Looking good so far... I'm still a bit apprehensive, but this isn't half bad now:

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Besides all the other changes I've made and "clean ups" I've done to my PC, there are three more things I've done since the last hard crash (Sept 15th):

1. Disabled the NVidia HD-audio device. I've found reports on the net that having it active while using your onboard soundcard might cause conflicts and since I don't use that thing anyway, I simply went into device manager and deactivated it. Seems it's now active again, possibly because I updated my GF-drivers yesterday and did a "clean" install.

2. I've disabled Windows Update for "third party" HW-drivers (so no more Win-Update installing, say, audio-card drivers on its own). Reason being that I'd been told that this *might* result in Windows overwriting newer drivers that I've installed manually with outdated stuff. I'm also kinda suspicious that some auto-updaters running in the background *might* have been responsible/partially responsible for my hard-crashes... because:

3. Uninstalled Microsoft Teams. As you can see here, it did cause quite a lot of critical errors in the past. Shot shows a random date with tons of critical errors caused by Teams-updater - and yes: I had one or two hard-crashes/PC freezes on that day:

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These errors for Teams updater were another daily occurrence and seemed to always coincide with a freeze/hard-crash. They were also the only regular critical error left after I'd disabled the launcher and done all the other things to clean up my PC. Since I don't use Teams, I simply uninstalled that app.


Since then... well... you can see the reliability score rising in my first screenshot. Haven't had a single CTD or BSOD/hard-crash since Sept 16.



S.

Last edited by 1Sascha; 24/09/23 08:40 AM.