defective?

If the issue is with my ssd, I've ordered a new M.2 ssd from WD, will that be more reliable than this? My ssd arrives in 2 days so an early reply is appreciated because then if the problem is not with my ssd then I can cancel the order.

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Random BSOD while browsing internet


BitDefender is nothing special. mwac.sys causes BSODs anywhere.
A tiny documentation can be found here: Solved Random BSODs - Windows 10 Forums
In that very thread, the suggested action apparently worked.

The storage and network filters of any third party antivirus can cause BSODs. Neither MBAM nor BitDefender is any special. For a regular antivirus, it may be shifted to an alternative; but MBAM has no alternative. So a clean install of the said program is the most feasible first step.
As far as the first step is not failing, it is better to not think for the second step. Because the BSODs are not universal, failure at the first step is not universal; and success at the second step is also not universal.
That is why I posted that my suggestion may work, or may not. Let us see where it goes.

 

Random freezes or shut downs

Completely random freezing/shutdowns on a system with no recent hardware changes, and hard drive, memory, and PSU fine, usually means a software issue (file corruption or malicious software). I suggest following DavidV's recommendations.

 

Random BSOD while browsing internet

Sorry, Bitdefender is a problem: BSOD BAD_POOL_HEADER - mwac.sys - Malwarebytes Anti-Malware Help - Malwarebytes Forums