BSOD CRITICAL_PROCESS_DIED error

Question

I am looking for some help solving a BSOD that has been happening for the past few days. For background, about 6 months ago, my PC kept having WHEA_UNCORRECTABLE_ERROR BSODS which were 'fixed' by adding more ram (I was at 16gb, now at 48gb). A local computer technician suggested this. About 3 days ago, my PC blue-screened again, with the same WHEA_Uncorrectable_Error. I was on Windows 10 at the time, and I remember the technician recommending to upgrade to Windows 11 if the issue kept happening. So I updated to Windows 11 and now I will BSOD fairly frequently (every hour or so) while playing Final Fantasy 14. This doesn't seem to affect any other game, except it was also crashing on Call Of Duty: Black Ops 3 zombies when I was BSOD'ing a few months ago.

The New Windows 11 BSOD is for "CRITICAL_PROCESS_DIED" and I'm not sure how to fix it. I've looked at event viewer and for my most recent BSOD, the error messages are as follows;

• The previous system shutdown at 12:04:25 AM on ‎2024-‎08-‎18 was unexpected.
• Dump file creation failed due to error during dump creation.
• Audit events have been dropped by the transport.  0
• The Secure Boot update failed to update a Secure Boot variable with error Secure Boot is not enabled on this machine.. For more information, please see https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=2169931
• The inpoutx64 service failed to start due to the following error:  Access is denied.

The latest BSOD also had the following error codes in the top left of the screen;

0xFFFF850F4DD2B080

0x0000000000000000

Please let me know what additional steps I can make towards troubleshooting this, and let me know if there is any additional information that can help to diagnose the issue.

Answer 1

Have you checked if any minidump files have been created in C:\Windows\Minidump so you can upload them for analysis?

Answer 2

Just had another blue screen this time with a different stop code and different error codes in the top left, attached is a picture

Answer 3

Hi Dave,

Looking in the C:\Windows folder, I don't see a minidump folder, is there anywhere else I may be able to look to find it? Or is there a way to create a folder for it?

Answer 4

Hi, I am Dave, I will help you with this.

That error trace indicates dump file creation failed, please check in C:\Windows\Minidump to see if there are any previously create minidump files that you can upload for analysis.