Windows 10: The miserable hell of the random unprovoked BSODs, I'm out of ideas

I'm struggling with frequent BSODs I don't know how to solve. I've done all the basics I can think of, looking for any help. Bought an MSI GS66 laptop in late February, updated all the drivers to the latest OEM ones, except for a minor (per changelog) BIOS and firmware update. Running Windows 10 20H2. A month later I start to get BSODs, almost always the same one: KMODE_EXCEPTION_NOT_HANDLED with parameters similar to 0x0000001e ffffffff`c0000005 ffffd600`36edc20e. The only driver consistently listed as the "cause" in BlueScreenView is ntoskrnl.exe, in one BSOD it listed fltmgr.sys as well). I used windbg.exe with symbols loaded to try and get more info and each analysis for each minidump said basically the same thing: - Probably caused by : hardware_ram ( PAGE_NOT_ZERO ) - *** Memory manager detected 210483 instance(s) of page corruption, target is likely to have memory corruption. - BAD_PAGES_DETECTED: 33633 - etc. So I thought it might be bad memory, BUT a) I used Memtest86+ to scan the memory that was installed and it found nothing but to be sure b) I swapped the memory for a completely different set of memory (the original memory, I upgraded as soon as I got the laptop) but I got the same BSOD a couple hours later. When I swapped the memory I made sure to an air canister to remove any dust from sockets and memory sticks, made sure they were seated well. I should add that a couple BSODs happened when no external devices (aside from a mouse) were connected. I re-checked the drivers on the OEM site, and there are no new ones. But again, laptop was working for 1 month without issues. Originally the BSODs were happening 1-2 weeks apart, but the frequency seems to be picking up. It went from 2 weeks to 7 days to 4 days to 36 hours to 12 hours, and I even got two within 2 hours over the weekend. Most of the BSODs have happened when the machine wasn't even being used (overnight), when the only foreground application loaded was the browser. A couple days ago when it happened I was browsing the web (almost nothing else running), another time it BSODed soon after closing an application and otherwise doing nothing. It doesn't strongly feel like my activity is correlated to the BSOD events. Having said that, last night I used Stablebit drive scanner on my disks and a few minutes after completing a scan I get a different BSOD, the DRIVER_POWER_STATE_FAILURE which said something about it can fail 10 minutes after a device has not responded about its power state. But that BSOD has all the same messages about hundreds of thousands of instances of page corruption. But I haven't been able to reproduce it and am not sure if it's related. I have two NVME drives installed, one was original, one I added. Given the BSOD that could be related to the disk scan, I removed the original NVME which I repurposed into additional storage, just to see if maybe there was an issue with it, despite it seemingly behaving perfectly. No crash yet. But, that likely means nothing, it's only been a few hours. I've tried running OCCT tests to see if I could trigger the issue or find some bad memory (again, already used memtest86+, but as I need to use the computer for work I figured I could stress test and use it at the same time this way). But no stress testing has seemed to cause it. I've also looked through the Windows logs and I see no evidence of anything happening before the BSODs, there's no sudden Windows update activity, or some application throwing errors. I did the DISM restore health (no action taken) and SFC scannow (it found one .net file amiss which it fixed, but a BSOD since says that wasn't it). Where do I go from here? I haven't a clue how to try to identify the cause at this point, I know of nothing to reproduce it or test it. Is there anything I can do to try to further confirm where the fault lies, if it is a specific driver or hardware? Of course my Costco return window just closed a couple weeks ago, before the problem started getting worse. I'm not sure if anyone is willing to help, I see the BSOD Posting Instructions and understand the value of the scripts you all have to gather logs/info. I just don't see how I can convince myself to do that, it just goes against all my security norms. I can't trust myself to vet every line of the script, and I'm new here and don't know enough to know there's no/minimal risk. And I really don't want to waste your time, so I understand people not wanting to go back and forth. Thanks for any help anyone can offer, though. This really hurts the soul. My computer has always been a bit of a sanctuary, it's this one stable, controllable area of my life, and knowing it can just crash at any moment is really unsettling.

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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 BSOD while browsing internet

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

 

Random BSODs "Bad_Pool_Caller"


This BSOD happens anywhere, irrespective of BitDefender. It takes place even when the antivirus is MSE in case of Windows 7. The most common cause is an expired trial or a cracked installation. Some examples:

• Norton: Windows 7 Random bsod caused by tcpip.sys - Windows 7 Help Forums
• MBAM only: Epic BSOD error appears just after few seconds from boot Solved - Windows 7 Help Forums
• McAfee: BSOD on Internet Related Programs (tcpip.sys) - Windows 7 Help Forums
• Avast: Bad Pool Header 0x00000019 at random times - Windows 7 Help Forums
• Avira: BSOD randomly Crashes my Laptop and freezes at Memory dump 100 - Windows 7 Help Forums
• Crack: BSOD every 6 minutes, also recent freezes - Windows 7 Help Forums

We are on our way of troubleshooting. If the uninstallation and reinstallation does not work, we will take the next step.

I, in general, know what I am doing and what I am suggesting. If I feel that I am unable to control the issue, I will definitely ask for help.