30-09-2024, 10:55 AM
Built this machine about 6 weeks ago, all stock standard no overclocking etc.
It's a ryzen 5600GT running on a gigabyte board with a B550M series chipset, memory is 3200mhz which is the maximum speed for these.
About 2 or 3 times in the last month it's just spontaneously rebooted for no apparent reason, with no warnings in event viewer other than unexpected shutdown.
Then last weekend it would simply not start and would boot into a loop where it would take you into windows recovery environment, etc.
I performed a system restore after the usual startup repair failed.
Then it booted into a BSOD with a CRITICAL_PROCESS_DIED error.
I decided to perform a fresh install of windows 11 on a new SSD and upon its first startup, I get another BSOD this time with the error DRIVER_PNP_WATCHDOG.
Memory tests all fine, have reset CMOS and updated the BIOS with no effect.
Now I was able to get windows 11 to run again after swapping a drive out that I installed previously on another computer, so it is still possible to get windows to run on it, same goes for my hirens winPE disc.
I have read a bunch online with people having similar faults with their mobo and/or CPU but appear more sporadic and random, but a BSOD upon a windows install points to some sort of hardware issue, I feel it can only be CPU or motherboard, but will need to find another CPU to swap out and test it with.
I rarely ever come across faulty CPU's but it can't be ruled out, am more interested to know if anyone else has come across something similar in recent?
It's a ryzen 5600GT running on a gigabyte board with a B550M series chipset, memory is 3200mhz which is the maximum speed for these.
About 2 or 3 times in the last month it's just spontaneously rebooted for no apparent reason, with no warnings in event viewer other than unexpected shutdown.
Then last weekend it would simply not start and would boot into a loop where it would take you into windows recovery environment, etc.
I performed a system restore after the usual startup repair failed.
Then it booted into a BSOD with a CRITICAL_PROCESS_DIED error.
I decided to perform a fresh install of windows 11 on a new SSD and upon its first startup, I get another BSOD this time with the error DRIVER_PNP_WATCHDOG.
Memory tests all fine, have reset CMOS and updated the BIOS with no effect.
Now I was able to get windows 11 to run again after swapping a drive out that I installed previously on another computer, so it is still possible to get windows to run on it, same goes for my hirens winPE disc.
I have read a bunch online with people having similar faults with their mobo and/or CPU but appear more sporadic and random, but a BSOD upon a windows install points to some sort of hardware issue, I feel it can only be CPU or motherboard, but will need to find another CPU to swap out and test it with.
I rarely ever come across faulty CPU's but it can't be ruled out, am more interested to know if anyone else has come across something similar in recent?