Windows 11 Constantly Crashing

Here is an update from my side as well. With the repeated crashes I got frustrated with my PC so I went the hardware route in fixing it. I replaced the case, MB, CPU, added memory and only kept my old SSD drives, RAM, and GPU. Reinstalled my Windows 11. Everything seemed to be working fine for about 3 months now without a single crash or reboot.

Omer

Sort of an answer to LuLus prior question: I can imagine a a PC going into an uncontrollable loop caused by software error or crash, consuming so much power that exceeds its cooling system to cope with (fans running full speed). Damage to processor or other motherboard hardware can occur,,,,,, I can't perceive any other scenarios where software can damage directly hardware components.

Here is what is so weird. I've been on windows insider for 11 since the begining. Im running x570auros master had both 3000 and now 5000.. Alot of my issues have been with pcie4 m.2 drives. Everything will be fine then after an update or firmware. I'll have a drive that while loading a game. Windows will give me a device not found or crash bsod. Then it will just keep getting worse till eventually the drive "acts" like it's dead. Usually have to remove from the motherboard to keep from crashing. What's even wielder is I have 3 m.2s installed Only drives attached though the chipset will do this. One will work fine for a few days after the first ones removed. Then the other will do the same thing different brand drives also. Games will crash randomly to bsod even running off hdds sometimes.

I'll try everything to get it working again stock settings no luck usually. Usually have to install a backup of windows from before.the problems.

I think for some reason secure boot is causing these issues if it's not setup properly in bios.

This just happened again the other day. I reset the to the default keys in Secureboot and cleared the tpm

Now it's running like a dream my m.2 drives that I thought were dead are working great to.

Don't know if this has been my issue all this time or there were bugs that caused this before and I fixed it by accident when I would recover from. A backup and do default keys in secureboot Just make sure it's not in custom mode after keys are reset. It will say it's active and enabled, but it's NOT until you put secureboot back in standard mode.

Anyway that's what's eventually worked for me.

hey Lulu, I don't know for certain if it can cause damage, I looked at New Intel NUC Laptop User's post above where they mentioned malfunction after update. In my case, when the computer freezes, cpu (or GPU or both?) fan which is almost inaudible, goes into a full spin. It's a bit scary.

HastyCT here with an update of my postings above 11/18/22 & 1/6/23: my problem seems to be fixed. I continued to research the error log of W11 "Event Viewer" (START right click), updating all 3rd party apps/drivers or deleting them. I kept updating W11 version per each notice from MS. I also ran PC hardware diagnostics on my Dell Inspiron 3910 (processor Intel i7-12700} that passed numerous times. Up to 1/6/23, incidence of PC freezes decreased but still got daily issues. New Years resolution to reset PC & reload W11 (with attendant pain of having to reload all my favorite 3rd party apps). On 1st boot, got my old enemy PC freeze, so not that version of W11 bad. On/about 1/20/23 received notice from Dell of a critical BIOS update & from MS release of version 22H2 of W11. In one "fell-swoop" I accomplished both updates & as of 2/1/23, have had no PC freezes (5 days of continuous 24 hour operation)!!! Can't say W11 or Dell BIOS update fixed the problem & time well tell if it is permanent. Good sign is that W11 "Event Viewer" error logs events are now virtually zero!

Hope this helps others & Best Regards.....Tom