File explorer and games crashing

I've been having several issues with my PC over the last week. First it started with games crashing repeatedly (the ones which would crash the most were Minecraft and CS:GO, often making me unable to open either game for 10-20 tries before it would suddenly work, Escape From Tarkov would also occasionally crash/cause blue screens when trying to open it as well as midgame but nowhere near as frequently, I don't play any other games). Then I began getting blue screens out of nowhere several times an hour. And now I am also getting my file explorer crashing at least once a day.

There were no applications or other software I had installed recently which could have caused this.

I've fully reset my PC, deleted all files including cleaning the drive which stores windows and all of my games and reinstalled windows from the cloud. I do also have an extra SSD in my computer currently that I brought over from my old PC that I was using from 2017-2022 which I did not wipe as I assumed it would be unnecessary since I hardly ever access files stored on that drive. Thankfully the blue screens have seemed to stop since I reset my PC (2 days now), the file explorer and game crashes seem to have become less common but do still happen an unusual amount (several times a day).

My CPU/GPU temps are completely normal. Often 35-45°C with only non-demanding applications open (Spotify, browser, razer synapse, etc), and roughly 65°C with games open (tested with Escape From Tarkov). I do have XMP II enabled in my bios to allow my RAM to run at the advertised speed, however nothing else is overclocked.

Here's a list of everything I have tried so far in order of when I attempted them (none of the scans showed any issues):

• Validating game files (sometimes there would be files that needed to be validated even when validating the same game several times, sometimes it would say they're completely fine)
• Updating all drivers
• Windows defender scan
• SFC scan
• dism /online /cleanup-image /restorehealth
• MdSched
• Reinstalling GPU drivers using DDU then installing the drivers through NVIDIAs website
• Driver verifier (selected only ntoskrnl.exe as that was appearing to be the issue according to the blue screens I had been getting previously, this caused repeated blue screens until I disabled driver verifier in safe mode)
• Resetting PC (Settings were: Remove all apps and files. Clean the drive, Delete all files from Windows drive, Download and reinstall Windows (cloud download)).
• Using Fortect (no idea if this is actually supposed to be a helpful tool, it said there were several issues with my computer and "fixed" the problems, however I'm still experiencing the same issues. Thankfully I only used the free trial which was usable for 24 hours so no money was wasted)
• Disabling Intel Rapid Storage Technology in the BIOS (this caused my PC to endlessly blue screen, with the error message being INACCESSIBLE_BOOT_DEVICE, so I have had to re-enable it to use my PC at all).

Here's a list of my current PC specs. I'm aware my current GPU is very underpowered when compared to the rest of the PC and do plan on upgrading in the very near future, just wanted to fix these issues before doing so. Most of the hardware was bought new in December of 2022 (roughly 7-8 months ago as of posting this), the only exclusions are the GPU which was bought new in 2017 and has been used daily since then and the old 250GB SSD which has been used as much as the GPU:

• CPU: Intel i7-13700k
• CPU Cooler: Cooler Master MasterLiquid ML240L V2
• Motherboard: Asus PRIME Z790-P WIFI ATX LGA1700
• Memory: Corsair Vengeance RGB 32 GB (2 x 16 GB) DDR5-6000 CL40
• SSD (main): Samsung 970 Evo Plus 2TB
• SSD (old): Samsung 850 Evo 250GB
• GPU: EVGA GTX 1070
• Case: Fractal Meshify 2
• Power Supply: Corsair HX1000 1000W

Here's a list of every blue screen error code I got, excluding the one I got after disabling intel rapid storage technology, although I'm unsure if these will be of any use as I haven't seen any blue screens appear since the PC reset:

• SYSTEM_SERVICE_EXCEPTION
• IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL (what failed: ntoskrnl.exe)
• ATTEMPTED_EXECUTE_OF_NOEXECUTE_MEMORY
• KMODE_EXCEPTION_NOT_HANDLED
• PAGE_FAULT_IN_NONPAGED_AREA
• SYSTEM_THREAD_EXCEPTION_NOT_HANDLED

Not really sure what to do from here so any ideas would be greatly appreciated.

I am using Windows 11 Pro.