Windows 10: Windows 10 1909 crashes.

Windows 10 build 1909 makes my computer crash.

The screen suddenly turns black and the computer reboots. No message, blue screen, error message appear.

My system was running fine from February until October 2019, and suddenly after Windows update into 1903 build, it started to crash on multiple occasions.

My PC definitely crashes when I run any kind of video games on it.

It also crashed multiple times during Windows Update into 1909, so I wiped the whole drive and installed 1909 cleanly on the current system.

I read that Windows 1903 has compatibility issues with NVIDIA GPUs, so I deleted the driver and reinstalled it. Then I wiped the whole drive - so it really doesn't make any sense that the graphics driver is causing an issue.

My PC also crashes on Microsoft Store.
I also changed my hardware, thinking that I need better CPU and RAM. Motherboard, CPU, and RAM are brand new.

But the system keeps crashing.

I disabled Cortana long time ago because it was giving me problems since 2017. I disabled it through registry edit.


What else am I supposed to do?

The only thing I can guess is either Windows build is still incompatible with my GPU or is my GPU too old to be used.

My system specifications.

CPU: Intel Core i7 6700K

Motherboard: Asrock H110 - DSX

RAM: Corsair Vengeance 8GB x 2 (DDR4 2400)

SSD: Samsung 850 EVO 256GB <- I wiped this drive

HDD: Toshiba 7200RPM 1TB (not wiped. System is not installed on this drive)

GPU: Geforce GTX 660 (Quite old one. Could this guy be the trouble?)
PSU: Corsair RX 650

Internet connection: Ethernet cable. Gigabit internet.


Installed Apps:

Geforce Experience
Battle.net (Blizzard)

Chrome

[These are all I have installed but the system crashed 3 times already. 1 after running a game, 1 after opening Microsoft Store, 1 after opening Windows Update]

:)

 

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?

 

Windows 10 Tweaks

Pressing “Windows+Pause Break” (it’s up there next to scroll lock) opens the “System” Window.

Windows 10: In the new version of Windows, Explorer has a section called Quick Access. This includes your frequent folders and recent files. Explorer defaults to opening this page when you open a new window. If you’d rather open the usual This PC, with links to your drives and library folders, follow these steps:

• Open a new Explorer window.
• Click View in the ribbon.
• Click Options.
• Under General, next to “Open File Explorer to:” choose “This PC.”
• Click OK

credit to Lifehacker.

 

Windows 10 update 1909

Hey,

I've just clean installed windows 10. It is build 1803.

Today awesome 1909 have launched. I want to update to 1909 but in settings it is showing me option to upgrade to 1809. My friend told me I have to upgrade to 1809, then 1903 and then finally 1909.

I want to directly upgrade to 1909 without going through intermediate steps. How can I do this?