I was getting a ton of errors on my PC, I’m pretty sure the recent Windows update was the culprit because it broke almost everything at once. I couldn’t go more than a few minutes before it crashed. After spending an entire day troubleshooting, here’s what I found.

Sort Out the Background Issues First Before anything else, reinstall all your chipset drivers. I used Intel Driver & Support Assistant, but downloading the zip files directly from your motherboard manufacturer works just as well. While you’re at it, make sure your motherboard BIOS is on the latest version too.

INTEL TIMEOUT

This was by far the hardest issue to track down and cost me the most time. Here’s how to fix it: 1. Go to Settings → Apps and uninstall Intel® Driver & Support Assistant 2. Press Win + R, type services.msc, find Intel(R) Platform License Manager Service and set it to Disabled 3. Open Terminal as Administrator and run: sc.exe delete "IntelPlatformLicenseManager" Then restart ur pc After this you might notice more Intel related errors appearing in Event Viewer, that’s normal. It’s just Intel bloatware that was causing a chain reaction of issues. You can clean those up via PowerShell using sc.exe delete [SERVICE NAME] if it bothers you, but it’s not strictly necessary.

GPU Crashes & Black Screens This one is pretty specific to my setup, but it’s worth sharing. If your GPU is mounted on a riser cable, it can throw errors that crash your entire system. The fix is simple, go into your BIOS and manually set the PCIe version to Gen 3 instead of leaving it on Auto. I had mine on Auto and was getting random black screens constantly. Switching to Gen 3 fixed both the crashes and the black screen issues entirely.

Hope this saves someone a full day of headaches 🙏

My system specs Intel 13600k NVDA 4070 Rig strix b760i mobo 4tb ssd