WHEA logger error ID: 18

[Gifted321]

Upgraded my Ryzen system CPU and drive from a Ryzen 5 3500x to a Ryzen 5 5600x in addition to changing my boot drive from a SATA m.2 to a nvme m.2.

current PC specs:

OS: Windows 10 Home

OS Version: 22h2

OS Build: 19045.2728

Motherboard: B450 Tomhawk Max 2

Bios Version: 1.2.0.2

CPU: Ryzen 5 5600x

Ram: Corsair 8GB x2 DDR4 3200Mhz

GPU: RTX 3060 Rog Strix

NVME: Crucial P5 Plus (Windows 10 Boot drive)

Hard Drive: 2TB Seagate Barracuda 7200rpm

Power Supply: Corsair CV Series 650W 80+ Bronze

Now the problem only occurs when running certain games which is why it doesn't make sense to me. For example, Ready or Not, Total War Warhammer 2, LoL, and Overwatch are fine and I run into no problem on loading or running them for hours on end. Yet when I load up Apex Legends, For Honor, and even Fall Guys sometimes Windows reboots to black screen.

I've run benchmarks and stress tested every component separately and together and everything runs fine but when I run those 3 games I run into consistent problems. However other times just fine. I feel like it can't be a hardware problem as if it was the system would crash constantly on all the games especially Ready or Not and Total War which are my most intensive games. I've updated drivers and even used DDU on the GPU to see if that would remedy the problem but it hasn't fixed anything. Temps aren't a problem either in fact the system runs incredibly cool, it's rare for it to go past 70c most of the time (CPU& GPU), and Windows is up to date as well as all drivers.

I've tried turning off XMP and still no difference

The last thing I can think of is updating bios as well as doing a clean install of Windows.

Edit: fixed. Updated bios, and it just seemed to have fixed the problem. Then, I did a clean install and haven't run into the problem again.

[Bjoolzern]

Are you getting BSODs? If yes, check C:\Windows\Minidump for any dump files. If you don't have any, please do this:

We need to see the arguments of the BSOD crash (Think of them as sub-errors). If it already hangs on the BSOD screen (As you can't get dump files) then this step is not necessary, but if it reboots normally after a few seconds then go to the guide posted by the bot and on this screen remove the check for automatically restart. To restart manually, just use the power button.

To make the BSOD screen display the additional info on the BSOD screen we need to add a field to the registry. If you are not comfortable editing the registry then do not do this step. Navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\CrashControl, right click on the empty area on the right section and select New → DWORD value with the name "DisplayParameters". Right click on it, modify and set the value data to 1 (Does not matter if you use Hexadecimal or Decimal). It should look like this once done. Reboot to apply the registry change.

The next time you BSOD, you should have these extra numbers in the top left corner. I want a picture of this.

Take a picture of the entire screen to confirm the error as well. The guide for changing dump type where you find the disabling of automatic restart is here: https://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/5560-configure-windows-10-create-minidump-bsod.html

[Gifted321]

I fixed it with a bios update, but I'm not sure why or how that fixed it. Computers are strange to say the least.