The fact it works most of the time after the first crash has me suspect 2 things.
1. BAD CAPS (see google.)
2. An aging PSU or motherboard. If the caps look OK I'd pop in a 100+ additional Watt single rail PSU. As these age, they do lose Watts and can get noisy. As they warm up, they can improve so that's why this one.
The failed from cold points to hardware. The no boot device could be a sign the HDD is going. Be sure to keep a current enough backup. Also, if the drive is a Seagate I'd change it now.
Hello, I am having a frequent blue screen crash problem with my Windows 10 pc. The most common message is "CRITICAL PROCESS DIED" but i have also seen "UNEXPECTED STORE EXCEPTION" quite a few times. The crashes occur mostly when a game is running. Nothing insanely heavy, recently i have used Warframe and Shadow of Mordor. I have had 1 maybe 2 crashes while not running games when there were multiple windows open and some more applications were running (cant remember details). In most cases a second crash will not occur if pc is restarted after the first crash but there were exceptions to this observation. After the blue screen the automatic restart is usually successful but there has been a few cases of bootable device not found.
I have done a reset of windows 2 days back but the problem is still there.
I am inclined to think it is not a RAM problem since the operations are not slowed down before a crash (but i am no expert).
I did not have a failed start from cold state yet so maybe it is not the processor?
I am using the latest driver for the graphics card. Not sure what else to check for gpu
I have run chkdsk for the OS partition. Not sure what else to check for hard disk
The reliability history only says windows stopped working at the time of crash.
Or i could be totally mistaken and it has something to do with software that does not get reset
Here are the system details, please let me know if any more information is required:
OS: Microsoft Windows 10 Pro 64 bit
Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-3330 CPU
GPU: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660
RAM: 8GB
Age: bit more than 4 years
Problem since: 1-2 months
Thanks in advance

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