I don't play a huge variety of games, mainly only Rainbow Six Siege and Minecraft, but after a few minutes of having either up and running, my laptop sometimes gives me the BSOD. In the past few months (up to past year) I have been having this issue and would let my laptop restart and I would relaunch the game and no further problems. However, the past few weeks have been worse, as almost 100% of the time my laptop would BSOD after a few minutes of the game launching. Then once my laptop restarts, it shows the BIOS interface. I normally Save and Exit, usually taking me to the login screen, but the past few days I would have to Save and Exit a few times as it would bring me back to the interface. Just yesterday I upgraded to Windows 11, hoping it would fix things but it didn't and the problems persist. Now the problem is that I can't risk opening any games as I'm worried I won't even be able to login at all, as this happened this morning. I'm not sure why but seeming to leave my laptop powered off for about an hour means I can login without any problems after, but once I open a game for a few minutes and I get a BSOD, it's incredibly difficult to get access again without waiting an hour. Was just about to post, but I think the fault may be with my SSD, as on the BIOS interface I mentioned, sometimes the info for the Micron storage isn't displayed and sometimes is (see below). I've had various BSOD error messages but only managed to note down a few as sometimes the BSOD only flashes: IO1_INITIALIZATION_FAILED WHEA_UNCORRECTABLE_ERROR Sorry it this is long, just trying to give as much detail as possible. AMD Ryzen 7 3750H with Radeon Vega Mobile Gfx 2.30 GHz NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060, 6GB Dedicated Memory Micron_2200V_MTFDHBA512TCK (512GB) Thanks for reading this far and thanks in advance for any help and advice. If you need anything more info to help inform a course of action, please let me know. Locked Question. This question was migrated from the Microsoft Support Community. You can vote on whether it's helpful, but you can't add comments or replies or follow the question. Anonymous 2024-09-10T20:36:29+00:00 Once I restarted after turning on the Driver Verify, I struggled getting back on, being stuck in a BIOS loop. I haven't been able trigger any more crashes, so I have only managed to get one minidump file, hopefully accessible here: Minidump If you need more minidump files, I can probably get more tomorrow, as the BSOD's are usually worse at after starting up my laptop after multiple hours. For now, I will keep the Driver Verify on to capture any more crashes 0 comments No comments Once I restarted after turning on the Driver Verify, I struggled getting back on, being stuck in a BIOS loop. I haven't been able trigger any more crashes, so I have only managed to get one minidump file, hopefully accessible here: Minidump If you need more minidump files, I can probably get more tomorrow, as the BSOD's are usually worse at after starting up my laptop after multiple hours. For now, I will keep the Driver Verify on to capture any more crashes DaveM121 • 939.1K Reputation points • Independent Advisor 2024-09-10T17:35:14+00:00 If you have no minidump files available, to try to force Windows to create minidump files and show any faulting drivers, the best option would be to turn on Driver Verifier, let your PC crash 3 times, then you must turn off Driver Verifier, and finally, upload any newly created minidump files Before you run Driver Verifier, please create a new System Restore Point https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/for... Note, if you have any difficulty getting into Windows with Driver Verifier enabled: Start your PC, just as Windows attempts to load (spinning dots), press and hold Power Button for 5 - 10 seconds to perform a Hard Shut Down Do this twice On the third start Windows will boot into the Recovery Environment and from there you can access System Repair, Safe Mode, Command Prompt... etc. Go to Troubleshoot - Advanced Option - Startup Settings and click Restart Upon restart, press 4 to enter Safe Mode Open Command Prompt as Administrator and run these two commands, then restart your PC. verifier /reset verifier /bootmode resetonbootfail 0 comments No comments If you have no minidump files available, to try to force Windows to create minidump files and show any faulting drivers, the best option would be to turn on Driver Verifier, let your PC crash 3 times, then you must turn off Driver Verifier, and finally, upload any newly created minidump files Before you run Driver Verifier, please create a new System Restore Point https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/for... Note, if you have any difficulty getting into Windows with Driver Verifier enabled: Start your PC, just as Windows attempts to load (spinning dots), press and hold Power Button for 5 - 10 seconds to perform a Hard Shut Down

On the third start Windows will boot into the Recovery Environment and from there you can access System Repair, Safe Mode, Command Prompt... etc. Go to Troubleshoot - Advanced Option - Startup Settings and click Restart Upon restart, press 4 to enter Safe Mode Open Command Prompt as Administrator and run these two commands, then restart your PC. verifier /reset verifier /bootmode resetonbootfail Anonymous 2024-09-10T17:12:53+00:00 Hi Dave, Thanks for responding! I tried to locate any minidump files but I couldn't find any. If you have any solutions to being able to generate the minidump files, I'd be happy to try them. Thanks, James 0 comments No comments Thanks for responding! I tried to locate any minidump files but I couldn't find any. If you have any solutions to being able to generate the minidump files, I'd be happy to try them. DaveM121 • 939.1K Reputation points • Independent Advisor 2024-09-10T15:44:31+00:00 Hi, I am Dave, I will help you with this. If you have just upgraded to Windows 11 and the BSOD's have survived that, most likely there is a hardware issue causing the crashes, and that may be your drive. Please check to see if your PC is producing any minidump files, I will check those to see if they provide any insight into a potential cause of the system crashes. Open Windows File Explorer. Navigate to C:\Windows\Minidump Copy any minidump files onto your Desktop, then zip those up. Upload the zip file to the Cloud (OneDrive, DropBox... etc.), then choose to share those and get a share link. Then post the link here to the zip file, so we can take a look for you. 0 comments No comments Hi, I am Dave, I will help you with this. If you have just upgraded to Windows 11 and the BSOD's have survived that, most likely there is a hardware issue causing the crashes, and that may be your drive. Please check to see if your PC is producing any minidump files, I will check those to see if they provide any insight into a potential cause of the system crashes. Open Windows File Explorer. Navigate to C:\Windows\Minidump Copy any minidump files onto your Desktop, then zip those up. Upload the zip file to the Cloud (OneDrive, DropBox... etc.), then choose to share those and get a share link. Then post the link here to the zip file, so we can take a look for you. Anonymous 2024-09-10T15:13:00+00:00 Just seen someone else in 2021 with an almost identical issue. Linking here: https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/all/constant-bsods-on-asus-tuf-gaming-laptop/0ba7a91f-f57c-4f68-8c8f-8790b39471a9 0 comments No comments Just seen someone else in 2021 with an almost identical issue. Linking here: https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/all/constant-bsods-on-asus-tuf-gaming-laptop/0ba7a91f-f57c-4f68-8c8f-8790b39471a9