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    How can I narrow down cause of frequent computer crashes - HWinfo logs included

    How is the airflow inside your case? Which PSU do you have? What kind of CPU water cooler is this? Some CPU cores hit 80°C which could be kind of high if it's a decent water cooler, especially considering that the system isn't overclocked. And take a look at the drive temperatures. One of them...
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    Fatal Error - Please Power Down And Connect The PCIe Power Cable For This Graphics Card

    Thanks for the feedback. Now it's logical that the BIOS won't complain about missing PCIe power cables when there's no dedicated GPU installed. Did you replace it with another one? If so, did the issue go away? Regards Dalai
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    Random system crash - BSOD

    No, I didn't say that it's an issue with DirectX/Direct3D. But apparently the crashes are far more likely to occur when using it instead of Vulkan. Since you already reinstalled Windows and tried different drivers, I don't think it's a driver issue. So, the only idea I have is to check for loose...
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    Fatal Error - Please Power Down And Connect The PCIe Power Cable For This Graphics Card

    It's possible for plugs to get loose over time if they haven't been fully inserted into the connector until the latch "clicked". Vibrations are less of a concern in this regard but cables tend to have a bit of weight to them and may "pull" on the connector/plug; this also depends on the cable...
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    Fatal Error - Please Power Down And Connect The PCIe Power Cable For This Graphics Card

    Don't worry. Giving too much information is less likely to happen. It's never a bad thing to tell people what has been checked already and some of the thought process. Most of the time there is too little information provided so that asking questions is necessary. I don't exactly rule out the...
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    Random system crash - BSOD

    Your most recent logs also don't show anything out of the ordinary. It's likely that HWiNFO doesn't catch the moment of the crash, so the logs don't contain information about it. Even if HWiNFO was able to read hardware information right before of the crash, it's very likely that the system...
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    Fatal Error - Please Power Down And Connect The PCIe Power Cable For This Graphics Card

    Since you said the video signal is also lost when just sitting in the BIOS, I rule out everything related to the OS, including drivers. Did you (temporarily) swap the PSU to rule it out (or to find it to be the culprit)? Sure, it has enough wattage and it's from a reliable brand, but it's...
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    HWInfo and FSB

    No, that's the CPU core frequency. LFM means low frequency mode and HFM is high frequency mode. See this Wikichip article for more details. Regards Dalai
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    Random system crash - BSOD

    Unfortunately such issues are often hard to diagnose, especially remotely. I see no obvious issue(s) from your logs. Temperatures look all fine, the fans are working, including the GPU fans (at least according to the logs) and voltages look OK as well. XMP was disabled but now it's enabled, and...
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    HWInfo and FSB

    Yes, a motherboard can usually run different speeds for the FSB. But that doesn't mean that CPU FSB speed would be any different from the speed at the chipset side (Northbridge to be exact). When you change the FSB speed in a motherboard's BIOS, the CPU and Northbridge run at the same speed. It...
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    HWInfo and FSB

    Somehow I doubt that your CPU (Celeron 847) still has a (classic) FSB. Wikipedia states: And according to the linked article QuickPath Interconnect was introduced more than a decade ago. According to Intel Ark, the Celeron 847 launched in 2011, and it doesn't say anything about FSB but generic...
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    HWInfo and FSB

    The Bus Clock (usually 100 MHz) has nothing to do with the Memory Clock, in your case 667 MHz or 1333 MT/s or DDR3-1333. I'm not sure why HWiNFO shows/reads 99.8 instead of 100 MHz, but I know it's been discussed in the past. Regards Dalai
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    MSI Z490 VRM Info

    Just compress the file with ZIP, RAR or 7Z and upload the resulting archive (which should be much smaller than 1 MB). Regards Dalai
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    How to diagnostic my pc

    The picture you provided leads me to believe, the graphics card is defective, maybe VRAM. However, if you overclocked the card, I strongly recommend to remove that overclock. You can also try to underclock it, although that doesn't help with defective VRAM. What kind of card you replace it with...
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    How to diagnostic my pc

    Well, the simplest thing to do is to swap the graphics card. Which card do you have? Regards Dalai
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    How Bad is my drive?

    Some drive sectors are pending relocation - see SMART attribute C5. Not sure what the basic test in SeaTools does, but apparently it doesn't test for such basic SMART attribute values, or it doesn't see them as problematic, yet. I recommend the usual: Keep a close eye on the drive and its SMART...
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    Seagate SSD failure, but nothing wrong

    Most SMART attributes work like this: If it has a threshold and the value falls below that threshold, it (usually) causes the drive to mark this attribute as failed. It will stay that way for the rest of the drive's life. In your case, there were a lot of errors reading (raw) data at some point...
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    Windows Hardware (WHEA) *MACHINE CHECK ERRORS (AMD64 NB)

    IIRC such errors are logged in Windows Event Log. You should take a look at Windows Event Viewer - with luck there's more info on these errors. Furthermore, remove any overclock until this issue is resolved since overclocks can cause such errors as Zach already pointed out. Faulty RAM is another...
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    High CPU temps but low CPU utilization

    There's definitely some cooling issue. Before buying a new cooler, I suggest to make certain that the CPU cooler is mounted properly and that it gets warm when the CPU is under load. The stock coolers are not particularly good (especially the smaller ones like the Wraith Stealth), but certainly...
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    Not a bug but useful QOL request.

    Also keep the following in mind: Disk drive numbers may not correspond to the SATA channel numbers when you install Windows on a computer that has multiple SATA or RAID disks. This can also change across system reboots. For several years I've had three disks in my system and sometimes, after a...
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