So, I recently built a pc, Ryzen 5 2600 and rx 480 8gb. All parts verified working properly at the time of purchase. Now that it's built into a system, I've done all the standard stock stuff, GPU drivers installed, updated windows and and tested to make sure the temps are all ok.
Now the issue is, at a random interval (could be every 2 minutes or every 10 hours, I get a blue screen. Even when completely idle. It's never the same error message twice. I've used windbg to analyze the minidump files and 2 of the crash files point to amdkmdag.sys but the other 5 or so minidump files point to seemingly random other things. The latest time this happened on the reboot from the blue screen, windows repair came up and said that it couldnt fix the issue so it rolled back windows to a previous state where I lost a decent amount of applications and files.
I have tried reinstalling GPU and chipset drivers (through ddu) and also running dism and sfc scannow. Both said no issues. I am pretty much lost.
#Random changing blue screens and also windows corruption on new pc.
brittle walrus
blissful crest
if you are using win 11 i suggest you just go ahead and install win 10
win 11 is a reliability nightmare
brittle walrus
Is there a way I can go from W11 to w10 without loosing any apps and files?
All my stuff is on 1 drive
blissful crest
not to my knowledge, but what i usually do is move all the user folders to a usb drive and then move them back on fresh os, you will have to reinstall apps but you will be able to easily transfer personal files to the win 10
brittle walrus
I only have 1 usb. It's a 128gb one and it's permanently home to my windows installation media
blissful crest
i myself keep a backup of my videos, pictures, documents and downloads folder on a usb stick in case i have to reinstall windows, only pain is downloading all apps but it usually takes an hour only to get back going again
browser bookmarks can be saved as bookmark file and transfered to freshly installed browser
brittle walrus
How would I actually go about switching from 11 to 10
blissful crest
just plugging in a win 10 install media and setting it as default boot device and during setup format the drives and install win 10 on whatever your main drive is
blissful crest
i dont really know a better way but this is a pretty simple way
sinful lantern
Will that wipe the w11 off automatically
No
You have to delete the partitions in windows setup
blissful crest
^
blissful crest
you could just reinstall win 11 but in my experience its just so much worse than 10, i never had issues with 10 but only in 1 month ive had major sanity degrading issues with 11
sinful lantern
I’ve honestly had it for a year with no issue
blissful crest
lucky
sinful lantern
Reminds me of 10 with makeup
blissful crest
a makeup that smells bad, nice to look at but you want to stay far away from it
brittle walrus
you could just reinstall win 11 but in my experience its just so much worse than...
Well
I got windows 10 installed
Same errors
Same issues
Random blue screens and freezes
Ive done a bit more research and apparently the one consistent theme of all the errors is an issue with device drivers
No idea where to go from there
blissful crest
that just sounds like an actual hardware issue at this point