Hello All,
Pretty much I built a computer last year around Feb 2023 and I had no problem with it at all.
Later down the year around November, my computer started giving me the bluescreen of death and it will crash whenever I play the game Counter-Strike 2 (CS2). The bluescreen of death will usually give me one of the two errors, either the Watchdog Timeout or the Uncorrectable_WHEA.
After my PC restarts right after the crash, it brings me to my BIOS because apparently my NVME M.2 (I had the Corsair MP500) bootdrive is undetectable and after many restarts, it will finally detect it and sometime boot up windows.
I did over like 20 windows reformat and reinstalls and I still got the exact issue whenever I played CS2. It was really annoying since after the crash, I couldn't even load Windows because in my BIOS it does not even see the NVME. So what I did was I replaced my old NVME M.2 with a Seagate FireCuda 530 and I had the EXACT same problem where in the end, my BIOS NEVER was able to detect this NVME M.2 at all so I had to buy another NVME M.2, which is the Crucial T500.
With the Crucial T500, it was fine playing CS2 the first week or so and I thought the problem was gone, but later on I started getting the exact problem as above. So I thought that it was not the M.2's fault, and it was my graphics card. So I upgraded my video card from a NVIDIA 1070 > Zotac NVIDIA RTX 4070 Super. First couple of times I played CS2, it was fine, but later on the problem starting reappearing.
Next I thought it was the motherboard, I had the ASUS Prime Z690-P D4, so I actually got another similar model, ASUS Prime Z690P D4 WiFI. I still had the problem.
I thought maybe it was my power supply, so I switched from a Seasonic 750 to a Corsair SF750.
What I noticed is that for some reason my Task Manager showed me that I'm using like 80% of my RAM even though when I add everything up, it does not equate anywhere close to 10GB of RAM (as seen in the screenshot)
So then a couple of days ago I thought maybe it is my RAM, so I changed the RAM from ThermalTake Tough RAM 16GB > Corsair Vengeance 32GB. So I still kept getting the blue screen of death, so then I was like since it isn't my RAM's problem, let me put back my original RAM, the ThermalTake Tough RAM 16GB. After I reinserted my old RAM, my computer actually gets the BSOD more frequently and at first the BSOD only happened whenever I played CS2, but now it happens randomly as well like such as my Windows log in screen.
This is also what else I've noticed, after I get the BSOD, my computer will automatically restart, and it will bring me into my BIOS because it cannot detect my NVME M.2. So I would have to for shut down and boot up my computer and it will automatically boot into my Windows.
Here's a screenshot of my NVME M.2 not being detected.
What I also noticed is that when I'm playing CS2, right before it crashes, my game will stutter/lag really badly for like 5 seconds, and I can see that on my Task Manager, my HardDisk column spikes up to 100% and then my PC crashes with the BSOD.
When I go into Event Viewer, to see the Error log, I see the message below:
A fatal hardware error has occurred. A record describing the condition is contained in the data section of this event.
(Please let me know if you would like to see the log, I couldn't paste it here for some reason)
Things that I've tried.
1. I've updated to the latest BIOS
2. I never overclocked anything.
These are my latest computer specs
CPU: i9 13900KF
OS: Windows 10
RAM: ThermalTake Tough RAM 16GB
Graphics Card: ZOTAC NVIDIA RTX 4070 Super
PSU: Corsair RM750 Platinum
Motherboard: ASUS Prime Z690-P WiFi
Can someone please help me troubleshoot further, I've spent the last like 9 months trying to fix this BSOD and I've spent so much money trying to resolve this issue.
Please let me know what other diagnostics I should run or if I need to provide anymore details. Thank you!
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